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Grocery shopping follies
Are you guilty of any of these things, or other things not mentioned here?
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Spend considerable time taking a careful inventory, making a thorough list just to end up leaving it at home?
Going to the market primarily for one thing you really really need and that being the one item you forget to get?
Do your grocery shopping while not just hungry, but ravenous and ending up paying a ton of money for a cart load of crap?
Bring your groceries home and eat all the "good stuff" in the first day or two?
Paying extra attention to the shopping bag with the cookies in it so you can be sure to put that bag in the front seat with you and rip them open and eat at least a quarter of them on the drive home?
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| January 31, 2008, 20:25 |
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Re: Grocery shopping follies
Yep!!! I'm guilty....of the cookie bag thingy!!!!
 
Maybe the "good stuff" thing, too!!!
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| January 31, 2008, 20:32 |
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pookhabear
75 / male
port st lucie, Florida, US
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Re: Grocery shopping follies
guilty especially forgetting the one thing you really needed
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| January 31, 2008, 22:02 |
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40something
57 / female
In the Sun, Arizona, US
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Not only forgetting the list but the coupons too!
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| January 31, 2008, 22:34 |
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Re: Grocery shopping follies
Guilty as charged...
I thought you were going to ask what silly things we've done to someone in the grocery store. One time when I was much younger I saw one of my friends mom's at the grocery store and I had a tube of KY (and not much else) in my cart. There was an older woman next to me and I snuck it into her basket so my friend's mom wouldn't see it. The crazy thing is that I was married at the time but I still would have been horrified for her to have seen it!
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| January 31, 2008, 22:48 |
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Liberalwife
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north, England, UK
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Re: Grocery shopping follies
The cookies comments reminded me of a woman I overheard talking at the supermarket, she said to her friend,
"Oh, I don't buy biscuits anymore, If I do, the family only eat them". Lol, got me thinking, what else are you supposed to do with them? People do say some funny things!
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| February 1, 2008, 04:37 |
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Re: Grocery shopping follies
I usually buy what I need and maybe a couple other things. I need to make sure I don't buy too much milk as it tends to not stay good over the month I'm gone.--- 
I still wonder if the people pushing the shopping carts drive the same way. 
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| February 1, 2008, 07:36 |
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funlovingpair
59 / couple
Frozen Tundra, Minnesota, US
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I'm guilty of all the above. The funnest thing I saw, when this lady not paying attention to where she was driving, and clipped a free standing end cap display, sending the whole thing to the floor. I almost fell to floor laughing so hard. But the lady barely paused and keep going.
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| February 1, 2008, 08:03 |
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Re: Grocery shopping follies
I shop every other week to do the "big list" shopping at a local grocery warehouse...then throughout the week I frequently stop into the local supermarket to just pick something up..one or two specific items..and leave 20 minutes later, ( I shop fast) with a whole basket off goodies....went in for eggs one am...left with about 20 items including a 5 lb. bucket of cookie dough mix!!
now that's shopping!!
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| February 1, 2008, 09:02 |
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All of the above.
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| February 1, 2008, 09:43 |
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the real fun part is that I eat the cookie dough mix and don't bother to make the cookies!! I love the stuff...
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| February 1, 2008, 09:45 |
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Re: Re: Grocery shopping follies
QUOTE (funlovingpair @ February 1, 2008, 08:03)I'm guilty of all the above. The funnest thing I saw, when this lady not paying attention to where she was driving, and clipped a free standing end cap display, sending the whole thing to the floor. I almost fell to floor laughing so hard. But the lady barely paused and keep going.
Oh gawd, I did that once, knocked over an entire display, I was waiting for a prescription to be filled and just wandered from the pharmacy window and over to a display ... went to gently check out dangling price tag on and.....the whole WIND CHIME display tower crashed!!
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| February 1, 2008, 10:11 |
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funlovingpair
59 / couple
Frozen Tundra, Minnesota, US
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QUOTE (Chazzy @ February 1, 2008, 10:11) QUOTE (funlovingpair @ February 1, 2008, 08:03)I'm guilty of all the above. The funnest thing I saw, when this lady not paying attention to where she was driving, and clipped a free standing end cap display, sending the whole thing to the floor. I almost fell to floor laughing so hard. But the lady barely paused and keep going.
Oh gawd, I did that once, knocked over an entire display, I was waiting for a prescription to be filled and just wandered from the pharmacy window and over to a display ... went to gently check out dangling price tag on one item and.....the whole WIND CHIME display tower crashed!!
I remember when I worked at a grocery store, just finished putting together a display, got up and took three steps, then crash. Looked around and not a soul was even close, except when the boss looked through the door. Then I heard him laugh his ass off.
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| February 1, 2008, 13:21 |
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QUOTE (TropiFun @ February 1, 2008, 09:45)the real fun part is that I eat the cookie dough mix and don't bother to make the cookies!! I love the stuff...
Have you tried the "cookie dough" ice cream?
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| February 2, 2008, 03:12 |
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funlovingpair
59 / couple
Frozen Tundra, Minnesota, US
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QUOTE (TropiFun @ February 1, 2008, 09:45)the real fun part is that I eat the cookie dough mix and don't bother to make the cookies!! I love the stuff...
That is the same way at my house.
