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Neil said:
Nope, I will buy them because it does not bother me. Why should it?
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I totally agree. It has never bothered me at all. I was brought up right. If my mother can come with me to buy condoms (when I was very much younger) why should it bother me to buy sanitary products for women?
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Going back to thread. I have found a brilliant way to get round Asda, complete with trolley.Wait till about 8pm, that way the refreshment dept is still open but spend 6 till 7.55 in the pub. People look at you strange when you crash into their trolley but soon back off when they smell the booze. hehe. :beer58:
 
Supermarkets are an evil necessity and I suffer them with British stoicism.

It all starts in the car park. There is rarely a disabled parking space because some are taken up by vehicles not displaying the blue badge. The Blackburn Asda at Grimshaw Park has ATM machines near the disabled parking. “I’ll only be a minute” is the response that I sometimes get when reminding the illegally parked driver. Most times it is usually some uncomplimentary remark ranging from “Mind your own business” to “Go and occupy the cemetery you old goat”. In spite of many letters to the Asda management they will not go out and tell the offender to remove the car. All they do is put a piddling little flier on the windscreen but only when reminded of the offending vehicle. I have my own, which are much more to the point and highly visible to passers by.

Inside I suddenly become invisible and take my life in my hands, as trolley pushers are never looking where they are going because she has seen something on a shelf that she might want to look at or wonders if she should buy it. If she doesn’t crash into my ankles, she stops with the trolley across the aisle practically daring someone to push past. People charge out of aisles into the main thoroughfare without looking. “Sorry I didn’t see you” is a frequent response as the collision sends me spinning out of control down the aisle. OF COURSE YOU DIDN'T SEE ME, YOU WEREN'T LOOKING WHERE YOU WERE GOING! I wonder if they drive their cars in the same way?

If I see two people having a natter and almost blocking the aisle a “If you moved this trolley a bit further this way, no one can get past” is a comment that brings some strange responses.

Why can’t I buy just two teacakes any more? Now it is packs of 4 or more. BUT I ONLY WANT TWO!!! Packets of bacon or cooked meat are rarely in packs of less than 10 rashers/slices. Supermarkets are not geared for the single person.

Bread! First of all the shelf stackers ram the loves into the shelves with scant regard and in doing so squash the fresh loaf, which stays squashed. Why can’t they leave the bread on the trays that they were delivered in, like they used to? Of course that day’s delivery is always at the back. If I can actually find a fresh loaf and it hasn’t been squeezed to a pulp then the checkout girl grabs it around the middle and what I get is slices of bread with an hourglass figure. “Please don’t squeeze the loaf” to checkout girl usually brings the response “Pardon!” or she looks at me with a quizzical look as she grabs the loaf with one hand and crushes it whilst offering it up to be scanned.

Own brand products are tasteless rubbish with precious few branded goods around any more.

Packing? They haven’t a clue as tins of this and that get dumped on top of squashable items. I won’t let them pack my shopping.

Finally, IF I have managed to find a disabled parking place I find that some clown has parked across my exit point as he stands in the queue waiting his turn at the ATM.

As I said - Supermarkets are an evil necessity and I suffer them with British stoicism.
 
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I hate supermarkets but as Jambutty says, they are a necessary evil. I try to go first thing in the morning. 7am during the week is a good time, you're in and out in half an hour. Christmas is definitely the worst time to go. Accrington Asda car park is a nightmare at Christmas with the pathetic traffic management measures which the staff like to put in place. They need 2 exits. I hate it when people who have all the time in the world block the aisles with their trolleys while they have a nice long chat. Supermarket shopping has turned me into a very rude person and I have bashed trolleys out of the way with my own trolley and carried on walking before now, but it does serve them right for ignoring my "excuse me please." I too find it difficult to buy things in small quantities and because of this, probably a third of all the food I buy gets wasted... I'm supposed to be going to Asda today, but quite frankly I can't be bothered....

Hehehehe, I think my tea may be courtesy of the Akash tonight..:D
 
jambutty said:
Supermarkets are an evil necessity and I suffer them with British stoicism.

Why can’t I buy just two teacakes any more? Now it is packs of 4 or more. BUT I ONLY WANT TWO!!! Packets of bacon or cooked meat are rarely in packs of less than 10 rashers/slices. Supermarkets are not geared for the single person.
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No they're not an evil necessity, we choose to visit them for convienence.

