General Chat

I don't think a child pawing over fruit and veg is any worse than an adult tbh.

Hampton Court flower show is the type of place where you'll always pay over the odds for anything.

My DIL and I took my 18mth g/son to large store he was in the baby chair of the trolley so not running about but I must have turned my back for a couple of secs for when we went to put him in the car there he was holding a small teddy so of course I took it back , it was awful they wanted to know all the how's why's and wherefores I walked out of that store disgusted and have never been back he is now teenager! :-|

A child could be diabetic and take a sweet without the parent noticing, I think it's wrong to have stuff like that where children can reach and be tempted. On the other hand, I see too many children being allowed to handle everything in a supermarket, veg, or whatever, or see they standing or sitting on the edge of a shelf, often in a saggy nappy - ugh! Such a shame their parents don't teach them to leave things alone, not paw over the fruit and veg.

Lizx

Kitty I agree but this was a tiny little one I know I said 3 but she could have been 2 but unknown to the mother she managed to pick it up and the sweet was taken away from her at the counter and left in the shop. If Mum had paid for it the little one would not have learnt anything but to have it taken out of her hand would tell her it was wrong. There is quite a lot being said about supermarkets targeting children with sweets at the counters and on low shelves and this is something they really need to attend to and as the mother had not seen her child take the sweets from a shelf the hight of a toddler I think she was right in refusing to pay. Just think if it was pills no supermarket would put them down low in case a child got one and ate it then they would be sued so if they know that that is a possibility and put sweets there (and know a child could get them!) then they are in the wrong :-)

Sorry, but I disagree with you there Nolls.

Children need to learn from a very young age not to touch or eat anything in a shop without asking and then paying for it first.

xx

Agree with Kitty pity they he couldn't tell her to keep them. Heard a story yesterday of a parent and a 3yr old in a supermarket when she came to the checkout the assistant pointed to the kiddie and said he has opened a sweet (or something) so you will have to pay for it..."No way said the customer if you put sweets on a shelf which is accessible to a child then that's your problem" and she walked out leaving all her shopping and sweets...Good for her ! :-D

What a complete rip off!!

Surely they would sell far more and make more profit with more reasonable prices :-0

OH with our daug and g.daug on Sunday visited the Hampton Court Flower Show.

They were hot and decided an ice cream would be just the thing. The ladies had a small tub each whilst OH had a small cone - he thought the lady said £2.50 and handed over a £10 note waiting for his change until daug. pointed out the lady was waiting for another 50p!

He was still ticking off about it when he arrived home that evening.