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.

[Random18]

IKEA Birmingham (well it's actually Wednesbury) still has the kids area. It's a game changer running round in 45 mins without the little darlings

[alltoomuchrightnow]

IKEA still has Smaland. The one I work for does anyway

[emilybrontescorsett]

Ikea had a supervised soft play for kids.
I remember the wooden dividers at the till.
I remember the cashier rolling up bank notes and putting them into tubes which took the cash away.
I remember Aldi staff keying in the prices by hand.
I worked in a bar and we had to manually key all the prices through. The tills weren't adding machines so I had to add everything up in my head and work out the change as the tills did not tell you.
Aldi never gave free bags so they used to pile up empty cardboard boxes at the tills for you to pack your shopping into.

[BlueBrush]

Does anybody remember the wooden dividers at the till so you could pack your shopping at leisure whilst the cashier served the next customer. The divider was movable?

Oh yeah! They'd be useful to have again.

Deli counters - there was no prepackaged cooked meat, so you always bought your ham (or luncheon meat/haslet/turkey roll) from the deli. And I used to love watching the shop assistant using the slicing machine. Do they still do that anywhere?

[drspouse]

I remember the cardboard boxes, my mum liked them because she objected to paying for a bag that advertised the supermarket!

[Goldwispa]

Sweets at the till point

[Goldwispa]

When paying by cheque, the assistant would take the cheque from you and put it through a thing on the till and it would print something on the cheque for you

[Goldwispa]

When paying for goods at the till in John Lewis the assistant asking, cash or account?

[DappledThings]

And Waterstones had a fish tank

Canterbury Waterstones still has a fish tank

[WhentheRabbitsWentWild]

I am so old that I remember sawdust on the floor in front of the butchers counter in Caters (think it became Safeway)

[maddy68]

The roller machine for card payments and they would Rip off the top layer for your. Reciept

[SnuffleBadger]

In our local gateway that became somerfield the deli sold coleslaw/cottage cheese/potato salad etc. by weight. They used to weigh it into round polystyrene pots with a thin plastic lid then put the pot into a plastic bag with a hand written sticker on stating weight and price.

When Aldi first opened the staff had to remember all the prices anf key them in by hand. As a youngster I was in awe of these super humans with fingers like lightning!!

[alloutoffucks]

@MissGuernsey Yes I remember that. I had genuinely forgotten all about them.

[tobee]

That coffee whip in your link doesn't look the best, does it HavenDilemma?

[KatherineJaneway]

Going into John Lewis to buy a nice present and finding out they didn't take credit cards, only cash or debit cards.

[MissGuernsey]

Does anybody remember the wooden dividers at the till so you could pack your shopping at leisure whilst the cashier served the next customer. The divider was movable?

[Random18]

We still have a mooing cow in Asda.

My kids actively seek it out!

[Random18]

Toilet roll- I remember always going to supermarket and it shelves were full.

NRTFT but.mini trollies - they have those bloody things in my local lidl flag and all. Dangerous things and the wee darlings always want them. Every time I say never again but I'm too soft

[YouLando]

I was a student in Leeds at the end of the '80s. I remember having to queue up in Morrisons in the Merrion Centre to get a cheque authorised, before doing my shopping.

[wanderings]

@Youngatheart00 Oh yes, my first debit card was Electron, and I was quite anxious about whether shops would accept it. Once when I was making a particularly large purchase (computer), I took it to the till to make sure they would accept it, because I didn't want the disappointment of choosing a computer and then finding I couldn't buy it.

[alltoomuchrightnow]

Photographic labs had lightboxes built into the counters so you could lay out your negatives and pick out which ones you wanted for reprints or enlargements. I used to manage such labs and certainly had these counters well into the noughties (not sure if any still do)

[Butterymuffin]

does anyone remember the big plastic creepy tree for birthday parties in McDonalds

@BiBiBirdie

Yes! And it was a treat for the birthday boy/girl to go back and look around the kitchens to see the burgers being made..

[bakedbeanzontoast]

Remember you used to collect stamps for things at the coop!

[Youngatheart00]

@wanderings yes I remember those security cameras! Very Dr Who-esque.

I remember Boots of all places used to sell computer games consoles and had a demo station with Nintendo, Sega etc set up to play. I used to crave going there and playing on that A LOT.

[SecretNutellaFix]

I remember when I was little we would get our fresh stuff from International, which went on to become Gateway, then Somerfield which was then bought out by Kwik Save; and our tinned stuff from Kwik Save. If we had been well behaved, then we were allowed to pick up a Booty Bag just before we went through the till.
I remember that, for a short time in the 90's Iceland printed a catalogue of all its frozen food. My mum would have me pick one up, and we would do a shopping list and once a month she would send me to the next town over to fill the chest freezer.
I also recall that Tesco used to lay on a free bus service when they opened new stores, so that people in smaller towns and villages could travel for free, do their shopping and get dropped back. First bus in was at 9.15 and last bus back was at 3.15, so people who had to use the bus for work couldn't use it for free travel.