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Customer services shuts at 10pm, so no refunds or help after 10pm.

and

They couldnt sell me a camera i wanted cause nobody has the keys for the cupboard they are in at night. Got told to come tomorrow....


24 Hours shopping .....Pull The Other One !


If you are in the ASDA in the morning, im the short dumpy one kicking off at customer services.:eek: , Ill be wanting my £1 smiley Voucher :D for my diesel costs !

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You might need these

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lol, well they should put a sign up on the photo booth saying " CLOSED, NOW FEK OFF TILL THE MORNIN' " :rolleyes:

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I had the same grumble at the chicken roasting counter the other night - they don't do them 24 hrs either! We were late, we were tired, we were hungry, and didn't want the hassle of cooking! Grr!:mad:

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Yeah but how many people want chicken at 3am?? they have to Pre-cook them! and they would go to waste.

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Think of all the peeps doing late night shopping for christmas for their partners ....they not be able to buy electrical goods, jewellry etc.

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I get it now...the little gnome who makes the camera had gone back to lapland for the night ......silly me should have known. :D

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:D It wasn't that late. It was about 8:30pm. We'd just come back from a "Futures Evening" at school.

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Oh ok lol I misunderstood hehe!! I thought you and busman had just been on a chicken rampage now. :D

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:D the mind boggles

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maybe that was a stroke of luck willow,we used to get them chickens regular,until about 8/9 months ago and both of us were poorly after eating one,believe me i wouldn,t wish it on anybody even a dingle.:D

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Maybe we had a lucky escape then. :D

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Oy Buggerlugs leaves us Dingles alone :p

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earlier this year i exchanged a dvd player at 3 am in teh morning at accrington asda

me thinks teh staff were takin the pee out of you

which asda store were you at because as far as i know accy store still shuts at 10pm and has not yet resumed 24hr shopping but i may be wrong

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:rofl38: :rofl38: :rofl38: pmfl thats so funny u definately have my humour lol:D

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Hang on have I lost the plot here or something?

8.30pm how many people ask for chickens or cameras?

Come on guys, they are a business! How financially viable is it to open that counter JUST incase you might pass?

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well she shoudl give it back i much prefered you when you were funny :D

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I thought that was the fairys :p

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LOl well the saying to that is u can have too much of a good thing tho:D

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I'm gonna give you such a kick in the nuts you'll wish you never crossed a fairy ......... never mind me ;) :D

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iem sure garinda can stick up for himself :D

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Yeah right............:D

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Beautiful.....................:D :D :D

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well hes not my cup of tea but i will inform him hes has an admirer :eek:

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LOL! You'll have his arsed covered if he can't



............ OH FFS I don't believe you made me say that :o

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Bast***........:D :D :D

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pmsl :D :D :D

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Can see some posts being deleted :D Sooner the chatroom is back the sooner the posts get cleaner! :D

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It was fine until that Belle bird came in..............:D

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is it 24hr in asda in accy now

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Accrington store, its back to 24 hours shopping now.
Ive spoken to the day manager today and she agrees, anybody wanting to come in at night to buy christmas stuff like cameras should be sold them. I told her the camera was an xmas gift for my partner, who was at home babysitting the kids :D :D :D and it was the sort of thing i cant buy with the kids with me as they would tell "daddy" what i had bought for him .... :D :D :D . Porkies galore...lol.

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Yep they've got a great big sign outside saying 24 hour and even mention photographic section under the big red '24' sign.

What's wrong with wanting a chicken at 8:30pm? If the deli and roast is open there should be stuff on there for buying - especially when you've got a hungry kid to feed!

If they don't want to sell you things at 8:30pm then they shouldn't advertise that they do.

Maybe they'll get the hang of this 24hr business in a bit.:D

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I 'm not happy with ASDA either there are too many Humps, all the way round Humps when you go in. Humps when you're going out. I know you have to drive slow but good gracious me! does'nt do our cars much good does it? I think I shall shop elsewhere. I have now got the HUMP!!!!

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I don't suppose I could interest you in a 'Humty Dumpty' game for Christmas, thindle.

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weh hey! sounds exciting, much better than the Hummmmps around ASDA:Banane34::Banane01:

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whoever designed that carpark needs shooting, I don't think they could actually make it any worse if they tried!

I'll stick to Tesco at hassy thanks

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Well, I actually went to Accy Asda t'other week and cannot agree .. 'tis much better than it was ... at least you have only one way to go in and one way to come out and saves the hold up at the roundabout they had there, that was the problem, at least you know you can keep moving.

Also, I think the re-designed store is great. Met a friend in there who was slightly confused and commented she hated change .. well, I thought was much better and may now stop going to Burnley/Blackburn, will only take a couple of more visits to suss it out.

