Grocery shopping, like commuting, has been entirely tranformed by having a tyke along. Everything is so INTERESTING to children, and this can be real lift or a horrendous time-suck. Taking her to the farmers market is fun and she loves picking out ingredients. She explained child grocery-store behavior to me once: "Waiting in line is boring, but I can perk myself up by touching everything." (I love Fresh Direct.)

Similar to the OP, in general I love grocery shopping but there have been instances in which it is just another chore in my already busy day. I love being able to meander through the stalls at the farmers market and take my time strolling through the aisles at my local grocery store.

I almost always enjoy grocery shopping. The exception is the grocery store closest to my house. Horrible place with nothing I want to buy, few organics and the ones that they have are overpriced, plus a ton of processed foods. Shopping their actually makes me depressed. Before we moved we lived across the street from a Trader Joes.

I hate grocery shopping. I can put up with it during the morning on weekdays (though it is still draining), but I almost never am able to go during this time. I dream of living somewhere so close to a good grocery store that I walk over every day and get just what I need for that day. Until then, I ask my wife to get about two days worth of groceries at a time on her way home from work.

I enjoy grocery shopping. The part I hate is the dragging it home and putting it away--if only I could take that cute bagboy home and have him put it away for me!! (or cute baggirl, either one would do)

My absolute favorite time- I go early Saturday mornings right after my 15 month old has breakfast. He loves it too and I love having him with me (we'll see if I love it when he's a nagging toddler)

Love it. Browsing grocery store aisles is where I get most of my culinary inspiration. I'm also an optimizer by nature, so I enjoy seeing what I can get on a specific budget.

I used to love grocery shopping when I was working Sun-Thurs and would go Friday afternoons to stock up for the week. These days I work M-F, so it's a hurried, fight the crowds after work, WHY CAN'T YOU USE A SELF CHECK PROPERLY kind of a situation. A lot fewer shopping lists, a lot more 'we don't have flour, baking soda or onions, go!' kind shopping.

I kind of miss the feeling of endless possibility. Now it just makes me tired.

Hate it. It's a total time-suck.

Same thing with menu-planning. I try to make only one grocery-store trip per week, so that means I have to plan my meals out in advance. I found a feature on Martha Stewart.com that plans the week's dinners for you and gives you an organized shopping list (it's called Grocery Bag if anyone cares) but have found that most of those recipes can be fairly bland and blah.

Anyway, unless I have nothing else to do that day (very rare), I don't really enjoy grocery shopping and try to get it done as fast as possible.

LOVE grocery shopping. The only time I don't is if I have to run out mid-cooking to pick up an ingredient I forgot/didn't have enough of.

I love grocery shopping: I get to think about all of the possibilities of the things I could make, different combinations, new ingredients. It's hauling it home on the bus that makes me rage-y. I can't wait for the new Whole Foods to open: it will be a mere two blocks away from me. No more skipping the heavy items and fresh (unbruised) fruit all the time!

I either love it or hate it, it all depends on if I'm feeling rushed or not. Lucky for me, I'm usually have lots of time so I can enjoy it. I like to stroll down EVERY aisle, just to see what there is and get ideas.

I love grocery shopping..esp if it's in a store I haven't been in before or if I see new items I've never had/worked with....

I used to enjoy grocery shopping. But "modern" grocery stores are designed to thwart buying food, and instead funnel you into the high-dollar aisles. The store I hate most to use (do you hear me H.E.B.?) put the eggs and milk in a tight corner at the very back of the store. By the time I get to the check-out counter I am ready to kick over displays and cuss out the clerk :)

Definitely a necessary evil. I enjoy the farmers market to an extent, but the rest just blows. Unless its 9am, and the place is empty. Too many oblivious rude people, too many high prices, too many stores with subpar food quality.

i love grocery shopping as a general rule; i HAVE to shop by myself though, my bf & i learned very quickly that we have different styles of shopping. i like to meander; he likes to have a list & only purchase those things. there is no hovering over a display thinking about what i could cook with that or maybe i should look at this. lol he has since left the shopping to me! the only time i dislike it is at our most local grocery store which is dirty, full of unhelpful employees & costs twice what i could pay by driving across town, including gas. it's very frustrating there.

love it. it's like an escape from the day, getting to go and wander around and pick things out for the week.

i'm pretty sure my love of grocery shopping started when i found Wegmans =)

Stop rubbing in the Wegmans! Damn upstaters!

