Dear major UK supermarket ...

[LindorDoubleChoc]

What would you like to say to the chief exec of the supermarkets you use? I'll start ...

If you are going to sell spinach in plastic bags, please at least direct that they are stored in the refrigerated section rather than on the general unrefrigerated vegetable shelves along with the potatoes and onions etc.

Thank you Sainsburys.

Please have a "British Produce" section on your website so I can make that choice without having to trawl through every item I want to buy and search for country of origin.

This, too, if your staff rely on state top ups, your business model needs reviewing. Pay staff properly.

Sort your packaging out guys. Although reducing plastic has improved noticeably recently (maybe since we've been able to bring it all back into your stores...?) biodegradable film and cardboard trays should be non-negotiable for most prepacked produce.

Please put your parent and child spaces slightly further away so that dickheads (usually male and young and in big swanky vehicles) don’t abuse them and leave no wider spaces for people that actually need them.

Newsflash. Girls go to school in the same weather conditions as boys, play in the same playgrounds as boys and play the same games as boys.

If boys require closed in, waterproof, warm, hard wearing shoes for school. Then so do girls.

If you absolutely feel the need to increase your clothing profits by selling very gendered items that’s your prerogative - stick a diamanté butterfly or a pink unicorn or other random thing on it. But shoes with holes in them are no use to anyone.

Morrisons - check your fruit and veg isn’t rotten and if it is, take it off the shelves

Dear Aldi CEO,

It's really hard for a customer to understand whether the staff is talking to a customer or to staff over their headphones

M&S your self check out is crap. From waving items madly in the air to no place to pack. I prefer self checkout but not with you.

All - there are a lot of single person households or times when others are ant smell portions - please cater to us if you are going to remove the deli/fish/butcher

don’t promise perfectly ripe anything - rock hard nectarines then suddenly mush.

govermemt - require unit price is included for all goods including clearly displayed the original and offer price. Shops won’t do it out of the goodness of their hearts.

Sainsbury's. Your entrance is by the check outs and your exit by the trolleys. For the love of Arkwright, WHY?

Aldi. Is there the tiniest chance that you could sort out your self checkouts to weigh customer's bags without your insanely busy staff having to confirm them?

Tesco. Please teach your staff how to do category sales. Or just a thought, how about making sure all your products are on your system?

M&S, for the love of god, tortilla chips do not need to be stocked in the fridge 🙄

Stop moving the tofu.

Oh and doors on fridges so you don't have to refrigerate the entire shop.

And keep the sodding booze in the sodding booze aisle it's a bloody nightmare for people in recovery.

Please put a return trolley shelter near to the parent parking spaces, so I don't have to decide whether to put the shopping and the kids in the car and return the trolley halfway across the car park, or put the shopping in the car and take the kids with me and then carry a baby and a small toddler back to the car. And while we're at it, maybe put the double seater trollies with the normal trollies as opposed to in a special section that's miles away from said parent parking spaces and store entrance. (If they even have a two seater trolley, which seems to be getting less and less common 🙄)

Oh but Morrisons great job on the food bank parcels by the entrance, fantastic initiative

Sainsbobs great job on the scan as you go app, fab for budgeting.

@Dinopawus Tesco once refused to sell me a lovely coat for my DD as it was not on their system. The price was on it but wouldn’t scan. Computer said no. No coat.

I do work - public sector.

This! Because of the plastic and wanting to choose my own, but also I want to be able to buy one of two apples etc... not a whole bag that I don't need!

Tesco, why are loose onions now 20p each, no matter the size, rather than a price per kilo, making people choose the onions in a plastic bag as better value.

Is he Gaston?

Put the bagged fresh herbs back in bunches, so the stalks all point the same way and you can easily put them in water! They're all mixed up now!

Yes! So much more sensible!

We need some sort of dating back on the fruit and veg. It’s ridiculous how much I’m having to throw away because it’s rotten the day after I’ve bought it. When we had dates, I never threw away fruit and veg. I bought the stuff with the longest date on and it lasted!

Yes I had the same issue over of all things a greetings card. It sounds pathetic, but it was the end of a long work day and I still had presents to wrap and really wasn't in the mood to go to another shop.

I might have offered to show them how to put it through the tills in a different way. Suddenly they managed to find a colleague that knew how to do it. Amazing.

If you insist on having self-checkouts then make the bagging area larger than a postage stamp please, and teach it to recognise bags. Admittedly it’s improving my Jenga Tower building skills, but not doing a lot for my patience.

*Glares at Co-Op.

I really agree with the pp who said put heavy things first (so annoying having to juggle soft fruit put in the trolley before the tins), and also the pp who said put (eg) rice all together instead of having to go to three different aisles to compare rices. I also avoid self-checkout.

I would like the supermarket to sell less ultra-processed food.

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