Shopping list or app?

[JAS_OH1]

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Holy crap.

At home we had a roll of paper with pencil hanging in the kitchen
As soon as you noticed something about to run out you wrote on it and the one going shopping teared it off and took it with
Of course we tried our luck at times and writing things like "paprika chips" on it, trying to copy mum or dad's hand writing

That's amazing, really. Nobody ever grocery shopped except for my mom and sometimes my dad.

 

[TastyReuben]

in store you'll actually see them taking products off the shelf, and walking around the store the same as any other customer

That was (and still is, to some extent) the main complaint about delivery/curbside pickup - the store shoppers getting in the way and running roughshod over the everyday in-store customers like myself.

Used to be, people would complain about Aunt Lily and Mrs. Bookman chatting and blocking an aisle, or long lines at the checkout…now it’s the 5:1 ratio of employee-shopper versus regular shopper, and that employee shopper is pushing around a rack of bins the size of a VW Beetle, because they’re filling a dozen orders.

Can’t get around ‘em, they bulldoze through the store, they block 12 feet of shelving while they’re parked and the employee-shopper is is grabbing and scanning this…then this…then another one of this…

They don’t shop like regular customers, either - they’re on a mission, so if you’re sitting there contemplating this box of Wheaties or that box of Total, you’re probably going to hear, “Excuse me…excuse me, sir…excuse me!” more than once.

 

[TastyReuben]

I think the funniest paper list story I have was from probably three or four Christmases ago.

I was making a special run to get all the things I needed for our Christmas Day dinner, and I knew I was going to only one store, so I didn’t need to comparison shop, and it was a lot of items, so I carefully constructed my list on a regular-sized piece of notebook paper (8” x 10”).

That paper was unwieldy, so every few items, as I moved around the store, I’d tear a strip of the paper off, wad it up, and toss it in one of the many trash bins placed around the store.

I shit you not, I got to the home stretch, checkout registers in sight, list gone at this point, and I remembered a single thing I wanted spur-of-the-moment, so I parked my overflowing cart to the side, well out of the way, and trotted off across the store to grab my one little specialty item.

Came back…no cart! Looked left, looked right…no cart! Either someone had walked off with it by mistake (hard to believe with a cart so full), or a do-gooder employee thought it had been abandoned and grabbed it. What?!?!

I immediately set out to find my cart, and this was the international market, so the size of a football stadium, but Kris Kringle wasn’t favoring me, and I never found my cart.

I had no choice but to try and remember my list, and most days, I’m lucky if I can remember where my butt is, so that was a trial. I kept texting MrsT and telling her to snap a pic of this recipe and that recipe, so I could go through and use them as memory ticklers to get what I needed, and I did manage to remember about 75% of my original list.

 

[msmofet]

I use a store app.

I love my store's shop from home app. I use it as a shopping list. It tells me what aisle (in store/number order) things are in so I can just go in and go down the aisles I need. Cuts down on impulse buying (somewhat LOL).

 

[TastyReuben]

I love my store's shop from home app. I use it as a shopping list. It tells me what aisle (in store/number order) things are in so I can just go in and go down the aisles I need. Cuts down on impulse buying (somewhat LOL).

That, and I like how the Kroger app automatically resets itself when I walk into whatever location.

My default location is the Wilmington store, but when I walk into, say, the Centerville location, it picks that up and reorders my list and updates the aisles, as those two stores have entirely different layouts.

 

[msmofet]

That, and I like how the Kroger app automatically resets itself when I walk into whatever location.

My default location is the Wilmington store, but when I walk into, say, the Centerville location, it picks that up and reorders my list and updates the aisles, as those two stores have entirely different layouts.

WOW! Mine doesn't do that. I have to reset it myself. Gets confusing sometimes until I check which store is in app.

 

[medtran49]

I use a paper list, 8.5x11, reused scrap paper that has printing on 1 side, meal list on right side, grocery list on left side, and sometimes center, and when I run-out or get low on something between shops, I write it down at top of paper next to meals so I remember to put it on the next list.

I also first look at the on-line grocery ads to look for BOGOs and sale items that are of interest to me, write them down somewhere on my list paper, and then make my menu list, taking advantage of the specials.

I do use the Publix app to order things from the deli so we don't have to wait in line.

 

[Barriehie]

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or a do-gooder employee thought it had been abandoned and grabbed it. What?!?!
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Walmart employees are trained to remove unattended carts. If I have to leave mine I make sure I ask so they know not to take it. My list app will put everything that's done at the top of the done list so if they do remove my cart I only have to remember what the first item was to start unchecking them into the todo list.