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When are Asda ever going to get granted a second or new style exit/entrance to their car park. Would like to support my local Accrington branch, but sooo much easier to go to Burnley/Blackburn and, petrol apart, just as quick at peak periods.

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The way the shelves are at the moment they won't need the car park they've got now for much longer. Went last night and it was disgusting, ended up going to Tesco this morning too.

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I was in earlier and the traffic was awful trying to get off.

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we walked it,its easier on a sat and thats the reason, we go tesco at blackburn for the main shop,like sara says we find it easier.

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i do my shopping at asda durihg the week, im lucky being retired i can shop when i want, but xmas shopping is done early mornings ie: 2am or 3am...... no fighting to get off carpark........... but if i want to fill my freezer i go to iceland they deliver free so much easier.

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We don't bother with Asda Accrington, they're always running out of stuff especially the baby milk.

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Sounds like the place is going down hill faster than a runaway wagon. Our asda is a covered carpark and unless you are very brave or very stupid it s best avoided. As for whats on or not as the case may be the shelves then peoplle will go elseware especially if entry and exit are easier. If Accy lost the Asda what would be left?
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I think Asda is a victim of its own success in one respect. It's cheap and has a huge stock so people started going to it - then it got overcrowded and the shelves empty too fast. Hope it sorts itself out because it would be a shame for them to pull out of the town!

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had the misfortune to drive on this afternoon,couldn't be avoided unfortunately it was worse than driving away from the millenium stadium.lol

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I visited yesterday afternoon, and have to say that I have no problems with the place at all. If I can find anything to moan about at all, it's the fact that I don't have enough money to spend in there. We bought a wonderful wool rug for the front room, and hopefully next week we'll get another different one for the bedroom. As for the clothes, some really good things in at present.

I really like the small change converter thing that they've got in there. What a clever idea that thing is!

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Asda will never pull out of accrington. they'll build a bigger and better store there or somewhere else like they are doing in rawtenstall. that will be quite a big two level shop and car park when completed

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accy asda has gone so far down hill i barely bother with it now

the shelves are always empty especialy the bread isles and to be honest i can no longer do a one stop shop which is the idea of a supermarket because i find that i have to go into town to get the things that asda should have in stock

now i can drive i will be trying out morrisons or tescos

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Mainly go to Morrissons at Nelson and rarely go into Asda for all the reasons stated above, empty shelves, access and egress road but called in the other day for one or two things and when coming out noticed a card up on the 'customers comments' section of the notice board, all it said was; "It's no use being open 24hours if the shelves are empty" which I thought was very succinct and to the point.

Have tried all sorts of times to go and have found 2am ish is best but on the ocassions that we've been in at that time there's often empty bread shelves and empty milk shelves.

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yeah i agree with most of you asda in accrington is going down hill but i have shopped in Blackburn for years and that asda is worst for running out of things. Asda at colne is very good i know its a trek but its worth it.

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Yes they never have blue Cow & Gate for hungrier little monsters do they? We tend to do Asda or Tesco online, so much easier and usually get at least £10 off with the various codes around!!..........I reallly hate going shopping, unless its for something nice like new toys!!

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So it's only me then that has no bother wot so ever with Asda Accy. I consider it a joy to go food shopping. There is only me to cater for though!

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but bananas , cucumber and a jar of squirty cream is hardly a blanced diet is it..?

a lot of fun yes but a stable diet NO :eek:

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Not noticed you knocking it tho.........

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I will try not to knock the Asda down there as a did visit it a few times while I was down and its heaven compared to the pokey one we have in Falkirk.

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The new one will be open in rawtenstall soon. Perhaps after they open that they will double deck yours if thats possible.

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I use Asda every month - I buy things there to bring back to London because it's so much cheaper - whisky, coffee, pasta, etc. End up coming back with a trolley load. However, I do admit I have had difficulty getting in and out of the car park at busy times. There is a case for making a new exit road into Electricity Street to relieve the congestion at the main exit, but then you might well have to have a set of lights at that junction as well for times of heavy traffic. Simplest thing is to go early morning.

(P.S. I rarely buy milk, because we both drink our tea without, and himself drinks his coffee black - but I find Ossy General Stores great for both, and just at the end of the road.)

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I've only been to Accy Asda once or twice.. But I know why.
Rossendale Asda is much more orginised, and the exits/entrances to the car parks are a lot better.

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hi, i dont have much problems with getting in or out of car park goods no pobs either i go different times a week

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they have supermarkets in Falkirk?:confused: the one we have though its taken em 20 yrs to improve the entrance/exit and they haven't why they could not have separate exit at electricity street the lord only knows. but still cannot get over Falkirk having a supermarket.:D

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I have contacted Asda and am waiting for a reply to this thread.

