Morrisons have just been DONE by Lidl!!! LOL

[phil_hg_uk]

That's fantastic.One of the best adverts I've seen for some time.
As an aside, on a recent interview it was suggested that one of the big four grocery supermarkets will go belly under over the next few years wonder which that will be.

I hope it is Tesco, they are trying to build a superstore here.

 

[andyfraser]

I'd never really had a problem with Tesco until I moved here. The Tesco Express at the end of my road is too small so doesn't have much stock, is expensive and often runs out of the only things I go in there for like bread, milk and sugar. Horrible place.

 

[MacB]

They sell XXXL Y-fronts Mac which might tempt you back to their store.

My life would be easier if every clothes shop had a section that said 'Oi Fat Blokes Over Here'

I mean they have whole shops to cater for the likes of you....Mothercare I think they are called

 

[ColinJ]

That's fine if you have wheeled cages on board, and a trailer with a tail-lift (most general haulage trailers don't), but normally you need a forklift to take pallets off your trailer, or a loading bay where someone can get a pallet truck into the back.
It's very unusual to have to go into a third party's warehouse to unload your trailer!

I did a summer job at a local factory in the mid-70s before going off to poly. The factory had been built at an angle tight up against a railway viaduct and as a result, we couldn't get a forklift in to unload the deliveries.

A typical load was 20 tonnes of plastic granules in 25 kg sacks, which 2 of us plus the hapless truck driver would have to unload by hand. The driver used to stand on the trailer and load 3 or 4 sacks at a time onto us, and then we would walk up some stairs and through the factory to the storage area, where we would dump them down, and then stroll back to get the next lot.

The foreman was a huge guy who could manage 4 sacks at a time - 100 kg! I tried it once and my legs started to give way walking up the stairs, so I stuck to 75 kg at a time. None of the sensible health & safety limits they have nowadays ...

 

[rich p]

My life would be easier if every clothes shop had a section that said 'Oi Fat Blokes Over Here'

I mean they have whole shops to cater for the likes of you....Mothercare I think they are called

I find the nappies useful for senile incontinence, right enough

 

[Lullabelle]

Unfortunately my local ASDA is very close and it's huge. They have far more choice than any other supermarket around here. The downside is it can get very crowded with the sort of people who have no idea that other people are actually in there with them and the sort of people who can't control their kids.

Sounds like our' local' ASDA, it is right on the edge of a council estate so it can be crowded with the great unwashed and that is just the staff

 

[Svendo]

One very good thing about the Morrisons round here (I suspect this is true of everywhere else) is the truly excellent variety of fruit and vegetables. As this is what tends to greet you on entering the store, expectations will be high but aren't maintained. OK, it's not Waitrose but the in-store bakery tends to be very good and the booze section is well spec-ed. Ready-meals though and the butchers sections are, in my opinion, not very good.

There, that's my 'trip-advisor' review of Morrison's.

That's somewhat ironic as Morrison's are the last big supermarket with it's own abattoir, one of which is in Colne.
I generally like Morrison's, although they are increasingly annoying me by discontinuing things I buy at the small Todmorden one (Own brand Worcestershire sauce, own brand bread flour, saver laundry liquid, pinto beans, all own brand shampoo but three bloody shelves of herbal essence, saver caramel wafers.) I do find the meat to be quite good, and always get good value on yellow stickered fish. They say they're trying to compete with the discount supermarkets but they're sending me to Lidl by not stocking the discount things I want.

 

[MacB]

I generally like Morrison's, although they are increasingly annoying me by discontinuing things

a bugbear of mine as well, they used to do the best razor blades going, twin blade, lasted well and gave a really good shave - but of course they had to move to triple blades and they aren't as good in any area, plus they cost more

 

[MacB]

I backed into a big 4x4 in the Asda car park in Merthyr Tydfil.

I knew you'd put on a bit of weight mate but that's going some

 

[EltonFrog]

Enjoy

 

[threebikesmcginty]

a bugbear of mine as well, they used to do the best razor blades going, twin blade, lasted well and gave a really good shave - but of course they had to move to triple blades and they aren't as good in any area, plus they cost more

When you say any area...

 

[Drago]

Do you think Fortnum and Mason will price match Lidl?

 

[DRM]

That's fine if you have wheeled cages on board, and a trailer with a tail-lift (most general haulage trailers don't), but normally you need a forklift to take pallets off your trailer, or a loading bay where someone can get a pallet truck into the back.
It's very unusual to have to go into a third party's warehouse to unload your trailer!

Also you need to pass a test to use a powered pallet truck, 30 seconds telling you that makes it go forward, that makes it go backwards and that's for up and down is wholly unacceptable, the H.S.E will have a field day when the enevitable accident happens.
Every business I've been in specifically ban contractors and visitors from using the fork trucks.

 

[PeteXXX]

I recently found out where Lidl make some of their cost savings - on warehouse staff. I was delivering some sugar (26 tonnes of it) into Lidl's distribution centre outside Glasgow.

Once you back onto the loading bay at "normal" places, you are not allowed into the back of your trailer or the warehouse, on H&S/security grounds. Fair enough. But not at Lidl; you have to unload your own trailer . You get a 30 second course on how to operate the linkspan to the trailer, and the electric pallet truck, then you're on your own. So much for H&S!

Similar issue at a Daventry depot for lildi/addle. If you say you're not trained on MHE they give you a pump truck. The disclaimer form is signed by every Disney cartoon character under the sun..