Ma
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| February 2, 2008, 09:20 |
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There is nothing better than freshly mixed tollhouse cookie dough...give me a spoon and a good movie and I'll have a big bellyached at the end!
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| February 2, 2008, 12:59 |
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Re: Grocery shopping follies
Ya know, I always feel kinda funny about sampling grapes in the produce section, I dunno if I should be sneaky about it like it's some big crime, or if I do it openly with no shame will the produce security be on my ass?...but I feel like an idiot if I buy them without sampling and find out when I get home that I just wasted good money on them.
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| February 3, 2008, 22:09 |
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QUOTE (Chazzy @ February 3, 2008, 22:09)Ya know, I always feel kinda funny about sampling grapes in the produce section, I dunno if I should be sneaky about it like it's some big crime, or if I do it openly with no shame will the produce security be on my ass?...but I feel like an idiot if I buy them without sampling and find out when I get home that I just wasted good money on them.
I say taste a grape...the grocery store should have a bowl for people to sample from...grapes aren't like apples...if one is bad the bunch is AWFUL!!!
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| February 4, 2008, 01:02 |
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Re: Grocery shopping follies
Ewwww that reminds me...how about those sample ladies? They're always egging you to try the samples of these gross bites of whatever sitting out on plates??
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| February 4, 2008, 06:56 |
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Re: Re: Grocery shopping follies
QUOTE (Chazzy @ February 4, 2008, 06:56)Ewwww that reminds me...how about those sample ladies? They're always egging you to try the samples of these gross bites of whatever sitting out on plates??
I agree with the grape thing. I test every batch I get!
About the sample ladies. Ask them if they have a bag to puke in, just in case you don't like what they're handin' out. And if not, can you just puke right there in front of the table. It's usually the same ladies every time, and trust me, they won't forget you!
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| February 4, 2008, 09:46 |
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QUOTE (Chazzy @ February 3, 2008, 22:09)Ya know, I always feel kinda funny about sampling grapes in the produce section, I dunno if I should be sneaky about it like it's some big crime, or if I do it openly with no shame will the produce security be on my ass?...but I feel like an idiot if I buy them without sampling and find out when I get home that I just wasted good money on them.
oh I always do the grape samples in produce...and sometimes...sample a candy or two from the candy bins...same difference...tasty!!
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| February 4, 2008, 09:49 |
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wandering5tar
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QUOTE (Chazzy @ February 4, 2008, 06:56)Ewwww that reminds me...how about those sample ladies?
You can sample ladies at stores in America? That would make me much keener on doing the shopping.
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| February 4, 2008, 10:28 |
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Oh I'll tell what I just hate...those weeks when I load up everything in my cart that I'm out of, everything on my list and there I am with a huge cart load within my weekly budget and it's a cart load mostly of stuff I can't even eat!!
Laundry soap, toilet paper, dish soap, sandwich bags, trash bags, bathroom cleaner, fabric softner and it goes on and on....
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| February 7, 2008, 20:41 |
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In my youth...we used to paper houses and one night we decided to hit our high school...yes, a senior prank. When we went through the grocery line we had all the generic toliet paper the store was stocked with. One guy, being a prankster brought up a big bottle of Pepto Bismal, he said to the older woman cashier she looked susupiciously at us, "Enchilada day in the cafeteria was rough today." She knowingly nodded her head in his direction like no more needed to be said.
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| February 13, 2008, 23:40 |
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Just came back from the Walmart and saw a guy out in the parking lot putting new windshield wiper blades on his car in the pouring rain....
oh, I've done that..
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| April 13, 2009, 15:24 |
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Re: Re: Grocery shopping follies
QUOTE (Chazzy @ February 3, 2008, 22:09)Ya know, I always feel kinda funny about sampling grapes in the produce section, I dunno if I should be sneaky about it like it's some big crime, or if I do it openly with no shame will the produce security be on my ass?...but I feel like an idiot if I buy them without sampling and find out when I get home that I just wasted good money on them.
seeing that i work in a grocery store? i can tell you first hand that if you ask for a sample of fresh produce, most likely you will be allowed to try just about anything. and i think the store would not mind if you eat a grape, to sample the freshness and quality...(that way, if it's not good, you can let someone know, and they can pull it off the shelf...)
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| April 13, 2009, 15:29 |
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wildflower59
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McGaheysville, Virginia, US
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QUOTE (Chazzy @ February 3, 2008, 22:09)Ya know, I always feel kinda funny about sampling grapes in the produce section, I dunno if I should be sneaky about it like it's some big crime, or if I do it openly with no shame will the produce security be on my ass?...but I feel like an idiot if I buy them without sampling and find out when I get home that I just wasted good money on them.
I've bought bad grapes plenty of times, I just never considered sampling them in the store. I will from now on! It bugs me to buy something that I have to throw out!
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| April 13, 2009, 16:33 |
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most places will refund your money if you are not satisfied, even with produce. but you need to call or return it right away...
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| April 13, 2009, 17:04 |
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Hey, I'm a guy so here goes! I sometimes linger awhile in the produce department at the supermarket and watch as the ladies shop for the cucumbers. I bet you'll never guess what's going through my mind?
I have noticed a time or two that a woman will handle some of the cucumbers lovingly. I just wonder if those same ladies wash them off before serving them for dinner.......after they've used them for unspeakable acts in their bedroom!! 
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