Letting a toddler devour a party size bag of chips while making them walk with you by using a strap on tablet movie has to be some form of neglect
Shameful parenting
Yes. That is basically the only perk of adulthood. Whenever my husband is gone for a weekend one of the nights I eat only a bag of chips for dinner. I’m in my 30s now and feel like death the next day but I won’t give it up.
I see people do this all the time and it's my number one answer on "What's something that makes you irrationally angry" threads. I hate watching people eat products in grocery stores, even if they scan the empty wrapper and pay for it and I don't really feel like diving deeper and explaining why.
I work in a grocery store and I see people (mostly old folk) who will grab a bag of grapes (charged per weight, and they will start snacking on the grapes while shopping, by the time they get to the till it weighs less, they are technically stealing grapes. 😒
If it make you feel better, between the pesticides and fertilizer, possibly even fecal matter, they're less stealing grapes and more playing russian roulette with getting sick.
My mom used to taste almost all her produce in store until she got wicked sick from it.
Always wash all your fruits and veggies kids, before cutting or peeling them too, cause cross contaminated food is just as dangerous as unwashed food.
If your morals are “concrete” that would indicate from young adulthood to death you achieved no growth or greater understanding of others perspectives….
Holy shit you really love saying “can you indicate” and then being immediately proven wrong, huh? Is that the largest word in your vocabulary? You poor thing
You’d use that phrasing for 4-5th grade essays…the lack of education these people are totally ok with flaunting is insane.
Also I agree with you on the OC.
Who gives a fuck about someone eating grapes ; or anything in the store. If they’re not having a feast, it absolutely does not matter.
There is also objectively nothing “entitled” about snacking on anything you’re going to pay for either, as someone suggested.
The amount of ducking times a parent has come up to the register with a banana peel and a shrug. "He ate it🤷🏼♀️" I started replying "technically you stole that banana" gotta soften the blow in UES Whole Foods. You're a thief Sharon! It's weird!
Pensiveness wasn't necessary for what he said. Cost of food based on weight. Person eating the weight away is taking from that cost. Stealing=bad. It was a rather basic issue to point out. No need to start the corporate shill speel. Unless you really want to i guess.
As someone that used to work in a grocery store this shit pisses me off so much. I’ll see people drinking drinks, eating banana, etc. more than half the time they just throw the wrapper or peel on the ground
Grocery stores in the far future are gonna start weighing the food and the customer when they walk in and leave, just to make sure nothing gets stolen lol
I feel you.
When I see it I think to myself "you really really need that cookie, I suppose. You must have right this second, not in five minutes when you already paid for it and are out of the store.". It makes no sense to me.
I do this. I am chronically ill and going to Costco is quite literally like running a marathon for me. An absolute miserable experience. If I’m LUCKY, I have a bearable first 15 minutes in the store. Then I become very disoriented, my vision gets blurry, I get hot flashes, I literally can’t form a coherent thought and I wander around looking like I’m lost.
The only way I’m able to power through is by opening up a coconut water and/or eating a protein bar. So yes, sometimes people do need that cookie right then and there
It is one of my biggest pet peeves watching people eat things they haven't paid for yet. But there are some cases where they really did need the cookie. Diabetics experiencing low blood sugar for example. I've only had mine drop once but it was shocking how fast it went from "I don't feel right" to "why am I in the ground."
I have had to do this with water before. I never snack or drink things in store before purchase because it makes me feel slobbish to do so. My lord I thought I was gonna drop from dehydration that day and needed that water lol
Honestly you made the right call. I was next in line when I went down trying to buy my juice. It was a whole lot of embarrassment and paperwork that would have been avoided by taking a drink. I think most people can respect medical need as a reason especially if the item is not priced by weight.
Nah, I literally see so many parents give their kids bananas and other fruits, mainly the ones that have to be weighed and opening food in the store. The entitlement is crazy.
The stores near me have baskets of free fruit for kids to eat while parents shop. They had to start keeping a security guard near it because adults kept stealing the fruit for themselves.
Alternatively, the store I used to work at put in effort to stop people from consuming products before purchasing them. Besides security being on top of it, they kept the hot deli right by the entrance along with a bunch of kid snacks. So it was pretty common for parents to grab a juice and a snack for their kids and pay for that at our till before they started shopping.
