the worst supermarket
I nominate Co-operative on Hills Road, Cambridge:
- moody staff
- massive queues at till
- generally overpriced
- countless ticketing errors
- unclear meal deal
I like Co-operatives in principle but they're often a bit crap. The Co-op on Whitchurch Road, Cardiff smelled of stale milk for ages because someone had spilt a carton underneath the freezer unit and nobody had bothered to get a contractor out to move the units and clean underneath.
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this is my experience of ALL Co-Ops
staff are a right bunch of minges and yes always queues.so expensive.
I third the nomination of the Co-Op
Agree on the first four points. Never had a meal deal from there.
I disagree
The Co-op in Soho is ace and the meal deals are value for money.
The samosas are all right but that's about it
Euston Station Sainsburys
seems to be dreadfully managed with some of the most moody staff going. I'm scared to go in there for fear of being screamed at by the checkout staff.
This morning in that VERY SAME CO-OP!!!
The cashier let someone jump the queue "just to buy cigarettes". The jumper then spent ages choosing his brand. Then changed his mind.
The next customer spent fucking ages arguing about the price of something. He got really stroppy, even going to the shelf and pulling off the tag to take to the till. When he turned round to do this I spotted the Co-op uniform he was wearing under his jacket.
And they often don't have any almond croissants, the cunts.
The Co-op on Chesterton Road is similarly filled with cashiers with faces like smacked arses
The Co-op in Milton Road barely deserves to be called a supermarket
There's more variety of stock in the Viking Fish Bar
I once had to go to three different supermarkets to try and find some mint.
That Co-op was one of the two that let me down. BASTARD
I remember that day
I ran into some trouble in the Viking Fish Bar the other week
I couldn't understand the accents of any of the ladies working there.
The irony of this is not lost on me.
I've a long-held theory that there's some
mass conspiracy throughout Co-op. No shop should have that many mispriced items. There was a period of about three weeks where every time I bought something from there, I had to get a refund. It was stupid stuff like a loaf of bread being underpriced by 2p (label says its cheaper than the guy on the checkout), or a box of cereal underpriced by 6p.
I also noticed that cashiers really didn't want to give receipts and on a few occassions said they till had run out of till roll.
Small amounts, but if every customer pays 20p less than the till/stock inventory is expecting, that's a lot of money to divvy up at the end of a week and it's also very easy to innocently dismiss it as a pricing error.
I started keeping a track and wanted to do a big expose on it but lost interest and started doing my shopping online.
over the next month
they are changing their promotional cycle so you should find this less of a problem.
Burn that fucking place to the ground
I won't lie: the thought did occur to me the third time in a row that they were out of almond croissants
Asda, Beehive centre, Cambridge.
Maybe all Asdas are like that? I don't intend to find out.
my experience of ASDA:
+ cheap
+ nice soups
- self-service checkouts are bloody horrendous
- as above - made worse by incompetent customers
- general whiff of despair
- no haloumi!
- need to pay for trolley
I think self-service checkouts and morons using them can happen anywhere at any time
I find the Morrison's machines to be dreadful (although you can just pour change into them).
The ones at Asda, Sainsburys and Tesco are the same ones pretty much.
Unclear meal deals make me so angry.
Tesco, Batley
Stupid carpark.
Also, all Tescos give you the over-bearing fear of evil once you step inside.
yes, good point on the evil
SPAR
so near, so ....
that would only count as a supermarket if you were living on a caravan park
Coming from co-op boy
Have you ever been to a Spar in France? They're really nice!
(well, comparatively)
You ever been to Spa in Belgium?
Course you have.
i think the ones over here are quite nice these days. most of them seem to be 24 hour too. i'm a fan.
Morrison's should win this hands down
for their abomination that is their Self Service tills.
i used to think Morrisons
but the one in Gamston, Nottm is the best supermarket this side of Carrefour or summat. amazing.
My local
Morrisons used to be shit, then they tarted it up no end. It's great now.
