Am I the only crazy person at grocery stores?
 

Everyone is so tame in the grocery store....Except me.

I like driving. What I don't like is shopping, so I like to spend more time driving, and less time shopping. A usual grocery store trip for me lasts about 5 minutes, I grab the cart and HAUL ASS! I frequently drift around corners and pull wheelies, probably walk at about 4.5 mph, grab stuff on the fly, etc.

FIVE.....MINUTES..... :thumbup: It really makes shopping more exciting, much faster too. :)

Just you. I'd rather walk through the grocery store and get all the stuff I need. ;)

I spend ages in the grocery store. Or, more likely, no time at all.
Because of shopping economics.

When my wife and I both worked parttime and alternated household and parental duties I made the most of the sparse moments alone when both kids were at school and preschool.
I made sure I got all the good deals and discounts, comparing weights, volumes etc.
That took time, but by practice I learned to do it more efficiently.

Nowadays I'm the only one that brings money in so I do a lot less shopping. And when I do I still feel obliged to make the most of it - but the products have changed, their locations have changed, all the prices are different - I walk up and down the aisles only occasionally grabbing bounty.

Likewise, my wife got better at it. So we really need a good reason for shopping duties to fall on me. Added bonus is that it lets me avoid the local shopping trips where I need the car (which I try to avoid) that are so detrimental to my average fuel consumption. Vain, me? ;)

I skip the cart. It slows me down too much. In and out in a couple of minutes, unless I have no idea what I'm there for.

I have stopped shopping at a certain retailer, because they put the bread and milk at the far side of their huge store. It's a big fat waste of time to walk all the way there and back for 2 items.

You don't want to see me in a mall. I move around the milling masses like they're standing still and in my way.

Nope. I won't say that I go quite to the extreme of pulling wheelies, but I do walk about twice as fast as most people*, and usually know where most of the stuff I want is, so I can just grab it without stopping.

*Not just in the store, but getting to/from the parking lot. I save time (and gas) by parking in the first reasonable space (usually one I can pull through instead of backing out when I leave) and walking fast to the store, instead of cruising around looking for the closest spot.

it's 5km to the closest market, and if i want to go to a mall, it's 18kms. So i buy everything for a week in advance what i need from the city. I am prepper-minded so this is ok for me.

Every single time I go to the grocery store I tell myself that today I will just grab what I need and get outta there. But every single time I am WRONG. I just go through all the items they have there and consider buying them even if I don't really need them.

In with a shopping list...get & go...out in a hurry...done!

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Like the earlier hunter-gatherers used to forage for whatever is in season in time past, I stalk the aisle of the Grocery Outlet for whatever is USDA organic and cheap, that day.

I use a hand-basket to insure I don't get more than I can carry on the bicycle.

When people walk away from their carts and leave them in my way I like to add some funny items to their cart.

Such as a frozen turkey, a 12 pack of beer, a couple of boxes of condoms, whatever is handy in the aisle they're parked in . . .

I imagine what would happen if they didn't notice them. And then they don't pay attention at the register and, well, they've just got 10 packs of condoms and they have no idea how they got there.

I don't always go fast in the stores but I have been known to do the Shopping Cart Waltz listening to the elevator music and trying to get other shoppers involved in the dancing.
JJ

That's #2 on my list of reasons why I shop at WinCo (western US supermarket chain): No @%! elevator music!

#1- The Supermarket Low Price Leader

As RedDevil pointed out, you can't make wise economic choices if you're running through the store. I compare the price per oz or price per volume for nearly everything. I'll sometimes buy a name brand and generic and do a blind taste test to see if paying for the name makes any sense. Usually, it doesn't. The non-brand stuff is located on the bottom shelves, so you have to bend down to grab them.

When I was a bachelor, I would restock my supply of Hungry Man dinners about every 3 weeks, or whenever they were on sale for $2 each.

Now that I'm married, we go once per week and bring a list.

Me i pay for everything and then leave at checkout. Been chased across carpark by sercuity. Raises a few eyebrows. ������

Actually the prices are #3 on my list. #1 is the absolutely amazing number of things they have in bulk bins, like a dozen or so kinds of rice, maybe 20 kinds of flour...

I must admit, though, that I have never figured out their pricing model. Sometimes the large package of something, say cereal or tortillas, will be cheaper than the small package. Not just less per ounce, but the small one might be $2.99 and the large $2.89. Go figure that?

I often see this and wonder how that can be. Recently I saw 2-liter bottles of pop for $0.60 each. The 16 oz bottles were going for something like $1.25.

Maybe people are willing to pay extra for a bottle they can easily hold with 1 hand?

I buy ginger ale in the 8 pack of tiny cans. Every once in a while when one of the kids has a tummyache, I don't need to open a 3 liter half full of flat soda.

No packaging (or car...) is inherently more efficient than another. It all comes down to what you use it for.

I'm mostly get-in/get-out at the grocery store, too, but I don't mind browsing in the liquor section. :D

I was being somewhat facetious; "The Supermarket Low Price Leader" is their trademarked slogan. It's true though, only Grocery Outlet has about the same low prices.

#1 for me is that Winco is the nearest supermarket at 0.8 miles from my house. 3 stop signs and a traffic light.

They even give you a credit for every grocery bag you bring in.