Stores drop child centers

If you kept your kids under control, you wouldn't have to have someone watch them while you shopped. Watch your own dang kids or don't have them. Or stop having to many to get extra welfare. Real simple. Business should not have to support this.

I wonder how my mom did it with 7 of us with in 10 years and going to the store every two weeks shopping? It was a marketing gimmick to attract parents to the store. Now they need the extra income that the space could provide in lease or sales floor because sales are down. But if they lowered their prices more then people could buy more revenue would go up... simple economics.... look at Walmart as a prime example. Even walmart took out the game room to lease the space out to the banks.

PurpleRavens1979 wrote:

If you kept your kids under control, you wouldn't have to have someone watch them while you shopped. Watch your own dang kids or don't have them. Or stop having to many to get extra welfare. Real simple. Business should not have to support this.

WOW! That was about the most moronic thing I have ever heard. Did you even read the article? If you read it, do you understand what it was about? Don't comment on articles unless you plan to have something productive to say about it. I have three kids and I used to shop at Giant. My kids LOVED the Tree House and we weren't on welfare. My kids would get bored in the grocery store. They were well-behaved, but that doesn't mean that they enjoyed it. As an adult I hate grocery shopping, why should I expect my kids to like it. The Tree House was a very nice way for them to interact with other children and it was a very educational place too. Next time keep your mouth shut!

For those of you who are still looking to not have to go to the grocery store with kids, try Weis IShop. The store on Roosevelt Avenue participates with this and it is AWESOME! The fee is very minimal and definitely worth not having to take your kids to the store!

wow I think you should should watch your own children. I have three all grown now but I ALWAYS took my children with me to get groceries pay bills do laundry grow up take responsibility keep your children with you or don't have them!

I shop with 6 between 15 and 2 and they don't get that choice. It's life. Free or not, there or not, doesn't anyone ever worry something could happen? What if they all kept them and someone wasn't screened properly and hurt a child or worse? Then everyone would complain about that. Seems there are too many easy outs for kids these days and if time to yourself is that important then yes, it should have been thought of before having kids. Shopping with kids doesn't have to be a chore. They can learn just as much in the actual store as they do strapped to computer games and things like that. No thanks Giant, I will have my me time when I am done parenting in 16 more years. Heck by then I will shop with my grandbabies!

half a dozen wrote:

I shop with 6 between 15 and 2 and they don't get that choice. It's life. Free or not, there or not, doesn't anyone ever worry something could happen? What if they all kept them and someone wasn't screened properly and hurt a child or worse? Then everyone would complain about that. Seems there are too many easy outs for kids these days and if time to yourself is that important then yes, it should have been thought of before having kids. Shopping with kids doesn't have to be a chore. They can learn just as much in the actual store as they do strapped to computer games and things like that. No thanks Giant, I will have my me time when I am done parenting in 16 more years. Heck by then I will shop with my grandbabies!

Agreed. The minute something happened then the parents would be suing the store and putting them and the people who work there out of business. Seems like if you can handle six, these others can handle theirs.

PurpleRavens1979 wrote:

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Agreed. The minute something happened then the parents would be suing the store and putting them and the people who work there out of business. Seems like if you can handle six, these others can handle theirs.

Quit trying to be cordial, you freaking child! No one cares what you think,, and we are all sick of reading your post.

PurpleRavens1979 wrote:

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Do something useful instead of stalking me Sua. Can't find a real date?

Your ignorance is out weighed only by your stupidity.

half a dozen wrote:

I shop with 6 between 15 and 2 and they don't get that choice. It's life. Free or not, there or not, doesn't anyone ever worry something could happen? What if they all kept them and someone wasn't screened properly and hurt a child or worse? Then everyone would complain about that. Seems there are too many easy outs for kids these days and if time to yourself is that important then yes, it should have been thought of before having kids. Shopping with kids doesn't have to be a chore. They can learn just as much in the actual store as they do strapped to computer games and things like that. No thanks Giant, I will have my me time when I am done parenting in 16 more years. Heck by then I will shop with my grandbabies!

The girl who worked in the Tree House was known personally by us, otherwise I would not have just left my kids there. It is everyone's own personal choice. It doesn't mean that I don't parent or take care of my children just because I let them go into the Tree House while I am at Giant. Please don't accuse parents of not wanting their children just because they let them go somewhere. Are you with your children every second of every day? No, you aren't. Be real.

Germany Township Resident wrote:

I wonder how my mom did it with 7 of us with in 10 years and going to the store every two weeks shopping? It was a marketing gimmick to attract parents to the store. Now they need the extra income that the space could provide in lease or sales floor because sales are down. But if they lowered their prices more then people could buy more revenue would go up... simple economics.... look at Walmart as a prime example. Even walmart took out the game room to lease the space out to the banks.

