To love a good supermarket scrap thread?

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There have been some good ones this week, what with the snow turning everyone rabid and that.

Tell Aunty Bupcakes your best supermarket scrap threads. I loves 'em I do.

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Co-Op are shite. In one of the villages round here they ahve taken over everything. You look at the row of shops and there is.. Co-Op convenience shop, Co-Op coffin shop, Co-Op holiday shop, Co-Op post office.... Pffffffft.

I loathe coop.

My gran never used to let me stick the stamps in the book as she liked doing it herself.

The bitterness has lasted for years.

Talking of terrible shops, does anyone remember Presto? It was sub Kwik-Save.

And agree mrsdv how bloody expensive food use to be. I know it has gone up in recent years, but it used to be extortionate in the early/mid 90s. I used be so skint and lived on 99p Admiral pies for a few years (they are still 99p now, not that I could ever bring myself to eat one ever again).

We had a presto in our town, it turned into a farmfoods a few years ago.

Ah yes hazel, the striped polyester. Except in my store they were too bloody tight to even do that right, I had one uniform that was far too big, and a second hand one that fitted but was all faded. And I never got given any gloves for checking the use by dates in the chillers for hours at a time despite my desperate pleas requests. They were shite to work for, our manager was a jumped up little jobsworth too. I got 'promoted' to the pharmacy after a few years, that was much more fun, we were a great little team and the customers were hilarious, apart from the horrible old git who shouted at me on the day my mum had just phoned me to tell me that our dog was being put down for daring to ask him to pay for his prescription. I was practically in tears whilst he ranted about the government as if I personally set the charge .

But I never had a Lighten your Load badge, I think they only got those on the checkouts. Although I was an innocent 16 year old back then and until you mentioned it I'd never really realised that there was another meaning

Supermarkets of the 70s/80s....

BeJams

FineFare

Gateway

Agressive marketing campaign from Presto!

FarmFoods used to do these Tiramisus in a box for 99 pee. They were fucking lovely they were. I wonder if they still do them and where my nearest Farm Foods is

DH once witnessed 2 women fighting over something in Asda on Christmas Eve, properly screaming and swearing at each other. He found it so funny he phoned me to tell me about it while standing about 3 feet away from them! All I could hear was the women calling each other awful names and him crying with laughter down the phone.
Then they must have noticed him because they stopped yelling at each other and started on him, calling him a pervert and alsorts.
He abandoned the few bits he went on for and escaped home, he was still laughing when he got back

Flobbadobs

Well, I'm going to Sainsbury's later so will take a notebook with me. Unfortunately, if I take a notebook, nothing will happen. If I don't, something will happen and I will have forgotten it by the time I reach home.

I haven't had a supermarket barney for ages.

But I did have a major breach of Queue Etiquette yesterday while buying a top in H&M.

The young woman behind me, who I think was probably a foreign student from her accent and age, kept doing that really irritating thing where instead of standing behind you in the queue, someone comes and stands beside you and then starts gradually edging forwards until they are almost overtaking you.

The till became free and I walked over to it - and she came with me! And stood squished right up beside me at the counter. The shop assistant and I looked at each other and then both looked at her, and I wondered whether to say "She's paying. Apparently."

The young man she was with looked mortified and came over and hauled her back to the entrance to the queuing aisle, muttering "You can't do that. People will think you're trying to steal their card or something" while she resisted and kept saying "But I'm next. I'm waiting."

Some people. [tut emoticon]

Britannia - take a camera.

"utterly poisonous" and have no friends.

Who said THAT to you?

I for one think you're lovely.

Freakoid - I am really pleased that things are better for you now, but it's awful you had to suffer that humiliation.

You'd THINK that people would stop to think for a moment and not look down on or laugh at people who may very well have a damned good reason for being so desperate to get to the reduced price food.

I was about to say the same Britannia. This is what camera phones are for!

Oh hecate, just some broad who never posts apparently but felt it her duty to come out of lurkdom to tell me what a rotten bastard I am. As you can imagine, I haven't slept a wink all night due to the distress.

Oh em gee bups, I can't post on that other thread.

That tirade at you made me roar!

It made me roar, too. Honestly, I was reading it on my Kindle, shaking with laughter. I especially liked "the fact that you live on here says a great deal about your relationships."

Eh?!

We had a Presto in the old Green market. The aisles were so narrow you could hardly pass a trolley down there. It was always full of students (me) and old people who smelled of wee and booze and fags because all the dodgiest pubs were over the road.

Never saw a barney in there though.

I never actually lol but I was doing big pah ha ha haaaa's.

I mean, we can't all get along all the time but the venom!

Soz and all that, hope you're not busy boiling your lonely head or anything

Thought there was a farmfoods in Brierley Hill?

crikey. That's really weird. No wonder you're so devastated

ahh, presto. I remember presto.

My mum and dad used to take us there for christmas shopping.

We'd ride the toy reindeer.

We were in the cafe in presto when I told my sister I'd just spat in her milkshake and sparked her lifelong fear of accepting food or drink from someone with a smile on their face

I tried to light the gas to boil my head but even the gas is discusted with me and turned itself off.

I never venture into Brierley Hill. Unless I've had my vaccines.

You get a much better supermarket scrap in Asda Brierley Hill. It's so bad they don't even have a fresh fish/meat counter, customers don't want anything they can't deep fry it seems?

Oh the memories of the Coop stamp book! Positively concertinaed with spit!

LOL Resolutely. It is true. DH actually likes going in there and I can't fathom why? It has an air of 1940's Eastern Europe, very dingy and sad. The salad area is always pristine though as the good folk of Brierley Hill do not like salad. There is always a ruckus around the Pot Noodles though.

I haven't had a supermarket ruck but DH nearly did. He was in the alcohol section and a shop assistant was cleaning up broken bottle, so glass and liquid. Some guy went to step in it so she put her hand up to stop him. He went mental standing over her shouting about how dare she touch him etc. DH turned and said 'look, she's trying to stop you getting hurt, leave her alone'. Dickhead guy then squared up to DH and invited him 'outside '. DH was on his way home from work so in suit and tie looking mild mannered. DH sighed, put down his basket and said ' okay then'. He went to walk off, turned to the bloke, smiled and said 'come on then'.

The bloke blustered and walked the other way.

I had a toilet roll confrontation in Waitrose.
I was 39 + 4 with my one and only and felt a little moist. I'd already had a show etc; so rushed to the loo to see exactly what was going on.
There was a loo roll on the floor between the two loo compartments; and none in my cubicle. I reached down for it, got hold of it (not easy with the massive belly and the "Other Woman" next door stuck her foot out and tried to kick it out of my hand !!!! Then we tussled too and fro under the partition' just grunting going on, on either side. I held onto it like stink; I needed it to see what was going on in my pants. I won.
I then put it back and she just went "humph".
I exited, washing my hands, trying to get out before her.; heard her come out and tried to ignore. She thumped me on the shoulder and said in a very loud booming posh voice "I was there first , you're very rude, I was doing a number 2"
I said. I got the paper first and you were the rude one. Anyway, it wasn't a game of rock, paper, poo.(WTF) And as I did I jabbed her right back in the shoulder and marched (actually waddled ) out.