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I tend not to use ASDA in Accrington either. If anybody wants to contact them, i've posted their customer services site link below.

http://www.asda.co.uk/asda_corp/cust...ontact_us.html

:D

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well i could not agree with you more asda at accrington as gone more hard work now they have re vamp,t it but yet you try to get in the car park is hard work now than what it use t to be and the price,s of the food as gone up as well thats why i have gone back doing my shopping at morrisons at blackburn

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Not having a go at anyone but...

Getting into the car park hard work? I mean come on guys how is that hard work.

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i do agree with you all on the amount of stock thay have but i would say the entrance is better now

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I think Asda car park has no way improved, like a lot of other people I think an exit onto Electricity st. would have been a vast improvement

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Asda carpark is horrendous and is definitely not an improvement. The speed humps are unnecessary and too high, it is difficult to reverse out of parking spaces. If you park at the Electricity St end you have to drive all of the way round the car park in order to get out. I would say that this new car park is far worse than the old one and I can imagine it being a nightmare at Xmas..

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I know when my hubby used to fish on the water near Asda the committee applied for a car park only to be told no way cause it would have to have the entrance/exit onto Hyndburn Road, so maybe this is why Asda's car park is the way it is.

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Nah, just send em all up Electricity Street and open the top end again! That'll confuse the out of towners. ;)

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From what I have been told asda applied for another entrance on elec st but were turned down!!! :rolleyes:

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Asda ( in its pre Walmart days ) obtained planning permission for an entrance/exit on Electricity Street.

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I've had to go to asda a couple of times over the last week - first time since the car park changes - NOT impressed! My little car really struggles with the bumps and no one seems to know which direction to drive in which is a bit dangerous.

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You can sod off, thats the way I walk home with my shopping and I don`t want to be dodging all you impatient drivers!

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The Asda carpark is a complete waste of time and effort. The layout must have been designed by a committee of 5 year olds, during their lunch break. It is so ill thought out!
I know people who now go to Tesco at Haslingden instesd of Accy Asda, purely on the basis of hassle free parking when they get there. Tha Asda have scored an own goal with this carpark layout.

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Having a long car, it has cut down considerably on the spaces I can fit into, and I now have to use about half a gallon of petrol to reach a decent sized space. The layout is total crap. Perhaps when the first head-on collision occurs, they might change it back.

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The new carpark layout is attrocious, obviusly the work of some overpaid desk jockey with no driving experience and no common sense. Why send everyone on the full tour on the way in when they could have gone in on the left and out on the right extending the 2 lanes for Left + straight, and turning right to ease exiting.

You people must rethink your driving though.

Reverse INTO parking spaces not out into the path of other motorists !!!!!


I`ll just make that VERY important point again

Reverse INTO parking spaces not out into the path of other motorists !!!!!

Too late now I reckon I don`t think they`ll change it again anytime soon cos for all us whingers on here they still have a carpark full of shoppers most daytimes.

Maybe it`s an American Idea.

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Hi Zero, I would normally agree with you about reversing into parking spaces, always do when in situations other than supermarket shopping .... you have to put your bags in the boot and impossible to do this if your boot is up someone else's bonnet, and can't get yer' trolley between the cars. This is one oversight I have always thought planners overlook, but all to do with how many cars you can get into a space of available land I suppose.

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sparks we must be related.;)

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Its a shame you shouted so loud with that statement. Kate is right, you have to park with your boot sticking out so you can load up. If you try parking backward and someone park's so close you can't open the hatchback.

All it needs is for people to chill out while driving around the car park. If you see someone wanting to pull out of a space then stop and let them. Drive slowly and carefully, it's a car park so is full of kiddies and people with trolleys that go where they want.

The old layout was worse. You had the silly roundabout that caused the problem. If you parked at the right hand side (looking from the road) you had 2 lanes going into a round about where people from the other side of the car park had right of way. You were totally at the mercy of other drivers letting you out when it was busy or you could be sat there all day. They have ditched the roundabout and made that long entry/exit road to give people somewhere to queue for the lights without blocking up the car park like before.

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Besides the car park being hard to negotiate, where's the footpaths? If i am not parked near the entrance i really struggle to get from one side of the car park to the other.

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must say when we got our asda refurb this year its turned out ok.. but the new layout of the car park is an absolute nightmare and dangerous nd im counting days before the accident waiting to happen

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Reversing into parking spaces is the CORRECT procedure and the cark park should have been designed with that in mind. (I do drive very slowly on there) Like you suggest sufficient walkways between cars to allow you to get to the boot with your trolley. I normally park in the family spaces so Reverse up to the path but the family spaces also seem to have been reduced in number and as someone`s pointed out to short for anything bigger than a smart car.

