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Features no longer at the supermarket/shops

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Candodad · 04/03/2020 18:26

For me I remembered today there was always a “cash only” till due to transactions with cheque/card taking longer.

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amazedmummy · 04/03/2020 18:27

I remember when I was little our ASDA had a "barn" built around the eggs and there was a button that made chicken noises. I thought it was great.

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MrsMoastyToasty · 04/03/2020 18:31

In store bakeries where there were properly trained bakers creating loaves of bread from scratch on a daily basis. These days the bread arrives part baked in most supermarkets and is finished in store.

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DobbyTheHouseElk · 04/03/2020 18:32

And the cow in Asda by the milk!

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balonzz · 04/03/2020 18:33

When I was a child I remember our local Sainsburys had a pulley system that moved a cashbox above head height, to connect with a cashier that sat in a tall seat and put money in the till and dispensed changed by returning the cash box to the assistant.

I was very little, so maybe the pulley and tall seat were not as high up as I remember them.

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HowlsMovingBungalow · 04/03/2020 18:36

Handing over your bank card and the cashier checking your signature against cheques.

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SkeletonSkins · 04/03/2020 18:36

The first thing I thought of when I read this was the ASDA hen clucking noise. RIP.

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josette · 04/03/2020 18:40

Supermarkets in the 70s: your change would come down a little black shoot at the till. Being given green shield stamps (no idea what they were). And the till staff used to put the excess notes from their till in a plastic container and feed it into a tube system that sped it away to the cash office.
It seemed so high tech and futuristic...

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BettyBooJustDoinTheDoo · 04/03/2020 18:52

Change being counted into your hand so you knew you were given the correct change, now it’s just shoved into your palm all at once.

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DobbyTheHouseElk · 04/03/2020 18:52

Our corner shop still counts the change into your hand. If feels a bit weird now.

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BiBiBirdie · 04/03/2020 18:53

Not supermarket but does anyone remember the big plastic creepy tree for birthday parties in McDonalds.
Christ that thing used to scare me

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BiBiBirdie · 04/03/2020 18:54

Oh and the pictures of different sections on big posts in Tesco, so You department had a pic of Sindy, Butcher had meat, so on and so forth.

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doodlejump1980 · 04/03/2020 18:55

Mini kids trolleys with the flag

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MayFayner · 04/03/2020 18:56

There used to be live lobsters in a tank in our supermarket when I was a child.

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Pinkarsedfly · 04/03/2020 18:56

Loose fags for sale.

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1vandal2 · 04/03/2020 18:57

Sainsbury's supermarkets do still bake from scratch. It's the locals that get part baked. All the same ingrediants though.

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Aderyn19 · 04/03/2020 18:59

The big Tesco in Cardiff had a crèche, so the kids could play while you shopped. Going back 2O years, mind. My ds loved it.

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BettyBooJustDoinTheDoo · 04/03/2020 18:59

Cardboard boxes by the end of the tills to put your shopping in.

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Aderyn19 · 04/03/2020 18:59

And Waterstones had a fish tank.

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ForeverBubblegum · 04/03/2020 19:11

I remember been left in a softplay in Safeway while my mum was shopping (90's). A few bigger shops seemed to have them, mum would regularly walk round a random DIY shop all morning while we played. because it was cheaper then normal softplay.

From what I remember there was minimal supervision, so I guess it wasn't financially viable once they brought in childcare regulations about adult/child ratios and qualifications.

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BasilDiffuser · 04/03/2020 19:15

Fish/meat counters open every day. When I worked at Tesco as a student 10 years ago they were opening so many things like the Direct Desk and a tech help desk. And less than a decade later most of it is gone.

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LargeGinOnTap · 04/03/2020 19:15

The Asda in Waterlooville was amazing as it had a crèche and the clucking hens and mooing cows. It was early 90s

Don't live on that area of the country now so don't know if it all still exists now

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Cinderemma · 04/03/2020 19:17

I used to leave my eldest DS in the crèche that Asda had!

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Youngatheart00 · 04/03/2020 19:17

I remember only loosely supervised children’s play areas and loyalty stamps - both in the mid to late 80s.

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Sparklingbrook · 04/03/2020 19:18

Our nearest huge Asda still has a plastic cow head with the milk that moos if you press a button.

I remember when Aldi first opened and the till staff had to remember the prices.

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iklboo · 04/03/2020 19:19

Being given green shield stamps (no idea what they were).

You saved green shield stamps up in a book then you could take them to a catalogue type shop and cash them in for 'expensive' items like toasters, towel bales, teasmaids etc. It was very exciting when my nana had filled a book and we went to pick something.

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