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I have to disagree with you there. The problem wasn't the roundabout, the problem is still there and its the traffic lights for turning right. Because you don't have right of way and have to wait for all the cars coming from Blackburn Road. Your lucky if you can get one car out at a time. They really need a filter light on there.

But i do agree with you about inside, I really like the new look. Also George is much bigger which is great.

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Yeh, Lolly have to agree re. the lights, but one step at a time I suppose .. just I went at a time I used to go when couldn't get off for at least 20 minutes and was hassle free. Maybe putting a filter to turn right longer could be the answer.

As for the humps Busman, you should know better ... :D they are not too high and do work to slow people down for safety .. just that you are driving
your car I suppose and not a large coach, which hardly feels a twinge.. :p

Whoops sorry, was Thindle that was grousing about these, apologies Busman.. tee hee.

What happened to the facility whereby you could still read the threads when entering one yerself ?

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I usually go asda early morning approx 6am the other week the assistant on the cooked meat section had just finished putting her shop in order, so to speak, and when I asked for some she said with a great yawn "sorry not open yet" I am rapidly falling out with the place.

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Suppose they should state, 'not all services available'. Understand not viable to offer some of these 24 hours, like not much fresh veg., on a Sunday. Has always rattled me, but Jimmy4bellies experience on electrics seems a little unwise. Have they opened the pharmicist yet ? Can't see this being open 24 hours either .. not an easy task to get qualified people to work a night shift.

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But they actually advertise the pharmacy as being 24 hours. :idunno:

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OK, maybe will be open then.

Don't know why you couldn't get cooked chicken either Willow at 8.30 p.m., that's the time lots of us go out for meals after all, and think could do quite well from people coing back from a day out.

Perhaps some management from AccyAsda will read this and take note. Wouldn't surprise me, as they are probably still on a learning curve with this, so let's give them a chance, eh ?

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I'm finding it hard getting used to the changes but if they now leave things alone it will get better. But will they?

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I think once we've got used to where things are it won't be so bad - but then they'll probably change it all round just to keep us on our toes. ;)

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Pharmacy is open till 11 weeknights and then obviously till closing on Sat night and Sunday teatime.

As willow said, the flow of the carpark seems all wrong, they sort of let you in, you all fan out for teh first bit then are bottlenecked back together and only one route in/out for what must be >66% of the carpark. With People reversing out of spaces holding everyone up.

Still, I'll continue to park on electricity street and walk teh hundred yards or so, that way I can get out quickly and easily

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Why oh why do people on here moan about this? Its not bloody hard to drive into a car park and out is it? And so what if they could have got you out 3 seconds quicker its not like your all in a massive rush now is it. Its a store that they will run as they see fit and no amount of posts on here along the lines of "oh no i find it hard to understand the new car park" or " i cant find the beans" etc will make any difference.

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Oh dont get me wrong im not like that at all and if you knew me off here then im sure you would agree. On the point of the elderly bus service maybe they could have made a stop at the top of i thinkits electricity street. So that the elderly only need to walk along the front. Not great but better i think. And on the subject of reversing out into traffic. We had to do that before like nearly all car parks. And all they would say on the 24 hour service is that you can still buy items all day, maybe not all items but most. Not sticking up for them just saying what they would.

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I wonder if any of you lazy lot have ever considered avoiding the traffic problems and walking to and from ASDA?

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If god had wanted me to walk he wouldnt have invented the vauxhall corsa.

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If god had wanted me to drive a decent motor car, he wouldn't have invented it either.

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It is decent and does me fine thanks for my daily needs. What car do you have?

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Aston-Martin DB9

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I was waiting for a silly reply. So what in your opinion makes the corsa not a decent car?

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I'm not on about the disabled, I'm talking about those people who areperfectly capable of walking into the town centre or ASDA and walking back with their shopping, several times a week if need be. It's called exercise.

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Bloomin heck Mr T, a lot of people do their main weakly shopping there. It would take me about 4 trips in a day there and back if I had to walk. I only have 1 pair of hands ;)

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But that would make me hungry and then I'd have to buy extra food and that would mean extra transportation of goods and that would mean more wagons on the roads and that would mean more exploitation of the farmers/food suppliers by WalMart and its ilk and thats bad so I'll just drive thanks :D

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Tealeaf you havent answered my question about corsa's.

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Its got a vauxhall badge on the front for a start, no decent size engine option, its made from tinfoil, its horrible to drive. its a magnet for additional pieces of plastic, neon lights seem to weld themselves to the underneath and no-one seems able to fit a decent stereo system that isn't distorting the sound till its sounds like a cello blowing raspberries. :D

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Corsas are garbage. Are you happy now?

