https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:53:51 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop/page/2#post-1973501 Sat, 06 Dec 2014 10:27:03 +0000 catomd00 1973501@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I use the stroller to shop all the time! Definitely not weird to me. I see others doing it frequently too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop/page/2#post-1973275 Sat, 06 Dec 2014 00:08:04 +0000 delight 1973275@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is so not weird at all. How else would you do it if you lived within walking distance of store? If I am buying lots of groceries I'll use a cart. However, I have a grocery store suoer close and often just take ŁO down in stroller. I've always just put stuff in the basket and pushed her around. No one has said anything to me. That lady is weird. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop/page/2#post-1973274 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 23:49:26 +0000 MrsMccarthy 1973274@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That's the only way I shop! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop/page/2#post-1973245 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:50:31 +0000 Greentea 1973245@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh I always just carry a shopping basket while I push my stroller. I guess I would worry they would think I was trying to shoplift. Our local store is up.tight. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop/page/2#post-1973217 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:20:41 +0000 StbHisMrs 1973217@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Charm54: My lo is also 15 mo! @californiadreams: We use the Beco in Costco while her sister is in the cart! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop#post-1973200 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:01:21 +0000 californiadreams 1973200@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i couldn't figure out how else to grocery for at least the first 4 or 5 months of LO's life. seriously, i thought i was weird, but i didn't know what to do. i finally started wearing LO in the beco so i could use the actual car seat as a cart because I didn't have a big basket. Which i liked because we got to cuddle while getting groceries so i did that until LO was just under 2 years old. Now he likes to sit in the grocery cart so i had to give up our grocery cuddle time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop#post-1973193 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 21:53:15 +0000 Charm54 1973193@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I still use our stroller in the grocery store at 15mo. Our basket is huge and she gets a much more comfy ride. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop#post-1973189 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 21:45:29 +0000 StbHisMrs 1973189@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PinkElephant: I had another older man tell me I forgot something while I was using the self check-out. It was actually an empty cracker bag that I'd forgotten to throw away. I made sure to show him it was empty ;)<br /> I guess it's just small town life, everybody knows everyone else's business before they know it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop#post-1972699 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:58:38 +0000 PinkElephant 1972699@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I live in a city and am not sure how else you're supposed to shop other than using a stroller?! Fold the stroller and stick it in the cart too? Sounds like your grocery stalker needs to get out more! </p> <p>For the record I used to feel like I'd look like a shoplifter putting things in my stroller basket, but everyone does it. Maybe that's what she's thinking (it looks like stealing?) but still odd that she's commenting on it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop#post-1972690 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:52:00 +0000 mauxie 1972690@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>??? I'm in Los Angeles and see/do this all the time. I've even used my double side by side in larger grocery stores. People comment very nicely and always try to say hi to the kids but usually DS falls asleep. </p> <p>I'd be annoyyyyyyed with that damn lady. Eff her lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop#post-1972433 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 12:16:07 +0000 StbHisMrs 1972433@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@yoursilverlining: She told me it was weird to her!! I understand the shoplifting perspective, J hope I don't look shady enough to get those kinds of looks! </p> <p>I live in a very drive able city, actually it's a little anti-walking. I've seen maybe two other women shop the way I do. It's a sanity saver, I need a break while she's asleep. If my Dh were home I'd leave her with him, but I can't. I dread the day I can no longer do this because the thought of those grimey carts gross me out!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop#post-1972330 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 11:11:39 +0000 ShootingStar 1972330@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: That makes sense. I've just spent most of my life living in the suburbs or in drivable cities. The few years I lived in Boston I had my groceries delivered. So I've never seen anyone use their stroller as a grocery cart. But I can see how it makes sense :). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop#post-1972306 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 10:59:34 +0000 Anagram 1972306@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ShootingStar: Well, I live in a walking city, and almost every single mom in the grocery store is using her stroller as a shopping cart, including me. I have stroller hooks that I put a basket on, and then I load up my huge stroller basket with the heavy things. I can easily fit 8-large grocery sacks on my stroller (4-5 on the bottom and the rest on the stroller hooks).</p> <p>If you shop alone, you can't possibly walk to the store with your baby in the stroller, and then get a cart and push the cart and the stroller around the store. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop#post-1972303 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 10:55:46 +0000 lemondrop 1972303@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Totally normal to me, I do that a lot! I don't get why it bothers her so much. Anyone with kids should understand the value of a nap. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop#post-1972283 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 10:44:52 +0000 Ginabean3 1972283@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not weird at all! I used to do this all the time with LO. No one ever questioned me or have me dirty looks. I've seen a lot of moms do it around here! