People Gawking at Your pruchases in the supermarket

road_high

Maybe i'm being very paraniod here but does anybody else feel like people are looking at what your buying in the supermarket? Like when you put the shopping up on the belt and they have a good snoop. I find this highly annoying but not much you can do about really!

Miss Fluff

I always look at what other people are buying.

It's like a veritable collage of their personality comprising of foodstuffs. Not generalising or anything but morbidly obese people DO tend to have a trolley full of cakes and people in need of a good feed DO tend to have one solitary little carrot and some rice cakes in theirs.

Even better fun spotting what people are buying in the pharmacy. It's like, what COULD that 80 year old woman be buying KY for? ROFL:D

Ruu_Old

I don't bother looking at what others are purchasing, its their business and not mine. Miss Fluff, I most certainly wouldn't look at what people buy in the pharmacy and would not want to know what others use their items for.
Someday though, I will bring up a trolley full of condoms and see what happens, should be a larf.

gandalf

Hmm I look just in case it reminds me of something I have forgotten to get. I hate that feeling when you get home and you realise you have forgotten the one thing you went in for !!!!

englander

I often look at others shoppping baskets while I am queuing to see if I have forgotten anything.

Ba_barbaraAnne

I look, and often spot something that i've forgotten to buy! It's also fun when there is a long queue to guess what kind of people/families they are by the contents of the shopping trolley.... loads of bread, frozen chips and fizzy drinks and there's a gang of kids at home, a little old lady with two chops is going home to cook her husband's dinner.... bottles of water, salami, crusty bread and cheese and you've got continentals.... the list goes on!

So what if I want to buy 32 melons? It's none of anyone else's business.

petes

Sometimes I don't even look at what I am buying. Get home and think "I don't remember getting that".

mikedragon32

I don't do a large grocery shop very often as I usually only buy stuff on a day to day basis, but when I push a trolley around Tesco, I do tend to peek at other people's trolleys. Sometimes you might spot something you'd like to try!

It never ceases to amaze me when I see tolleys laden with frozen chips, pizzas, burgers, crisps, chocolate, sweets and other crap being pushed around by obese parents with obese kids in tow. But that's a whole other thread!

Lurk

There's not much else to do in shopping queues...it's either look at all the lovely items that those nice marketing people have designed for our own good, or smile back at a kid in a trolley ahead of you and then have to keep up the false smile for the next ten minutes until they're gone.
There's one checkout lassie in my local Tesco that likes to comment on the DVDs that you buy...I tend to avoid her as not great at chit-chat.

Nevyn

Do you use a loyalty card ?
If you do then all your purchaces are recored ina database that easily a 100 people if not more and marketing frims have acess to.
The vouchers you get for using your card are in fact based on what you ahve bought and what you may be likely to buy.
That is more of a 'concern' then people gawking at what you are buying and it that is such an issue then set your arlam and go shopping a 3am.

xebec

Thaedydal wrote:

Do you use a loyalty card ?
If you do then all your purchaces are recored ina database that easily a 100 people if not more and marketing frims have acess to.
The vouchers you get for using your card are in fact based on what you ahve bought and what you may be likely to buy.
That is more of a 'concern' then people gawking at what you are buying and it that is such an issue then set your arlam and go shopping a 3am.

Why is it a concern? It's made clear when you sign up that the information will be recorded, hence you're getting a reward (if a very tiny one) for allowing them to do this. Not a problem by me. It happens everywhere - cookies on websites do the same thing.

DublinWriter

mfitzy wrote:

Like when you put the shopping up on the belt and they have a good snoop. I find this highly annoying but not much you can do about really!

Oh boo hoo! People are looking at you! If it bothers you that much then shop online.

There's nothing to be ashamed of in putting a six-pack of Dutch Gold, a Pot-Noddle and a copy of Heat up on the belt.

Gandhi

Myth wrote:

So what if I want to buy 32 melons? It's none of anyone else's business.