Lets get back to the main subject, namely that of ASDA. Personally, I try and avoid the place as much as possible. I would much rather put money into the pockets of the small Accrington stallholder than those of the bloated fat-cats of the Walmart Corporation of America. At the same time, I dispense with all the unneccessary wrapping & packing and thus try and reduce the cost of garbage collection within HBC. I also walk into town, and depending on the load, walk back or catch a thing called a bus, thus further helping to protect the environment.

No wonder Accy has one of the country's highest obesity rates with attitudes such as those posted on here.

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Right, buses in Hyndburn

If I'm lucky they are every 30 mins or so to town from where I live then its about 10 mins walk to asda, so to do a full shop I could end up with 5 mins walk to bus stop, up to 30 mins wait at one end, 10 mins to town, 10 mins walk, 60 mins shopping, carrying 3 ton of shopping back to bus station(15 mins), wait for bus again, probably 10-15 mins, 10 mins bus ride, 5 mins walk to my house.

or jump in car, 10 mins there (oh and I can choose which supermarket, Tescos would be even longer by bus), 60 mins shop, put stuff in car and 10 mins home.

Now I like to support local traders where possible and much prefer shopping on markets and taking my hypothetical asda shop detailed above, I can goto Bury market and do it all there quicker than catching a bus to asda. which is preferable then, using my car to support local traders(oh and teh quality of goods is far superior on Bury market) or trying to be green by using public transport to shop at WALMart.(BTW, my car is far greener than most being LPG)

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The reason "I'm all right" is that I make an effort and walk around the market to buy most items that are otherwise available at ASDA. The last time I looked, the bus station was right next door to the market, so I cannot see any excuse there.

Aside from the issues of choice and mobility, I really do not see any other reason for people to shop in ASDA. The quality of their fresh produce - veg, fruit, meat, fish is rubbish and possibly their only saving grace is their cheap clothes range. Still, waste your money there if you wish, but don't complain when you do.

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Whats wrong with having that attitude? Its not our problem old people cant walk far is it. When i become like that i will get one of those little scooter thingys.

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Accy 'market' is quite simply rubbish.

Bury market is a different league

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Which proves my point exactly - this is what happens when local people do not support their local market. Still, I prefer to use what's left than to shop in ASDA.

Its quite a while since I visited Bury market. I think I'll give it a try this Christmas.

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I know they aint cheap willow but not my problem

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I have a feeling you'l;l love it and then Accy market is truely doomed

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Have you tried walking across Asda carpark lately. Not enough pedestrian areas. I can barely make it to my car never mind all the way across. You've got to try and manoevre your trolley between the cars, which are parked to close together ( I blame the white lines).:eek:

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moan moan moan

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Can somebody please post the definition of irony :confused:

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hello there to tell you the truth i used asda my self at accrington but like you say its gone down now they have changed it i now do my shopping at blackburn and its a lot better but i dont think they will put the accrington asda back as it was (thats there loss )

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A manager has rang me about my complaint. They say if you want any camera's or camera related stuff they cant sell after 8.30pm. They say the reason for this is the till on the camera stall prints your guarantee. Well looking at my printout on my receipt when i went back the day after, its just like any other checkout receipt.
What a load of bull.:eek:
I dread the carpark layout come christmas week :mad: , i guess this christmas will let ASDA know if all the money they spent on the changes to it is going to work.

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If Asda is so bad why don't all you whingers take your business elsewhere?

If that's the sort of bull**** you feed them why do you expect them to treat you any better ? They've heard it all before.

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Because i wanted the camera there and then as thats what i had gone for ! why should i have to make a return trip when its advertised as 24 hours.

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as asda is virtually on my doorstep, i still only use it in emergency sorry katex its crap, the carpark is WORSE than it ever was and as for 1 thing at a time pmsl its took 20 bloody years to make it worse- i aint got that long left. on a brighter note tried tesco at dingleland on monday for the first time, excellent wide isles so you can move around,under cover carpark so you dont get pi** wet through when it rains, enough space between the checkout tills,got to hold me hands up the dingletesco wins hands down.;)

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About the only thing in burnley that is any good

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I agree with Jimmi & Willow. If it says 24 hours then unless it states somewhere that some services will not be avaliable then it should be. I'm pretty sure that nowhere does it say all services will not be avaliable. I once went on my way home from work at 2am and wanted some ciggies, the kiosk was closed so i went to customer services and asked if it was possible to get some, the lad there sighed and rolled his eyes and stomped over to the kiosk and slammed my fags down on the counter. To be honest i'd have prefered someone nice saying "No, sorry the kiosk isn't open at night" They should state what is open and what isn't at certain times.