How long does it take Your dh to go to the grocery store?

[doberbrat]

DH went to the grocery store to buy frozen pizzas for dinner. He drove to the one that is 2mi away, has ample parking and is never busy - not even day before Thanksgiving. He came back with 2 paper bags worth of stuff. Guess how long he took???
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3h

Seriously! I know I should be grateful that he went but he always takes so f'ing long! A 'big' grocery trip can take 4-5h

[StantonHyde]

What is he doing???????? That should take 30 minutes.

[jgenie]

DH can be in and out in 20 minutes…..but he always brings home the leaking milk, bruised fruit, cracked eggs, etc. He grabs the first item he sees and then is on to the next. Checking items doesn’t enter into his thought process. I NEVER send him to the store for things anyone else is going to eat…

[Snow mom]

DH can grocery shop I suppose, although I really try to limit it. He has an amazing ability to spend twice as much as me on the same amount of groceries. I might be a control freak, but I’d rather go myself.

[ett]

DH rarely grocery shops and when I send him with a list he always comes back with more than what's on the list, even with strict instructions to only buy what's on the list.

[georgiegirl]

DH rarely grocery shops and when I send him with a list he always comes back with more than what's on the list, even with strict instructions to only buy what's on the list.

This is my experience as well. I’ll tell DH to get one jar of salsa, and he will come home with 5. I think since he grew up under communism and food was sometimes scarce, he feels the need to stockpile. When he’s at the store, he will often call me several times to ask questions. The other day I sent him to the store to buy one English cucumber, which I had forgotten when I went earlier that day. He came back with tons of fruit…most of which I had already purchased that morning (grapes, blueberries, citrus.)


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[lizzywednesday]

Maybe it'll take an hour if the store is busy OR he's hungry OR he didn't bring a list, but it's very rare. It takes me about an hour and a half to do a "big shop" in a relatively empty store with DD in tow, but I haven't done that since before safer-at-home in 2020.

He has ADHD, so it's likely he'll get distracted by a shiny display or his stomach growling if he doesn't have a list.

[hbridge]

THREE HOURS for a store 2 miles away??? Did he stop for a drink/snack/to watch the "game"??? I just came in from a store that is 20 minutes away and did a full shop... The whole trip took about 1 1/2 hours, including getting there and back!

However, I HATE grocery shopping. DC could take awhile if they were reading labels, planning meals, ect...

Hope the pizza was good

[wendibird22]

DH is the main grocery shopper and cook in our family dynamic. He's the text book of the hunter vs gatherer metaphor. He goes with a list, sticks to the list, only goes down the aisles needed for the things on the list. He shops with the focus of a heat seeking missile and is out and back with as much efficiency as possible.

[belovedgandp]

There had to be a side trip..... the pizzas would be thawed after a 3 hour trip.

I do a bulk of the shopping, but DH is good at running out for something. The store that is 1.5 miles away and back for one item, I can count on him being less than 20 minutes. Now we send the teenager, so maybe closer to 30 minutes.

When I was in college my mom had surgery and her recovery took longer than expected. She made a detailed list for the grocery store for my dad in the order of the aisles. He was gone well over two hours and she was starting to worry. He had dutifully marked each item off the list, but forgot something and went back an aisle to get it when he was 80% completed. To this day he claims someone stole his cart, but somehow he and the original cart got permanently separated and he started over. Except he marked the items out so thoroughly he had trouble reading the list for the second time through the store.