to stop shopping at morrisons because

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i'd rather pay more in sainsburys and not have to put up with the constant agro in morrisons car park? honestly, people shouting, horns blaring, speeding - you name it. i just snapped today and thought 'never again' when i heard a man shout 'FUCK OFF CUNT' at the top of his voice at some woman in a car who was giving as good as she got. no idea what happened but he was a pedestrian, elderly and with a stick. going by past experience he prob wasn't moving fast enough for her or forced her to slow down or - horror - wait for a second.

meanwhile dd1,almost 4 just gazes at me, 'why are those people shouting mummy?'

and it's not much better in the shop.

then you venture out onto holloway road. the police go out in groups of four.

i really don't want to live in a middle class enclave in london - where's the point of living in london then? and i know i can't shield the kids from conflict and everyday shit on the streets - but there's limits and jeez i've had enough for one day. i want a house. in the country. deep in the country.

That never happens at my Morrissons In fact i have never seen that at any supermarket carpark!!

I was once in Holloway Odeon with a man on one side making phone calls, toddlers running up and down the aisles, and a couple (possibly the parents of the toddlers, now I come to think of it), having a domestic.

My local supermarket is Wairose in Morningside in Edinburgh.

Could this be the poshest supermarket in the known universe?

It is very lovely. Nobody ever swears there, although you do see raised eyebrows (mine) then some CUNT goes through the 'green till' with plastic bags he nicked from the other till.

Actually I told him to FUCK OFF* but to be fair he deserved it.

*in the Edinburgh style, I did it with subtle body language.

i didn't like to mention that nigellatufnel but...well..yes. a wide variety body types.

so - those who know it seem to say it's not me being snooty. it is ruff.

fishmongers is good though.

my local Morrisons seems very very dull after reading your OP!

I refuse to shop in Morrison's as they shrink-wrap EVERYTHING. I've even seen swedes wrapped in plastic there. Ridiculous. So damaging to the environment.

it's how I imagine a Victorian carnival to be. With more aggression and swearing.

You will see at least one bearded lady there each trip.

Hehehe, nowhere near the Holloway Rd, that's for sure.

I saw Sara Cox there once. A Victorian carnival indeed. She wasn't swearing though.

in that case go to waitrose, as well as being nicer & less of that kind of thing there is usually less queue.
we don't have a sainsburys in holloway? unless you mean the camden one? gotta say last time i went to that sainsburys i was very impressed with their service i found the staff all very polite, lol but maybe cos i am used to holloway morrisons

There's a big 24 hour Sainsbury's up at the Angel. Behind the N1 shopping centre.

I have to say that I've always found shopping there hugely stressful though.

Lots of goths who've got lost on their way to Feeling Gloomy staring vacantly at the sandwiches and cluttering the place up.

I had someone swear at me in Waitrose carpark because I politely asked him not to park in the parent and child space

Our nearest Morrisons is lovely

i use the green lanes sainsburys. not exactly posh either... but at least the car park is open air.

obviously you can't use it at weekends cos it takes two or three hours to get out of the car park (no, really, this is true. i was once stuck there for over two hours and a friend for three. the council allowed the store to expand but wouldn't give any new access points - with predictable results)

i confess an allergy to camden. partly a goth based reaction.

MorrisZapp, Waitrose Morningside is indeed most lovely and prim and Edinburgh, but has no loos! Is it beneath the good folks of Morningside to conduct such unpleasant business outside of the confines of their own tasteful homes?

I don't miss the shopping in London, nor the driving. The driving especially. When going back to visit family/friends I hit the Billet roundabout and it's as if satan and all his minions are at work in the very souls of the drivers that pass over it.

There is much wailing, gnashing of teeth, horn blasting and cunt calling.

It is hell on earth.

I remember the Morrisons in Holloway. Scary. Not, though, as scary as the Camden Sainsburys at 11pm on a Friday night

Morrisons in Palmers Green is quite civilised, but I agree that the Wood Green one can be quite scary. Especially the toilets (haven't been in there for a few years for soon-to-be-revealed obvious reasons), which used to have a weird blue light, apparently to make it difficult for the local druggies to locate veins in which to shoot up. Still, I'd rather take my chances in Morrisons, wherever it is, any day rather than Asda - I have never encountered such moronic shoppers as in the one in Southgate. On the rare occasions that I have to go there because the M&S food hall down the road doesn't stock Yeo Valley Greek-style honey and strawberry yogurts and DS1 is threatening a tantrum as a result, I'm always stunned at people's inability to park/steer a trolley, recognise an aubergine, push you out of the way to get to what they want, etc.

Oh God, Asda.

They're all such fucking morons , I can't bear it.

I dived in to the Walthamstow branch in an emergency a few weeks ago to get some ingredients for thai green curry.

After nearly losing several limbs to the trolley joyriders, I made it to the checkout where I was coralled into a tiny little space with my nose in some lunatic's armpit for twenty minutes.

When I was finally served, this is what happened:

VACANT CHECKOUT TEEN : stares at coconut for a while, then picks up the fruit and veg price list What is this?

ME : Errr..It's one pound fifteen I think.

VACANT CHECKOUT TEEN : scans list again No... What is it?

ME : stunned silence It's...It's a coconut.

VACANT CHECKOUT TEEN : resumes gazing at list I'm gonna call the supervisor.

oh notanumber, is it wrong to pmsl at vacant checkout teen, I have become slightly hysterical, it's almost worth going to the supermarket hell for that!!

yanbu. My tolerance and love and peace to all attitude used to go out the window in our Morrisons. I do sainsburys on-line now and all is fine with the world .

I tried Asda a couple of times and had a hissy fit when they only had two types of olives and no capers .

Having to go to Asda has literally made me have a panic attack once. Unfortunately its the only supermarket in my town. Sometimes we will go over to Morrisons (which is very nice) but its such a hassle.

I really don't get the problem with Asda. I've never had a bad experience there. Is it because our nearest is in a 'posh' area? Though I've been to Asdas which are in nice or ok but not posh areas and have never had a problem with either the customers or staff.

We live in what is supposed to be a "nice" area and I've also had a problem with other customers at Morrisons - eg the one who started having a go at me (in quite a threatening way) because my trolley was in her way in the biscuit aisle (she couldn't reach the biscuits she wanted). I of course was too polite to voice the opinion that she would have done well to avoid the biscuit aisle altogether with her figure

I haven't worked in a supermarket but I have worked in other customer service related jobs and the people who lived in the very expensive homes in the exclusive areas, and the managing directors of various businesses were often the worst customers.
They seemed to think they were entitled to more than the other customers.

Our Asda (Gloucester) has the friendliest staff of any supermarket, really nice and helpful. However I don't shop there because I don't like the food (Meglet I had the same strop re olives, capers and anchovies in Asda. How sad )