cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Mrs CK works at morrisons so we get 10 % discount and she does it after she finishes work 
Saturday supermarket shopping..
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XmisterIS
Purveyor of fine nonsense
Ah! Now then, I thought I would be in and out in a flash the first time I went ... but it is a seductive place and I've been back twice since my first visit! Plus, they have a Swedish supermarket where you can buy lots of incredibly nice Swedish food, including smoked reindeer and gravadlax! The cheese is gorgeous and they do umpteen different kinds of preserved fish. Then there's all the different kinds of Swedish dessert in the freezer ... I can see myself popping back regularly just to do some food shopping!
Spinney
Bimbleur extraordinaire
- Location
- Back up north
Yes - it's great having most of the riff raff penned up in Tesco/ASDA etc. As long as I don't have to do it!
You're having us on! I'll bet you got lost trying to follow the Yellow Brick Road, and ended up in the kiddies' play pit having a romp in a sea of plastic balls...
Actually I cannot tell a lie! I don't have much of a problem with our Tescos. At least they have decent cycle parking (this is not true of other Tescos) and are the 'right' distance from home: two miles, as much as we want to do in rain with heavy panniers. And they have quite a lot of reasonable stuff especially on the organics and deli shelves. And the check-out girls are rather nice (for some reason we always seem to end up on a queue with a pimply-faced youth, instead. Is this Mrs P's doing, I wonder? 
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What does irk me is the number of times Tescos are out-of-stock of something really essential, like, for instance, wholemeal flour or tomato puree. And the items they choose to discontinue altogether, I suppose because they're not economically viable - or so it seems, not viable at some branches but viable at other branches. Why? This is the reply I got when I complained about the discontinuing of two items we buy often: brown rice and dry red kidney beans (we now get those from Waitrose):
).What does irk me is the number of times Tescos are out-of-stock of something really essential, like, for instance, wholemeal flour or tomato puree. And the items they choose to discontinue altogether, I suppose because they're not economically viable - or so it seems, not viable at some branches but viable at other branches. Why? This is the reply I got when I complained about the discontinuing of two items we buy often: brown rice and dry red kidney beans (we now get those from Waitrose):
I must admit I couldn't be a***ed to follow it up. Waitrose will do for us.
XmisterIS
Purveyor of fine nonsense
I happen to like those plastic ball pits! I keep getting asked to leave by security though, last time I squashed two small children ...
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
The last time I was in a large supermarket at the weekend would have been 2004. I know I have a good memory, but even so, the occasion was so terrible that I could not contemplate doing it again.
Now I do most of the bulky household things on-line. Buying fresh meat and vegetables etc at the local shops. Bread and cakes are bought at a Baker's, milk is delivered three times a week in glass bottles. Two excellent Delicatessens provide the lovely cheeses, and sauces and condiments etc. The greengrocer also stocks a large selection of lovely biscuits, and jams and pickles etc, as well as cakes and puddings. Admittedly I need to drive in order to carry the food home, but shopping in small shops is much easier, from my point of view.
There is a large Asda in town for, in my case, extreme emergencies only, and a Tesco express for newspapers, magazines, and chocolatey items, or wine as there is no Off-licence here anymore.
Cat food, in the form of dry biscuits, is ordered from the local shops, and they deliver.
Now I do most of the bulky household things on-line. Buying fresh meat and vegetables etc at the local shops. Bread and cakes are bought at a Baker's, milk is delivered three times a week in glass bottles. Two excellent Delicatessens provide the lovely cheeses, and sauces and condiments etc. The greengrocer also stocks a large selection of lovely biscuits, and jams and pickles etc, as well as cakes and puddings. Admittedly I need to drive in order to carry the food home, but shopping in small shops is much easier, from my point of view.
There is a large Asda in town for, in my case, extreme emergencies only, and a Tesco express for newspapers, magazines, and chocolatey items, or wine as there is no Off-licence here anymore.
Cat food, in the form of dry biscuits, is ordered from the local shops, and they deliver.
It's not in Leeds .It's in Birstall Batley Wf 17 .I am fed up of pointing this out .Not Leeds .Batley Batley Batley Batley filthy crummy crappy Batley .
I have friends in Batley, and they say at least it's better than Meanwood.
ref the OP, I always try to shop on a midweek evening, you get the supermarket to yourself. Also a note to any single gentlemen around here, many single ladies shop in the evening and it makes for a great place to pick up, with the added bonus of seeing what is in their shopping basket.
Rice cakes and fat free flavourless gloop = keep walking
Vodka and cream cakes = don't make eye contact.
A nice Rioca and some quality steak = hello!
ref the OP, I always try to shop on a midweek evening, you get the supermarket to yourself. Also a note to any single gentlemen around here, many single ladies shop in the evening and it makes for a great place to pick up, with the added bonus of seeing what is in their shopping basket.
Rice cakes and fat free flavourless gloop = keep walking
Vodka and cream cakes = don't make eye contact.
A nice Rioca and some quality steak = hello!
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
This made me smile - I can't remember the last time I bought any wholemeal flour. Funny our various definitions of 'essential'.
Last week we discovered in a recycling box, that Waitrose do an 'Essential' tin of coconut cream.
Mind you, I found today that Sainsburys do a tub of 'Basics' Olives. Way more expensive than buying a big jar of Crespo ones in brine like I do, last me a month or more, and that's with putting half a dozen in my pasta sauce about 4 times a week.
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gbb
Legendary Member
- Location
- Peterborough
I have friends in Batley, and they say at least it's better than Meanwood.
ref the OP, I always try to shop on a midweek evening, you get the supermarket to yourself. Also a note to any single gentlemen around here, many single ladies shop in the evening and it makes for a great place to pick up, with the added bonus of seeing what is in their shopping basket.
Rice cakes and fat free flavourless gloop = keep walking
Vodka and cream cakes = don't make eye contact.
A nice Rioca and some quality steak = hello!
I can see it now.
.[terry thomas accent]...oh helllo..[/terry thomas accent]TBF...ive shopped on Wednesdays evenings for years now. You beat the people who get paid on Thursdays/Fridays and dont waste an ounce of the weekend in a supermarket. Thats what makes a trip at the weekend even more mindblowingly mindnumbing.
Downward
Guru
- Location
- West Midlands
Try doing it with 2 small children - Horrible. We try to do before 9am Sat or 10am Sunday when it's quiet.
biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
went yesterday 8.10 am and it was bliss any time after 9.15am and its hell