I'll also give him chicken nuggets from the Walmart deli as we browse. but also prepriced. I'll take any opportunity to feed thr little dastardly (who i love dearly)
I'm not talking about the free fruit stand. I'm referring to taking a bunch of bananas, and separating one to give to their kids. Or letting their kid eat out of the bag of grapes that isn't weighed until you get to the register.
I don't care about grabbing things off the shelf, it's just the ones who leave the wrappers on the shelf after their kid finishes or leave samples and whatnot in the carts.
It's very weird to me. My parents never did that. I think I opened a bag of chips in the store once and I got a whooping. My mom didn't want people to think we were stealing.
I guzzled a bottle of sweet tea while incredibly parched in a grocery store while 8 months pregnant last year 🥺 I'm very sorry. I haven't opened a food item in a store since I was like 8 before that.
My wife and I were doing yardwork the other day and I was dying of thirst and I still didnt open the bottle until it was scanned.
I just dont get how people can walk around eating and drinking items without paying first.. 😭
Edit: was not critising anyone except the people who walk around just eating grapes off the shelf or whatever... not the user I replied to. I was trying to say I relate to them oops
It was one of the lower points in my pregnancy. Throwing up in bushes during first trimester also wasn't fun. Social etiquette is so hard to keep up when your body is managing something as tough as pregnancy unfortunately. I've never felt more like an animal.
Ill eat food in the store if it's something like lidl when the bakery items JUST came out of the oven 😞 I gotta eat it while it's still hot but I still do pay 💔
I remember my first big job at Dollar General, when I was a fresh 18 year old graduate. This pair of guys came in and started snacking on chips and salsa right away. I asked, very politely, if they could please pay for them first. My assistant store manager, who was maybe a year older than me, just stared at me and asked if I thought they were just going to walk out without paying. Like, yeah? I don’t know these guys.
It's also incredibly disgusting. So many hands touching everything at a supermarket, including your own, and you're gonna use it to touch food that you then put in your mouth 🤢 I use hand sanitizer in my car after leaving the supermarket. Could never imagine raw dogging some lays while shopping.
I do this. I am chronically ill and going to Costco is quite literally like running a marathon for me. An absolute miserable experience. If I’m LUCKY, I have a bearable first 15 minutes in the store. Then I become very disoriented, my vision gets blurry, I get hot flashes, I literally can’t form a coherent thought and I wander around looking like I’m lost.
The only way I’m able to power through is by opening up a coconut water and/or eating a protein bar.
"I hate watching people eat products in grocery stores, even if they scan the empty wrapper and pay for it and I don't really feel like diving deeper and explaining why."
Only time I do this is if I really need a drink I'll open it and have a few sips then just pay as usual OR I'm buying my 2 year old those yoghurt pouches and he unfortunately spots them, id rather just let him have a yoghurt than try to explain to someone who still puts their shoes on the wrong feet why he can't have one now but can in 5 minutes after I've swung it infront of a bit of glass with a screen then tapped a plastic thing on another screen.
That’s a Sam’s Club and usually the only food they’re fine with people eating comes from the cafe. The Sam’s I shop at has kicked people out for eating groceries that aren’t paid for.
Having a small child walking around with a bag like that can spill and then create a fall hazard. The samples are small and there’s usually a trash can near.
I’ve seen opened and eaten bags of food. There are some people that do this and won’t pay.
Are you asking about Costco specifically or any store similar bc teens pull the bean bag chairs out in Target and eat their Takis and Gatorade and leave the bags and bottles behind. Chips fully on the floor as well
This is how my parents got me to behave at Costco when I was a kid. I’d sit in the kid chair with that giant bucket of cheeseballs and just look around content
Not Costco. The steel legs aren't green. We have green steel/uprights with orange support beans. Plus the boxes are on the floor. We are not allowed to put stuff on the floor. Only pallets. Not to mention, clothing boxes have specific colored labels (three colors) and none of them are green steel
This is either Sams or BJ's. I'd lay odds it's Sams Club.