In all fairness, nobody can be blamed for staring at such a massive set of melons...

Fast_Mover

I always have a quick glance into people baskets and trolleys when im going around the supermarket. I think the saying 'you are what you eat' is very true..therefore i like to see what people like to purchase..

theTinker

I buy cheap tesco natural value yogurts(500g for 59cents baby!). I buy 7 each week and when ever i put the on the belt, I get horrible looks like im dirty for buying them......I thought it was just me..

ps: I use the yogurts as a base for making a pint of fruit smoothie each day. I wouldnt dare taste them on thier own.

Dave!

Not really no... I do feel very conspicuous however, when I buy a big bail of toilet-roll! Like people are goin "Jeez louise, what did HE eat?! :eek:"

Pighead

Fast_Mover wrote:

I think the saying 'you are what you eat' is very true..QUOTE]
If you are what you eat then Pigheads a pussy.

Dave!

Pighead wrote:

If you are what you eat then Pigheads a pussy.

More like Pighead's a sausage!!!

Works on so many levels!!!

WhiteWashMan

i like cats

Nevyn

theTinker wrote:

I buy cheap tesco natural value yogurts(500g for 59cents baby!). I buy 7 each week and when ever i put the on the belt, I get horrible looks like im dirty for buying them......I thought it was just me..

ps: I use the yogurts as a base for making a pint of fruit smoothie each day. I wouldnt dare taste them on thier own.

A daily application of natural yogurt is a commonly known cure for trush....

Agent Smith

Miss Fluff wrote:

Even better fun spotting what people are buying in the pharmacy. It's like, what COULD that 80 year old woman be buying KY for? ROFL:D

i work at a till...


this happenned a few weeks ago

Lurk

I think older ladies sometimes get uncomfortably dry 'down there.'
Or maybe she's just into back-door action.

Victor

Miss Fluff wrote:

Even better fun spotting what people are buying in the pharmacy. It's like, what COULD that 80 year old woman be buying KY for? ROFL:D

Suppositories.

verdidnt

Victor wrote:

Suppositories.

Argh! The images, the images!!

byte

I sometimes notice something (in a supermarket, not a pharmacy) and think "I wouldn't mind some of that" and go off and get same.

Piste

What could that boy be buying one carrot and a tub of vaseline for?

And what about that guy buying seven packets of crisps and nachos and a packet of Rizla?

Yes looking at other people's shopping is very interesting indeed

Wishbone Ash

I had to buy 250 (50 X 5 pairs) of socks in Penny's one time (long story). I got some funny looks. Even the security man followed me around the shop and up to the till. When the girl was scanning them, I could hear someone saying "Jayus, yer man is fond o the black socks".

Ruu_Old

^^ Haha brilliant.

Mossy Monk

yes i do look but only because it is in my line of sight. if someone is surprised or offended by what i buy then why would i give a rattling ****. nosey bastards

Dave!

Actually I remember some old man in front of me in the queue in a shop, buying around 20 packs of Oxtail flavoured soup, and a loaf of bread. Thought that was wierd. On later reflection I decided that cos he is old he doesn't like walking much, so the more he buys the less frequently he has to go to the shop

Fast_Mover

..but he'd have to walk to the shop anyway to get the bread, so why not get the soup then too, huh?! (that's presuming he wanted bread with his oxtail soup though)

monkeyfudge

Wishbone Ash wrote:

I had to buy 250 (50 X 5 pairs) of socks in Penny's one time (long story). I got some funny looks. Even the security man followed me around the shop and up to the till. When the girl was scanning them, I could hear someone saying "Jayus, yer man is fond o the black socks".

Ah but you see, ordinary shops sell what look like black socks, but if you look closely, you'll see that they're very, very, very, very, very, very, very dark blue.

