Tell Me Something............Anything!

[struth]

start a new political party.. the AG&W party. (anti green and woke) it might do very well

[Macca]

Are Kwik Save still around? They don't deserve to be. I remember their adverts, featuring items at a greatly reduced price, but when I go in they never had any. Probably limited to one tiny store on the outskirts of Burnley which had 2 tins of half price baked beans.

I wonder if the days of the big out-of-town superstores are numbered, and will become warehousing/distribution centres - when only a small percentage of the population can run an ev, because most folk live in a terraced house or block of flats with piss-poor parking and no reliable access to charging points, deliveries will become the norm.

no there's been no Kwik Save for years. We used to have Co-Op ('Pioneer'), Kwik Save and Iceland. If you want lack of stock that Co-Op was the worst ever, acres of empty shelves. Quite often they'd have no fresh meat at all. It was like living in Soviet Russia. This is years back too when lorry drivers were ten-a-penny.

The Kwik-Save became Lidl and then the idiot Council decided to bulldoze some Grade II listed Art Deco buildings and replace them with a big, ugly tin shed for a Sainsbury, which they justified by saying it would draw people in to the town and revitalise the place. (It didn't).

The crappy Co-Op closed about two months after the Sainsbury opened. It's now a BHF furniture shop.

Recently Iceland closed and the Lidl next door to it expanded into their old building so we now have a massive Lidl. Not been in it though.

I don't think these big supermarkets will close, likewise the retail parks. Whereas I see shopping as chore that has to be done as quickly as possible so I can get back to the telly, for many it seems to be an outing similar to going to Disneyland.

There's lots of people driving about 'going to places' for no other reason than they can't think of anything better to do.

[Mikeandvan]

supermarkets have been discontinuing products I like for decades. Try buying some proper frozen American waffles these days. They all used to stock them including Asda which was the last to stop selling them some time back in the early 1990s.

even Amazon don't sell then in their 'American' shop.

I like the Sainsbury iced donuts but go in after 10am and they're sold out. That's always been the case. They have no way to tell how many they would have sold if they put more stock out.


Went into Kwik Save once, only after a couple of things, plain digestive biscuits, tin of tomato soup and I forget what else but it was something totally ubiquitous. Sold out of all three.

All of this was way before pandemic, shortage of drivers, shortage of shipping containers etc etc.

There should be some sort of tagger next to the price card you can swipe your phone on and it tells them 'Yes I would have spent some more money with you if you had the thing I wanted.'

With this ordering on-line thing they just flog you a 'substitute' instead so it's better for them as they still sell you something instead of you walking out empty-handed. No incentive to improve.

With the corner shop I just tell him what I want and he gets it in from the cash and carry. He still can't get proper waffles though.

Why not invest in a waffle iron, they must be awesome homemade.

[Macca]

Too much mess. Besides I liked the frozen ones.

[walpurgis]

I think I prefer them thawed myself.

Anyway, are you talking about the potato ones or the pastry ones?

[struth]

My central heating is faulty. Will have to phone when I get home.
Had to do it when temp went below freezing doh

[Macca]

I think I prefer them thawed myself.

Anyway, are you talking about the potato ones or the pastry ones?

Pastry.

[struth]

Pastry.

how about these.. https://www.u-buy.co.uk/product/LK3H...z-box-24-count

[Macca]

out of stock.

They're always out of stock. I stopped bothering to check years ago.

[fatmarley]

Ask Alexa if she'd like some toast.