Grocery shopping

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A quick question about grocery shopping.

Do you make a special trip when you buy groceries, as in making a fresh start from home only to go out and buy groceries and then come right back home?

Do you do your grocery shopping at the end of a longer shopping trip or after doing other brief errands like going to the bank or the post office?

Or do you stop to buy groceries when you are on the way home from work or school?

Do you find that making a special trip makes it easier to tolerate the environment in the store?

I make a special trip to the shop. I usually only take 15 minutes to go in buy everything pay then get back to the car. Any longer and it's too much.

Special trip when the shop is quiet. I think it makes it easier.

I go with a list of items in the order suited to the aisles for the shop layout so that I don't forget anything and I only have to do it once a week. I tried online grocery shopping but I prefer picking the items myself to make sure that I get the freshest produce/longest shelf life date.

Sunday morning while the religious are at church

I can do all three.

Today I saw the Star Wars movie, then went to a hardware and grocery stores before heading home.

Sometimes I'll get some groceries on way home, or make a special trip in the evening after rush hour.

I hate shopping and errands so much. I usually can only handle two stops max before I just want to get home. Grocery shopping is always a longer errand, so I'd rather do it as a special trip. If I only need a couple of things at the grocery store, I might tag it onto other errands, and whether I do it at the beginning or end depends on what I am getting at the grocery store.

We get our weekly groceries online and delivered - but then we're in there nearly every other day getting something we forgot or ran out of.

Me & my girlfriend usually make a special trip when we go grocery shopping together but we have to take the bus cuz we cant drive. We may sometimes stop at RiteAid to pick up meds cuz we pass by it when we walk to the bus station on our way there. We don't work & aren't in school.

Grocery shopping is one of the most awful, hated things I have to do. It takes me forever to gear myself up to go. I can't even describe how much I hate it.

If I am already out, and have my list, and my special bags that I use, it's much easier to go because I'm already out. Otherwise, I wait until there is basically nothing but canned goods and dried pasta in my house before I can make myself go.

I will first have to see what's on sale, plan meals, make a list, get my bags, then I'm in the store for what feels like forever, because I have to have certain things and if they aren't available I'm thrown off. Then I have to pick the items that "look right", then I have to go through self-checkout and pack my bags in a specific way.

And people being in the store drives me crazy. By the time I leave I'm so stressed. Then I have to go home, clean out the refrigerator, clean the inside of the refrigerator, and put everything exactly in the right spot.

I have to drive 20 miles to a grocery store, so I try to combine it with other things. But if I start to run out of food, then I make a special trip.

Small batch shopping only for me, so I almost never require a cart (trolley). I'll hit a late-nite store after work so the place is never busy and try to buy only what I can fit into one of those hand baskets. If it is midweek and I realise I'm critically low on something, I might stop during the daytime, but never when all the 9-5er's are leaving work, and hopefully while the brats are still in school. I'd rather shop lightly multiple times during the week than try an exhausting "hoard" like most of the dysfunctional families do at the start of the month when their food stamp cards get reloaded. I'd feel ashamed and humiliated to be seen leaving a supermarket pushing a heaping cart (trolley) full of groceries.

I don't mind doing grocery shopping and other errands. But I prefer to do it between 9am and 2pm on a school day, because there are no crowds or noisy kids. I find people are more aggressive when it's busy, but when it's more quiet people are more calm. So it makes completing errands more enjoyable.

I like grocery shopping too, again when I know the supermarket ain't going to be too crowded. But you can't always tell, because one time I went to the supermarket on a Saturday afternoon expecting it to be really busy, and I was rather surprised to see that it wasn't as crowded as I thought it was going to be.

But where I come from people are so rude and aggressive at the supermarket, so you've got to keep dodging you way through. That gets frustrating when it's busy.

I hate grocery shopping.

So much so that my daughter does it all for me and failing that I do it all on line.

In fact I hate shopping of any kind.

I just find it boring really and people get in the way and then there's the queuing and paying for stuff.

I also hate parting with my money for some of my basic human needs.

It's all a f*****g swizz this shopping lark....

I shop when the stores are less crowded. Using a shopping list helps me get out quicker. Putting on my happy face tends to make it easier.

Well, I leave the grocery store with a heaping cart full of groceries.
Because I HATE SHOPPING and I don't want to have to go back and do it all again in just a few days or a week. My heaping cart means I don't have to shop again for my family for at least 3 weeks, and if we run out of something small in the meantime, my husband usually runs out to do errands.

I also would avoid the food stamp rush, but thanks for being yet another person to pass judgment on those who use them. I have had to in the past. Thankfully, that was about 10 years ago. But when you have kids and you don't have enough money to go around, you suck up and be humiliated. But that has nothing to do with the overloading of carts.

Your comment is as ridiculous as me saying that I'd be ashamed to waste so much gas running out for small shopping trips several times a week. The nearest grocery store is a 10-minute drive from me, and the store with the best prices is 15+ minutes away. I have to try and conserve gas as much as possible. Running to the store a few times a week for a small amount of things is unreasonable for me. One, because of gas. Two, because of schedules. I have two kids I have to get to various places, plus my own work and my husband's work.

Sometimes a heaping cart is actually a GOOD thing! It *works* for us. Try not judging people on such a thing.

I'm guilty of that especially if I have been to the individual store before. I'll write a list (and why people look at me like I'm grocery shopping naked because I'm carrying a paper list in one hand, I don't know, but they do) starting at one end of the store and proceeding to the other, which is what I do, so I don't backtrack or zigzag all over the place.
There was also some weird theory that people circle the grocery store the same direction their country drives - believe what you will.
I usually make an individual trip depending on what form of nomadicism I'm operating under at the time. If temporarily settled such as a share house, boarding house or flat, I'll make a list of the ingredients of recipes I'm going to make usually within the next three days or so and just buy what I need. If in the wild I'm more specific, operating under food weight thresholds, perishability, security of packaging, fresh Vs preparation and what can be cooked in fire pits or camp stoves, etc.
if I'm with other people, usually family, we might run other errands and just put groceries in whoever's car, but if alone I seem to do groceries individually to errands.
I also shoot for shopping at night, when there is less heat, light, people, and especially for me at the moment, noise.