Good morning shoppers! Do any of you do this?

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Do any of you actually leave items around the store instead of picking up a basket, and then come back for them later? I do it all the time in my local supermarket, because they don't put things back quick enough for me to do my shop and then pick up my goods. I put things in odd places sometimes. I do still pay for them, though.

A bit, sometimes. I even tuck my hand basket in, say behind a stack of flour bags, and then come back. I really like that you do this, though! That's neat!

I don't really understand what you do, but I don't think I do it. My supermarket shopping is more than anything else like a game of pacman. I try to pick up all the items I need while avoiding running into other people.
When I need a lot of items and use a shopping cart I leave it somewhere in the center and walk back and forth to pick up the items and bring them to the cart. It allows for more mobility, and makes me smaller so I'm not in the way of other people as much.

I usually try to pile everything into my arms and carry it around. If I can't hold it in my arms, it's probably too much to fit into my backpack, and therefore probably more than I need. Anyway I don't like having to pay for plastic bags and haul extra stuff home. Cat food and beer being the exceptions. : )

No I use the shopping cart or carry basket. If it's a few items, I carry them in my hand and if I get tired of carrying them, time to get a basket or cart.

Same here. If I left stuff around, I'd probably forget where I put it.

I use the basket and leave it near the end of the aisle. Sometimes I'll cruise 2 aisles or more before retrieving it. I only leave the basket of items if the checkstands are clogged by incompetence or too much talkie. Once I had a nearly full basket swiped before I was finished shopping and had to repeat the whole sequence, but that hasn't stopped me yet

Just leave items about the store, go and pick something else elsewhere in the shop, then retrieve 'em later. It's often easier than bothering with a basket. Or perhaps that's just me.

I don't quite understand?....

Wouldn't it be easier to use a basket, so you don't have to walk back to each item? With a basket you can walk to the items you need just once, put the items in the basket, then pay and leave. Rather than having to walk back to each item again to retrieve it....

I'm also confused as to how you do what you do...
If i am in a supermarket or other public place i try to get everything done in a basket as quickly as possible so i can go through the check out and escape the store. According to my NT, i get pannicked and look it.
It's hard enough to find things sometimes even with the signs up in the store, if i hid things it'd make it impossible.

Why don't you use a shopping cart so you can throw everything in it at once?

If you do this, please be sure to pick up everything you have left! The employees are often over-worked, and you would be making extra work for them if you left things where they did not belong.

I get what you do. I used to do the same thing. I only get to the store without kids in tow maybe a few times per year for the last 15 years, though, so the repetition has altered my patterns. I really don't like the hand baskets. I find them horribly awkward. The kids (even the 14yr old) take some kind of pride in being strong enough to carry it for me though, so sometimes I'll use one for a small trip. If we're in a hurry, they don't mind just using our hands. Most of the time I use a cart, though. Typically I go to the store on a day and time that I know there won't be many other customers. Around here, everyone knows everyone, and it just creeps me out to have the folks at church or my son's math teacher or my next door neighbor know what groceries I'm buying. Anyway, I generally put the cart in the middle of the isle, pick my items from the isle, then move on to the next isle.

I use a shopping cart or basket.

It's just easier that way. I don't like carrying a lot of things around in my arms, I'd be afraid I'd drop something and damage it, and I would like even less having to remember all the odd places I left things and walk around a store retrieving them. Don't you need a basket to retrieve them all anyway? I don't like walking around stores that much to begin with, the less the better!

Even if I think I only need one item, quite often I get at least a small basket, because inevitably I see something else I need as well.

I am kind of obsessive about keeping my basket or cart right with me. Once I had done a lot of shopping in a store and someone walked off with my cart. I couldn't catch up with them or get their attention, and I had to start all over.

I would think the way you (the OP) shop would drive people who work in the store crazy. Think about them and just use a cart. I don't see any good reason to shop the way you do.

Last edited by BlueAbyss on 08 Jan 2013, 2:40 pm, edited 3 times in total.

Sounds overcomplicated and confusing

I couldn't do that. I'd worry that someone else would take it or an employee would put it back.

Once in Walmart I found a fake flokati rug put back in the wrong place and even with the help of one of the workers we never managed to find where it came from. I was hoping to get a different color. If it was put there for later retrieval and it was the last one whoever put it there was disappointed because I took it.

No, I never do it.
When I'm in a store, I always take things I want to buy immediately, because I fear that someone could take it if I don't, or that the position of that thing might change, and I couldn't find it anymore.