When at supermarket

[monkeyboy]

Do you judge/think about/ make fun of people by what they are buying?

 

[*JoGo*]

sometimes i wonder what in the world are they going to make with that stuff... sometimes i want to invited over for dinner.

i def. judge the people that pick up a bunch of bananas and then let their kids eat them while walking around the store. you pay by the lb, how are you going to pay for the eaten banana? (i KNOW they had no intentions of paying for it... and that really irritates me)

 

[shinysparklybubbles]

sometimes i wonder what in the world are they going to make with that stuff... sometimes i want to invited over for dinner.

i def. judge the people that pick up a bunch of bananas and then let their kids eat them while walking around the store. you pay by the lb, how are you going to pay for the eaten banana? (i KNOW they had no intentions of paying for it... and that really irritates me)

Especially at Sam's club. I really want to ask the people who are buying like 37 industrial sized cans of baked beans and 30 cartons of eggs WTH are they making?

 

[LBIJim]

Do you judge/think about/ make fun of people by what they are buying?

Of course. Isn't that the main purpose of going to the supermarket? Making instantaneous judgements about the marital, family or socioeconomic status of shoppers based on what they place in their carts.

Jim

 

[mamacatnv]

Not usually about their food choices but certainly about their wardrobe choices

Okay, I do admit and I am no skinny minnie myself but last week I saw a very very large person with a cart stuffed full of convenience food, tv dinners, cereal, boxed dinners etc. Nothing fresh and green.

Now, I too buy premade packaged crap, DD gets one frozen pizza a week along with ice cream for DH and I admit, we love frozen french fries but I do strive for fresh and unprocessed to some degree.

 

[snarlingcoyote]

Well. . .there was this one time at Sam's Club I got behind an older, rotund fellow with a load of peanuts and pretzels, olives, cherries, mixed nuts etc.. waiting to check out.

When he came up to pay, he whipped out a wad of $1 bills about as big as my two feet together and started to pay. The poor little cashier obviously had never been trained to count money. It was taking forever when I asked her if she could get some paper clips. She did, and her manager came over. I asked the man if I could count it for him and get it into order for them. (I was a cage cashier in a casino in grad school.) I ran through the bills, and he had given the girl 2 dollars extra. I paper clipped the bills by 10's, then clipped 3 straps, left the extra clips loosed tossed them down and told her to count that way. She was finally able to make sense of it.

That's when I found out the gentleman owned a strip club.

I'm still a bit about the fact that I handled all those bills and lord only knows where they'd been.

Still. I don't get behind rotund gentleman buying bar food anymore. EVER.

 

[Disfan1]

Haha! I can only imagine what people think about me! My cats are VERY finicky so when their brand of food goes on sale I stock up! I have put 10 bags of dry cat food in my cart on more than one occasion!

 

[tvguy]

Yes.
When the lady ahead of me in the quick check had just 2 items, a 1.5 liter bottle of vodka and a home pregnancy test kit.
I can only think of 2 plans she may have had, just depends on which item she used first.

 

[Dismom+two]

Well. . .there was this one time at Sam's Club I got behind an older, rotund fellow with a load of peanuts and pretzels, olives, cherries, mixed nuts etc.. waiting to check out.

When he came up to pay, he whipped out a wad of $1 bills about as big as my two feet together and started to pay. The poor little cashier obviously had never been trained to count money. It was taking forever when I asked her if she could get some paper clips. She did, and her manager came over. I asked the man if I could count it for him and get it into order for them. (I was a cage cashier in a casino in grad school.) I ran through the bills, and he had given the girl 2 dollars extra. I paper clipped the bills by 10's, then clipped 3 straps, left the extra clips loosed tossed them down and told her to count that way. She was finally able to make sense of it.

That's when I found out the gentleman owned a strip club.

I'm still a bit about the fact that I handled all those bills and lord only knows where they'd been.

Still. I don't get behind rotund gentleman buying bar food anymore. EVER.

and EWWWW

 

[*JoGo*]

Well. . .there was this one time at Sam's Club I got behind an older, rotund fellow with a load of peanuts and pretzels, olives, cherries, mixed nuts etc.. waiting to check out.

When he came up to pay, he whipped out a wad of $1 bills about as big as my two feet together and started to pay. The poor little cashier obviously had never been trained to count money. It was taking forever when I asked her if she could get some paper clips. She did, and her manager came over. I asked the man if I could count it for him and get it into order for them. (I was a cage cashier in a casino in grad school.) I ran through the bills, and he had given the girl 2 dollars extra. I paper clipped the bills by 10's, then clipped 3 straps, left the extra clips loosed tossed them down and told her to count that way. She was finally able to make sense of it.

That's when I found out the gentleman owned a strip club.

I'm still a bit about the fact that I handled all those bills and lord only knows where they'd been.

