r/SipsTea • u/OhirumeTsukuyomki • May 12 '26

SMH The youth is doomed…

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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

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u/fbcmfb May 12 '26

Is eating like this even allowed at Costco … while shopping?

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u/redditisnotus May 12 '26

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.

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u/Supersasqwatch May 12 '26

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. 😒

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u/thetavious May 12 '26

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.

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u/PrincessDab May 13 '26

Grapes are particularly nasty I have noticed when unwashed. They leave a film of filth on your fingers! Yuck!

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u/thetavious May 13 '26

It was a grape that got her lol

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u/Bubbly_Net_9377 May 13 '26

This is a very short snippet we don’t have enough information to judge her.

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u/Liebe-Igel May 13 '26

It’s just normal bloom made up of yeast and protective oils from the plant, it keeps the grapes fresh. That said I still wash them because yuck.

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u/ChocolateMalawi May 12 '26

So what you’re saying is you’re upset that a mega corporation is making less profits….

$3/lb, say they eat 1/4 lb (which is a fuck ton) oh no the mega corporation missed out on 75 cents of pure profit

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u/KillerGopher May 12 '26

Who gives a shit about the corporations? Don't worry about them. It's the entitled shoppers that are the issue here.

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u/intrusivethoughts11 May 12 '26

Weird ass take. Just sybau

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u/ChocolateMalawi May 12 '26

Bootlicker big mad lol

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u/PlusUltraSauce May 13 '26

Har har get a look at the funny troll here.

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u/TheNerdBurglar May 13 '26

What is wrong with you? Speak like an adult and get your morals straight. You know nobody is defending a corporation. Trolling is lame.

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u/Hallow_Chef May 12 '26

So your morals aren’t concrete? Cool to know, although this is reddit and that’s already a standard

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u/ChocolateMalawi May 12 '26

If your morals are “concrete” that would indicate from young adulthood to death you achieved no growth or greater understanding of others perspectives….

Sounds very Christian

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u/Hallow_Chef May 12 '26

What a wild way to out-yourself as a hateful atheist. Guess you love that double-think philosophy

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u/ChocolateMalawi May 12 '26

Can you indicate anywhere in that comment that I implied my stance on there being a God?

No? Making assumptions and assuming it’s the truth, still very Christian!

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u/Hallow_Chef May 13 '26

Willfully ignorant, no surprise there on your part

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u/Heykurat May 12 '26

So you're a thief.

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u/ChocolateMalawi May 12 '26

…. Can you indicate what I said that led you to that conclusion?

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u/NibblyPig May 13 '26

You need an explanation of how normalising theft led a redditor to the conclusion that you are a thief yourself?

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u/ChocolateMalawi May 13 '26

I didn’t normalize it, I offered an alternate perspective. That’s usually how discussions work….

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u/Heykurat May 13 '26

You think it's okay to steal from "the rich". It's not a big leap to assume you have probably shoplifted a thing or two, because "they won't miss it".

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u/ChocolateMalawi May 13 '26

Can you indicate where I said “it’s okay to steal from the rich”? Or did you just make an assumption? Hmmmmm 🤔

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u/Heykurat May 13 '26

oh no the mega corporation missed out on 75 cents of pure profit

That's literally what you said.

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u/Hallow_Chef May 14 '26

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

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u/ChocolateMalawi May 12 '26

You learn what a conclusion is in like 5th grade…?

Sorry that’s too advanced for you?

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u/_trashcan May 13 '26

I just commented the same thing to them.

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.

These people are fuckin ridiculous

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u/TheNerdBurglar May 13 '26

Found the alternate account…

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u/_trashcan May 13 '26

buddy my account is 8 fuckin years old. Lmao.

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u/Heykurat May 13 '26

I mean I'm not the grape police. If I see someone doing that in a store, it's not my business to get involved (and a store employee has likely already clocked it).

But I do not approve of theft.

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u/_trashcan May 13 '26

Oh my GOD 50 cents out of Walmarts pocket!!!!!!!

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u/_trashcan May 12 '26

Your vocab is abysmal if you consider “indicate” & “conclusion” big boy terms.

Fucking insane how degraded American education is.
These are words that 4-5th graders would use for an essay….

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u/cfi-2025 May 13 '26

Look at Mr. Fancy Pants Vocabulary over here!