The roundabout was crap and dangerous with cars and shopping trolleys never knowing who was going where but they could have saved enough wasted car parking areas to make sufficient walkways by going in to the left and out from the right (from entering).

Someone find a plan of it and we`ll all have a go at redesigning it.

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Well, seems to be an extra planning application in for the car park (an afterthought ?) ... deposited 5th December '06.. 'alterations to existing customer car park and landscaping' ... so maybe gonna' get a few trees or grass areas to make your trips more pleasant :D

'Fraid if you wish to see a plan Zero will have to go down town to look at it ... HBC website not large enough as yet to accommodate the actual plans.

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I hate shopping - full stop. I use ASDA's home delivery service and it comes from the Clayton le Dale store. Because I am organised and have a freezer I can buy in every 2 or 3 weeks and get free delivery using an Asda credit card by spending over £99 each time (having fags on the bill helps, since i only feed me and the cat)
I used to have Tesco deliveries before that which came from Haslingden. Asda delivery service is not as good as Tesco. Often things are 'not in stock' and I dont allow substitutes, so a few times lately I have visited the store and came away feeling like a limp rag.
One advantage about shopping this way is the occaisional 'freebies' - items placed in your order by mistake. I once got £40 worth of free wine!!!. If you ring up and admit you have got them they say 'our mistake - keep it'

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Are those humps really necessary? They slow everything down but to an absolute crawl at time, they could be maybe a little lower or maybe longer, but not as high. Anything above 3mph your car just jerks up like you have a hit a ramp at 60mph

I always drive round the to the back since I always have, I once parked on the way in, in the first space I got to, wont make that mistake again!! Took forever to reverse out. No-one was kind enough to let me out either. http://images.pesfan.com/smilies/undecided.gif


On a side note, this is possibly one of the best smilies I have ever seen on an internet forum. :banlama:

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I do all my food shopping online too.I put my order on in the comfort of home without having to negotiate car parks,bad weather,kids putting stuff in the trolley that I didn't want etc and it is delivered in a specified time slot.I've never had a problem,never had anything out of date or squashed.If you did get something you weren't happy with you can just ring the number on your bill and they'll refund you but I've been doing it for 2 years and I've never had to do it.I've used Asda and Sainsbury's,I find it so much less stressful.

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I must admit when I was at Uni we did have Tesco Home Delivery which was awesome. Being students we could get deliveries at off-peak (i.e. cheaper) times. But I always forgot loads of stuff as I wasn't walking up the aisles and remembering what I needed/wanted as it walked through.

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now doing it online for me would work out cheaper cos i wouldnt be tempted to buy stuff i didnt need, which i always do when i go shopping

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Yeh, but think of all the gossiping in the aisles you would miss Flashy .. LOL

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lol i aint the gossip on accyweb ;)

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Good point.

I have some Malteaser Malt Drink in the cupboard which I bougt on a whim. I don't actually fancy it now when the initial amazment of a malteaser drink subsided.

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lol, i'm terrible for buying things i dont need, went to asda a few weeks ago and ended up coming home with 2 table lamps which i didnt need and a book that i wont ever read

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I use Tesco online, never tried Asda's online service, had the occasional problem but more often than not its ok. I too buy all sorts that I dont need everytime I go to the store, usually for the kids, or crisps and chocs. I like the car park at Asda and think the road layout is an improvement, its much easier getting on and off, the humps are a bit too high though.

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Have things improved , it used to be whenever you bought anything electrical , it came without a plug , you either had to buy one or go home and rummage thru a drawer to find one and hope it had a working fuse in it . Guess it goes back to the days when houses had big round pin/small round pin/ and square pin electrical outlets

:D :D :D

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I think most things come with a plug these days, I haven't bought anything that hasn't come with one anyway.:)

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Things usually come with moulded plugs these days which is a pain usually.

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I think theres not enough kid spaces in there, too many disabled!!

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I went to ASDA for the first time in ages tonight and amazingly they have removed some of the humps, even the one on the corner that no matter how you try you go over it at a funny angle.

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Just to crack your eggs they are ;)

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Accrington Asda is the busiest in this county to be honest, all because there was no competitor but now there is. Its Tesco and on the other side in the Arndale centre their could be a Sainsburies so competion is good choice/value for us. :D

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...Tesco and Sainsburys and online shopping are now big competitors to asda in accrington. We have used online tesco, sainsburys and asda shopping in the last few years, and sainsburys come out top for quality, price and customer service. Second, tesco and third asda. For the first time in about a year, i thought i'd give instore shopping a chance again and actually went in to asda in accrington. Like previous posts, several shelves I needed items off were empty, so I had to visit both aldi and farm foods as well....not exactly one stop supermarket shopping. Needless to say we are back to online sainsburys or tesco deliveries again now!

