The rules of using a supermarket are that you pay for things before you eat or use them. It’s wrong to eat things before you pay for them in a supermarket - it’s not a restaurant.
where can I find a copy of the aforementioned rules?
The rules of using a supermarket are that you pay for things before you eat or use them. It’s wrong to eat things before you pay for them in a supermarket - it’s not a restaurant.
where can I find a copy of the aforementioned rules?
where can I find a copy of the aforementioned rules?
Oh it’s one of those rules which is so obvious that it isn’t written down in a big book or anything, but which mummy or daddy should have taught you when you were a toddler.
However, I do like the current practice of free fruit for kids to eat.
JakartaPost said:When you eat food, it travels through the esophagus into the stomach for further digestion. The lower esophageal sphincter (LES) is a valve that links the esophagus to the stomach. Typically, the LES closes when food has entered the stomach, to prevent the contents of the stomach from rising to the esophagus.
If you constantly move while eating, the LES fails to completely close or remains open for prolonged periods of time. As a result, hydrochloric acid produced by cells that line stomach walls move up into the esophagus. This condition is referred to as stomach acidity and manifests itself through a range of uncomfortable symptoms, including bloating and heartburn.
The rules of using a supermarket are that you pay for things before you eat or use them. It’s wrong to eat things before you pay for them in a supermarket - it’s not a restaurant.
If it's so obvious why did you need to be taught by your parents?
I wonder if the apples are washed before being offered for kids to take. I don't know if other people are as fussy as me but I always like to rinse fruit that you're going to eat the skin of.
I've never seen that. But before you decide you like it too much, you might want to consider the dangers of eating while you're walking/running around... (Applies to adults too)
(The article lists a number of other problems caused by eating on the move. I'm not sure how good a source JakartaPost is, but this article matches my own experience, and with advice I've received from doctors).
Personally, if stores can afford to give away free fruit, I'd rather they spread the benefits by just reducing the price of fruit (and maybe increasing the price of less healthy stuff).
My local garages have "pay by app" options either in operation or advertised as "coming soon". Did you definitely observe that he hadn't used any valid payment method or simply didn't go to the kiosk?Still, its better then the guy I saw today filling up his car at the petrol station (in the boot strangely enough) and driving off with out paying
In the last few weeks I’ve seen a number of people in Sainsbury’s opening food that is in their trolley, then eating some or all of it, before then putting the wrapper / pack on the checkout belt and paying for it. More often than not, it has been a hassled mum giving a young child a biscuit, fruit from a prepack, or some other snack from a multipack. However today it was a middle aged bloke who wolfed down both individual chocolate tortes from a twin pack out of the bakery section. (Hilariously, the rest of his shopping was entirely wholesome - fruit, veg, pulses, grains, lean meat etc. I suspect he was eating the evidence before he went back to a very healthy home!)
To me, eating stuff in the supermarket before you’ve paid for it feels morally wrong, and I would never do it. However given that it is paid for before leaving the premises, I guess that technically it’s not against the law? In principle, it’s the same as being in a restaurant. And I suppose you could argue that you are simply repackaging the goods!
Opinions?
I've never seen that. But before you decide you like it too much, you might want to consider the dangers of eating while you're walking/running around... (Applies to adults too)
I have unfortunately been in the position a couple of times of a parent needing to open something whilst in the supermarket for one of my young children, who is autistic.
Anything opened was paid for, and I did go to the customer service desk to let them know. The alternative would have been a complete meltdown in the aisle as coupled with the supermarket experience he was getting overwhelmed at that point.
I would never open something for myself though - but there are circumstances where the supermarkets are OK with it from my experience. Luckily I’ve not had to do this in a long while as he enjoys supermarket shopping now he can help by using the self service hand scanner!
I notice a lot of the major super markets have free fruit for children which is good
Still, its better then the guy I saw today filling up his car at the petrol station (in the boot strangely enough) and driving off with out paying
My local garages have "pay by app" options either in operation or advertised as "coming soon". Did you definitely observe that he hadn't used any valid payment method or simply didn't go to the kiosk?
I have unfortunately been in the position a couple of times of a parent needing to open something whilst in the supermarket for one of my young children, who is autistic.
Anything opened was paid for, and I did go to the customer service desk to let them know. The alternative would have been a complete meltdown in the aisle as coupled with the supermarket experience he was getting overwhelmed at that point.
My local garages have "pay by app" options either in operation or advertised as "coming soon". Did you definitely observe that he hadn't used any valid payment method or simply didn't go to the kiosk?
I understand why parents might give their young kids something to eat before paying for it (don’t understand when it’s an adult eating before buying) but things like fruit that are often priced by weight, when you do eventually pay for it, how do you quantify the cost of the product that’s already been consumed?
Weigh the child on it when you go in, and then weigh it again as you pass through the checkout. Foolproof....and those that are weighed actually at the checkout?
Yep. Or (as I used to try and do), take something with you like a little box of raisins. That used to keep them occupied for ages when they were small.Or just, as I'd do, go and get the item for the child, pay for it, stick the receipt in your pocket in case anyone asks, and go do the rest of the shopping. That would take, at a self service checkout, what, a minute or two?
Weigh the child on it when you go in, and then weigh it again as you pass through the checkout. Foolproof.
You’d be going straight on the naughty step if I had my way.Put a house brick in the child's pocket before you go in then dump the brick at the back of the shop and replace it with the same weight of steak.
Wonder how much this is a 'cultural' thing?I find it fascinating that some people are attempting to justify or excuse eating things from a shop before you’ve paid for them.
You’d be going straight on the naughty step if I had my way.
I find it fascinating that some people are attempting to justify or excuse eating things from a shop before you’ve paid for them.