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to be dreading going to ASDA

76 replies

Kariba29 · 31/03/2010 13:15

i dont like the place too big, too busy and one that i tried to go to several times a few years ago was a bit dirty so eventually gave up.

Now DH wants us to do our monthly shop there as he used to before we met, and he thinks they offer good value for money and he just doesnt understand why i have such loyalty to my current supermarket but i have been using them since i started living on my own nearly 10 years ago and i really dont want to change but i promised him i will give it a try for April's big shop and now im dreading it, so am i being a teensy weensy U?

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AmeliaCordelia · 31/03/2010 13:19

Our local ASDA is fab - clean, cheap and not at all like the shabby image of old. It even has a moving slope between floors you can fit your trolley on.

tartyhighheels · 31/03/2010 13:19

asda is a soul crushing experience - online darling.... do it online!

you are perfectly reasonable

LetThereBeRock · 31/03/2010 13:20

I can't understand why so many people on here have a horror of Asda.
The two Asdas near us are both fine. Clean,large yes,good quality fruit and vegetables and a very good selection of products.

I've also yet to experience the awful behaviour of staff or customers that I've so often read about.

cocolepew · 31/03/2010 13:20

I always shop in Asda I hate Tesco.

loolop · 31/03/2010 13:20

YANBU I don't like asda either for all the same reasons!

Notalone · 31/03/2010 13:20

Try it once and if you still don't like it don't go again and get your DH to do it if he insists on Asda. Unless you really like a particular supermarkets food or collect points I feel loyalty is a waste of time.

You should try Netto first if you think Asda is bad. It will seem like paradise afterwards

BunnyLebowski · 31/03/2010 13:21

Ours too Amelia. 2 trolley escalators in fact. And a cafe. And a pharmacy. And a massive George section.

I could spend a whole day there

It's shiny and clean and last week I did a massive shop and got to the tills anticipating a total of about £110 and it was £69.

Fantastic value.

mingler · 31/03/2010 13:21

Nope. Asda is fairly horrid. I'm not convinced it's that much cheaper than other supermarkets either, they all play a game where they put prices down for 2 weeks then put them back up again so they can say they've cut 4000 prices this week, they never mention the ones they have put back up.

Of course, if he wants to go and do the monthly shop then you should let him

5inthebed · 31/03/2010 13:22

All the Asdas near me are fine, the one we use is lovely.

My mam swears by their 12p jars of curry sauce

emsyj · 31/03/2010 13:24

YANBU. Asda is a horrific experience, but I still go there as it is so much cheaper than any of our other local supermarkets and their stuff is nicer quality for the price too.

Bucharest · 31/03/2010 13:26

I love Asda, and the assistants are fantastic.
Now Tesco, that is minging.

southeastastra · 31/03/2010 13:28

minging?
horrific?

mind boggles

i remember when we only had sainsbury's! and that used to shut at 5 oclock

mitochondria · 31/03/2010 13:28

I'm going this afternoon. I wouldn't say I enjoy it, particularly, but it's OK if you choose your moment (don't go on a Saturday!).

I am lucky enough to be in the only town in the UK without a large Tesco, although they are doing their best to build one.

I would go to Sainsbury's, but it's on the other side of town, and requires driving around The Very Scary Roundabout of Doom, so ASDA it is.

MrsJohnDeere · 31/03/2010 13:34

The one near me is very grim indeed. I go there to get petrol and, once in a blue moon, pop in for cheap paperbacks and nappies but rarely food. 2 friends have had their cars stolen from the car park, which puts me off a little.

I'm told that the one in the next town is shiny and lovely, but I've never felt inclined to make the trip.

mumdrivenmad · 31/03/2010 13:38

Is it that you don't like the crowds, then maybe you can do your shopping online, or you can go in the early hours of the morning if it is a 24 hour one, there will only ever be a handfull of people in then.

PurpleCrazyHorse · 31/03/2010 13:38

Hate our Asda but the local Morrisons is fab, just don't go on pension day! It's all about picking the right day and time

Meglet · 31/03/2010 13:38

Our asda drives me up the wall, I went a couple of times, had a huff when they didn't sell capers and never went back.

They seem to be cheap on branded products (which I don't buy), but their own brand was the same as other supermarkets. So its sainsburys all the time for me now.

