Help me I am trapped in waitrose

[StealthPolarBear]

Can't find my way out, the only stairs I can see go to a car park
Ah well

Could be worse, you could be trapped in ikea. You’d be lost forever.

Could have been a disaster, we don't go home until tomorrow and I only have a very small cool bag.
I had to avert my eyes

Go to the car park, taking care, follow a car that is leaving the car park, freedom!

I once got trapped in Selfridges, turns out that the reason I couldn't find the exit was because I was on the first floor.

Oh it'd have to be Waitrose you were trapped in. It wouldnt be Aldi, would it. Semi light hearted.

Our Waitrose is on the 7th floor. That blows people's minds the first time. They stand by the lift looking baffled.

Next time, leave a trail of breadcrumbs. Artisan breadcrumbs, of course.

I only went in to look for a cafe. Which was disappointing

Oh it'd have to be Waitrose you were trapped in. It wouldnt be Aldi, would it.

It's impossible to get trapped in Aldi due to the strong current caused by the speed with which you're pushed through the checkouts. If you allow yourself to drift you will be pulled towards the exit naturally.

How can Waitrose be on the 7th floor? That is madness.

That said I used to love the Sainsbury’s in Brighton that was on the first floor so you had a flat escalator to take you down and special wheels on the trolly that gripped it.

You know how to live visitors ;)

I know. It was the 90s. We were stuck for entertainment.

Debenhams at the Metro Centre. Lost a dc there back in 2005.

Ah bless she would be 16 now!!
Gives me the shudders just walking past!

It's impossible to get trapped in Aldi due to the strong current caused by the speed with which you're pushed through the checkouts. If you allow yourself to drift you will be pulled towards the exit naturally.

Have you found your way out yet are are you going to go native and start foraging for truffle oil and quails eggs?

It's like the Disch short story with the endless escalators...

web.archive.org/web/20070213072942/www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/disch/disch1.html

There was a very good radio programme on the Beeb about a guy in Iceland I think (the country, I mean), who got locked in a branch of Ikea overnight at Christmas.

In fact, here it is. Still available! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05rhz87

I am out and back inq the civilisation of a cafe Nero.
Santa... Erm?!

Next time, leave a trail of breadcrumbs. Artisan breadcrumbs, of course.

My DM and I got lost in the largest M&S in Europe. We kept passing the same display in the home section — after about the fifth time we had a sit down in the armchairs!

I got lost in a Canary Wharf Waitrose once. It was so huge that I couldn’t see the horizon in any direction. Mind you I wouldn’t have been too upset about having to move into the cafe permanently - it was very cosy and I had some books with me.

Santa, please tell me your post is a joke.

I once got lost in the Milton Keynes Ikea. However hard I tried to get out I always found myself back in the storage section. In the I had to phone my husband (who was in the cafe) to come and rescue me.

I get lost quite a lot.

Reminds me of this

Go back to the alcohol section and spend a few hours admiring the whisky selection until it quietens down and you can see your way more easily.

(Wont be like this after Brexit, we shall be queuing at farm gates for potatoes )

I used to work in the opticians department in the up stairs of a large shop. Our reception desk was near the top of the escalator. The escalator was a single one that only went up. There was no down escalator.
I used to spend a large part of the day at the desk watching people stride over to the escalator and look confused or sometimes wait for the people coming up to step off so they could step on as if it would magically turn round.
We used to frequently get asked where the stairs were, which was fine.

I remember one day when one very grumpy man, who I had watched trying to get onto the escalator (this is the top of an up escalator remember) came stomping over and yelled ‘can you get down from up here?’ I might have replied, ‘no I came here in 1995 and I’ve been stuck here ever since’. I didn’t though.