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop#post-1972233 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 10:15:19 +0000 Greentea 1972233@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I grocery shop literally everyday with LO in a stroller because I walk! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop#post-1972204 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 10:03:15 +0000 yoursilverlining 1972204@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Maybe “weird” isn’t the right word for it – like @shootingstar said, it just feels a little odd to me, personally. I did it a couple of times when E was an infant and we would walk to the grocery store to get out of the house, but I always felt a little odd when I did it. </p> <p>The last few “can you identify these shoplifters” that have shown on our local news/police dept. facebook pages have ALL shoplifted via this method; putting grocery and clothing items into strollers and then well, strolling away with free stuff, so maybe that’s why it feels a little weird to me. I do see people do it regularly though. </p> <p>That said, I think it’s much, much, much, much, much weirder to be all up in someone else’s business about the way they are shopping! MYOB!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop#post-1972202 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 10:01:18 +0000 alohaorchid 1972202@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think the lady who said that is the weird one! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop#post-1972190 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 09:55:30 +0000 pui 1972190@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think it's weird at all. If all your groceries fit under the stroller and you pay for them all when you leave than I don't see a problem. Some people bring their own "basket" or bag to collect groceries in, and even if no one did I don't see how putting groceries in to your personal holding device is somehow wrong.</p> <p>Putting them in to a purse would be weird to me. I think putting them under your stroller is different than using your purse where you keep your wallet, keys and other personal belongings. Your stroller basket is probably empty before you put the groceries in. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop#post-1972181 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 09:40:25 +0000 ShootingStar 1972181@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Before HB I never heard of people grocery shopping with their strollers and using it as a cart. I'm not a huge fan of it because I think it crosses a weird line, because it's your personal property. Kind of like if you were to put things in your purse to hold them while shopping. But I will say that unless she's the store manager, it's none of her business and she should keep her opinions to herself :silly: . </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop#post-1972171 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 09:33:00 +0000 Mrs. Lion 1972171@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Also, I don't know about the rest of you, but my kid can escape the strap on the cart at a record setting pace. At least in the stroller I know he can't get out, fall on the floor and have permanent brain damage in the time it takes me to make sure none of my eggs are broken.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop#post-1972151 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 09:27:02 +0000 swurlygurl 1972151@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I said totally normal, although I've never actually seen it done - makes perfect sense to me!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop#post-1972123 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 09:15:22 +0000 fancyfunction 1972123@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Honestly M is almost 2 and I still do this! Don't understand why she thinks it's weird. It's more convenient for me if I'm only getting a few items. When my husband come with me sometimes we put her in the cart but usually one of us pushes her in the stroller while the other mans the cart :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop#post-1972117 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 09:10:31 +0000 catlady 1972117@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@StbHisMrs: Oh, I get it! Yes, that's gross! Hehe, I had no idea what you were talking about before. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop#post-1972115 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 09:08:29 +0000 StbHisMrs 1972115@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@catlady: We have a .05 return on cans and bottles, so people line up to put them through the Machine. It stinks so bad! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop#post-1972088 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 08:50:41 +0000 Bao 1972088@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So does she use a grocery cart around the mall? What's the difference if you are food shopping or not, people use strollers all the time. I wish I could but I usually only go on huge shopping trips so it won't work for me. Whatever is convenient and not gross (shudder at carts nastiness), gah! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop#post-1972084 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 08:48:42 +0000 catlady 1972084@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I see people doing this all the time so I wouldn't think twice about it. I don't really understand what you said about people putting "super gross cans and bottles" into the carts though. You mean, people putting sealed bottles and cans into a cart? How else do you buy them? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop#post-1972075 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 08:40:07 +0000 wonderstruck 1972075@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@StbHisMrs: huh. So she's just a weirdo then who confuses criticism/nosiness with small talk. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop#post-1972052 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 08:09:04 +0000 Mrs. Lion 1972052@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Um I do this all the time. Definitely not weird! Although I did forget to pay for my bananas once becausee they were stuffed somewhere and I forgot about them when I was unloading the stroller....had to go back and pay for them later. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-this-a-weird-way-to-shop#post-1972046 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 08:05:20 +0000 Grace 1972046@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think it's perfectly reasonable to use the stroller, especially if LO stays asleep. Having said that, I don't see anything wrong with the cart, either. </p>