My dad made me see our crappy neighborhood Associated anew--he gets a serious kick out of the random organization that results from too much stuff in too little square footage. Hey, Dad, if it makes you happy...

I love grocery shopping! I try to go out of my way to go to the places I like and avoid going after work. I prefer to go alone and peruse at my own pace. When I go with the man we stick to a list, get in, get out.

I love it. People ask me why I don't shop at the bright yellow discount store. Because I would rather sip a Matcha latte then get a migraine from flourescent lights. True strory.

I like grocery shopping. I get up early on Saturday's and plan the next weeks meals out....then I'm at the store no later than 10a, so it's never crowded. I have to drive a little ways (3 miles) but I LOVE the Shoppers I go to. It's brand new, and literally has the best produce section I've ever seen (aside form H-Mart, of course). Plus, the man who works the produce section is so nice and will run to the back for anything not stocked yet on the shelves, or cut a too-big butternut squash in half if I want.

love, love, love grocery shopping.

I was surprised at how much I missed grocery shopping when I moved home with my parents for a few months... I love to see what is new and fill my cart with healthy food. I'm not as pinched for time as some people so that takes away the stress and makes it more fun.

Love it, I go almost daily. The great day for me is when i have the time to hit two or three or even four stores just to see what they have. Luckily for the wallet, I rarely get those opportunities....

Shopping for food is one of my favorite activities. When I'm having a rough day or find myself in a funk, I usually go to an upscale grocery store and browse every single aisle. I'll usually leave with chocolate, cheese, flowers and wine. But the very best kind of shopping is going to farm stores in the country. But shopping somewhere like Winco is a really different story-- I avoid it all costs and try to get it over with as quickly as possible, for sure!

I don't mind the shopping, I just hate putting it all away when I get home!

I love grocery shopping, it's one of the highlights of my week. I love walking around the stores, or the market, seeing what's new, what's on sale, etc. I do 1/2 my meal planning on the fly while shopping, depending on what they have that looks good.

I don't mind it as long as it's not too busy at the store and I'm not feeling too pinched on the budget, so I can try some new things and come up with ideas.

I adore grocery shopping. I love going to the produce aisle to see how virtuous I can be on any given day. I love going to the snack-food aisle to see what delicious (but bad-for-me) concoctions the food manufacturers have developed for our consumption.

I'm one of those people who hate shopping with a list. This usually leaves me with a high grocery bill and too much junk food. Oops!

I've loved doing the groceries ever since I was a kid and my father would take me with him. During my early college years I hated it because I'd rather be chatting with friends online. Now that I'm in my late 20s, I love it once again like I did before. It doesn't matter where I'm doing the groceries, I always enjoy it.

Grocery shopping is the highlight of my week. Everything fits and you never go home empty handed. I feel a sense of accomplishment when I'm done and I love the feeling of a stocked larder. I love selecting produce, spices, nuts, etc. Co-ops make this much more fun btw. I like seeing how much food I can get on my limited budget (I win!). I like seeing a meal take shape in the cart. I love finding a deal. I like almost everything about it, especially if I can shop when there are fewer people in the store (early mornings). It's like a meditation; a way to draw out the enjoyment of creating lovely, wholesome meals.

I actually prefer grocery shopping more than I do cooking. It's especially fun when its the type of store that carry specialty items like my local coop, farmers' market, whole foods or trader joes! My favorite time to shop is after 10 p.m. It's like a ghost town at the regular chain stores.

I love Grocery shopping and pretty much shop everyday for that nights dinner.

On the other hand my husband hates it with a passion

I LOVE IT! I look forward to going every week. I do a lot of planning in my head, reading menus, recipes, food blogs, plus look at what is on special at Whole Foods, Fresh & Easy, Trader Joes, along with a few specialty local stores and my farmers markets and build my lists and plan of attack accordingly.

