Did you ever fancy a snack and go to get chocolate at the supermarket, and end up standing there looking at all the myriad gaudy packages of sweeties, experiencing a conflicting barrage of buying fantasies that causes unbreakable indecision until you realize you’ve been standing there for five minutes zoning out and then realize that really you didn’t want the chocolate, you prefer just to stare into space for a while doing nothing and letting the mental marketing war grind your will to a halt but feel that a supermarket is an inappropriate place for zen ?
No.
I buy my stuff and leave.
People do this?
Also, not seeing a real GQ thing here, seems like a poll or opinion request.
Sounds kinda like the scene in Moscow on the Hudson where Robin Williams’ defecting Russian musician first walks into an American supermarket and sees all the varieties of coffee available.
“Coffee…coffee…COFFEE…COFFEE…COFFEE…COFFEE!”
Can I have a poll ?
Poll?
Be sure to have a check box labeled. “I came here for something. But now that I am here, I can’t remember what it was”.
Oooh! Fresh cookies and pies!
Yes you can.
Best posted in another forum. I would request this thread be moved as it not a GQ-type question. 
Moderator Note
MrQwertyasd, I think you’ve been here long enough to know that this is not really a General Question. Since it’s asking for personal experiences, it’s more appropriate for IMHO or possibly MPSIMS. Please pay closer attention to which forum you are posting in in the future. I’m moving this to IMHO.
Colibri
General Questions Moderator
Doesn’t happen often… esp around the chocolate. I sometimes let thoughts run wild in the seafood section, however I’ve never been quite as mesmerized as you suggest.
Your topic reminded me of this song from The Uninvited, though. “Too High for the Supermarket”
It’s “safe for work”, but does refer to casual self-medicating with marijuana (in case you didn’t get that from the song title).
Too high for the Supermarket - YouTube
I am surrounded by poison and a deluge of marketing at supermarkets. I walk in hungry yet don’t buy much. I stare down entire aisles, and realize there is nothing for me to buy.
Definitely, yes! Not so much in the candy aisle, but the chips and crackers! Pepper and olive oil Triscuits? Honey-mustard Wheat Thins? Oh, look, Bugles are back! Damn, I love me a bag of Bugles! Wait, Pringles!
The answer, of course, is perfectly obvious: I buy one of each!
No, but grocery shopping with me is at least an hour or more. I look up and down most of the aisles.
It is very very important not to go supermarket shopping if you’re hungry. In that event everything looks good, and you wind up with enormous packages of Fig Newtons and gallon jars of imported capers.
I think the OP’s scenario is much more likely late of an evening after a few intoxicating beverages. I doubt it’s happened to me any other way.