to be dreading going to ASDA

[Kariba29]

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?

WE have 2 local asdas, one is a walmart which I love and happy go just for a 'browse', as there are so many amazing things there. The other isd a traditional asds which feels dirty overcrowded and nasty. A friend of mjine in the 'trade' was amazed at the quality of their premium own brand and reckoned it was a lot better than sainsburys or tescos equivalent.

It ius our local tescos that makes me want to commit murder as everything is laid out in a biozarre way and I can never find anything. Plus it is tescos and they treat their staff appallingly.

i doin't shop in asda as i live near ttesco ~& work near sainsbury's but when i get to go i do like it. good quality fruit & vegetables (cheap too) and the staff are very nice. OTOH not as keen on their meat or own brand food. their bread is amazing!

bloody hell i stand corrected - i swear them jars were 5p about 6 weeks ago as my dad introduced them to me and i told lots of people at work whoalso raved about them and now online they say 57p

by 'own brand food' i mean ready meals.

The nearest branches of ASDA are mingetastic. Five minutes in there and you lose the will to live. Not that I like ASDA "food" anyway and I can't be doing with another Episode of the Steak & Kidney Pudding. Being owned by Walmart kind of puts the lid on things.

When ds2 was at uni and in a shared house in Southgate, the brand new ASDA just across the High Road was a huge and shiny palace of delights, mind, and bore absolutely no resemblance to the vile local versions.

So YANBU in not really fancying the idea of ASDA but it is worth going once. That way you have positive recent evidence to back up any future boycott.

Um...it seems a lot of you have had horrible experiences but con't you realise that is down to the area and staff?
All of our local supermarkets, Asda, Tesco, Sainsbos are lovely, Morrisons is a bit dirty.
The Asda near my mum is horrific and the Tesco and the Sainsbury's near my IL's are dirty and not laid out properly.

But I must say, am loving the generalisations and snobbishness.
Just remember, before you all overreact too late It's a fucking shop, you don't have to live there.

I would dread it too. ASDA is good for non-food stuff - baby things, cleaning products, and their strong kitchen roll is as good as Bounty (sorry, Plenty), so I stock up on these things, but find most of the food really poor quality.

Your DH could go on his own, but if he's anything like mine the phone ringing every 5 minutes to ask questions about this or that product will be more hassle than going to the supermarket yourself!

If DH wants to shop there tell him to go himself.

Hate it - feel like I need a shower when I get home - only place where I have witnessed mum's hitting their children and using the 'f' word on them in public . Though that's more about the town that Asda is in, rather than it just being about Asda.

Only go in their for their 3 for £10 wine offer

Here Here Jackrabbit - some of the comments on here about mingling with poor people and dressing down to look a bit common are snobby to the extreme. Some posters on here don't seem to live in the real world at all.

i think it must depend on the area? i usually go to tesco,but have shopped in asda.must say,i've never noticed the things that some are complaining about..always seems clean (would be shocked if any food supplier were dirty,and leave)

think they do good value clothes..and stuff like packs of baby vests etc as do tesco..toiletries are good value,as are tesco.

am a bit puzzled really,have never really thought about it..it's just a supermarket to me..if i need something and i'm driving past,i'd pop in,as i would do to sainsbury's, tesco,morrisons..whichever i'm passing really

I loathe ASDA and Tesco. I use Sainsbury's and Morrisons.

Asda is more expensive than Tesco and mush worse fruit and vegetables. TBH Asda is the supermarket, here, where you are likely to see white families swearing and hitting their over tired children and Tesco offers immigrants shopping at 9pm with their over tired small children!!

Asda has very little nice own brand stuff and it's just cheapy shite.

YANBU

Goodness.

When I was a lass and my step dad got a job, I knew we were rich cos we could afford to go to an actual supermarket for our shop. ASDA was to me the height of poshness, full of people who must live in wonderful big houses and possess wads of cash. (Seriously)

I love the asda at home near us with its cafe, staff are lovely and the cafe food is generally very good.

The Morrisons even nearer to us, their cafe is rank and horrible, even dh won't eat anything from there after going in when it first opened. We may give it another go though.

Morrisons food is fine, apart from their hoummous which bears no relation to any hoummous I have ever had.

Love Tesco, my favourite for food, I usually order online, have a clubcard and it is linked to my electricity and gas supplier, so loads of points, especially over winter. Mmmm tesco.....

"Asda is more expensive than Tesco and mush worse fruit and vegetables. TBH Asda is the supermarket, here, where you are likely to see white families swearing and hitting their over tired children and Tesco offers immigrants shopping at 9pm with their over tired small children!!" WTF - is this a genuine posting?

Nemofish are you near me? Are you South Yorks?

I don't like green shops yanbu

yes....it's true. I do not the share the same Asda as Riven, and the staff asAsda are lovely. Everytime I've been I have witnessed children being hit and sworn at through gritted teeth.

And Tesco is full of Somalians, newly arrived and shopping with very tired children at 9/10pm.

I am eating an ASDA apple at this very moment. It's very nice.

The staff at our store are by far the most obiging and helpful of any supermarket. Some of the customers mind you....

mitochondria that wouldnt be the 'empress' roundabout would it
I shop in morrisons mainly ,but i drive 5 miles further to the next nearest as its much nicer than, the closer one which is on a retail park . I also do sainsburys too and have been known to dirty the floors of waitrose . Asda i dont do as i had a bad experience when it went 24hrs and decided to take dd aged 5months at 4 am and got followed round by a drunk scary man

Depends entirely on the store near you - maybe your DH had a nice one when he were a lad (or he had low standards).

Do it online.

I hate the asda near here- far far far too big, always mobbed, takes 3 hours to get around and another 30 mins to get through the checkout. Far prefer smaller supermarkets, just for the time aspect.

having said that, I do nearly all of my shopping online for many reasons

1. No queues
2. no dc with me- can do it sitting with a glass of wine at 10pm. No whinging "I want that! can, I mum, pleeease?
3. can nip into kitchen to check if I actually need washing powder/ spaghetti/ whatever

4 At the end, can see what I've spent, go through my basket and put back stuff I don't really need- easy! I can also use the vouchers etc I've collected with my clubcard points, so more money off

Why on EARTH do people actually go into supermarkets nowadays? Do you enjoy being bashed with trolleys? saying "excuse me" every second to all the gossipers in the narrow aisles? Looking for an essential which has been moved, but none of the staff you ask have a clue where? MADNESS!