Actually a fun thing to do in the supermarket is to fill a trolley up with booze and then stick a pack of nappies on top. Then when you are told the total price at the till say "Ah, f*ck... I don't have enough... I'll have to put something back." and put back the nappies and then see all the dirty looks you get.

jaggeh

even better does anyone ever get the urge to walk away with someone elses trolley?

Sonnenblumen

I look at people guess their lifestyle eating habits and then look in trolley for convicting evidence. Most don't care nor do I, but women seem a lot more uneasy than men about it.

Passes the time, waiting for someone to apy for 1L of milk with a credit card, or some biddy counting out 99cent in ones and twos.

fightin irish

DaveMcG wrote:

Not really no... I do feel very conspicuous however, when I buy a big bail of toilet-roll! Like people are goin "Jeez louise, what did HE eat?! :eek:"

ha ha brillant. Thats why i always manage to some how get my wife to get it. In the unlikely event of me having to buy the bog roll, it's always the little ones.

And yes i love staring into other ppl's shopping. You can tell alot about the person.

The Bollox

how does that joke go about the guy at the til, the girl serving says "you're single, aren't you?" he says "yeah,how did you know? because I am buying one of everything?" and she says why, it is killing me that I can't remember

Fast_Mover

because ur ugly..:D

The Bollox

LMAO! that was it

Fast_Mover

Was shopping in Tesco there about two hours ago and found myself looking at peoples purchases, cant help it like..then all of a sudden this thread popped into my mind, couldn't help but laugh to myself:D

the_syco

I look at other people's trollies, and if I saw something that looked nice, I'd ask was it. Me being 6 foot 6, wearing a trenchcoat, metal blaring from the headphones around my neck, the old biddies will give me an informed answer, rather than a "f**k off and mind your own business":D

cournioni

This thread reminds me of Ed Byrne's gag about buying booze and nappies from a supermarket on his dvd. Very funny indeed!

cournioni

monkeyfudge wrote:

Actually a fun thing to do in the supermarket is to fill a trolley up with booze and then stick a pack of nappies on top. Then when you are told the total price at the till say "Ah, f*ck... I don't have enough... I'll have to put something back." and put back the nappies and then see all the dirty looks you get.

Thats the one!

EWheelChair

I was watching a girl at the till one day, she bought one of those dinners for one, one bag of popcorn, one shampoo, one shower gel and one tooth brush.. so i asked her if she was single and she said "Yea, how'd you know?" and i said

"Cause you're minging"

HelterSkelter

Yup, I do it. And when I see a fatty I just can't help thinking "No wonder you're so fat with a trolley full of cakes, crisps, soft drinks and crap microwave food"!!!

Jimoslimos

Am intrigued by people who have more cat food than human food in their trollies. FFS woman (usually are) get a bit more food for yourself, I've never heard of a cat dying of starvation

mikedragon32

Jimoslimos wrote:

Am intrigued by people who have more cat food than human food in their trollies. FFS woman (usually are) get a bit more food for yourself, I've never heard of a cat dying of starvation

Maybe she's fattening the cats up?

Even Pighead says that he likes eating cat.

Demetrius

If you were a guy and had packs and packs of contraceptives, then yes, it would be embarassing.

I don't care who looks at my paltry foodstuffs to be honest.

Miss Fluff

mikedragon32 wrote:

Even Pighead says that he likes eating cat.

Bless

fabcat

I don't do a weekly shop, just get stuff from the shop beside my flats on a day to day basis after work, I have two cats so obviously so I buy their two tins of catfood every day too, now one of the assistants asks me how the cats are, EVERYTIME I go to the till, no matter what I'm buying, this has got slightly embarrassing so I've taken to walking away from the till and going to another assistant rather than him.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

I've never had a problem with this but i did work on a check out once, there was one woman who used to come in weekly and but loads of tablets for constipation which i thought was pretty funny, untill some one told me she probably had an eating problem!

Oh and couples buying condoms, heehe, they're gonna do it!