Supermarket Temptation

[Cloverjo]

The queue for the checkouts in my local supermarket has us hanging around the alcohol shelves, like chocolates and sweets were for children in the olden days (!)
I wonder how many more bottles they’re selling than usual. I’m a drinker anyway. I wondered if many people are tempted to just chuck a bottle of whisky or whatever into their trolley that they wouldn’t normally.
Any ABers?

[Buenchico]

They've obviously got the floor-planning of that store worked out well, Clover!

At Morrison's in Ipswich (which is the only supermarket where I feel safe enough to shop at the moment, unless I take a long drive to Waitrose on the far side of town) the queue for the tills is routed as a zig-zag path through the 'Nutmeg' range of children's clothing, with nobody rushing to make any impulse purchases there!

I'm generally quite good at resisting impulse purchases anyway, although I do have to hold myself back sometimes in the magazine sections of supermarkets.

[bednobs]

oh la la chris!

[gingejbee]

Queues for tills? Went to Waitrose at 9 this morning....straight in, nice quiet store and out with no queues at all....although I do the scanning-gun method, I noticed that there were no queues at the ordinary checkouts, either.

[Buenchico]

I'm not looking on the TOP shelves of the magazine sections, Bednobs! ;-)

(It's usually magazines like Computer Active or Web User that attract my attention. I often find myself buying them, even though I know that I can find all of the same stuff on the internet for free!)

[jno]

same in our Waitrose, gingejbee. In theory they're still leaving the first hour for the old and vulnerable (including me), but I suppose as lockdown opens up they may no longer see the point in this and I'll be shopping among maskless youth again, which I'm not looking forward to.