I may be wrong about this but I believe those banks in the Wal-Mart Stores are owned by Wal-Mart.

Denise parent of three wrote:

wow I think you should should watch your own children. I have three all grown now but I ALWAYS took my children with me to get groceries pay bills do laundry grow up take responsibility keep your children with you or don't have them!

I don't recall many stores offering childcare before Giant. I would bet my paycheck that you would have taken advantage of this program when you were raising your children. I would also bet you weren't on the interent reading the paper and responding to articles either when you children were growing up! We must live in the future and not the past.

Seriously, is asking for an hour to yourself while you shop that much to ask? I adore my children and would spend every waking minute with them if I could, but let's be realistic, we all need time to ourselves. Just because I want to be alone while I shop does not in any way mean that I don't want my kids. Seriously, all your comments are ridiculous. Are you accusing all the working parents who have their kids in daycare of not wanting or loving their kids? Get real! Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do, doesn't mean we love our kids any less!

My issue with this childcare thing...has anyone dumped there kids off there & not gone shopping?I admit that I am not familiar with this service, but it seems to me that it would be a lawsuit magnet.
the minute one kid hurts another kid, that would be the end of it. When I taught Bible school, infants were being dropped off and the mothers would take off. We were to busy changing diapers to teach. I remember my mom walking to the grocery store with a little cart and us in tow. we knew that we were to behave, no tantrums, etc. My kids went shopping with me, they learned how to find bargains, etc. It was pretty cool.

It has nothing with wanting to "dump" your children off in a daycare while you shop. It's a terrific idea! It's something FUN for the kids! They get to go play and be around other kids!
The first time I saw this was in a store in Pittsburgh and my son was so excited! He used to beg me to go into the play room. If you choose not to use the room, then good for you! If your children would rather walk through the store w/ you than go play w/ other kids, then fine! But it's not a bad thing. It was a great idea! It was nice that they even thought of providing that service for their customers.

As far as parents dumping their kids off and leaving, I am not sure how that works here in Hanover, but when I lived in Pittsburgh they gave you a pager. You couldn't leave the store. They knew. : ) I've heard of that being done at gym daycares, but they had that pretty much covered I believe.

Denise parent of three wrote:

wow I think you should should watch your own children. I have three all grown now but I ALWAYS took my children with me to get groceries pay bills do laundry grow up take responsibility keep your children with you or don't have them!

People have to work. Should they not have children if they have to rely on a little help from the outside? And if you don't choose to use the service, does it make it wrong if someone else does? If my son wants to color w/ other children while I grocery shop and I let him, does that mean I am a bad parent and never should have had him because I chose to let him color? hmm...

PurpleRavens1979 wrote:

If you kept your kids under control, you wouldn't have to have someone watch them while you shopped. Watch your own dang kids or don't have them. Or stop having to many to get extra welfare. Real simple. Business should not have to support this.

For once I completely agree with you. Mothers from generations past did far more with many more kids at their feet. They managed.

caring parent wrote:

Seriously, is asking for an hour to yourself while you shop that much to ask? I adore my children and would spend every waking minute with them if I could, but let's be realistic, we all need time to ourselves. Just because I want to be alone while I shop does not in any way mean that I don't want my kids. Seriously, all your comments are ridiculous. Are you accusing all the working parents who have their kids in daycare of not wanting or loving their kids? Get real!

Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do, doesn't mean we love our kids any less!

While I agreed with PurpleRavens, I do not disagree with you. I don't like taking my kids grocery shopping either and that doesn't mean I love my children any less. That is not what I am saying. I am simply saying that Giant is not responsible for watching our children and we should not condemn them for discontinuing this program. We should be thankful for the time it was in place and just make other arrangements now. I let my kids at home with their father when I go grocery shopping. Problem solved.

Just my opinion wrote:

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We should be thankful for the time it was in place and just make other arrangements now. I let my kids at home with their father when I go grocery shopping. Problem solved.

I agree wholeheartedly with you. Leaving the kids with their father is an excellent choice to promote "daddy time" also called parental bonding.

I usually have my children shop with me and they have the job of putting our list items in the cart. I enjoy shopping with my kids because my daughter is as much of a skeptic as I am. She sees "new and improved" and says "Yeah, right". My boys love helping and taking turns riding and pushing the shopping cart. Five years from now they aren't going to want to ride on the cart...

For now, shopping with a list is just as good as a game of Chutes and Ladders.

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