Did you ever eat or drink something while grocery shopping?

24-12-2015 07:10AM

kneemos wrote: »

You've destroyed the evidence by eating it.Doubt they could charge you for leaving the shop with a wrapper,they'd need cctv to prove their case.

Again, they could...for the crime of making off without payment anyway. Whether they could prove it is another issue, but doesn't need CCTV, evidence could be given by a witness, a store detective etc.

Subcomandante Marcos · 24-12-2015 07:18AM

I I've eaten a piece of fruit or two from a punnet and then had yo explain to the girl on the till that I know that it's opened, I opened it and ate some.

Menas · 24-12-2015 08:54AM

I was in lidl with a bulgarian friend and they grabbed a beer from the shelf and cracked it open. They could not understand my astonishment...apparently it is the done thing over there.
Makes shopping fun/slightly more bearable!

Diamond Doll · 24-12-2015 08:56AM

Have to admit, I'd be too morto to do it, no matter how hungry/thirsty I was!

I'd just feel like a right piggy having to explain myself at the check-out!

Wouldn't give my toddler anything either, he's not really prone to tantrums but even if he was, I wouldn't give in to him. When I'm shopping with him, I let him pick out foods he likes, like bananas or blueberries or ricecakes or yoghurts or whatever, and he likes holding them in his buggy or the trolley seat as we go around the shop. But he's well able to understand that he doesn't get to eat them until we're home, and he's not even two yet!

kneemos · 24-12-2015 08:58AM

Menas wrote: »

I was in lidl with a bulgarian friend and they grabbed a beer from the shelf and cracked it open. They could not understand my astonishment...apparently it is the done thing over there.
Makes shopping fun/slightly more bearable!

In Lidl the other day and was informed I couldn't buy two cans of beer I had to buy the four pack.
What's up with that?

murphyebass · 24-12-2015 09:02AM

AtomicHorror wrote: »

Tell that to a screaming 2 year old and all the judgey ****ing childless shoppers tutting at him.

How about bringing something else with you for them to snack on that you've paid for previously or feed the child pre shopping or don't bring them if you can't control them.

Menas · 24-12-2015 09:02AM

kneemos wrote: »

In Lidl the other day and was informed I couldn't buy two cans of beer I had to buy the four pack.
What's up with that?

It's Lidl policy to make sure that all their customers are happy. Perhaps you looked a little sad and so insisting on you having a 4 pack would help cheer you up?

Fr_Dougal · 24-12-2015 09:10AM

Jesus, OP. You're worse than that Kony fella.

Clive Bisquette · 24-12-2015 09:11AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Which would be wrong of them. The child may understand no, but may be hungry, tired etc.

Could the parents not have their OWN food supply with them to cater for this eventuality ?

24-12-2015 09:16AM

Clive Bisquette wrote: »

Could the parents not have their OWN food supply with them to cater for this eventuality ?

Oh of course.

I was merely pointing out that a child crying in a shop may not be some spoiled brat throwing a tantrum because they aren't getting their way.

kneemos · 24-12-2015 09:18AM

Menas wrote: »

It's Lidl policy to make sure that all their customers are happy. Perhaps you looked a little sad and so insisting on you having a 4 pack would help cheer you up?

Excellent policy.

Menas · 24-12-2015 09:19AM

kneemos wrote: »

Excellent policy.

Every Lidl helps.

Grayditch · 24-12-2015 09:22AM

I wonder about people that can't wait 10 mins for a donut or something.

Dricmeister · 24-12-2015 09:27AM

No

We frequently do this. Surprisingly for a shop where you spend thousands of Euro a year, they don't really have a problem with you or your kids eating the odd Babybel or drinking the odd bottle of water and then paying for it. Very strange.

Ruu · 24-12-2015 09:30AM

Would be nice if drink and small food bites was brought up to you while shopping.

Whitewinged · 24-12-2015 09:31AM

No

murphyebass wrote: »

How about bringing something else with you for them to snack on that you've paid for previously or feed the child pre shopping or don't bring them if you can't control them.

Temper tantrums can happen often for some toddlers and for others rarely. It's a normal part of child development.

My own child rarely has them but has had a few. Not the end of the world and she's certainly not spoilt or anything like that.

I do sometimes give my child a bit of fruit in the shop. It's really not a big deal. It doesn't effect anyone else in the shop and the food is paid for at the till. Maybe I'm just more laid back, i don't know but some people get really Frank Grimes about things

Diamond Doll · 24-12-2015 09:32AM

Ruu wrote: »

Would be nice if drink and small food bites was brought up to you while shopping.

Pity there's so few sample stalls in supermarkets these days. That used to be my favourite thing about going shopping with my mum when I was a kid!

IamtheWalrus · 24-12-2015 09:34AM

There's nothing technically wrong with it, but that doesn't make it right. Personally, I'd never do it. And if I knew someone who did it, they'd never be in my very close group of friends. I think this act would be indicative of other odd acts and I've enough on my plate without that carry-on.

