Aarghh!! Sainsbury's - a rant.

[Allan Carr]

We've got a mere 18 for Christmas lunch. The first trip to Sainsbury's on Tuesday ran up a bill of £245 and we haven't got everything yet! Not sure how I'm going to be able to afford diving next year.

[calski]

The thing that amazes me about the supermarkets and people in general, is that whenever the supermarkets close, whether it's for a bank holiday or Christmas, people panic buy! You see them in the aisles, 14 loaves, 1 to eat and 13 to stick in the freezer... they lose all sense of proportion as some primitive part of the brain starts saying:

"Horde as much milk as possible... the shop is closed for 24 hours... thats x amount of tea... x amount of coffee... and if you run out, what will you do?"

It's almost as though these crazy people think that because the supermarket is closing for a day, or at worst, two days, they're never going to open again!!!

Right, I'm off to Morrisons...

Take care - merry Christmas to all!

Calski

[Janos]

Originally Posted by The Purist

So logically ...

"Logic is an organised way of going wrong."



Laters,
Janos

[torbaydiver]

Don't bother with Sainsbury's, just got back (Thursday midday), the shelves are empty, no eggs, cheesecakes, chocolate cake, cheapest Christmas shopping yet, had to finish of my shopping in another store!

[Noel Johnson]

We're having a little neighborly get together tonight and we needed some new glasses for beer. So Puppy here says - I know, there's a 24 hr Tesco in Burton I'll go early in the morning and get some glasses and some kittie fodder. So I can A) get there early and B) get back to start in the kitchen.

Big mistake.

At 7:30 this morning the car park was full and the shelves were nearly empty of fruit and veg (admittedly I didn't need any but...) The shop was a nightmare and it was generally pretty bad. On the radio going down they said the Asda was full and people were queueing to get in at 6 am! what the hell goes on in these peoples heads? It took 2 hours to get four glasses and a couple of bottles of cat food!

[Mr T.]

Bizarrely, went in to do 'the Christmas shop' at Sainsbury's a couple of evenings ago, about 17.00 hrs and expected chaos - the place was nigh-on empty! Happy days.

Sum total spent = £374.16

[Tricky]

I noticed that too. Tuesday was quiet, Wednesday was mayhem.

Today while at work, I popped into Asda to get a sandwich and a diet coke, went to the basket only checkout, and there in front of me was a woman with a trolley filled to the brim, I decided not to say anything, to see what the checkout operator would say to her. After 15 mins of queueing, it was finally the womans turn to get served. The checkout op told her that this was a basket only till and that it was 10 items or less, she went on to say that she was doing shopping for all her family, and that they all had 10 items each for which she would be paying seperately. The checkout op was about to accept this explanation, and was about to start scanning her shopping. By this time I was fuming, and said to the woman that if she put her shopping onto the conveyer belt, then I would off load it as quick as she put it up. The checkout guy called a supervisor and the woman was moved away, and made to face about an hours queue. There were a lot of grateful people in the queue behind me. But we'll have to remember this excuse and try it out ourselves whenever there are long queues, and whenever we think that our time is more valuable than anyone elses.

[calski]

Well done! What a brass neck the woman had!

I'm thinking about going to Tesco now as the Girlfriend has gone home to Ireland and I'm home alone, starving and with little food in the flat.... but now I'm thinking "What's the number for Dominos????"

mmmmmmm... pizza.... mmmmmmm...

[Jules]

i just lost my keys in sainsburies at exactly the same moment as three people reported that their purses had been stolen from their bags. Luckily my keys had been handed in but someone is really make the most of all the crowds..

Smallest christmas shop ever.. 90 quid but then there are just three of us and for the first time in 18 years I am not cooking christmas dinner!!!
Result!

Jules