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A combination of poor preparation by the stores and selfish tuuattery by customers makes Christmas shopping extra stressful.
Went to Tesco yesterday. No shelf edge labels for many items so you don't know the price. Signage is awful, you can't find stuff. Queues at the checkout are huge because they have ripped most of the manned ones out and put in "UIITBA" checkouts instead.
M&S was even worse this morning.
Got up early to try and miss the crowds, but failed miserably.
Asked a lady who looked like she might be queuing but it wasn't obvious if she was in the queue and got told "What the F does it look like?"
I told her I didn't want to say what it looked like, as there had been enough unnecessary swearing already. She opened her mouth to say something and her sensible teenage daughter gave her a jab in the ribs, so she didn't reply.
Waitrose was far less busy (should have gone there in the first place; you pay a bit more but it's a far more peaceful experience) but they had completely sold out of mince pies apart from a few boxes of Heston's kumquat, rats tail and cheese mince pies.
Their self checkout was the worst I'd ever used.
They have a small metal tray on which you have to stack stuff after scanning which, if you have more than a few items, causes issues. Had to call the checkout lady over to rectify this then some stuff didn't scan properly....
I've never gone through a self checkout without needing input from a staff member and swore a while ago I'd never use one again, but the "normal" checkouts were so rammed, I decided to make an exception.
Added to the mix were selfish customers who blocked aisles with their trollies and a guy at Waitrose who decided to park in the roadway in front of our space so we couldn't get out. The roadway was narrow enough not to allow cars behind him to pass either. Mrs Secure got out, tapped on his window and asked him to move. He was not happy. Audi Q7 driver.
Just helping to confirm my theory that the majority of selfish or dangerous manoeuvres are by drivers of Audi, BMW or Mercedes, closely followed by Range Rover.
Went to Tesco yesterday. No shelf edge labels for many items so you don't know the price. Signage is awful, you can't find stuff. Queues at the checkout are huge because they have ripped most of the manned ones out and put in "UIITBA" checkouts instead.
M&S was even worse this morning.
Got up early to try and miss the crowds, but failed miserably.
Asked a lady who looked like she might be queuing but it wasn't obvious if she was in the queue and got told "What the F does it look like?"
I told her I didn't want to say what it looked like, as there had been enough unnecessary swearing already. She opened her mouth to say something and her sensible teenage daughter gave her a jab in the ribs, so she didn't reply.
Waitrose was far less busy (should have gone there in the first place; you pay a bit more but it's a far more peaceful experience) but they had completely sold out of mince pies apart from a few boxes of Heston's kumquat, rats tail and cheese mince pies.
Their self checkout was the worst I'd ever used.
They have a small metal tray on which you have to stack stuff after scanning which, if you have more than a few items, causes issues. Had to call the checkout lady over to rectify this then some stuff didn't scan properly....
I've never gone through a self checkout without needing input from a staff member and swore a while ago I'd never use one again, but the "normal" checkouts were so rammed, I decided to make an exception.
Added to the mix were selfish customers who blocked aisles with their trollies and a guy at Waitrose who decided to park in the roadway in front of our space so we couldn't get out. The roadway was narrow enough not to allow cars behind him to pass either. Mrs Secure got out, tapped on his window and asked him to move. He was not happy. Audi Q7 driver.
Just helping to confirm my theory that the majority of selfish or dangerous manoeuvres are by drivers of Audi, BMW or Mercedes, closely followed by Range Rover.
