This did exist right?

[JackReacherReader]

Having a chat about old shops with DH and he mentioned kwiksave, and I said oh yeah the fridge flaps! And this is the look he gave me the fridge flaps did exist didn't they? He says they definitely didn't and I'm making it up

They like separated the non fridge stuff from the fridge and you had to walk through them??

Aibu to say that's he's completely wrong and needs to get his facts right!

Yes of course they did!

I remember them somewhere!

💪 get in! I knew it!!

Some cash and carry type places still have them.

I remember fridge flaps!

I remember them too.

Yep - still used in Makro

Our local Booker still has them! As does our local farm shop!

Yeah I used to love walking through them when I was little! It was the highlight of my Kwik Save trip

I don't recall them at the two small Kwiksaves I used, but they have them at local Oriental supermarket.

I don't recall them in our local Kwiksave.

Oh yep these were definitely a thing. Booker still has them as do a few Indian shops in my area.

Definite yes. In ours you had to pay separately at the butchers section. And they made you write your name and address on the back of the cheque when you paid, when nowhere else did

Oh yes they did exist. Very stange and non too clean as I recall but yes you had to walk through the fridge area.
More impressive was the way the checkout assistants knew the price of every single item in the shop and keyed them in individually. This was obviously before the age of bar codes but other shops had sticky labels which Kwik Save seemed to do without.

I agree, when you were about 5 Kwiksave was a brilliant experience! The fridge flaps, the butchers, the speed of keying in by the people on the check outs - and then you could take everything home in a massive crisp box - amazing!!

We have them inside our walk in freezer at work. No idea why as it has a big heavy door !
But i remember them from kwik save too.

Ha yes, no idea that's what they are called, Fridge flaps are making me laugh - would be a great idea to have some nailed up to entertain the dcs

And the weird flap entrance where you pushed your trolley through the flaps but had to go through a revolving thing yourself.

Fridge flaps were pretty uncommon down south.

I lived in greater Manchester and I remember them at kwiksave in the early 80’s. Also remember kwiksave didn’t put price tickets on their stuff and the cashiers had to remember all the prices. (Shows how little variety there was in those days too)

Had completely forgotten about those! Yes,they were a thing though!

Golly Collins I had forgotten about the weird trolley thing

I don’t think we had kwiksave here so I don’t remember any fridge flaps but i do remember the little flappy thing you had to push your trolley under in our local wellworths when I was wee. Trolley under the flaps and people through the turnstile type thing. I never understood the point. Except the flaps were fun to run under

Ha! Collins beat me to it!

yes! The weird trolley flap!