A bit miffed with Te$co

[simon the viking]

I complained to Sainsbury's once that the 'full sugar' pack of cans of pop were half price but the diet was excluded (the shelf ticket specifically said so) Mrs V wouldn't let me complain in the shop because she thought I was being petty....... So I emailed them saying they were promoting obesity and rotten teeth and full sugar pop was the biggest cause of weight gain in the U.K because of the 'hidden calories effect'..... a good old rant to them.....

I got £10 of points on the loyalty card which I spent on wine

 

[Over The Hill]

won't the butter melt

I do manage to sort it all out and put it in the cupboard/fridge/freezer.

Although Ocado mostly sell Waitrose stuff they do a much better job and their groceries come with an amazing shelf life, we can even get milk once a week and it lasts and is still in date. . We have tried other supermarkets and they are not so good.

Mrs OTH wanders round the kitchen with the I pad to put in the order (you can even just zap in a barcode) and it all appears the next day. Just seems odd to do anything else. We then just top up with odd bit of fruit and bread from the local shop through the week if needed.

 

[Fnaar]

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There's a pun in there somewhere...

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

it's the principle of self service tills that i detest... the more we serve ourselves, the less staff they need to employ. It's all about profiteering and has nothing to do with providing a better shopping experience for their customers.

Might I suggest that horse has well and truly bolted? Remember when you used to have to visit half a dozen different shops and stand at a counter reading a list whilst an assistant scurried around fetching things?

Hmmm

A bit like local bike shops really.

 

[Fnaar]

Remember when you used to have to visit half a dozen different shops and stand at a counter reading a list whilst an assistant scurried around fetching things?

The potential for shopping-based humour has diminished sadly... as in... Eeh, Mr Boggins, can tha' slip another sausage in me package?

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Fork handles please.

 

[JoeyB]

Mundane news - I just bought a cheap microwave for the office in Tesco...I even used the self serve tills and didnt die.

They had these weird turntable contraptions in there today, I got scared by them though.

 

[Over The Hill]

Might I suggest that horse has well and truly bolted? Remember when you used to have to visit half a dozen different shops and stand at a counter reading a list whilst an assistant scurried around fetching things?

Hmmm

A bit like local bike shops really.

Which gets us back to the fact that you can get them to scurry round with your list, get all your stuff, stick it on a van, deliver it to you and pop it in your house all for about £2 (while you have time to do something else). Which I a bit like wiggle!

 

[Tin Pot]

If they could introduce some sort of customer recognition, so that the staff don't have to vouch for my age when buying alcohol, that would be good. Fingerprint and or iris recognition would do.

Ha ha ha! Hilarious!

 

[Durian]

I don't bother with supermarkets, the stuff I buy in Threshers gives me all the vitamins and nutrients I need.

 

[Tin Pot]

I prefer the self-service checkouts, because I can pack the grocery items the way they should be packed. If you hand your shopping over to a real person, they're...

It' OUTRAGEOUS that supermarket workers are having their skilled labour UNDERMINED and TRIVIALISED by employing the customer to do their jobs. This is pseudofascism at its worst! In my day we had to fight against lowering wages, outsourcing jobs to India, illegal immigrants - ALL taking our jobs away from us, it is sick to find a way to have customers taking our jobs too!!

Where is Comrade Crow when we need him most?

 

[MontyVeda]

Might I suggest that horse has well and truly bolted? Remember when you used to have to visit half a dozen different shops and stand at a counter reading a list whilst an assistant scurried around fetching things?

Hmmm

A bit like local bike shops really.

I still shop around because it suits my pocket... butter is often cheaper in my Tesco Metro than it is in Iceland, but Iceland is better for frozen stuff.... fruit and veg is crap in all supermarkets so I get that from a proper greengrocer on the street market, my meat comes from a proper butcher, not a supermarket and my cheese usually comes from M&S don't you know... in fact, i only pop down to the supermarket every month or two for things like sugar and crisps and rollmop herring.

 

[marknotgeorge]

The machines they used to have in Asda asked for payment between each coin. I used to amuse myself thinking up blood curdling alternatives:

Insert money, or the kitten gets it.
Isn't you mum looking peaky? Insert money.
Loyalty card accepted. I now know who you are and where you live. Insert money, there's a good chap...

 

[MisterStan]

I still shop around because it suits my pocket... butter is often cheaper in my Tesco Metro than it is in Iceland, but Iceland is better for frozen stuff.... fruit and veg is crap in all supermarkets so I get that from a proper greengrocer on the street market, my meat comes from a proper butcher, not a supermarket and my cheese usually comes from M&S don't you know... in fact, i only pop down to the supermarket every month or two for things like sugar and crisps and rollmop herring.

Not have a fishmongers near you?

 

[MontyVeda]

yes, it's next to the butcher, but they appear to do rollmop herring