Have you ever gone in a retail store and bought your toys and supplies

Question for all the littles out there. As most of you know I work at a chain baby store most of the time is new mothers, even new grandmothers. In the past I have even meet a wife of a little. Well is happen again yesterday an older woman came in to be honest not the mother type but who am I to judge. She was back of the store looking at pacifiers and toddler toys. I asked her if she need some help she look unconformable think it must be for a gift. So I ask a few questions she wanted to know what was the biggest pacifier we had, ok flag goes up. So I ask like you mean for a toddler or older. She goes older. Well we don’t have for older than toddlers, but she could find want she was looking for on Ebay they have ones for an older child to an adult and I smiled look for a nuk5 pacifier. I thought she was going to melt into the floor. By now you could tell she want out of the store. So I broke one of my rules and said was this for a special little person? Ok I know vague. Asking her what age was the little person was she shopping for. Tell it was ok we have lots of stuff for the baby in all of us. Well before she left I had a new friend, nice sale. I'm sure some little baby boy is going to have a big surprise for his 3 birthday.

So here it the question

Have you ever gone in a retail store and bought your toys and supplies and how did they treat you.

life is to short for lines, wearing diaper makes one less line

I usually buy actual baby items at a discount or dollar store, and there really isn't any interaction with the staff except at the checkout line, and there the clerks are somewhere between indifferent to oblivious. It is also possible that some stores have a policy about not asking questions about or commenting on purchases that might lead to making the customer feel uncomfortable. Not quite the same when buying a pacifier or baby bottle, but when i buy adult diapers, while i would secretly love it, most customers would be a bit offended if the clerk said "Oh, these are great, these will keep your pants nice and dry no matter what" or something like that.

Yea i only buy from a store.

My bottles pacifiers formula babyfood baby washing items and toys. I have no problem going In a store to get them

Last week my wife went to the local superstore on Saturday and brought me 3 bottles and 2 pacifiers. It was such a turn on as it's the first time she's gone out and done it.

No,I have not ever bought for MYSELF.ALL my baby toys and needs are mostly purchased by my RL mommy and older sister. You see I am kept as a baby,so babies can't purchase anything for themselves.

I've shopped at Babies R Us quite a bit. The staff are always so helpful and friendly towards me. If I am looking for something they help me find it. I've got a lot of things from them. Even though I could probably get it cheaper at Wal Mart they make me feel weird and self conscious when I shop there. While they don't come out and say anything, i can tell they are looking down their nose at me.

I found I was running short of diaper pins and stopped in at Toys R Us last summer. Diaper pins seem to be getting harder and harder to find. So I bought six packs. When I got to the cashier we made small talk as she rang me up as I was the only customer. She must have thought it odd that purchased so many pins because as she she handed me the pins she gave this little smile and said "don't forget "your" diaper pins".......hmmm...

Manytimes over and over i love to buy supplies

Yes practically all the time if I have money and the time to get them.

See my previous replies for details.

Yours sincerely

Chinababy888.

We have gotten a few toys at Babies R Us they do have a better selection and have gotten diapering supplies there also.

But most of the time we go to Wal-Mart or Meijers to get all my diapering supplies, bottles, pacifiers, and baby food.

I've gone to Wal-Mart and purchased pacifiers and bottles, but I rang up them up at the self scan, so there was no contact with anyone about it, plus buying those things as a woman isn't really strange.

I've never been looked at weirdly when buying my items even the nappies I buy no one bats an eye lid

In NYC, I'm a regular.

In NYC, I'm a regular.

You buy Adult Baby items susie? That is what this discussion is about.

You buy Adult Baby items susie? That is what this discussion is about.

OOOPS! Sorry, wrong kink.

I just read the TITLE in the RECENT UNREAD POSTS list:

Have you ever gone in a retail store and bought your toys and supplies

I thought I was in a SEX TOYS section! MY BAD.

You buy Adult Baby items susie? That is what this discussion is about.

@MissStress LOL Yes I had to do a double take on that too!

