OK, I know I have seen them when I was pregnant, but how come now I can never find a supermarket trolly with two capsules............????

I try to do the bulk of my shopping with DH, but even then it is difficult pushing the boys around as well as the trolly. We seem to take up valuable space required by other shoppers in the aisles!!!!!!!

Mmmmmmmmm maybe just back to boring shopping on Coles on Line :quest:

Rachel
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Hi there. I have been led to believe by family who have worked at Woolies that you can request them to get one in from another store. You may to ring around and find one that has one first, so your local store can ring them directly but I think that is your best bet.

Good luck

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Dan 34
Georgia 6
Hamish 4
Xander 19mths
Noah 19mths
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I always found the theory of 'twin trolley's' great but the reality quite different.......I always found to get the trolley in the first place I had to go inside (with the boys in capsules or pram-pre walking) then take the trolley back to the car to get rid of the capsules/pram....do the shopping, unload it into the car....drop the trolley off somewhere, and then somehow manage to take both babies back to the car..............maybe I was doing something wrong??? but I always found it much more hastle than it was worth and would end up shopping when someone could look after them for me (ie dh at home with me doing the shopping)

Cheers

ps I still only very rarely take both shopping-one's easy/2's a nightmare!



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I agree with Caz - the logistics of getting twins into the supermarket to get the trolley was just beyond me.

I combined shopping online with almost daily walks with Matthew and Erin in the pram to pick up the extras (got me out of the house).

I found I used the twin trolley more once Matthew and Erin were old enough to walk into the store holding my hand and then I would put them in the trolley.

Jo2+2<BR>Angel Baby - Rachel - born still 21/11/00 (23 weeks)<BR>Matthew & Erin 7/11/01<P><BR>

At my local supermarket I always see mums of one baby using them. They put their handbag in the other capsule. :mad: Then the other day I saw a woman using the double trolley for older kids and she had no children with her. The trolley bay was full too.

At a major shopping centre I visit they are left in the carpark and people just put their rubbish in them, so they are filthy. So that's where they are in my area.

Do you have a sling/baby bjorn you could use for one baby and then put the other baby in the capsule of the trolley?

This message was edited by Binna on Thursday, 5 May 2005 @ 9:01 PM

My local Coles saw me struggling every week and ordered more trolleys! I started going at the same time every week and occasionally someone would meet me in the carpark with the trolley. I guess I'm just lucky! The Coles 2 seaters are great - they have brakes and fit in a normal aisle.

Having said that, it's much easier now that they can walk in. When they were really tiny it was best to leave them at home and go on my own (my SIL used to come over an afternoon a week for that purpose), or just do small amounts with the pram.

I've become a trolley Nazi with people who use the 2 seaters with one or no kids! I'm quite rude - but I reckon I've got a good excuse.

Nicolie

DDs Paige & Hannah (23/09/03)

Rachel ~ I am with you its a nightmare here too! I have not even attempted the weekly shopping on my own, we have made the Saturday morning 8am dash together. It seems to work and I too walk to the supermarket between feeds if I need anything. I love going walking and its a great excuse to get out and about. Given I only live 4 streets away from Coles and Wollies.

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I ring the supermarket before hand and they will hunt down a trolley for me so it's ready and waiting. You still have the problem of getting the kids from the car to the trolley but I try and park as close as possible to the door and then lock the kids in run in for the trolley and back for the kids. If there is any problems ie. one day wrong trolley, I go back to the car and make them come and find me in the car park.

[color=Teal]I'm the same as Jo.... I do the bulk of my grocery shopping online (what a breeze!) and just pick up bits and pieces at the local store when I go for a walk with the boys (or if I'm out and about on my own).

There is absolutely no way I would even consider doing a big grocery shop with the boys. It would be a nightmare! I just love my online shopping... no worries about driving to the supermarket, fighting for a park, getting the boys in and out of the car and pram, listening to whinging kids when they're "over" the whole shopping experience, loading and unloading the shopping into and out of the car etc etc etc....!!

Sorry, I could go on forever!! ha ha ha ;p

Vanessa

We love our shopping day each Thursday. We go to our local coles about 5 mins drive and they have a twin trolley with the 2 capsules. I take the boys in the pram to do bits and peices and then put them in the trolley at coles and leave the pram at the front of the shop near the service desk and they keep an eye on it. After the shopping, they always call on of the girls (we are now on first name basis!) to help me out to the car. If you ask at the service desk when you start your shopping that you will need some help at the end, they will arrange it.

If the boys are sleeping or comfy in the pram the other way to do it is to shop with the green shopping bags and ask the front desk to put a sign on a trolley up the front and when you have filled a bag, put it in the trolley and keep going. Then when you have finished ask them to get someone to give you a hand out to the car and that the shopping done.

It is a bit of a hassle but we love our weekly shopping outings. Don't be afraid to ask them to help you out though!

Happy Shopping
Rhonda 25
DH 38
Jackson and Hayden 21/1/04

I've always leave my girls at home to do the groceries. I usually go early on Sat or Sun while DH is home. I find I can be so much quicker without the kids, and it's a good excuse to get out of the house on my own.

Reading all these posts, I think it's about time the stores offered a bit more help to people with small children. like the pram minding. You can't leave your kids in the car to get a trolley ( if you can find one!) and same when you've emptied it and have to return it. Whatever happened to customer service!®

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Hannah & Josie 22/3/04 (33 wks)
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A new wollies opened a month or so ago near us and when DH and I went there were no double trollies, when I asked where they were I was told there were some on order and they would ring us when they came in, i'm still waiting for the call and another twin mum tells me that they still have none.

