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Old Apr 27, 2008 | 1:44 am
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Well, again, a lot of this could be a UK thing, but:
  • When the cashier asks you if you want help packing, you decline, and they scan the items at lightning speed just to spite you.
  • When you do get them to help with packing and they use a new bag for every two items.
  • When they run out of something, instead of leaving the label there, they obliterate its very existence, so you don't know if they've run out or dropped it entirely.
  • Endless badgering for layalty cards. Look, I'm in town for the weekend, there's no bramch near home, and I don't want 0.001% rebate in return for endless mailshots.
  • Bizarre and illogical categorisation. The 25g raisin boxes are with "snacking fruit" and the 75g with "baking ingredients". Hmm.
  • Promotions on staple items where they vastly under-order.
  • When I order a week's worth of groceries online,and all the fresh stuff they deliver is BBE the next day.
  • When they don't police the disabled spaces in the car park, and let scum get away with parking there illegally.
  • Where there are no or very insecure cycle spaces, particularly when in town. Come on, it's 2008, not 1988!
  • Bizarre car park layouts devised by M C Escher.
  • Pricing 2 2-packs at less than a 4-pack. That used to be illegal.
  • Urban supermarkets with no respect for the surrounding area (Tesco are especially bad for this) - cages left on the pavement, delivery vans blocking streets, late-night noise...
  • Excessive and unrecyclable packaging, even in this day and age. And also, making a huge fuss about how much packaging they're reducing when it's only been introduced in the last couple of years.
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