to think Morrison's is the Home of Scumminess?

[RevoltingPeasant]

There is a Morrison's on my way home from work, so I swing by to pick up essential cheapo petrol etc.

Last week, the woman behind me in the queue had:
-multipack of WKD Blue
-multipack of Red Stripe
-Tena Lady pads

• cigarettes

-cough syrup And she was debating with her DP whether or not the syrup also contained alcohol.

Last night, I went in to pick up some juice, and the man standing by the display picked one up, opened it, drank from it, said 'Ahh that's better', winked at me, and continued shopping

Plus every second person is missing at least three teeth. But it is cheap....

Morrisons in Leeds is very very scummy. Smells of piss too.

Used to shop at the Wakefield one, which also smelled funny. Perhaps it's a Yorkshire thing?

omg morrisons is FAB! great for cheap kitchenware and plants! I am a learner gardner and NOTHING from morissons plant section has died! yabvvu looks like one of those wishful 'bonding' snob ops that has totally misfired

I think with any/all of the supermarkets with the exception of Waitrose, it depends on where you live. Our Sainos has a mixed demographic but a lot of customers are most certainly not top drawer or even middle drawer - put it this way it's tattoo, chubby, shaven heads, football apparel city some days of the week. The local Lidl on the other hand which is towards the more gentrified area is much more boho middle class and European/African but totally devoid of the 'type' to be found in Sainsbury's.

Admittedly, Morrisons is the only supermarket I've ever seen where you can choose from more than one type of dripping, where you can buy huge sheets of pork rind (to make crackling), assorted bones (to make stock ... which is a pretty good idea actually) and where you can buy 1001 types of fresh pie but ......

.... in addition to those particular culinary delights, our nearest is one of the "posh" newly revamped ones, which has an absolutely fantastic selection of fruit and veg ... stuff I've never heard of, and I consider myself to be fairly well up on ingredients .... fresh turmeric, white asparagus, candy striped beetroot, a huge variety of chillies, samphire (have only ever seen on Norfolk coast before), big choice of fresh bunched herbs, rambutans, okra, custard apples, plantains, all sorts of other Asian and Caribbean veg (which might not be a big deal if you live in a city but is otherwise as rare as hen's teeth round here). The herbs and asparagus stand in jars of water to keep them fresh and there's mist wafting about over the displays too!

I absoulutely love it. Because you can cook with authentic ingredients rather than dried versions and/or substitutions. They also sell fresh langoustines, squid and octopus, and IME their meat and fish is usually far far superior in taste to Tesco's and Sainsbury's efforts. I also noticed the other day that they were selling fresh yeast .... I have never seen that in any other supermarket.

So .... scummy, no ..... scummy people maybe. Our branch has more variety of ingredients than our nearest Waitrose does. So there.

I always want to run amok with a machine gun in Waitrose. The smugness!

On the issue of shops smelling of wee, I've noticed it in places like Primark too - I think it might be the cleaning fluid they use on the floors - it's very off-putting though particularly in a food shop!