2shoeskickedtheeasterbunny · 31/03/2010 13:39

asda is brill

OrmRenewed · 31/03/2010 13:40

Oh poor darling! It is quite shocking isn't ?

I find I am OK as long as I dress down a little, talk like a local and smile nicely at all the common people.

emsyj · 31/03/2010 13:52

Our Asda is not 24 hour, so it's packed all the time. I'm surprised they haven't extended the opening hours to be honest. It's heaving all the time. And the car park is tiny, and I am a poor driver, so I find parking there really stressful. The only 24 hour supermarket near us is a Tesco and I don't think the stuff in there is as cheap or as good as the Asda stuff. Nearest Sainsburys is horrible, and on industrial park type thing with a McDonalds drive through and a Homebase, so you have to queue just to get into the car park because the idiot who designed the layout put the drive through McDonalds right at the entrance, so as soon as there are more than 3 cars waiting (and there always are) they are in the car park queue.

valleyqueen · 31/03/2010 14:01

Depends on your Asda my local one has horrible parking,horrible narrow aisles and horrendous queues the one in the next town is lovely. But then I love Morrisons which a lot of my friends can't stand. Give them a try at least and then do what I did and vow never again.

MissCoStu · 31/03/2010 14:03

Asda is full of chavs and poor people, I don't blame you at all for not wanting to shop there.

AmeliaCordelia · 31/03/2010 14:05

Morrisons fruit and veg 'aisles' make me want to commit murder....

round and round we all go....

NormalityBites · 31/03/2010 14:08

Oh God. ASDA. You wade through the car park (shock horror, I walk there, and there is next to no pedestrian access, so it's all walking on the sides of sliproads etc with a DC ) Dodge all the cars and trolley-wielding loonies through the car park which is half a mile long. Finally get the the entrance and make a face at all the people complaining about the eons of M&B spaces being full of white vans and convertables. Pass the in-store McDonalds in the foyer, now there's a cynical marketing ploy if ever I saw one....finally get into the store. It is several miles around it. Everything will be, without fail, in a totally different place to where it was the last time you were there. The shelves are practically empty, especially of fresh fruit and veg, but the REDUCED shelf is packed - well, with people, you can't actually see if there are any bargains due to the Wembley-style crowd surrounding the out-of-date ham. My ASDA is a two-floor thing with travelators in between floors. There is always something you need from downstairs on an average shop - toothpaste, shampoo, nappies, etc, and they make you walk past the entire of ASDA home, DVD and game sections to reach them. More mileage. It takes approximately ten minutes to cross the store and change floors, and they put the only toilets downstairs on the far side. Meaning that when you are happily browsing the wine aisle and newly-potty trained DC announces their need for the toilet, it is a literal trolley-dash, this time they make you go through the entire George section before your DC wets themselves within sight of the porcelain god.
You pop into the cafe to realise that the fact it is in the middle of a hypermarket means nothing with regard to its stock levels. The food served has zero resemblance to anything on the 'menu', and nine times out of ten even if they have the soggy-bottomed, burnt-topped pie they promised, they have not a single type of vegetable to go with it. It comes with chips, and that's your lot.
They queues through the day hit the back of the store - I waited 45 minutes to pay, once - the staff couldn't care less. I've seen nose-picking in between scanning items, been refused a key to the disabled toilet which is upstairs for my very elderly grandmother who walks with two sticks, and had precious photos go missing in their photo lab. They installed a 'butchers' stall and when questioned the 'butchers' staffing it could not identify which part of which animal most of the things they were selling came from.
They are Walmart, their offers suck, and most of all - MOST of all...the worst thing about ASDA is that when you get your food home you actually have to eat it. The quality is really, really appalling and I threw out more than I ever ate from there.

In case you haven't guessed, YANBU. And I no longer go to ASDA - ever, despite it being my most local supermarket.

nappyzoneloveslindor · 31/03/2010 14:09

5inthebed the 5p smart price jars of curry in ours are really nice - slow cooker all day chuck in chicken and ta da - we up north - wonder if same ones? Anyhows i like ours all the aisles are lined up so you go up and back down unlike eveil morrisons were they are random and offset. I do mainly do it online these days mind.

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