Buy bread
An errand that looks small on paper contains a lot: find the shelf, choose one of twelve kinds, wait in the queue and pay with people waiting behind you. The pictures below make the whole route through the shop clear before the door even opens.
♀Person buying a loaf at the till
A smiling person holds up a loaf of bread at a checkout counter with coins and a till.
About this visual support
A shop is an environment that does not adapt. The music plays at its own volume, the queue moves at its own speed, and the till has its own tempo where the card comes out, the code goes in and the receipt is dealt with while the next customer is already unloading. For anyone who needs time to think, it is the checkout that is hard, not choosing a loaf.
Visual support turns the errand into a known sequence. Four pictures are enough: go in, get the bread, join the queue, pay. The sequence can be walked through at home, and the shop then becomes a repeat of something already seen rather than a new situation each time. For a child shopping alone for the first time, that difference decides the outcome.
One tip is to decide the type before you leave, ideally with a picture of the packaging. The choice in front of the shelf then disappears, and that shelf is otherwise the most common place to get stuck. In Routined the errand can sit as a short routine with pocket-sized pictures, and the app can be tried for fourteen days at no cost.
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