People Gawking at Your pruchases in the supermarket

road_high · 29-09-2006 04:29PM #1

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 · 29-09-2006 04:33PM

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 · 29-09-2006 04:37PM

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 · 29-09-2006 04:38PM

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 · 29-09-2006 04:38PM

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

Ba_barbaraAnne · 29-09-2006 05:11PM

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!

29-09-2006 05:13PM

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

petes · 29-09-2006 05:15PM

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

mikedragon32 · 29-09-2006 05:39PM

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 · 29-09-2006 05:42PM

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 · 29-09-2006 05:47PM

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 · 29-09-2006 06:22PM

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 · 29-09-2006 06:32PM

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 · 29-09-2006 06:47PM

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 · 29-09-2006 06:47PM

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 · 29-09-2006 06:53PM

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! · 29-09-2006 06:55PM

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 · 29-09-2006 07:01PM

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! · 29-09-2006 07:05PM

Pighead wrote:

If you are what you eat then Pigheads a pussy.

More like Pighead's a sausage!!!

Works on so many levels!!!

WhiteWashMan · 29-09-2006 07:05PM

i like cats

Nevyn · 29-09-2006 07:27PM

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 · 29-09-2006 08:17PM

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 · 30-09-2006 12:13AM

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

Victor · 30-09-2006 07:11AM

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 · 30-09-2006 05:35PM

Victor wrote:

Suppositories.

Argh! The images, the images!!

byte · 30-09-2006 11:09PM

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 · 30-09-2006 11:35PM

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 · 30-09-2006 11:38PM

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 · 30-09-2006 11:40PM

^^ Haha brilliant.

Mossy Monk · 01-10-2006 12:44AM

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! · 01-10-2006 01:44AM

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

People Gawking at Your pruchases in the supermarket

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