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Sorry, I didn't read the question well enough, I meant to vote it's weird she is heckling you, not that you're weird for pushing the stroller around! Why does she care so much? What a weirdo!

I ALWAYS did this when LOnwas in her infant seat. We piled the groceries in her stroller!

I don't have a car, so this is the only way I ever do my shopping! No way am I going to take LO out of the pushchair, fold up the pushchair and put that in the trolley too! I've never had any comments or odd looks

Do you mean you keep her in an infant seat and put that in a regular stroller? Or you mean a snap and go?

But anyway, I only grocery shopped with my snap and go when the LOs were babies. It's much easier than taking them out of their seats and there's a big basket underneath so it was perfect! Not weird ...

@StbHisMrs: sounds totally normal then! She's just missed out on this convenient way of shopping!

Tell her you think its weird she feels the need to comment. Although If you think carts are weird and gross, I would say you're even

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.

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?

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

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....

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!!!

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!

@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).

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.

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!

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!

I still use our stroller in the grocery store at 15mo. Our basket is huge and she gets a much more comfy ride.