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I went Grocery shopping this afternoon. Ten foot wide aisles and still couldn't move. (Original Post) BlueJazz Oct 2013 OP
The sheep pen is not the place to shop liberal N proud Oct 2013 #1
Great..just great...NOW you tell me. What is that picture of ??...and what are those tags for ?? BlueJazz Oct 2013 #2
Coles Supermarkets liberal N proud Oct 2013 #8
Mutton for dinner then? n/t Ron Obvious Oct 2013 #3
Huh ?...aren't those albino cows? Croist, you Americans duu things a little stroange for me. BlueJazz Oct 2013 #4
I try never to use a shopping cart aint_no_life_nowhere Oct 2013 #5
I've found what you say to be true. There are, of course, many people who can shop with some... BlueJazz Oct 2013 #6
very good! LiberalElite Oct 2013 #10
I am used to doing battle in the supermarket aisles. RebelOne Oct 2013 #7
Mount one of these to your cart.... Purrfessor Oct 2013 #9
I'm thinking pipi_k Oct 2013 #11
I often park my cart in a somewhat out of the way place Arugula Latte Oct 2013 #12

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
5. I try never to use a shopping cart
Fri Oct 18, 2013, 06:26 PM
Oct 2013

I'd rather go more often but use a hand basket, unless I need to buy water. Even then, it's hard to make my way through the store. I find that the shoppers have become more and more rude as time goes by. They stop their cart on one side of the aisle and stand in the other, leisurely lounging around while they read the labels, oblivious that people are trying to get by them. Going in or coming out of the store, I find that a lot of shoppers act as if I'm invisible, launching themselves and their carts right at me and forcing me to step aside to avoid a head-on collision, usually using the entry way for the exit door without batting an eye. Much like the way people go crazy when they get behind the wheel of a car, I find they also become intentional road hogs or bulldozers when they get behind a shopping cart.

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
6. I've found what you say to be true. There are, of course, many people who can shop with some...
Fri Oct 18, 2013, 06:54 PM
Oct 2013

...sense of kindness and caring toward others.

...And then, there's the others...the people who must be some sort of alien Hog-Thing.
They push their cart down the aisle like some ancient King expecting all other humans to bow down and appease them.

"Hear Ye Hear Ye..make way for the Royal food gatherer...move thy miserable self out of the way to enable his chosen one to completely swamp the holy Aisle with his/her magnificent presence"

"WHAT????...THY want to travel down the jewel-encrusted path to the organic matter.??? Be gone with you....how DARE thy complain when the Royals have left thee 8 inches to traverse the aisle."

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)
7. I am used to doing battle in the supermarket aisles.
Fri Oct 18, 2013, 06:59 PM
Oct 2013

I have to use a shopping cart because I buy more than what would fit in a hand basket. And if anyone gets in the way and blocks the aisle, I just say,"Excuse me," very loudly and tap their cart with mine. They usually get the message.

 

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)
12. I often park my cart in a somewhat out of the way place
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 12:50 PM
Oct 2013

and make little short runs up and down a few aisles and dump my armload into the cart. Then I move it to another location, and repeat.

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