@SwitchableSusie Yes the title and msg had no indication! Confused me as well!

You know, I just might do that in preparation for next year's Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.

In the interest of political INcorrectness, I could be a mommy beating or cutting my [husband] child with black and blue marks and blood running down his body!

Sounds like it could be fun!

In recent years, I routinely purchase Johnson's baby oil and baby powder at a local supermarket. In earlier years, when I used cloth diapers, diaper pins would be included at the check-out counter.

The cloth diapers I formerly used were purchased from an online source as are the disposables I now use that are of better quality than what can be obtained locally.

I just read the TITLE in the RECENT UNREAD POSTS list:I thought I was in a SEX TOYS section! MY BAD.

Yes the title and msg had no indication! Confused me as well!

Webby has designed zity to have the forum and subtopic (I believe they are called) at the top of the page. I know I've checked this a number of times to be sure a post fell in the right place. Hence how I figured susie had mis posted.

Plus the previous posts were talking about diapers and such. 😉

Just supermarkets, Discount stores and online.

Diapers only i did this once....

We buy our pacifiers, diapers and plastic pants online, but bottles, pull-ups and toys from the regular chain stores.

I've bought plastic panties at CTDC in Las Vegas a couple of times.

One time, while wearing my diapers under my sweatpants, I went into a drugstore and bought a pack of diaper pins. The lady at the checkout counter--about 40 or so and very friendly--rang them up and handed them back to me and said "Well, these ought to hold them up!" I thanked her and left. I then (and ever since) regretted not smiling, pulling up my t-shirt so she could see the drooping bulge in my pants, and saying "Thanks! They're about to fall down now!"

Being older in my 50's I certainly have bought tons of stuff retail in person ,I have never been hassled or treated with anything less than respect by both employees and fellow shoppers ,back in the day when you went in any store to buy Attends or Depends ,I always had customers popping out of the woodwork bending over backwards to help me find my brand ,my size ,telling me buying them by the case is cheaper !oh but you use a wheelchair and cant handle a case by yourself ,can I take them to your car ? Your not driving well give me your address I will deliver them ?.

As I have said many times when you look like a "broken toy and you need diapers" there is no diaper stigma or attitude people will climb over each other to be the one that gets to help you ànd they are just other shoppers .employees are just as happy to help if they can get thru the crows of people that has formed around you .

Some time ago I always had to go to the medical aids shop for my nappies as I was not (still not) very good with computers, and it was very much as SAP states, people are very helpful and try to get you the right product and they are not the slightest bit judgemental.

What I do miss about actually going to the shop is not being able to peruse all,the different makes and types of nappy available and especially the broken or part packs they used to sell off at really good prices.

Many a time I would go in for two packs and come out with three or more extra part packs of another product, of course some really sucked but there were times when I got a few real quality super nappies.

@squirmy the 'please squeeze the Charmin benefit'' of personal shopping , nothing like it , the people who have grown up in the age of Amazon don't understand (I do order from Northshore and always get free stuff to try in every order and sometimes they just randomly send you something )but still nothing like being able to see feel and touch stuff ,odds and ends sometimes turn out awesome and are pleasant surprize's .

We buy do buy all my diapering supplies at Wal-Mart, along with my goodnite. We also do get a few toys, and coloring books. I do wonder what people think when we go thru the store with all these things.

Yes I have on a few occasions and honestly nobody really seems to bat an eye. I bought pacifiers years ago then realized oh ones online are bigger lol. But have bought sippy cups, bottles, and stuffed toys aside from baby oil, baby powder and some wipes. Nobody really pays much attention it seems. That or they presume I'm buying for a actual baby or toddler and not for myself.

I have been buying form Changing Times Diapers for years. They have the best cloth diapers available! Good assortment of plastic pants.

My wife regularly buys all of my supplies like baby oil, butt cream, Johnson baby powder and Depends wipes and diapers at Wal-Mart, and for my cloth diapers, diaper pins and my plastic pants, she buys them all online at Babykins or Rearz