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Originally Posted by struth

one of reasons i do it online and let them deliver it... its all too slow and some of them will be infected with something

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I know but there's a forty quid minimum and extra charge if you want it delivered at a time when you're not at work.

It's literally round the corner from me and on a Sunday, which is when I usually go, I am in and out in ten minutes tops.

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Originally Posted by Macca

I know but there's a forty quid minimum and extra charge if you want it delivered at a time when you're not at work.

It's literally round the corner from me and on a Sunday, which is when I usually go, I am in and out in ten minutes tops.

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tesco is going to 50 now... mind you its difficult not to spend 50 quid for me anyway. i try to get enough for near a week..

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Originally Posted by struth

tesco is going to 50 now... mind you its difficult not to spend 50 quid for me anyway. i try to get enough for near a week..

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I rarely go over thirty quid. I suppose I could spend £40 but then it's another fiver to get a useful delivery slot. Spending £50 is really pushing it, I just don't need that much.

Plus I don't find the Sainsbury's site to be very user friendly, it takes forever to locate the stuff I want. Actually quicker just to nip round the corner in person.

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Originally Posted by Macca

Reckon single bloke with middle age couple behind is the best bet. Single blokes are quick to pack and pay, and middle age and older couples tend to work as a team and are efficient. I know the old lady will faff about but she only has six items, so I join queue one.

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We are one of those efficient older couples - Mrs P. packs all the bags as I do it all wrong, while I just stand there trying not to look at the woman in the next queue with 'juicy' printed across the back of her jogging pants :)

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

We are one of those efficient older couples - Mrs P. packs all the bags as I do it all wrong, while I just stand there trying not to look at the woman in the next queue with 'juicy' printed across the back of her jogging pants :)

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almost certainly false advertising.

Yeah, "Skid mark resistant" might be a better slogan, but you'll never see that will you. People are so vain.

I bet they think those songs are about them.

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Originally Posted by Macca

Ate all the food in the house by Thursday, had Kentucky last night but no choice today other than go to the supermarket.

Usually I go on a Sunday as it's quiet and the trouble with going on Saturday is it's moron day. I was prepared for the worst and got it. Three checkouts open but all with long queues. My previous profiling research is pressed into service:

One queue has single bloke, followed by middle age couple followed by old lady with about six items.

Second has young couple buying a shedload and then about four blokes on their own with just a few items, and an old lady with a mini-trolley behind them

Queue three has young couple buying clothes then more old ladies with full baskets

Reckon single bloke with middle age couple behind is the best bet. Single blokes are quick to pack and pay, and middle age and older couples tend to work as a team and are efficient. I know the old lady will faff about but she only has six items, so I join queue one.

Things look up when the old lady decides to switch queues and I move forward to behind middle age couple.

Problem is the single bloke actually getting served is not only buying a shedload - his bill was £130! - he is packing so slowly it is difficult to believe you are seeing it. Even when all the scanning is done and the bird tells him how much he owes, instead of just paying, taking his trolley to one side and reorganizing his bags there while others are served, he ignores the request for payment and starts cocking about - moving a cabbage from one bag to another for example - and all in slow motion, like he is underwater or something.

This went on for minutes. Really had to bite my lip not to say anything, but if you create a ruckus they ban you and that would mean shopping at Lidl which I can't endure.

Nevertheless it's hard to cope with the ignorance of some people. In an ideal world he would be beaten to death, right there by the checkout, and everyone would cheer.

Finally he is done and pisses off. Then I realise the middle age couple are doing that thing where you split the shop into two lots and pay separately. The muppet can't get his card to read, so that takes forever, then he pays for the second lot on the same card anyway.

Comes to me and I am packed and paid in thirty seconds. Why would it take longer? Really what the fuck is wrong with people?

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Thanks for giving me a really good laugh, you couldn't make it up could you?

Brilliant Martin and I have observed this happen soooo many times!

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Originally Posted by Macca

Ate all the food in the house by Thursday, had Kentucky last night but no choice today other than go to the supermarket.

Usually I go on a Sunday as it's quiet and the trouble with going on Saturday is it's moron day. I was prepared for the worst and got it. Three checkouts open but all with long queues. My previous profiling research is pressed into service:

One queue has single bloke, followed by middle age couple followed by old lady with about six items.

Second has young couple buying a shedload and then about four blokes on their own with just a few items, and an old lady with a mini-trolley behind them

Queue three has young couple buying clothes then more old ladies with full baskets

Reckon single bloke with middle age couple behind is the best bet. Single blokes are quick to pack and pay, and middle age and older couples tend to work as a team and are efficient. I know the old lady will faff about but she only has six items, so I join queue one.

Things look up when the old lady decides to switch queues and I move forward to behind middle age couple.

Problem is the single bloke actually getting served is not only buying a shedload - his bill was £130! - he is packing so slowly it is difficult to believe you are seeing it. Even when all the scanning is done and the bird tells him how much he owes, instead of just paying, taking his trolley to one side and reorganizing his bags there while others are served, he ignores the request for payment and starts cocking about - moving a cabbage from one bag to another for example - and all in slow motion, like he is underwater or something.

This went on for minutes. Really had to bite my lip not to say anything, but if you create a ruckus they ban you and that would mean shopping at Lidl which I can't endure.

Nevertheless it's hard to cope with the ignorance of some people. In an ideal world he would be beaten to death, right there by the checkout, and everyone would cheer.

Finally he is done and pisses off. Then I realise the middle age couple are doing that thing where you split the shop into two lots and pay separately. The muppet can't get his card to read, so that takes forever, then he pays for the second lot on the same card anyway.

Comes to me and I am packed and paid in thirty seconds. Why would it take longer? Really what the fuck is wrong with people?

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Emmmm, perhaps a cabbage leaf or two, gently pushed up his nostrils would have alerted him to his error? In a similar vein those people who get on the bus and then start fishing in their purse for their payment, yes it's always a bloody woman!!