The high streets are awash with shops were there used to be the small independents, we now find them all under one roof at the supermarket.

However there are still some, and I tend to use them.

At my families bakery you can buy just one teacake if you so desire, and there is wheelchair access for all except the largest of scooters, when the assistants will come outside to serve you.

I don't think my Mum would let you sqeeze her teacakes though, but after sixty years of baking them I can assure you they will be fresh.

No squeezing then, but my Mum usually has the shopfull of people in stitches, and the caberet comess free.;)
 
I better say after reading through my post, my Mum hasn't been baking them for sixty years, before she lamps me, and people think she's older than she is!!!
 
garinda said:
I don't think my Mum would let you sqeeze her teacakes though, but after sixty years of baking them I can assure you they will be fresh.
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sorry garinda but after 60 years they MUST be out of there sell by date and not too fresh
 
I don't know if I should put this, but I'm sure I'll be informed if it's against the rules.

Martins the Bakers, 325 Union Rd., Ossy, opposite the Royal Oak pub.
 
i can vouch for the caberet in rindys mum shop he he ............... as for supermarkets ........got it off to a t i just in a very loud voice say "excuse me please" (i used to be a waitress) & if they dont move just nudge my trolley to catch there ankles, they move . & i give them one of my famous looks & THEY blush not me . im a tar tar with a trolley so keep out my way when in asda he he he
 
I hate supermarket shopping every week me and daddinboo end up ranting at each other!!

And i dont know why they bother with parent and child parking what is the point of putting in about 4 of these spaces when they are going to be taken up by either people who clearly dont have any child with them or disabled people who put their badge in the window instead of parking in their allocated spaces which are usually closer any way!!!

And if i dont hear anyone saying excuse me its usually because i am too buzy telling my son who is sitting in the trolly to sit still and stop putting stuff in the trolly or trying to find my daughter who is usually in a world of her own usually fairy land and she has gone dancing off!! i hate it and i know he hates it and i know the kids hates it but it must be done.

squashed bread pah im usually lucky if there is any bread left no matter what time of day we go there never seems to be any left and we still have to stop at the spar to get after all that.

What a Nightmare.
 
i hated shopping with my kids when they were little, i well remember asda first opening on blackburn rd accy......... why did they always put the sweeties on the lower shelves, trolley full of unwanted toffe's then screaming kids when you put them back............. really glad they are older now, i do feel for young mums though .......its a nightmare.
 
Neil said:
Nope, I will buy them because it does not bother me. Why should it?
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My hubby is exactly the same as you neil...............many a time I have been caught out and sent him to the shop for these kind of things, he couldn't give a damn.
He will walk round the spar wqith them in his hand and it just never gives him any reason to feel awkward.
I think more men are like this these days. My dads era wouldn't be seen dead with anything like this, even talking about it sent him into a blushing, quivering mess. Which used to come in handy when me and tinks were teenagers, to get money out of him all you had to say was "dad can I have some money??'' dad would say "what for??" we would reply " ladys things dad" well his hand would be in his pocket, pulling money out left right and centre. I'm sure he knew we were liers because no woman has 5 periods in a month, lmao.:D But rather than stand there arguing about it with us, he would just throw the money at us, so he didn't have to have a coversation about it with his teenage daughters.:D
 
I think it is a generational thing. My Dad used to say they shouldn't be advertised on tv, how daft is that? It's just another product that most women will have used at some stage of their lives.

Wish I'd have thought to ask my Dad for pocket money for 'lady' things, I could have bought some washing up gloves!!!

J O K I N G ! ;)
 
garinda said:
I think it is a generational thing. My Dad used to say they shouldn't be advertised on tv, how daft is that? It's just another product that most women will have used at some stage of their lives.

Wish I'd have thought to ask my Dad for pocket money for 'lady' things, I could have bought some washing up gloves!!!

J O K I N G ! ;)
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Lmao rindy:Banane20: :rofl38: :rofl38:
 
im all for the small shops as we have a family business that has been running for about 20 years in my family!!! its a convenience store and we dont let people say the four letter swear words in our shop (asda, spar) lol
 
I dont mind shopping if I go alone.
If we go together from start to finish all we do is argue.
Then we end up not speaking for days.
It's my worse nightmare when he say's those dreaded words.
"I think I'l come with you."
MUMMIBOO's right Asda and Our lovely Grand-Daughter just do not mix.
It has never bothered Mick going to the shop for any personal items I may need.
 
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