Do you go to the supermarket with your partner?

[Thankyou4calling]

Actually, do you go in and to the weekly shop together?

[Impasse]

Who?

[0000]

No, but sometimes I'll help her bring it to the kitchen when the delivery driver turns up.

[HD Adam]

When I'm home, yes.

We take her old mother and push her round in her wheelchair, stop in the cafe for a cuppa so she can tell us it used to be all fields here and Hitler bombed the field etc.

Nice

[otolith]

No, more often I do it without her.

[toon10]

Of course, who is going to push the trolley and pack the bags? I turn up to pay, she does the actual shopping.

[BOBTEE]

I like trolley drifting so yes, I do go

[Rude-boy]

Sometimes but as a rule she does all the shopping. I can usually bump the bill up by 50% when I go though...

[Hooli]

Varies

[PositronicRay]

Only special occasions, she's good day to day but doesn't nearly buy enough stuff if we've people round.

[Mr Trophy]

Yes, because she doesn't say no when I fill it with chocolate!

[Bluebarge]

Sometimes, yes but since I'm usually told I can't buy the things I want, I sometimes go on my own.

One thing that really bugs me whilst shopping is blokes who do insist on accompanying their wives around the supermarket. They usually appear to be attached to their other half by an invisible short rein, brains in neutral and determined to get in the bloody way. Dithering old ladies are a blessing in comparison.

[Jimmy Recard]

I'm single at the moment but typically it's one or the other.

I tend to do it very quickly so I can't be bothered standing around while she debates in her head which item she wants. But she can spend as long as she wants traipsing around Sainsbury's as long as I don't have to do it too.

[trickywoo]

doogz said:

Usually go on my own.

Much quicker.

I do most of the cooking too so it makes sense.

Same.

Its a mare if she does it as she'll come in late at night having driven 15 miles each way to a Tesco because its cheaper Have loads of stuff we won't immediately use and expect me to unpack it there and then as she has 'done the shopping'.

[HarryFlatters]

Yep, we go to the shops together.

I do the cooking, and I know how to pack sensibly.

[schmunk]

0000 said:

No, but sometimes I'll help her bring it to the kitchen when the delivery driver turns up.

This - what sort of idiot would schlep groceries around a supermarket when they'll deliver it all to your door for £5 per month?

[Jimmy Recard]

schmunk said:

This - what sort of idiot would schlep groceries around a supermarket when they'll deliver it all to your door for £5 per month?

I have two good reasons for this.

1: I'm not organised enough to do that. I pretty much buy what I want, when I want it.


2: The supermarkets I've tried so far won't deliver to me. I accept that I may not have tried all of them.

[moanthebairns]

If she's working she will write a list and I will get everything on the list and not an item more. in and out in 20 minutes.

When she wasn't staying at mines id go and come back with an entire weeks food for £20. It would be beans, bread and eggs for tea every night.

Now she's driving she wants to meet me there after the football to go shopping. I now spend an age going, "oh for fk sake what now". For years I went straight to the location of the things I needed. I never ever bought anything from the end of the aisles. She manages to stop at everyone of these and goes "oh look at that on offer", or "no had these in a while". How the fk can you browse a supermarket.

I can easily add £10-20 on a weeks shop with her there. I pay with card and never really bother about it. She studies the receipt and acts shocked, she cant comprehend ramming a trolley full costs more money. She then proceeds to say, "I wouldn't have got that if it was going to be so dear". I'm sat there going, wtf, I'm the one paying for it. She does this all the time.

[Muzzer79]

Rude-boy said:

Sometimes but as a rule she does all the shopping. I can usually bump the bill up by 50% when I go though...

Oddly, our situation is opposite. I cut out all the crap we don't need....

To answer the OP, we started Click and Collect about 18 months ago and haven't looked back. Far better things to do with an hour of my time than walk around a supermarket picking up groceries.

[Johnny]

Big shop, usually together. Sometimes just me.

Bits and pieces, usually her, sometimes me. Sometimes both.

So, um, yeah.