Dricmeister · 24-12-2015 09:45AM

No

IamtheWalrus wrote: »

There's nothing technically wrong with it, but that doesn't make it right. Personally, I'd never do it. And if I knew someone who did it, they'd never be in my very close group of friends. I think this act would be indicative of other odd acts and I've enough on my plate without that carry-on.

What a coincidence! Someone who would marginalise a person because on occasion they eat things in a supermarket and then pay for them would never be in my close group of friends.

piperh · 24-12-2015 09:53AM

No I have enough self control to wait 10 minutes until I've paid and enough common sense to know no matter how thirsty or hungry I am I'm not about to starve waiting an extra few minutes.

I also never had the need nor the inclination to teach my children that taking something they hadn't yet paid for was ok.I always thought the baby/toddler bag full of supplies was part of parenting 101....never leave the house without spare clothes/nappies/dummy/toy/food and drink.

I have a parent with a medical condition who can suddenly need to eat or drink so always carries their own so unless its a sudden illness I can see no reason not to be prepared.

Sorry I can see no reason for not waiting.

Turtyturd · 24-12-2015 09:58AM

Never done it and wouldn't do it. Given the amount of empty packets you see stuffed on the shelves it just seems likes the person has no intention of paying for it.

Corpus Twisty · 24-12-2015 10:40AM

Summer wind wrote: »

I was in Dunnes earlier tonight doing a load of grocery shopping. I'd just eaten a bag of chips before that and I was gasping for a drink. Couldn't wait until I'd paid as there was about twenty million people shopping. I got a bottle of Coke and drank most of it by the time I got to till. Threw it up on the counter and paid for it with the rest of the shopping. No bother.

Eating and drinking before paying is one thing, but I'd draw the line at barfing it back up at the tills. Unless you also ate the bar-code, and they needed it to scan it through...:pac:

ButtersSuki · 24-12-2015 10:41AM

After doing the Christmas shop in a Dublin Tesco last night I was genuinely going to post on this item today. I witnessed a lot of this last night, and plenty of strategic dumping of the packaging of consumed goods. However, I'm genuinely astonished at the attitudes on this thread.

It's very simple - IT'S NOT YOURS UNTIL YOU'VE PAID FOR IT, THEREFORE DON'T EAT IT.

This bs "shure it's grand, I'm going to pay for it later" is a typical Irish gombeen attitude. It's not grand. And it's the tolerance of this kind of petty crap that leads to other dodgy behaviour and the wink wink nudge nudge culture that pervades our society.

Am I the only one who think this is completely wrong? It's basic manners at one level.

cashback · 24-12-2015 11:35AM

IamtheWalrus wrote: »

I've enough on my plate without that carry-on.

Down with that sort of thing etc...

MilesMorales1 · 24-12-2015 11:37AM

My dad used to do it, then stash the packets behind rows of something. Like packets of ham, chicken pieces, etc, then take a can of beer or something and down that as well, all while walking round with a trolley. Never got caught neither, to the best of my memory. Whereas the one time in marks and spencers (I think I was maybe 9 or 10 years old at the time), I ate a grape out of a bunch in a packet, and the security guard grabbed me by the shoulder, escorted me outside, and told me to not come back :mad:

murphyebass · 24-12-2015 11:41AM

Whitewinged wrote: »

Temper tantrums can happen often for some toddlers and for others rarely. It's a normal part of child development.

My own child rarely has them but has had a few. Not the end of the world and she's certainly not spoilt or anything like that.

I do sometimes give my child a bit of fruit in the shop. It's really not a big deal. It doesn't effect anyone else in the shop and the food is paid for at the till. Maybe I'm just more laid back, i don't know but some people get really Frank Grimes about things

Laid back or unable to control your child are two different things.

Tantrums happen but how you deal with said tantrum is the issue.

Captain Chaos · 24-12-2015 11:41AM

pickarooney wrote: »

I've even done it in restaurants. Eaten a meal and only paid for I when my plate was empty.

Do you fill the car up drive off and come back to pay the garage with an empty tank.?

Larry the Logster · 24-12-2015 11:45AM

I voted no, but I got a Raffaello and a Lindor chocolate 'sample' on separate occasions in Tesco in the run up to Christmas. I ate the Raffaello at the time, haven't eaten the Lindor chocolate yet. May eat it later today.

My name is URL · 24-12-2015 11:58AM

No

ButtersSuki wrote: »

This bs "shure it's grand, I'm going to pay for it later" is a typical Irish gombeen attitude. It's not grand. And it's the tolerance of this kind of petty crap that leads to other dodgy behaviour and the wink wink nudge nudge culture that pervades our society.

Jaysis that's some bullshit

wilhelm roentgen · 24-12-2015 12:02PM

I went to visit a friend of mine years ago on the Isle of Lewis in the outer Hebrides.
We were in a coop supermarket in Stornoway stocking up for Hogmanay when all of a sudden there was a power outage and all the cashiers tills stopped working.
We stood in a queue for about an hour until the power came back on. Everyone was drinking cans/spirits/wine in the several queues that had formed and I mean EVERYONE, even the little kids were getting stuck into the Irn-Bru

Did you ever eat or drink something while grocery shopping?

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