What are you embarrassed about buying in a supermarket?

Question

I don't mean the obvious tampax, condoms etc.

Answer 1

A large cucumber and a tub of vasline would be pretty bad.

Answer 2

I'm lucky because I shop at Tescos and Asda on the Internet! It's a long time since I actually did a full-weekly shop on foot, so to speak. But sometimes in the past when I've been with my old mum she's embarrassed me by stopping without telling me while we're walking down an aisle and I carry on walking along talking to myself.
I remember once being in the toiletries section of a supermarket and a young girl was telling her mum about a bargain offer for tampons. This girl wasn't old enough to need them, and her mum obviously didn't want them, but she was soooooooooo embarrassed that her daughter insisted they should buy some just because they were on offer.

Answer 3

This is really making me laugh so far! I think mine would be junk food - and I'm talking 6 2-litre bottles of Coke, 3 12-pack packets of salt and vinegar crisps/chips, 6 Mars bars, and so on.

Although I used to be a checkout girl - I can tell you that people buy stranger things (e.g. 12 boxes of condoms, or 24 packets of pads. Seriously), so I never really care too much. I'd be more embarrassed if someone I know saw me shopping.

Answer 4

Once when I was newly separated, I was having a totally depressed Saturday night at home so I went to the grocery store and grabbed everything I was craving (ice cream, chips, cookies, etc...) I looked in my cart and realized that it looked like exactly what it was: pathetic. So, I was forced to add bread, veggies, soup and stuff to it just to avoid the embarrasment. All I wanted was a quick junk food fix to drown out my sorrows and I ended up with a full grocery shopping.

Answer 5

I thought about it and came up with my first thoughts over and over. A supermarket is a place to buy things that you need.
Things like the stuff you mention, also light bulbs, all types of hardware, meats, and millions of other things that you may use in your own home. I see no reason to be embarrassed buying things from a supermarket. If you are embarrassed to buy what you need ask a family member or a friend to buy it for you.

Hope that helps,
Bulldog

Answer 6

went to the shop to buy some pads for an elderly person. at the check out the girl that had been look like a sleeping beauty suddenly woke up on my basket full of that product... Unfortunately she didn't knew the price and couldn't see the bar code anywhere... So she put that thing up and put her red light on... God! I wanted to be anywhere in the World at that moment but nowhere near that red light, pack of huge pads and a man manager rushing up..

Answer 7

Tut tut tut foo are you letting the world know that you don't have a man lol... anyway what would i feel embarrassed about buying ........i get all cold shivers down my back when walking down the reduced section cause i always think that others are looking at me and thinking that I'm a cheapskate.....lol the reduced bread is for the ducks.

Answer 8

The local store know I'm a bachelor so the answer would have to be the 150 gram bar of chocolate I treat myself to occasionally.

Answer 9

Me? Nothing if my chum will not be seen dead buying a large cucumber after someone joked about her picking one in a supermarket a few months ago. I buy one for her whenever she wants one and it's never worried me.

Answer 10

Nit (head louse) shampoo. I work with kids and use it as a precaution if there has been a spate in the school.

I always talk about 'the kids' to whoever I'm with so they don't think i'm a nitty nora.

Answer 11

10 bottles Single malt whiskey, 2 bottles of Bombay gin, 5 bottles Smirnoff vodka, a case of red bull a pound of extra large carrots and a marrow. Not too bad if it was a one off but every week.......... Lo xxx