... as much as I do: going to the supermarket?

My wife is laid up with a busted kneecap, so she makes these incomprehensible lists in some kind of chick-code and sends me to the store.

I don't know where anything is and I get frustrated trying to find the right stuff. Invariably I come home with the wrong junk, or worse ("That was buy one get one free! You paid for both!").

Did y'all know there are different kinds of butter?

Arrgggghhh!

Tim

I feel your pain brother. Kroger has an online deal where you order then just go pick it up but not all locations support that. I would be happy if I could make an order and they would send me a list that put the stuff in order by aisles.

We shop once a month. And I do mean "we".

We've got it pretty much down to a science. We start on opposite ends of the store and meet in the middle, I check my short list against her "master list" and then we fill in the blanks.

That works out so that I get all the bulk stuff: TP, paper towels, laundry stuff, drinks, baking supplies, rice, that sort of thing.

We usually spend longer in the checkout line than we did filling two big shopping carts.

I do all of the shopping- all of it, and pay for all of it. I do all of the cooking- all of it.

Yes. Hate it. Have managed to reduce the visits to grocery hell to twice monthly.

Why are you showing her the receipt when you get home? Throw it out and there won't be any evidence of your poor shopping skills.

I shop on weekends around 6am no problem.

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Originally posted by Krazeehorse:
I feel your pain brother. Kroger has an online deal where you order then just go pick it up but not all locations support that. I would be happy if I could make an order and they would send me a list that put the stuff in order by aisles.

Agreed. SWMBO usually makes me shop at Kroger when she's under the weather and it is a real pain to find anything without wandering aimlessly for a while! I have found if you fill out those online surveys each receipt requests (for the gas points, you know), if you have a shopping-related complaint they actually do read those. A week ago after I described a problem I had with an item, I got a call from the manager of the department involved who offered me a $10 gift certificate for my troubles. That was about twice what it cost me, so that seemed like a reasonable gesture.

The only reason I hate it is that I end up spending about twice what I went in for.

I don't go by myself , but will go with wife. I don't mind at all.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
The only reason I hate it is that I end up spending about twice what I went in for.

That's me too. My wife can go in and need $87.64 worth of stuff and walk out with $87.64 in stuff. I'll come out with 180 bucks worth.

I like it, and would rather do it myself most of the time anyway.

My wife does all the grocery shopping. She actually doesn't want me to go with her. If I do I toss all kinds of things in the basket. No will power.

And the few times I have gone it's the same scenario- cashiers are lounging around, no one checking out. So after shopping and we head to a cashier, people appear out of nowhere, magically just ahead of us. And out come the coupons. Or their CC doesn't work. Or there's a dispute about the cost of an item requiring the manager.

No thanks. Staying home is a win win.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
I do all of the shopping- all of it, and pay for all of it. I do all of the cooking- all of it.

What he said 'cause, ain't no wife here.

And the dishes/laundry/housekeeping...

 
My wife shops too, at the same store. When she give me a last minute list of things to pick up, I either have her give me a label from the old package, and/or a description of what isle and what side to locate it on. I am not gonna waste a bunch of time finding her stuff, and she knows it. Otherwise, she can pick it up herself when she goes (she hates to shop).
 

My wife goes to the store and gets 87.49 worth of stuff for maybe 47.50. She is the coupon Queen!

I prefer to do it so as to insure that there will be something fit to eat, instead of some kind of gluten-free, cage-free, BGH free, taste free overpriced inedible bullshit.

I had rather be the one shopping....cause then I buy better tasting stuff, instead of the el cheapo lower price fodder.

Wife will sometimes make a list for me..never specific..like Tylenol...Regular or Extra strength, or Arthritic?

This woman says, "Never send a man shopping."
Here's why: Link

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Originally posted by Sunset_Va:
I had rather be the one shopping....cause then I buy better tasting stuff, instead of the el cheapo lower price fodder.

Wife will sometimes make a list for me..never specific..like Tylenol...Regular or Extra strength, or Arthritic?

That's one thing about shopping that may well drive me postal eventually. Too many choices.

I want chicken soup. In my simple mind, there are two kinds of chicken soup: Noodle and Vegetable.

On the shelf, there are approximately 4,112 variations, and that's just one brand. And I have to paw through 4,111 of them to find good old fashioned soup made with actual chicken, chicken fat, cholesterol noodles and salt.