Grocery shopping with a stroller and not a shopping cart

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Anonymous wrote:I know this is a non sequitur, but FTM, I never owned a stroller and we use a granny cart + baby wearing (Moby, mei tai, Ergo, sling, whatever). Really, really easy.

Of course, you can also baby wear and use the regular grocery cart, but I add this because I'm always hearing people who live in the city say they have a giant, expensive stroller because it doubles as a shopping cart/food transportation system for urban pedestrians, per the OP. I don't know why the Ergo-etc./granny cart combo (cheaper, more flexible) isn't more popular with city-dwellers without back problems.

I had a big stroller and an ergo because I options. Also, the reality lugging a baby/toddler in an ergo (15-20 pounds) plus a couple bags of groceries, plus all the crap you carry with a baby for 1-2 miles is not as convienant or flexible as it sounds.

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I do this all the time with my Vista. I've never had anyone give me a look. I figure if they said something, I'd explain myself. So convenient.

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As a parent of a 4 mo old who HATES any carrier (moby, bjorn, ergo, you name it), that is not always an option. If LO was sleeping in the car seat when I got to the store, I would always snap her car seat into the stroller and put the food in the bottom container part. I sometimes just carried her in one arm and did the cart pushing/shopping with the other if she was awake, but that is honestly a much bigger pain than just using a stroller.

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I do it all the time..we walk to the grocery (w/ 1.5 yr old) - can't push a cart and push a stroller. When I first began shopping this way I did feel a little paranoid But people do it all the time and grocery store employees are used to it.

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LOL what

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Haven't read the whole thread but I shopped using the basket in my UppaBaby Vista for about a year straight. No one ever said anything.

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Did this all the time when we lived in Europe when my daughter was a baby. People live out of their strollers - have all their baby stuff plus toys etc for older walking kids and roll around town with it all. Shopping is no big thing. Some people, myself included, would sometimes use the stroller to haul groceries even when the kid wasn't in it

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All this discussion about snap N go brings back such memories. My kids when they were infants would always fall asleep in the car, and it made for very peaceful and easy shopping trips with the snap N go. And then they outgrew the bucket seat, and I wanted to cry.

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I just did this for the 1st time last week. Honestly, I had the same thought and it did feel weird. I was at a mall-Giant and decided to stop in since it was there. I think it's just we are so accustomed and trained to use the cart or store provided device. Been shopping using only a cart since we were kids ourselves. It would feel weird in any kind of store I think.

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Anonymous wrote:Did this all the time when we lived in Europe when my daughter was a baby. People live out of their strollers - have all their baby stuff plus toys etc for older walking kids and roll around town with it all. Shopping is no big thing. Some people, myself included, would sometimes use the stroller to haul groceries even when the kid wasn't in it

+1 We lived in the middle of London and the stroller was the equivalent of our car -- good storage underneath = trunk. walking home, I'd hang several bags from clips on the handle. If I needed to do a really big shop (not often), I'd push the stroller and pull my wheely trolley behind me. This is the norm in many urban areas in the US, too. I know it isn't the norm in suburban parts of the US, but it's not stealing and it's not stupid or eyerolly.

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No, not at all. I do it all the time. Going to the store is part of our walk. Specially good on a hot day.
We buy only a few things as we go to the store almost daily.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know this is a non sequitur, but FTM, I never owned a stroller and we use a granny cart + baby wearing (Moby, mei tai, Ergo, sling, whatever). Really, really easy.

Of course, you can also baby wear and use the regular grocery cart, but I add this because I'm always hearing people who live in the city say they have a giant, expensive stroller because it doubles as a shopping cart/food transportation system for urban pedestrians, per the OP. I don't know why the Ergo-etc./granny cart combo (cheaper, more flexible) isn't more popular with city-dwellers without back problems.

I had a big stroller and an ergo because I options. Also, the reality lugging a baby/toddler in an ergo (15-20 pounds) plus a couple bags of groceries, plus all the crap you carry with a baby for 1-2 miles is not as convienant or flexible as it sounds.

you options?

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Shoplifting = Stealing

Shoplifting /= Putting something in a cart, bag, stroller, basket, your hand, etc. and paying for it before exiting.

It's not that hard.

I've shopped with both kids when they were babies w/ the Snap n Go - which as a PP pointed out can easily fit $50-70 groceries. I get comments, sure, but they've been 100% something to the effect of "Oh, your baby's soooo cute!"

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I do it all the time with our umbrella stroller when I have a short shopping list, there's a little storage part under it which is perfect. My baby is a 110% percentile 9 month old that weighs too much for me to carry in the car seat anymore but can't totally hold himself upright yet to sit in the shopping cart so this is my only option

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Anonymous wrote:I honestly in that moment forgot about it because she was running fast out the door. I can't remember if I went back and paid for it later-It was years ago. I do remember thinking "oh, shit, the milk" at some point, but my child's safety was what had me more concerned.

I used the jogging stroller as our walking around our neighborhood stroller. Those walks occasionally included stops at the grocery store, or the Starbucks, or the restaurants in the shopping center. My umbrella stroller generally stayed on my car and I only used it for trips to the mall or anyplace I had to take my car to. This really isn't that unusual. Do people who live in the city park their stroller out front and always grab a cart? I doubt it.

No, but I also don't have a jogging stroller. Most urban dwellers I know use a smaller stroller--lots of Uppa Baby Vistas and City Minis in my neighborhood.