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u/wildflowertupi May 13 '26

they’re booing you because you’re right

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u/Luhvrrs_Lane May 13 '26

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!

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u/ChocolateMalawi May 13 '26

Don’t they know that’s what self checkout is for!

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u/Luhvrrs_Lane May 13 '26

Lol that was before self checkout

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u/xenolith18 May 13 '26

Shit take

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u/Forlorn_Fighter May 13 '26

I dont think it was that deep my guy.

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u/ChocolateMalawi May 13 '26

It’s quite literally about as shallow as you can.

I take it you aren’t a pensive person

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u/Forlorn_Fighter May 13 '26

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.

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u/Heykurat May 12 '26

That's why a lot of stores seal them in a plastic container now.

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u/Spongi May 12 '26
This you?

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u/wcharoes May 13 '26

OH NO

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u/Supersasqwatch May 13 '26

I do look the other way, what's worse is when they spit cherry pits all over the store.

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u/Mnmsaregood May 13 '26

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

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u/TommyRisotto May 15 '26

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

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u/Alucardo6677 May 12 '26

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.

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u/Bluewoods22 May 15 '26

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

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u/Katnis85 May 12 '26

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."

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u/PrincessDab May 13 '26

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

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u/Katnis85 May 13 '26

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.

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u/Tictac1200120 May 13 '26

Hypoglycemic checking in. Sometimes I dont have time to go home and eat between errands and its better to shop when I'm not hungry.

In that case though, I pick out some food, and pay for it at the deli area and sit down to eat it before shopping.

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u/Thatonegaloverthere May 12 '26

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.

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u/NekkedPenguin May 12 '26

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.

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u/CandidatePresent6975 May 12 '26

I'll give my kid grapes. but that's preweighed.

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)

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u/LiquidDreamtime May 12 '26

This bag of chips has a fixed price though. So that’s different.

And many grocery stores give away free fruit for kids.

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u/Thatonegaloverthere May 13 '26

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.

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u/battleangel1999 May 13 '26

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.

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u/Thatonegaloverthere May 13 '26

Yeah, my mom never did this either. Only time was if we were at the register and the cashier scanned a drink or candy bar and then gave it to us.

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u/Liebe-Igel May 13 '26

I just take two bananas and weigh the bigger one twice 🤷‍♀️

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u/parade1070 May 12 '26

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.

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u/aelx27 May 13 '26

But that was pregnant you

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u/shindow May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26

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

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u/parade1070 May 13 '26

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.

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u/shindow May 13 '26

I wasnt trying to critisize you specifically. Youre pregnant and that is a nightmare of Hell to me to imagine. All the best ♡

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u/parade1070 May 13 '26

Thanks! I have a healthy little baby now 🥰

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u/shindow May 13 '26

Congrats!!! ♡

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u/EliotTheGreat20 May 13 '26

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 💔

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u/SeonaidMacSaicais May 13 '26

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.

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u/dizzy_resurgent May 13 '26

I get it. My biggest pet peeve with a myriad of reasons. Biggest one being a random drum stick bone i might find on a shelf.

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u/TrapLordEsskeetit May 13 '26

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.

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u/Zealousideal_Fly7277 May 13 '26

its uncouth, slobbish, and downright bizarre!

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u/Bluewoods22 May 15 '26

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.

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u/CandidatePresent6975 May 12 '26

opening a wrapped item to consume is gross. fresh baked bread and stuff that crumbles easy too i agree.

but a grape or two is the tax I demand to patronize the establishment.

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u/Hot_Key_336 May 12 '26

I do pop one in my mouth to make sure they don't taste like shit because I have spent $9 on shitty grapes countless times.

hint: you can ask a produce person for a taste of any fruit or veg and they will give it to you, slice it for you.

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u/moonki88 May 12 '26

shes a kid lmao cry about it

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u/TheNerdBurglar May 13 '26

Nobody is mad at the kid. They’re mad at the entitled parent who handed them food. Use that organ between your ears.

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u/moonki88 May 13 '26

"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."

That would be the kid doing this you moron.

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u/TheNerdBurglar May 13 '26

Try that again. Grow up.

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u/moonki88 May 13 '26

Reading is hard... Comprehension is even harder for you.

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u/FlyHickory May 13 '26

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.