My local woolies has some but like others have said they get left outside and used as rubbish bins. The way I shop alone with the girls (only when DH can't come) is drive around the car park to see if I can find one, if I do find one I park near by and load the girls into it there, if there isn't one outside I get a single trolley put one of the girls in that while I carry the other and prey there is a double trolley waiting inside, this has worked so far not sure what I would do if there were no double trolleys inside.

I agree that supermarkets need to buck their ideas up to help us mums, having said that my local woolies staff are all great and one time I was in there on my own I got asked 4 times if I needed any help!

Heather

LOL - this is so timely!! Last night DH and I were discussing that it's highly unlikely I'd ever be able to go grocery shopping on my own with the babies. And, then last night - I had a dream where I did take them shopping on my own and it was a complete nightmare!! Then, I come online and read this...

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I do my grocery shopping on a Thursday night with a girlfriend and we both leave our kids home with our hubby's!

where I do my shopping they have one twin trolley(all others have been brocken) if I am lucky I get it if not I just put them both in one trolly and pull the other. People make strange comments but I have been doing this since they were newborn that it is second nature. When they were babies hubby worked away so I would push the pram and pull trolley. People would soon get out of the way and where I shop i can park just outside the supermarket so don't have to go onto the road.

Now it's not the trolley's that are a problem it's the two two year old's that get in them LOL (So now it's not "oh how gorgous twins" and come strait for you now IT's "Ohh twins" as they quickly go another direction)

Take care

Kristy

DS 8
Twin Boys 2

Thank you so much.

It's been great to read your different ways of getting the shopping done.

Life with twins certainly is fun ;p



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I've never done a big shop with the girls, although my supermarket does have twin baby and toddler trollies. Sometimes if I'm out for a walk with the girls I'll get a few things with them in the buggy. Otherwise DH, wonderful man that he is, does a big shop on a Sunday night after the girls are in bed (then picks up takeaways for us!) and he gets anything else we need during the week.

Maree

Eleanor 1/8/03
Harriet 1/8/03

Well I must say we have no twin trollies with the lay back seats or the toddler seats at the moment, I havent seen them for months, the girls were only a few months old when we got to use the lay back one, and we have used it once and once only, in Wollies my brother and I went out to check the mail and there was a toddler one there, and we only used it once, I am often told that they are broken or vandals take them and dump them. I havent seen twin trollies for months around our shopping centres.


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Hi,

Now my boys are nearly two the struggles of shopping are quite different from when they were babies.

When they were little I would always ring coles or Woolies before going shopping and they would get a trolley boy to meet me in the carpark. He would often help me put one of the boys in the trolley for me. I would love shopping with Alex and Josh looking so cute in the capsules and I found it quite stimulating for them as well.

As they got older and started walking I started getting them to walk into the shops and if there was no twin trolley there they I would sit the boys on the service desk counter and ask them to get a trolley for me...they would always do it happily for us.

Now Alex and Josh just stand in the trolley and if they are being good they take it in turns to get out and hold onto the side of the pram. They love been given jobs like putting the toilet paper in the trolley or filling up a bag with bananas. I have given up on the seats in the trolleys through as most of them have a velcro strap which the boys can rip open in a matter of seconds and stand up!

The problems now are getting the shopping out of the supermarket unopenned or squashed. If they are tired then they rip each others hair out, bite and thump each other..so people are not looking at us thinking "how cute" but Im sure are thinking how terrible but I doubt they have been in my situation so they can stuff off.

What you will find more annoying is when they dont have the twin trolley check out ailse open and when you cant fit down some aisles.

Rachael

I have solution to when they don't have the wide checkout open, you just stand at the fast checkout with your big trolley full of shopping and they soon tell you to go down to the wide checkout and someone will be there in a flash! The people behing you in a rush look pretty worried though!

Heather

I just had another thought about supermarket trollies. Our multiple birth club had one member who volunteered to ring/visit all the supermarkets and survey them about the number and quality of their twin trollies (baby and toddler) and also about their attitude to parents of multiples ringing ahead to organise a trolley. The results were printed in the newsletter so everyone knew which supermarkets had what. It also had the added benefit of making the supermarkets aware of the issue and some added new twin trollies. They know that we are going to spend a lot of $$$ over the years so they were mostly pretty keen to be helpful. Maybe it's a project some of us could undertake in our own areas?

Maree

Eleanor 1/8/03
Harriet 1/8/03

We've just been talking about this today as it is only now that the girls are finally walking that I thought I could attempt to use a twin trolley.

Does anyone know if IGA's have twin trolleys??? The new coles is not open yet where we are moving too and when I asked at the IGA yesterday if they had a twin trolley the girls said she'd never heard of them. So I am just wondering if the smaller chain supermarkets have them and this girl just didn't know or if I am going to have to wait for coles to open before I can attempt and on my own shop??

And do coles usually have the twin trolley's as standard? I've seen plenty of twin capsule trolley's of late but no twin seat ones.....

Oh and I love heading to the 8 isles or less checkout with my troley and twin pram. I love to exclaim very loudly that if only the supermarket would just keep the wide asile as the onle and only checkout that is open I'd be happy to wait in the que for it....

Happy shopping all!

Kate

We are moving house! Yipee!!

hi there everyone
I live in Canberra and onthe southside I asked woolies about twin trolley's and they told me that you have to ask at the service desk and they go and get you one as there is only 2 trolley's at tuggernong. I am going to check with coles and woolies at woden and other areas around canberra . So I will let you know for future refrence. Today was my first try at shopping with my girls it was great the girls loved it.
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I too would ring the supermarket before I went there and ask them too hold one infact I rang first thing in the morning!