Why do people grocery shop with the whole family?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. My husband went to work and I need to take both my kids to the grocery. Bonus, I’m being judged by jerks like you.

You can order groceries now. All children under age 16 should not be allowed in stores of any kind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. My husband went to work and I need to take both my kids to the grocery. Bonus, I’m being judged by jerks like you.

You can order groceries now. All children under age 16 should not be allowed in stores of any kind.

+1

Excellent point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We went to the movies in Silver Spring, stopped by WF on the way home. NBD.

Leave half the family in the car. NBD.

[Anonymous]

Not sure about Wegmans but at some other places, its pretty common to see large families loitering around eating food samples for free.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure about Wegmans but at some other places, its pretty common to see large families loitering around eating food samples for free.

Ew.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We do it because both of us like to browse food options for holidays. Get some inspiration. So just handing off a list doesn’t work well.

Kids too young to stay home alone.

Same here, but my kids are well behaved (and older) at the store. If they routinely acted wild animals, I would never bring them, and they know that. They like grocery shopping with me-weirdos...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP— this is weird to me. When I see a single person shopping at the grocery store I always think how sad their life must be. There is nothing more lonely to me than seeing that. I am not talking about someone running in for a few items after work. You can tell those. Someone alone in wegman’s on the Sunday before Christmas is sad even if they have family.

I'm alone and never realized other shopper's would give me a thought. A little embarrassed now, especially as I'm doing this week's grocery shop on Christmas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because the dad is useless...can't follow a list and comes home w/ a bunch of random crap, and leaves out key ingredients for the menu and blows the budget. Mom can't go alone because dad will jack the kids up on crap food (assuming he bothers to feed them at all,) the house will look like a tornado blew through and no one will help clean it up. That's why.

This is the most common reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. My husband went to work and I need to take both my kids to the grocery. Bonus, I’m being judged by jerks like you.

No judgement here, shop away!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because the dad is useless...can't follow a list and comes home w/ a bunch of random crap, and leaves out key ingredients for the menu and blows the budget. Mom can't go alone because dad will jack the kids up on crap food (assuming he bothers to feed them at all,) the house will look like a tornado blew through and no one will help clean it up. That's why.

This is the most common reason.

It isn't common to treat your dh like a child who can't handle any responsibilities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm lucky enough to live within 5 minutes of a Wegmans, but a lot of people visit from relatively far away--that's their "special occasion" grocery store. So they might make an outing of it--get some groceries, get a coffee and a cookie for the kids, grab a slice of pizza for lunch, hit up a few other stores in the area.

It gets busy and crowded this time of year (duh), which is why I did my final grocery run this morning at 7 a.m. It was empty. My husband will pop in for steamed shrimp, flowers and milk tomorrow morning, and that will be it for us for the rest of the week.

Wegman’s is my special occasion store but I refused to go there with any family except my 25 year old. That said, yes, you’ll see us all in WF because no one takes the list seriously and otherwise there are 20 texts with additions and changes.

[Anonymous]

Years and years ago when my kids were little, Ft Benning commissary didn’t allow kids under 12 in the store at all. They had a little childcare attached. It was heaven on earth!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP— this is weird to me. When I see a single person shopping at the grocery store I always think how sad their life must be. There is nothing more lonely to me than seeing that. I am not talking about someone running in for a few items after work. You can tell those. Someone alone in wegman’s on the Sunday before Christmas is sad even if they have family.

WTF... people aren't allowed to grocery shop...whether they're single in their life circumstances or just alone because the family is doing something more interesting? Hands down the strangest thing I've read on here and I've read a lot of strange things over the years.

+1

Shopping alone is NORMAL, people.

+2

Most people think of grocery shopping as an errand to be done as fast as possible not as a prolonged social &/or family bonding activity!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because the dad is useless...can't follow a list and comes home w/ a bunch of random crap, and leaves out key ingredients for the menu and blows the budget. Mom can't go alone because dad will jack the kids up on crap food (assuming he bothers to feed them at all,) the house will look like a tornado blew through and no one will help clean it up. That's why.

This is the most common reason.

It isn't common to treat your dh like a child who can't handle any responsibilities.

+1! Did you marry & procreate with a 10-year-old or a grown ass man?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We do it because both of us like to browse food options for holidays. Get some inspiration. So just handing off a list doesn’t work well.

Kids too young to stay home alone.

Same here, but my kids are well behaved (and older) at the store. If they routinely acted wild animals, I would never bring them, and they know that. They like grocery shopping with me-weirdos...

They take up the entire aisle!