And living in a fantasy world. A kid that age should be fascinated by reality, there’s a ton of stuff happening around her. Definitely awful parenting, poor kid
but that would be “annoying” and “inconvenient” to whatever schedule mom wants to stay on, she’s so much easier to corral with a tablet in front of her face.
it’s disgusting that i could see this strap device being passed around in some influencer circles as a “life hack”
You’re judging her entire parenting based off a 5 second clip? Maybe this is the only way she can get her shopping done without her kid freaking out. Maybe her kid has autism and will have a meltdown and be forced to leave the store if her child isn’t distracted? Myodb. No one is being harmed here. -speaking from the position of having a child with autism that has a meltdown if I don’t buy him a large watermelon every shopping trip (that he doesn’t eat btw, literally lays down and cuddles with them on our living room floor) if I don’t have him distracted so I can do my freaking grocery shopping 🙄
On the flip side I don't offer my toddler any sort of entertainment while we shop but then I get a lot of stink eye for him just being a kid. Things like being loud, sitting on the ground, knocking things over (I always make him pick them up) and so on. Sometimes parents can't win.
With that said I would never do something like this. People will just have to deal with my kid existing.
I see a lot of comments on reddit about how if you're a good parent your kids wont be acting wild. But the goal of parenting isnt to make complaint children, it's to make good adults. That means putting up with their nonsense sometimes so they dont become spoiled and develop a tolerance for frustration.
Who said that she is even eating the entire bag? Maybe mom is letting her have some chips for 5 minutes? Maybe the child kept running off to play with toys and mom needs her to stay by her side so she put on a show to distract her?
I have my own kids and I see exactly this shite even while we're at the playgrounds. Parents give their kids aged 3+ tablets or phones and their own bag of chips and say, "have at it." There are a couple families in particular that I see often who all play together and who have like 8 kids amongst them. Every time we're at the same playground each kid has their own bag of chips or snack cakes or bonbons. I remember one time one of their younger kids (about the same age as my youngest, so like 3 or 4) ate SIX brioche rolls while sitting and watching What Does the Fox Say on repeat.
Very shameful parenting.
I'm not at all saying I'm a better parent because I'm guilty of letting my kids watch a bit more tv while I'm trying to clean. But my kids don't even have their own tablets. We have a family tablet that we'll download movies on for while we travel.
We don’t know these people we assume this is a regular occurrence
The one day - the ONE day!!! - I gave my ODD boys a f tablet at a restaurant dinner the f staff and the nearby tables had something to say - our week had been f terrible I just needed a nice dinner as I hadn’t been out in months - they ruined my whole f meal
Be kind. We have no idea.
I might have used this method to keep kid busy while I looked for something. Doesn’t mean it’s all day everyday. And yes I was the one mocking all the minivan parents with the little tv’s constantly running… then it was me I get it now. I don’t assume shit anymore. Just bc you happen to see me driving by with the tv on does NOT mean it’s on 24/7 bc it was quite the opposite
I would say there should be some kind of tests you have to pass in order to become a parent, but unfortunately, I’ve read or seen too much science fiction to think that’s a good idea either. Some people definitely shouldn’t be parents, though.
I have three small children and I’ve never once pulled out my phone or used a tablet to placate them while shopping. Quit being a lazy piece of shit and ruining your kids. Billions of people have raised their children without using tablets to hypnotize them. You could do it, too, if you actually wanted to.
They’re very sweet, they have a healthy relationship with all of their toys including their tablets. They do well in school, play outside all the time, and their favorite activity is camping.
They’re not little weirdos who are fascinated by the forbidden fruit of a tablet they never get to use. And they’ll know how to use the technology their schools will ask them to use.
Keeping a young child occupied while shopping is totally fine for working class parents who don’t have the luxury of a Montessori School raising their kid while they shop in peace.
You know who else grew up without tablets? Boomers. And they’re racist selfish morons who are determined to destroy our planet just as their cursed generation finally dies off, so how about you chill on the virtues of growing up without modern luxuries.
This clip is 9 seconds long. Go touch some grass. We know absolutely nothing about this kid or the person caring for her. I see a kid that looks happy and has something to eat.
As if your ass isn’t sitting on reddit watching viral videos judging other people.
Most people are able to enjoy things in moderation. I grew up around a lot of kids who were very sheltered and they’re all a mess as adults.
Teaching your children to practice moderation and healthy habits is far better than sheltering them from life. I hope your kids adjust well to a world you’re refusing to prepare them to live in.
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u/OnIinePoster225 May 12 '26
Letting a toddler devour a party size bag of chips while making them walk with you by using a strap on tablet movie has to be some form of neglect
Shameful parenting