Features no longer at the supermarket/shops

[Candodad]

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

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.

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.

And the cow in Asda by the milk!

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.

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

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

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...

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.

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

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

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.

Mini kids trolleys with the flag

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

Loose fags for sale.

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

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.

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

And Waterstones had a fish tank.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.