About the "quiet hour" at supermarkets...

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I've read that a couple of stores in the UK are having that quiet hour thing for autistic people on a Saturday morning or something, and I was just wondering if it has actually worked, and if it applies to parents with toddlers and babies.

I ask this because no matter how respectively quiet an environment has to be (library, cinema, quiet coffee cafe, etc), it doesn't seem to apply to parents with their noisy offspring, because the attitude is "babies and small children can't help it, so the rule doesn't apply to them", rather than "if babies and small children can't help it then don't bring them into the supermarket during quiet hour".

But anyway has anyone here ever tried going to a supermarket during quiet hour (if it has materialised)? What's it like? Are there no bawling babies or screaming toddlers running around? Because to me a supermarket with no noisy little kids would be the idea of heaven for me.

I never see moms shopping with kids at night.

Ha - I do. I've been in Tesco at 11pm before and there was a loud screeching toddler in there, and there were older little kids.
And no, I don't plan to go to Tesco at 2am, especially that I don't drive and I don't want to be wandering the streets at that time of night or pay out for a taxi.