The big Morrisons in Kirkstall, Leeds is probably the best supermarket I've ever been to.
I heard from an insider that it's the branch they test out new stuff in, hence it's always changing and stocks some pretty rad stuff.
A few years ago when they first got those misting veg displays... wow.
yeah - misting veg displays
though our local one spoils it a bit by putting the fish counter by the entrance
Yeah, I think that's pretty standard
It's all about their 'Market Street' gimmick. Just smells bad though.
What's a misting veg display?
http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/resources/images/2195080.jpg?type=articleLandscape
Not sure that image really captures it. Basically, around some of the veg, mainly the exotic stuff, there are some pipes that spray a fine mist over the stock keeping it cool, moist and classy.
You're a misting veg display
The PAM in Nendaz, Switzerland, is pretty fucking appalling
right guys?
any with names such as
metro
pop-in
mini
express
drive-through
brief
compak
- 'ok guys, we're 19 times as small as a usual supermarket, how can we maximise space?'
- 'um, how about just leaving those big roller-cages in the middle of the isles all day instead of in the store room?'
-'perfect'
anyone that has visited brixton sainsburies or the tescos on tulse hill will know what i mean.
Drive through supermarkets?
yeah meths rides through tesco express
on the back of a roller-cage
why the hell not?
take it to the tampons thread, sister
drive-through
:|
Tesco Metro Nottingham Victoria Centre
- No natural light, as it's underneath a massive social housing block of flats
- As it's underground, lots of pillars in the middle of aisles.
- Only supermarket of its size in the city centre, so always busy.
- Not much in the way of queueing space, so when you're standing in the queue people always pushing past
- Self service machines always seem to be broken.
- Smells weird
fine if you go in after eight
does smell weird though
does it smell minty?
The Co-Op on Bow Road
Because I was sick there once and they still hadn't cleaned it up when I went in the next day.
:D:
bless that shop
the only place i've ever seen normal non-super tennent's in london. £10 for 24.
THAT WAS YOU?
The vomit that wasn;t cleaned up was a staple anecdote in my group of friends. You're sort of famous.
save it for Fridays, man, ffs.
Tesco Hackney Central
Worst in the world.
Always out of stock. Aisles are so so tiny. Always hellishly busy with tossers.
I went there when I was on weekend release from hospital to pick up some medication. Doubled up in pain, canula in my hand and people were pushing me over to get to the beans
I've never been in a co-op where I haven't felt stressed
the whole experience is really irritating, from the staff to the incorrect price tags. So many times I've bought Alcohol on offer only for the till to contradict the labels & the aisles too narrow + every single one in the country seems to be incapable of preventing long queue times.
any central London Tesco Metro / Express / whatever the fuck they call them
Specifically the Fleet Street (Strand end) and Trafalgar Square ones. Oh and the one opposite Russell Square tube. The tiniest shops known to man with THE WORST stock ever, full of tourists / students. Fuck them.
the tescos in Sunderland Bridges shopping centre
Everyone goes there. Everyone, its always heaving, far too busy for my liking. The self service is chocka block of thick cunts. I just look in and fuck off to morrisons
sainsburys london
i mean sainsbury
Tesco
always Tesco
in every single way, always Tesco
yup.
Except for the time it's co-op
Odd, I have always found Tesco and Co-op to be the best
out of the ones near me in Bristol anyway. Asda I find is very crowded, stressful, tills are manic, stuff is all over the place, very unfriendly, prices are good on a lot of items but you end up spending more overall somehow. Tesco is relaxed, usually a couple of tills at the end which are basically empty. Co-op is pricey but the one by Keynsham is incredibly stress-free. I am worried it will close down it is so quiet. Lidl wins overall for me though, just a good no BS shop.
+1 for the Lidl = no BS thing.
Core range, good prices, minimal distractions.
The icing on the cake is that most seem to have their offices on the ground floor, near the checkout, that have those stripey mirror windows. And that reminds me of the 80s.
:D