A Supermarket Saga

  1. calswec says:

    >Just you wait, it’s gonna get worse with the gas price hike. now that prices go up and peole have to truck things companies are going to raise the prices on EVERYTHING because they “have to compensate for the gasoline that it took to ship the products.” Just you wait until you see the first cat fight over a 4 dollar 6 pack of coke!! Just you wait!

  2. Ramona says:

    >Here via Michele’s!How I would long for Liquor to be sold at the supermarkets here in Ontario…that would at least make it worthwhile going to the store.I hate grocery shopping with a white-hot hatred, and your entry summed it up perfectly!

  3. MommaK says:

    >If they gave out samples of merlot instead of turkey bacon, we would all be smiling a little more 🙂

  4. Vanessa says:

    >I am usually in a fairly decent mood when I enter the supermarket. By the time I leave I’m ready to shoot someone. How about those people who like to visit with their friends RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE AISLE and only move when you say “excuse me???!!!” AND, then they look at you as if you are some evil bitch set out to destroy their good time. (Sometimes I actually take a Zanax before I go to the store. Shhh…don’t tell anyone!)

  5. _ says:

    >I know my last comment I added a ‘hey you forgot this one’ thang, and I’m doing it again, hope ya don’t hate it when people that:What about when you see the same person down each aisle? Like they’re heading east-west and you’re going west-east and you keep passing them? And what bugs me even more is when you know them. I mean how many times can you say: good ta see ya, haven’t seen ya since. . . well aisle 4′ before it’s gets old and moldy? C’mon nowOh and people that shop on cellphones! I mean J3sus! and they talk so frekking loud, about the boringest crap, like say. . . what they’re buying at the grocery store.

  6. Crazy MomCat says:

    >I think the moms should get the free cookie when entering the store, not the kids. Or wait…make that a shot of something strong!If I had the room here, I’d relay a hilarious story my husband gave me tonight about his experiences at the store. Let me just say this–Walmart at night, 20 items or less, and person shopping WHILE they were in the checkout in front of him…ha!

  7. Theresa says:

    >Um, am I still lumped in with the milk maids if I’m the mom grabbing 6 gallons of the stuff and unwittingly blocking the skim milk? And don’t you hate those moms who park their carts so you can get by, but then they stand there staring at all of the soups, and will not move even though they see you?

  8. >Oh my gosh. You guys are making my blood pressure rise just reading your comments. For one thing- Yes, yes, wine samples PLEASE. We deserve it. Brilliant idea, MommaK.Several people have mentioned the shoppers who won’t move until you say “Excuse me”, usually several times and usually passive-aggressively-slowwwwly. UGH.And that’s hilarious, RA. Yes, I hate continually running into the same person. I’ll generally change my shopping route just to avoid that scenario- and I’ve seen others do the same to avoid continually running into ME! Ha! It’s just kind of awkward, y’know?Steph, the beauty of having a toddler is that I get to eat at least half the cookie if I get one for her. Yum yum…Thank God I’m not the only one who feels this way.

  9. Star says:

    >I love it! Just imagine how I feel. I work there all day and THEN I have to shop! Here via Michele. I am going to share this with my coworkers. We need a laugh. We work with the public!

  10. >I just can’t comment. I’m the mum who at least every six weeks falls into the parental INSANITY of ‘just dropping into the supermarket to pick up a couple of things with the kids’. All three of them. Combined age of 13.And I never, ever, learn.Let me apologise now, in advance, and in perpetuity. I am SO sorry I’ve turned into THAT mother…

  11. FattyPants says:

    >Hi there, I followed you over from agog and aghast. So I guess via micheles. The supermarket makes me crazy so I either go at insane hours or just order online and go pick it up. I think its worse to take my husband than my six year old. He’s the one that throws about $374681734 worth of uneeded stuff in the cart. Nice blog, I will be back !

  12. blackbird says:

    >Usually I like grocery shopping just fine…but somehow you have distilled everything I hate about it in this one post.And now. I don’t like it anymore.

  13. ieatcrayonz says:

    >Wait, you have liquor in the grocery store? Why not just crack one open and stagger around cussing at the other mama’s? I bet they’d part the waters seeing you do that. Heh heh.

  14. Wireman says:

    >I like to go with Pat and with a list. At Price Chopper, we have alittle fresh bread snack, then head for the seafood department for a very large lobster. Then we scare our way to the front of the line with our new “live pet.” At Hannaford, we sneak some cheese from the salad bar and Pat usually gets a deli ticket and waits for lunch stuff while I load up on fruit for the week. We reassemble and then go for vegetables and fish or meat together, followed by eggs, milk, paper stuff, beer, etc. We try and stay under 15 items so we can check out fast. Our kids are out of the house, so its easier to shop via the “daily” market routine and together.Thanks for your observations here. I recognize some and will endeavor not to become some others.;-)

  15. >Awww, shoot. I just ruined supermarket shopping for Blackbird. I feel like a clod.

  16. Mary says:

    >I think you’ve summed up the supermarket personalities as well as the soccer parent ones! LOLYou forgot to mention how we endure all of this with that supermarket music in the background. You know, the cheesy looped music that either makes you all sad and weepy (MommaK has blogged about this before, I think), especially if your PMSing and emotional, or makes you want to claw someone’s eyes out because that elevator-music cover of that old forgotten Carpenters’ song is so incredibly horrible it hurts.And Praise the Great Grape-stomper in the sky for the fact that we have liquor in our supermarkets, yes.

  17. jag says:

    >Don’t know if you’ll ever see this or not, since this post is from last year, but I believe the movie you’re referencing here is Clerks. The milk stuff and all that.If I’m ever shopping in Bellevue I’ll make sure to look out for you!

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