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Dear major UK supermarket ...

473 replies

LindorDoubleChoc · 04/07/2023 20:18

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.

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ShakeYourFeathers · 04/07/2023 22:45

Dear mr Tesco

Can we have the butcher back

No one needs that much pak Choi

Can all things like newspapers be placed Shop side of the security gate. I forget to a newspaper and remember halfway through the shop and it's a faff

Pootle40 · 04/07/2023 22:46

Sell loose potatoes. I don't need a fecking kilo.

Moomoola · 04/07/2023 22:47

Oh no I won’t! Put veg in paper bags. Failing that don’t put wet carrots in industrial strength plastic to ensure that they go slimy, and don’t put spinach in super rippable plastic to ensure it all falls out everywhere.

and do you need to have such massive shops?

42isthemeaning · 04/07/2023 22:48

Dear supermarket CEOs
Please go to France, take a look at their fresh produce sections and replicate it back in the UK. Please.

ShakeYourFeathers · 04/07/2023 22:48

Whichwhatnow · 04/07/2023 20:49

Dear Tesco,

Please stop switching all of the product locations around every few months so I have to go looking for every single thing on my list. I assume you are doing this so that instead of just quickly grabbing my usual shop I am forced to walk down aisles I never usually go down and scan every shelf because you've inexplicably moved the Ryvita away from the crisps and snack section and plonked it next to the tinned soup.

I am guessing the intention is for me to notice tempting products that I've never noticed before and be unable to resist buying them. The reality is it adds an hour onto my shop, pisses me off and means I am increasingly likely to go next door to Aldi instead.

Oh I still haven't forgiven the bright spark who put tea and coffee in separate aisles in my local Tesco

EnthENd · 04/07/2023 22:49

You have trolleys. You even promote their ability to carry heavy items. And you have a promotion that encourages me to do a big shop. It would be nice if, when I have completed said big shop, there is actually a checkout open instead of making me wait 5 minutes for a cashier to arrive. Thank you.

ArthnoldManacatsaman · 04/07/2023 22:50

@CherryLipgloss apologies if I’m not the first person to say this (as I don’t have time to check 8 pages) but my stepmum was just telling me last week she’d had the same problem, but has now found packs at Lidl which are divided in 2 so you can have a smaller portion whilst the other half still stays sealed

Nitgel · 04/07/2023 22:50

Pay for more staff and security in smaller shops.

ShakeYourFeathers · 04/07/2023 22:50

42isthemeaning · 04/07/2023 22:48

Dear supermarket CEOs
Please go to France, take a look at their fresh produce sections and replicate it back in the UK. Please.

And the way they do they're ready meals in France

Like big pans of paella which they put in a tub for you and you reheat later

starfishmummy · 04/07/2023 22:53

Ellie56 · 04/07/2023 22:29

Stop selling Golden Delicious Apples. They contravene the Trades Description Act as they are neither golden nor delicious.

Or sell them when they are ripe and actually are golden and delicious.

As opposed to unripe and green

42isthemeaning · 04/07/2023 22:54

@ShakeYourFeathers
Yes! The French ready meals are something else.
Plus I like the traffic light system showing you how much sugar is in different products. It's really clear.
But the fresh fruit and veg...it's amazingly delicious and not tasteless from being transported in a lorry freezer...

MimiArm · 04/07/2023 22:55

Dear Asda

When I decide to join a queue with one person in front of me, am pushing a pram and cutting off blood supply in one arm with a heavy basket, please tell your cashiers to stop forcing me to walk to the other end of the store to use the self checkout. There is no friggen room and I just want to stand there and wait, enjoy having space to lay out the goods then bag them. Happens every time I go and I'm fed up with it.

One time I had already unloaded the contents of my basket and they told me to move "to save me having to wait". Seriously?

And also, stop being lazy and collect the empty baskets with wheels as there are never any there at the door which is how I end up with the normal baskets.

Finally, is there a beetroot shortage I missed? Not a jar to be had in any of the stops I've been in recently?

GellerYeller · 04/07/2023 23:00

Dear Sainsburys: I laughed out loud in the coffee aisle at your Douwe Egberts and Kenco that were nudging a tenner in price. I know you think we’ll not notice your blatant profiteering, or your theory it’s more conveniently located, and people won’t be arsed to go to the two Home Bargains or the B and M in our town, but guess what- I left empty handed and did just that. And saved nearly FOUR QUID per item.

DuesToTheDirt · 04/07/2023 23:03

WHY THE HELL HAVE YOU MOVED THE TOFU AND VEGGIE SAUSAGES TO THE MIDDLE OF THE DEAD ANIMAL AISLE? AM I SHOUTING? YOU BET I'M SHOUTING.

CountingMareep · 04/07/2023 23:03

Asda: stop taking the piss with your supposedly random scan-and-go ‘quality checks’. I refuse to believe they are truly random when I get them five visits in a row. And when that fifth visit coincides with your staff messing up with their piece-of-junk handsets such that every. single. item. of a large, kids-back-from-uni shop has to get scanned again - and THEN your staff manage to muck up again by missing off a batch of my shopping…

(Takes very deep breath)

Please forgive me for momentarily wishing one of Putin’s missiles could flatten your sorry strip-lighted shack of a shop.

Anaemiafog · 04/07/2023 23:05

Another one to say fuck off with pretending you get a good deal by using a members/club card. No one is fooled by the 'special' offers with falsely inflated prices and if I forget the card I'm going elsewhere for all my shopping.

GellerYeller · 04/07/2023 23:06

Oh and Lidl, Morrisons and M and S: All the other supermarkets manage to make an own brand almond milk that doesn’t separate to a curdled buggery when added to coffee. So you can too.

Ellmau · 04/07/2023 23:08

Bring back the staffed tills.

BitOutOfPractice · 04/07/2023 23:12

CherryLipgloss · 04/07/2023 20:27

I'd like to request smaller packs of pate. It goes off before we can eat it.

😁

Wheelz46 · 04/07/2023 23:16

Why are boys clothes crammed into a little corner with very little options but you can't move for girls clothes.

To add insult to injury when the back to school stuff is out, why is it always at the expense of the already limited boys section?

Cirice · 04/07/2023 23:19

To all of you. For the love of god can you be consistent with your price labels. I know you’re trying to confuse me by putting the 250g bottle of ketchup as price per gram and the 100g bottle as price per oz, but I’m a stubborn cow so I will stand there and work it out and most of the time you’re trying to con me with offers that are more expensive gram for gram.

Transparent fucking pricing. It’s not difficult.

ShakeYourFeathers · 04/07/2023 23:20

I have another one

I know Christmas, valentines and Mother's Day cards are big money spinners however people still have birthdays 6weeks - a month before these events but the choice of birthday cards are terrible.

SuperSuperDry · 04/07/2023 23:24

Stop discontinuing all the good things I love. I swear you must review my Nectar card history at this point 🤣

Topseyt123 · 04/07/2023 23:24

Dear Tesco,

Please stop trying to freeze your customers. Put transparent doors on the refrigeration units instead so that they aren't just dropping cold air all over everyone. Aldi seem to have managed it.

I often have to put a jacket on to go into your stores and take it off to go out.

Thank you.

creativebutterfly · 04/07/2023 23:35

Dear supermarkets,

Why are your security staff are all trained to follow and eye 👁️ POC or anyone that looks a bit different. Never stolen from a shop and don't intend to start. I'm sick of being treated like I'm a criminal, I'm a mum of 3 young girls.

Signed
Fed up mum 👩