Why do old people shop at weekends ?
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Just wondering really.
Why would retured people want to go and do their main supermarktet shop at the weekends when those who work during the week will often have to do it and so the shops are really rather busy, much busier than I imagine at the equivalent time on a random weekday ?
Doesn't bother me in the slightest, but just seemed odd to me that as I was in Tesco earlier today there was a staggeringly large number of OAP's shopping, some of whom looked quite upset that there were so many other people in there getting in their way......
Why would retured people want to go and do their main supermarktet shop at the weekends when those who work during the week will often have to do it and so the shops are really rather busy, much busier than I imagine at the equivalent time on a random weekday ?
Doesn't bother me in the slightest, but just seemed odd to me that as I was in Tesco earlier today there was a staggeringly large number of OAP's shopping, some of whom looked quite upset that there were so many other people in there getting in their way......
Used to wonder the same thing before I retired. And lunchtimes too...
Try to avoid busy times now, both on the roads and in the shops. Some must either like the crowds or be too dim to work out that they could have a quieter life by going 'off peak'.
Or they're exercising their 'rights'.
Try to avoid busy times now, both on the roads and in the shops. Some must either like the crowds or be too dim to work out that they could have a quieter life by going 'off peak'.
Or they're exercising their 'rights'.
They do it in High St shops and at the Post Office too, especially at lunchtimes, or any time that working people need to just nip in & out quickly when they can.
I work, but luckily my hours are flexible so I can shop off peak. If I didn't work, there is no way I would specifically do my shopping at the busiest peak times, but pensioners appear to like to. Funny old world ain't it?
I work, but luckily my hours are flexible so I can shop off peak. If I didn't work, there is no way I would specifically do my shopping at the busiest peak times, but pensioners appear to like to. Funny old world ain't it?
You shop at Tesco? 
I deliver to supermarkets and it is surprising, on my walk tothe doughnuts the staff canteen for a healthy salad, how many more old people there are at the weekends.
If I ran a supermarket I would make tuesdays old people day only. You would only be allowed one child per parent. None of these hundereds of scabby, dirty kids having races in the aisles, it gets in the way of my trolley surfing.
I deliver to supermarkets and it is surprising, on my walk to
If I ran a supermarket I would make tuesdays old people day only. You would only be allowed one child per parent. None of these hundereds of scabby, dirty kids having races in the aisles, it gets in the way of my trolley surfing.
MentalSarcasm said:
I work in a supermarket, Saturdays, Fridays and Mondays, and I generally see the same pensioners there each day. I think most of them do a daily shop rather than a weekly one, for most of them it's the one thing that gets them out of the house and chatting to people.
I'm like that. Only I go to the bar.
jmorgan said:
Can't wait for the PH thread 40 years down the line.
"why are the youngsters getting in our at the.... (remember in a minute).....supermar..... wait..... AH! I remember, thursday 4 o'clock."
Yeah, it will be in sub-sub-sub forum number 1,407 - the 'Shopping in Supermarkets' section."why are the youngsters getting in our at the.... (remember in a minute).....supermar..... wait..... AH! I remember, thursday 4 o'clock."
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