Options
Last minute shopping....... on Xmas eve.
big brother 9
Posts: 18,155 Forum Member
✭✭
I had to nip into asda for a few bits. Toilet roll, fruit and some batteries etc
I've never seen as many people in my whole life. Asda was packed, every till was in operation, I only needed a few bits but it took me an hour and 15 minutes to get in and out, I only purchased around 10 items.
People had trolleys full of beer and drinks, loafs of people had 2 trolleys full of shopping.
Adults were behaving like animals as they were fighting each other over multi packs of Stella and carling.
One woman even moved a women's trolley out of the way of the till whilst the other woman nipped back down the aisle to get something else.
They started screaming and swearing at each other in front of their own kids and others.
Why is it that we leave shopping to the last minute and then when we do we panic buy half the store.?
Don't people realise that shops are only closed on Xmas day? It's like they are buying the food to prepare for the end of time.
If you thought black Friday was bad then today was like hell on earth .
Have anyone of you been shopping today and had a similar experience?
I've never seen as many people in my whole life. Asda was packed, every till was in operation, I only needed a few bits but it took me an hour and 15 minutes to get in and out, I only purchased around 10 items.
People had trolleys full of beer and drinks, loafs of people had 2 trolleys full of shopping.
Adults were behaving like animals as they were fighting each other over multi packs of Stella and carling.
One woman even moved a women's trolley out of the way of the till whilst the other woman nipped back down the aisle to get something else.
They started screaming and swearing at each other in front of their own kids and others.
Why is it that we leave shopping to the last minute and then when we do we panic buy half the store.?
Don't people realise that shops are only closed on Xmas day? It's like they are buying the food to prepare for the end of time.
If you thought black Friday was bad then today was like hell on earth .
Have anyone of you been shopping today and had a similar experience?
0
Comments
Good luck Lippy, managed to grab my bits (ooo errr!) earlier today and will be heading off to the pub shortly (insert smug smiley)
Have a good one! x
I went early this morning, Aldi and a few bits at the co -op and it was fine. Did a few bits for my Mum at the same time and was having coffee with her by ten.
The only bust was cocktail cherries but I'll nip out later to track some down.
I've been shopping most years on Xmas Eve and never found it any worse than any other day.
It is behaviour I can well imagine having seen similar in Sainsbury's on Monday.
The supermarket is closed for just 24 hours for heaven's sake. When did people become so dependent on shopping and so nasty at the same time? We're supposed to be a civilised society. It's quite sad really
If the government brought in food and water rationing then you would soon see how very uncivilised a society we would quickly become.
My Mum loved a good quip.
I hope you gave a suitable retort!
So true
My husband said I'm being silly, they don't need them, but he's letting me tear on because he knows what I'm like. He did draw the line and tell me to wise up when I clapped my hands to face and said I hadn't got the kids a present from the dog yet.
Actually, thinking about the cheating husband thread I think it's stuff like that ^^^ That could drive him into the arms of another. And it would be entirely justified.
Read that as "my mum loved a good gulp" - what is this forum descending into..
Me too - I was amazed at how empty Tesco was this morning - the biggest queue was at the pharmacy!
AND they seemed to have big stocks of almost everything still, including brandy butter, which in previous years has been sold out about three weeks before Christmas.
The only thing that they didn't have many of (only the value ones) was mince pies, and I don't like them anyway, so I didn't care!
The old chestnut:-batteries not included.
Customers fighting of crates of Stella/Fosters? I'm glad Kronenbourg's my first lager of choice (has a nuclear strike on Britain been announced?)
If the customer 'pays my wages' I'm going to want:-
Them to pay for taxies for the rest of the staff there and back this this afternoon, tonight, Boxing Day, New Year's Eve/New Year's Day
a Christmas/new year bonus of fifty quid an hour.
Otherwise they're on their own and 'jus a few small items' (just as the door's about to be locked) NOTHING!!
I'm going to have to show this post to the others later.
Judging by some of the posts on here, it sounds more like collapse of civilisation like the one described at the start of the second Mad Max film.
I'll get what I need tomorrow. I don't need much. I am driving most of the day. A BP petrol station has an M&S inside and it's open 24/7 throughout the season. :cool: If they're out of stock, then tough on me ... I'll cope.
Only delay was not being able to find the Shloer.