Still. I don't get behind rotund gentleman buying bar food anymore. EVER.

OMG. HAHAHAAAAa Also, Ick.
My husband empties the pop machines at his company and will give me stacks of $1s... I've JOKINGLY said "Good night" when paying with 20+ $1s... No way I would ever make that much if I was a stripper, lol.

 

[lakelandgal70]

Not really. I am too busy trying to make sure I get everything on my list quickly and out of the store. The zombie senior citizens at the grocery store I go to scare the heck out of me!

 

[rie'smom]

No, I don't notice because I hate grocery shopping. so I pay attention to my list and get out.

 

[Michelle67]

Well, I seem to inevitably be hungry when I shop so if I'm thinking anything about anybody else's cart it's something along the lines of "That looks good.....oh that looks good too...I didn't see those, where did she get those? i want one of those..."

Oh and about that banana thing in the grocery store. My best friend is a checker and this is one of her pet peeves. People hand her a banana peel or an apple core, or better yet they just leave it in the bottom of the cart and hope she doesn't notice. She has her courtesy clerks trained to go get her the largest example of that item, and uses that to ring it up. Then when they gripe about the one they had not being that big, etc., she tells them that she has no way of knowing that, and "I understand how difficult it is to get your shopping done with a cranky, hungry child (or when you are hungry yourself). But next time please just pick something that does not need to be weighed."

 

[tzolkin]

DH has a coworker who is obnoxious about how superior he thinks he is. One topic that he always mentions is how they only eat "gourmet" and shop just at the farmers markets and specialty grocery stores. (Of course he has never brought any of these fabulous/healthy meals in to work to eat for lunch.) Right around Christmas I ran into his wife in our local grocery store buying two giant bags of tater tots and some other junk. DH and I still joke about what organic "gourmet" meal she was planning to make with 10lbs of tater tots.

 

[Imzadi]

sometimes i wonder what in the world are they going to make with that stuff... sometimes i want to invited over for dinner.

i def. judge the people that pick up a bunch of bananas and then let their kids eat them while walking around the store. you pay by the lb, how are you going to pay for the eaten banana? (i KNOW they had no intentions of paying for it... and that really irritates me)

Yeah, I saw some guy in Whole Foods eating an apple. I'm quite sure he hadn't brought it in with him. How does a cashier weigh an apple core and how much does she add on to make up for what he ate?

That's when I found out the gentleman owned a strip club.

I'm still a bit about the fact that I handled all those bills and lord only knows where they'd been.

Eww! I would have turned around and bought hand sanitizer.



When I was in Whole Foods I bought some wacky stuff that people were probably judging ME for. My cart only had 3 large chocolate bars, 2 protein bars, cheese curls & MEAT. I'm sure the health food fanatics & vegetarians thought I was wacko coming into Whole Foods, of all places, to buy that stuff.

But, I can no longer eat soy. And soy is in EVERYTHING! WF's brand chocolate bars & cheese puffs are the few brands that DON'T have soy lecithin or soybean oil in them. The meat was organic and grain fed, not corn & soybean fed.

Organic veggies & dairy I can get cheaper elsewhere. So I do.

 

[shinysparklybubbles]

Haha! I can only imagine what people think about me! My cats are VERY finicky so when their brand of food goes on sale I stock up! I have put 10 bags of dry cat food in my cart on more than one occasion!

we think, oh how sad, all she can afford to eat is on sale cat food

 

[DaisyLynn]

I don't really pay attention to what others are buying...

But sometimes I wonder if people look at what I'm buying and think

My husband and I work opposite schedules, so we don't often get to have dinner together. I always wonder if they look in my cart and think "doesn't she know that she can eat all the cottage cheese, bananas and Lean Cuisines she wants, the caramel ice cream, $1.00 Banquet dinners and Steak-Ums will negate it?"

 

[POPCITY]

OMG. HAHAHAAAAa Also, Ick.
My husband empties the pop machines at his company and will give me stacks of $1s... I've JOKINGLY said "Good night" when paying with 20+ $1s... No way I would ever make that much if I was a stripper, lol.

When I used to be a cashier, we had a stripper that came in and paid her electric bill every month with ones and fives. I always washed my hands afterwards.

 

[momof1princess]

i don't normally notice what other people buy when i'm shopping, but last week, a woman walked past me with a buggy overflowing with the large, family size bottles of gain and tide detergent. that was ALL she bought-a buggy full of detergent, and bless her, she was a petite lady, struggling to control it. i asked DH "reckon she's got some dirty clothes to wash?".

 

[Squirrel!!!]

Sometimes I notice.

I had a youngish 20 something man in front of me the other day buying the makings of a pasta meal with italian bread, candles, wine and flowers.


And I thought"Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww".