…and we didn’t get a cart!
Not even a basket! We bought chilli’, chips and cheese dip for the tamales she brought home from work.
I’m going to write an article for Argosy.
Did you by any chance also get a bottle of bourbon, which you drank before starting this thread? 
Cheese dip for tamales?
You have obviously never been to a grocery with a woman.
You are a lucky man.
Au contraire, my usual modus operandi is some woman or other trying to remove all the cool treats that I’ve put in the trolley and telling me “we don’t need that”. Then I remind her who’s paying.
You are obviously speaking of beer.
In what country does one shop with a trolley?
The UK, or any country in which English English (as opposed to American English) is taught in schools.
My exerience is that I often try to accomplish this feat, only to end up juggling far more than I can handle until some caring employee kindly leaves an empty cart in my path.
Congratulations!
What’s Argosy?
Lucky Devil.
I swear we can be headed across town to go get the cheaper meds and milk over there. The SO will ask “what do we need to pick up?”. I’ll come up with maybe five items and she will agree thats all we need. 3 hours later and we are back with a couple hundred dollars worth of stuff. Sometimes I send her by herself because “why do you need me with you to pick up a few items? Cause I am in the middle of something here”. 3 hours later…unloading a truck full of goods.
Its a mistery to me. I think gremlins are stealing half our grocery store stuff in the middle of the night.
I went to Target two nights ago for a mandoline (kitchen, not instrument) and a 6 pack of beer. I left with a mandoline and a 6 pack of beer.
Truly miraculous, it was.
(I’m not joking.)
It should come as no surprise that studies have shown the bigger the shopping cart (trolly), the more crap you will buy to “fill it” before leaving.
Very smart not to use any form of cart (hand held or on wheels) when shopping, buying only what you can hold in your hands!
In NYC and Berlin, where aisles in grocery stores are narrower and the carts smaller, I used to buy less. Now, living in Las Vegas where you could drive a car down the aisles and the carts are about the size of U-Hauls, I find I keep throwing things in there and wind up spending far too much on things I probably didn’t need to buy that day.
It is the same story with the size of dinner plates - in the “old days” they used to be 9" but now the average size is 11" and people eat more, as they feel they have to fill that plate before starting to eat. Thus the huge ass people who have shopping carts that can hold 4 tons of food, shopping to fill a dinner plate that used to be a serving dish with enough food to feed a family of four.
Invariably there is always one more thing that that I need that causes me to drop everything on the floor right before the checkout.
Until now. The first thing on every shopping list now is a plastic bucket from the kitchenware aisle, which holds just enough of the other items. Then, right as I put everything on the conveyor belt, I decide I don’t need the bucket.
I read somewhere that using a handheld basket rather than a cart causes you to buy more impulse purchases. I think shopping with a list is probably the best way to get out of the store without over-buying - I get only a few more things than what’s on my list that way (things I see that remind me that I’m out and I forgot to put it on the list).
She must have eaten right before leaving… that’s the only explanation I can find. Even still, your story sounds a little fishy to me. :dubious:
In my many experiences as a cashier, I will back up that the women usually seem to buy half the store.
The men tend to get one item. Then come back 2 hours later for another item or two. Then again for a third item. This is especially true at hardware stores or Target, where women still buy more stuff in one trip.
Men are the mainstay of convenience stores as well, sez my brother who manages one.
If I take my husband grocery shopping with me, especially to Costco, we’ll end up spending the damn mortgage on said groceries.
That’s because he doesn’t often go with me and when he does, he wants to try every damn thing he sees.
I leave him home when I shop for groceries; or, on the rare occasion he goes, I give him a list. That only happens when we’re hosting dinner and I’m doing the cooking. I give him a list for the stuff needed for the night’s entertainment and tell him exactly where to find it.
A defunct American “Mens Magazine” that had “real life” stories such as “Weasels Ripped My Flesh”.
I use my reusable shopping bags instead of a cart. It also helps when the bag-person tries to give me plastic bags claiming all my stuff won’t fit in my bag. I point out that I carried it to the check-out lane in the bag, so it probably actually does fit.
Target confuses me. If I bring my own bag, I get a (small) discount. If I don’t bring my own bag, but also refuse theirs, I don’t get a discount.
-D/a
In the UK:
Shopping trolley = what you call a shopping cart
Tram = trolley bus/car/whatever you call it
I’m a fan of going without a cart or basket if I only need a few items. Of course just when I have my hands full is when the toddler will lie down in the middle of the aisle and refuse to move because I wouldn’t buy her Dora band aids.
I stopped taking her when she pulled the same stunt because she remembered I hadn’t bought her Dora band aids on the previous shopping trip. Her dad takes her grocery shopping. She doesn’t pull that stuff with him. And no, he doesn’t buy her the band aids either.
I only make two trips to the grocery store a week. I need a cart dammit!
However, I don’t buy anything not on the list and the list is carefully crafted to make sure we have (just) enough food until the next trip.