For me I try to avoid going on Saturday or Sunday's. Too many people with their bratty, crying kids wanting everything on shelves whining, "I want this...", "I want this...".
Wow, lighten up and show some compassion. You must not have children. For mothers, shopping without children is a luxury. Grocery stores are overstimulating places for kids--lots of light, color, and people. They make ME want to whine! I am one of those extremely fortunate moms who rarely has to shop with her kiddos. But I count my lucky stars and smile at the moms who are having a hard go of it. Someday it might be you trying to negotiate the aisles with your "bratty little whiners." Karma and all.
I'm not being a "compassionate conservative" enough for you.
You must not have children.
Correct. By choice.
As a child I went grocery shopping all the time with my mom, and thought of it as a mini-field trip and being her little helper. I wasn't allowed to behave as though the grocery store was my own circus with "-lots of light, color, and people". Maybe it's just the way I was raised at an early age to have manners in public as a child and that included the department store, restaurants, etc.
Someday it might be you trying to negotiate the aisles with your "bratty little whiners."
Chances of that happening are pretty doubtful.
I understand that children can get cranky sitting in those shopping cart seats, but I'm talking about the ones whose parents let their children behave as though the grocery store is their own personal playground.
Is it really that difficult for parents to have some control over their children to make them behave for a one hour shopping trip.