I am a total freak for it and have been doing it this way for years. The benefit is that by planning this way I save money, feed my family really well, buy seasonally, and support my food and food shopping obsession in a once a week indulgence that for me is my "me" time. Like many others on this list my SO and son hate going so they are happy to relegate the task to me. Admittedly, I do burn out once in a while by having to schlep to multiple places, especially when I have had a busy week or have other things to do.

Someone mentioned weekly menus and shopping list, Martha is a good source but I have recently found this great site that does the same thing as well and is IMO more inventive; http://www.weeklygreens.com/ The menus can be sent to you along with the weekly shopping list via a newsletter in your email box or just click on an ingredient and a menu for the week comes up.

Enjoy!

It depends for me as well. Sometimes I really enjoy it. Other times, I would rather do almost anything than go to the grocery. It depends on my mood, how my day at work went, the grocery store, the people at the grocery store (if HATE packed grocery stores), etc.

I love, love, love grocery shopping. I was that weird kid who hated to shop for clothes but loved family trips to the grocery store or to Costco. It probably had to do with how much I loved to eat. :)

Today, I still hate shopping for clothes but can spend endless time browsing the aisles of a grocery store. It helps that my local Whole Foods has perfected the trick of making you spend an endless amount of time entertained by slabs of bacon and a rainbow of produce. Darn.

I LOVE grocery shopping, but only when the stores/market aren't totally packed with people with carts full of processed boxes of stuff (which depresses me). I actually shop at two different grocery stores (Price Chopper and Adam's Fairacre Farms, if anyone cares) plus my CSA plus a co-op that is out of town that we visit whenever we go to see relatives.

For me, sometimes it's difficult to follow-up on the inspiration I get at the store. Especially when it comes to gorgeous seasonal produce.

I enjoy grocery shopping a lot especially at Central Market. It's probably sad to say but it is often the highlight of my week. The only time I don't enjoy it as much is when I miss my target time (on the weekend either mid morning or late evening). Going at another time is usually avoided due to the crowds.

hate it

I absolutely love grocery shopping. It's a rare event when I don't feel like it. I usually spend around 1 to 2 hours just roaming through the isle. Love grocery shopping but I don't like spending tons of money, but of course, it's totally worth it in the end when I use a new recipe.

I like it! It first started when I did a semester overseas - buying food for myself for the first time really made me think about my food choices, and to be honest, I liked switching it up and getting new stuff. Now that I'm back home, I will happily accompany my Mum (who hates it and does, unfortunately, get a bit frustrated at my, "Ooh, I want to try THAT!" attitude).

Loathe it. Loathe it. Loathe it. They keep moving things around and the supermarket so I can't find them, and it's either crowded with people and their kids going wild or senior citizens (yes, I'm a senior myself) scrutinizing everything and standing in front of what it is I want to buy, so I have to ask them to move so I can get my stuff. The produce section is OK, but the butcher shelf is often out of what I want. And the fish is not as fresh as I'd like it.

The farmers' market has no appeal to me. It's crowded and doesn't have much interesting produce -- pretty much what I can get at the supermarket and more expensive.

I usually plan my menus and make lists. Once I get to the market, I plan my route through the store, so I don't have to spend a minute more than I have to.

When I was able to go grocery shopping, I enjoyed it. But I always preferred going by myself and most of the time I went early in the day. On a few occasions, I shopped at a 24/7 grocery store on my way home from my nightshift job. I loved having the store pretty much all to myself but found the fact that some of the sections (deli and in-store bakery) were closed a little frustrating.

It depends on the type of shopping I'm doing. I find shopping for basics pretty dull, and I generally want to get in and out as quickly as possible. When my housemates and I are shopping for Gaming Night dinner or similar, we take our time, wander the supermarket, usually sticking to the list we brought. Usually.

It depends... on where I am. I adored nothing more than grocery shopping on the mainland. The selection, the prices. I would blissfully spend an hour thinking up the things I could make (and eat). Now that I live in Hawaii, it's a hated chore. The high prices, the poor selection, and the people are just ... different. The staff isn't as helpful or knowledgable anywhere. The customers aren't used to the same amount of personal space or consideration of others that I grew to know and love in mainland stores. But it's a different culture.
I still relish a trip to Trader Joe's, Publix, or any other store when my work brings me back home.