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Asdas accy car park is the worst designed i ever came across, only ever go there fer bits when we run out, i suspect "Ray Charles" was the planning officer.:rolleyes: use tesco n tesco online about equally.

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Sainsburys have given up the ghost on this one Acorn after Tesco's bid was looking a goer ... which is, in my opinion, sad. Was going to be attached to the Arndale centre, and would have given a better alternative to Asda, and chance of income to other traders in town than **** Tesco.

Been around lots of car parks then Cashy ? I think Asda's car park is much improved now. The only issue I have is, when you are exiting the petrol station to get in that right hand lane to turn right at the lights down Hyndburn Road, when busy, are reliant on some kind motorist letting you out.

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:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38::rofl38: much improved my left buttock.:rolleyes:

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they built accrington asdas car park to be in keeping with accringtons one way system which was incidently designed by a guy with not so much as a provisonal licence and no driving experience what so ever but for some reason he wasnt sacked as he shoudl have been but relocated to blackburn where he proceeded to screw up their towns traffic system as well:rolleyes:

teh speedbumps at asda are a total disgrace and to be frank no supermarket shoud have them because if people didnt wander around aimlessley with tehir head up their arses and used the routes set out with zebra crossing they would reduce teh chances of been hit by a car considerably

also big sharp pointy spikes that pop tyres when somone goes teh wrong way down teh one way sytem on asda carpark would be a good idea because some idiots seem to think it ok to nip teh wrong way down teh road to save 5 seconds of precious time oh and while were at it those lazy bastards that leave their trollys abondoned in the carpark should be given 1 warning then banned from the store if caught doing it again



i think thats all for now

yup it is :D

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people not in control of tehir kids to be imidiatly evicted from teh store :)

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I don't think it would have helped out the town centre much if at all. When I go supermarket shopping that is all I do. I don't go and fill up the car and then want a walk around the shops after.

Maybe a yellow box would help at the exit but I think many people would ignore it. Maybe they could put extra traffic lights just before the petrol exit. Then cars would have to stop before the exit and those getting petrol could come out and stop at the current lights - I suppose some ignorant idiots would drive through the petrol bit to get in front of a few cars though. Trouble is many traffic systems rely on the general public being considerate - unfortunately quite a few drivers are ignorant idiots (me included sometimes).

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You often find people are promoted to a level where they can go no further up in a business. This often means that people end up in a job they are naff at and get stuck there as they are not good enough to move any further. I believe this happens in public sector jobs like Councils more than in the real world - my place recently let go a chap who was second in command.

Maybe this chap was moved sideways to Blackburn because he had reached his dead weight position :D

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Kind motorist letting you out kate, we're back to big smiles and fluttering eyelashes again:D:rolleyes:

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Actually, was a lady who let me out last week Jaysay ... :p
Fluttering eyelashes just do not work on a man behind a wheel. :rolleyes:

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They'd work on me kate:D:D

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They should demolish ASDA Accrington and build a bigger store like they did in Rawtenstall.

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Why

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Exactly

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Because it is in bad shape.

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Evidence? - links, photos, audited accounts.
If not supplied - it aint true:rolleyes:

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So endeth the lesson, from today's Happy Shopper.

It also makes rather a mockery, that some of our councillors would have us believe, who were given a million pound bung, in exchange for passing plans for a centrally located superstore, that siting a supermarket in a town centre has a positive knock-on effect for already existing businesses.

Just been on the news, Tesco's profits announced as being up to £3.89 billion, and that they have very nearly a 25% share of all UK sales.

Talking to the butchers in the Market Hall today, that's a slightly higher rise than their current profits.

Not much of the million pound planning bung left now.

Still, we have a bit of nice bunting fluttering from the Town Hall...as the tumbleweed blows past Accy's many empty shops.

Well done.

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By the way Neil, nothing personal.

You are in the majority.

Still doesn't affect my dislike of town centre superstores though.

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I much preferred the old car park as there was actually more space and no meandering entrance road.

As for knocking it down and building a bigger one.....I'm sorry?

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Well Ken Moss, it was built in the 1980's and has a bad layout (etc old floor and old pipes),

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You're right, it's awful.

Sometimes I just long for a supermarket with newer pipes, it consumes my every waking moment as I trawl the aisles for my powdered egg and Spam.

As for the floor, ooh don't get me started.....it's just so level.

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It is full of toxic smells and angry people - best avoided

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the cafe is rubbish