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!

Fridge flaps and trolley flaps! I'd completely forgotten about those.

Our Kwiksave is now an Iceland. We also had a Gateway which became a Somerfield and is now Morrisons.

Anyone remember shopping at VG? Does it exist now? I also recall shopping at Presto (think they’ve all become Safeway now)

And getting Green Shield stamps with your shopping which you’d then stick in booklets til you’d saved up for something? This is going back a while to when I was young. Used to be a treat to lick the stamps and stick them in!

I remember cutting out the crown from the packaging of crown butter with my mum to collect for something, I can't remember what now, I was only little.

And tokens off the Robinson's jam jars.

And I remember cutting out the monster shapes off the back off monster munch packs but that was just to play with, and I think they still put them on there.

Another Kwik Save cashier here, they actually paid good wages in the early eighties (due to having to learn all the prices). I went from earning £60 a week in a chemist shop to picking up over £100 a week , mega money !

Crikey kizzy. If I'd known that I'd have chucked the typewriter out of the office window and galloped off to kwiksave. Untold wealth!

Ha yes, I remember the ones... As a child they were quite brutal to walk through.

out tsco doesnt have lids on freezers

i think the fridge flaps are rare of of hygiene

What were trolley flaps for?

We had a VG, corner-shop sized, which sold eggs in plastic cartons that always broke and cut you. It got turned into a Spar in the late 80s.

I remember these (another child of the 80s) I also remember one shop, think it was Kwik Save but not sure that had a completely separate alcohol department aisle. It had push gates to go in and out - not sure if you paid separately or not.

DH has conceded I'm right!! New I hadn't made up the fridge flaps!!