What’s actually wrong with ASDA?

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I never knew that it was seen as “low end” until recently, escalated by the merger news. I think they have nice own brand stuff, are good value, and their stores are well presented with lots of variety . I find the George clothing nice as well and it doesn’t rip or bobble as much as some of the other supermarket brand clothes.

Is the view that it’s chavvy a southern thing?

Nothing wrong with Adsa! Especially George!

I hate Lidl and Aldi, but Asda is fine. Most of my shopping is from Sainsbury’s, but Asda is my second choice.

From my experience ASDA is much more likely to contain ignorant scruffy people standing talking, blocking up the aisles. It also has the greatest chance of being understocked and untidy.

Although they do have the best own-brand pesto.

I find Asda so much more expensive than Tescos for the food we buy and the quality isn't as great as it used to be. Tescos used to be bad but have now become more reasonable and better quality. Morrisons own brand stuff is always spot on and reasonable, especially their vegetarian range and their meats (we use their veggies meals as side dishes a lot - they're fab). Sainsburys however I've always found to be an overpriced shit version of Waitrose.

It tends to attract people who see fit to do their shopping in their dressing gowns. It's a no for me. Pmsl at 'chavsda' how haven't I heard that before

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Loathe most Asda car parks I've visited, so on that basis I avoid if possible

And yet their car park in St. Austell had one of the best blue badge arrangements I've seen (been a few years since we were there, so it's probably been ruined).

You had to go through the complete car park before you got to the BB bays which were in front of the store and watched by the security.

Ran out of Kind Edwards a few weeks ago Our nearest store is an ASDA, so got some there. 30p cheaper than Sainsburys and much better quality.

I don't like the layout of our local one, nothing is where I would expect to find it. Also, the store is massive but still doesn't seem to stock many items that I buy regularly - instead the shelves are full of different brands of the same product. I spend ages wandering around the store without managing to buy much.

On the other hand I love their clothing.

Our nearest Asda is situated in a very rough area and the people that go there tend to be a bit loud. I don’t know what the food is like now, but I associate the store with being a bit cheap and cheerful. It’s been years since we’ve been there.

The Tesco is in a mixed area, but mainly has students and people from the notoriously rough estate over the road. I wouldn’t shop there at night or if I had a choice to go somewhere else. I see drugs being scored outside the main entrance though. The Tesco food is shockingly bad and they seem to manage to screw up even simple things. I find it’s a miserable experience going there because the whole place has an air of despondency and desperation about it. Sometimes people shout and laugh at you in the carpark.

Sainsbury’s is okay for quality, range and I like their clothing. The fruit could be better though.

Our nearest Waitrose is around 30 miles away, but we go there around twice a month as I like some of the products they sell - hand cream and cordial. My cats like their cat food as well. It’s situated in a posh area and has a calm, genteel feel about it and you don’t get shouted at in the car park. Waitrose products are nice quality, but more expensive.

I had Asda delivery for a while and if was awful. Half the stuff was out of stock or on use by date and one time they substituted tofu for chicken in an order with no other meat in it as we are veggie!

We don't have a shop by us but when I do pop into it I love the kids clothes and their bread is quite nice.

I was always under the impression that Asda was a big superstore where you went to buy food products in bulk, for a party or if you owned a shop, maybe. I had no idea people did their grocery shopping yhetr

Because I've never lived somewhere with an Asda, I'm just not at tall familiar with it.

So many reasons.

I find the Asda aisles really narrow and crowded but that might be what others are saying about the shelves being really high.

What really puts me off is noticing chicken products that were made from Vietnam chicken. What welfare standards do they have?? I could be totally surprised and find that they have excellent chicken welfare but I'm a cynic who thinks it's probably quite poor.

Interesting people are commenting on the car parks. I thought it was just me.
Sainsbury have the P&C spaces at the back of the car park so they are usually only used by people who need them. ASDA have them right at the door so full all the time.

Well, they don't sell 2 foot garden gnomes in sainsburys .

Has anybody ever seen one of those gnomes in a garden?

I feel like I live in ASDA some weeks. It's on the edge of our village and everyone I know shops there. It's absolutely fine for meat (and I'm another who used to work in a meat packing factory and can confirm that they supply the same meat to different supermarkets), it does free-range too.
I find the fresh fruit and veg fine too (before I moved here, I shopped at Sainsburys as that was closest, and I didn't notice any difference when I swapped).

Do you think that the one's with fruit and veg that go off fast, don't sell much fruit and veg? So it's sat around on the shelves for longer? I think that ours is fine as there's such as a high turnover.

It also sells quite a bit of local produce, which is nice. Oh, and it has a food bank box and pet food box too.

We don't have a local Asda, but there are 2 a few miles away. They both conform to the Asda sterotype: kids running amok, adults mostly BO and nasty tats. Both are really cramped, despite being massive, and they give me the heebies.

One Sunday we were coming back from somewhere and needed a few bits, and realised that we wouldn't get home before the supermarket shut. DP knew where there was an Asda nearby (we were in Surrey) so we went in there. I couldn't believe it - it was spacious, had wide, uncluttered aisles, and was nothing like the Asda in our area. (It also had a fab range of exotic bread - better than I've ever seen in a supermarket in the UK).

So I'm now inclined to think that part of the difference between supermarkets is down to the demographic of the customers in the area.

My dd is obsessed with those bloody gnomes she has to go look at them every time we go in. They freak me out.

Some ASDA's are better than others- its true of all the supermarkets though, a lot depends on where they are situated and the money thrown at them i guess. I always feel a bit sorry for the 'others' the costcutters and the londis, nica, type stores which are generally a bit run down and only frequented for lottery, bread or milk or maybe the post office bit as one is close to me. They are sometimes cheaper than the big stores though and you can get bargains in there.
not seen the ASDA gnomes - maybe i need to go to a big store to see these!

Asda is generally cheaper but that does not mean it is necessarily better ‘value’ as i find the quality of the fruit and veg to be pretty poor. I also find the stores themselves to be generally more tatty and at times dirty compare to Sainsbury’s or Tesco’s etc.

Unfortunately Asda is the only supermarket where I have seen the worse excesses of really crap behaviour from a certain ‘type’ of customers, be it screaming arguments, poorly behaved kids running about, treating staff like shit, swaggering around shirtless, dumping unwanted goods on any shelf nearby and all raft of obnoxious behaviour. If me objecting to that makes me a snob then so be it.

Asda is great generally but online groceries can be hit and miss and customer service very poor. I only yesterday had an online grocery order due to be at my poorly mother in laws house anytime, yet they rang saying it was cancelled because the van broke down, I couldn't go and collect it because she is in Wales and we are in England. They were very unhelpful. So she didn't get her shopping and I battled to get anywhere with them, I've been given a five pounds voucher, very reluctantly!