Lidl is another option for bulk shopping.
However, this plan only works if you have a flexible job and live in Little Macfuckston. Not if you work 10 hours a day in a city centre (and can’t be arsed to cook when you get home).
There is in Bangkok! They have Tesco’s there. And there’s a Boots.
God, I despair. Farthest flung Tesco I’ve seen is Prague, and that nearly broke my heart.
Wrong part of the North son.
I never said I was a culinary expert, merely that its expensive enough for food in London without resorting to products made by Lloyd Grossman and “honestly priced”. Which if anything, is grounds to sue Waitfuckingrose under the Trade descriptions act.
And I hate mushy peas. and Gordon Ramsey. And Wigan.
Mangetout,
You don’t know you’re born. Try going to an Irish supermarket for chocolate spread and you will be lucky if you can find two varieties - whatever is being heavily advertised at the moment and the “Own Brand” crap. And that’s it. You might think that’s fine for chocolate spread but it’s very annoying when it happens with bread, or tea. The range of goods that you can get at a Sainsburys is phenomenal.
Mind you I wouldn’t darken their door if at all possible, thanks to Lord Sainsbury.
When I lived in the UK, I invented “Shopping in the wrong direction” to help relieve the tedium of the whole experience.
Enter the shop and go immediately to the other end on the line of tills and start shopping from there and gradually work your way back to the entrance. That way you’ll get the fresh bread and expensive impulse stuff out of the way before you’re tired and hungry and you have the added bonus of looking at the perplexed faces of all the other shoppers as you shove your trolley up the aisle when everyone else is trying to go down. Another advantage is that as you near the end of the shop, the shoppers are increasingly good-natured, as they have just started whilst you are nearly finished.
Try it it’s great fun and slightly subversive.
Dmmit, if they can have a Boots in Bangkok, why can’t I get one here! I love that store…
Well my other solution is the return to a class based society, and then I can just let cook and the butler sort it out.
Damned welfare state, robbing me of my ability to hire the lower classes for a pittance.
When we moved from the ‘smoke’ 18 months ago we left the local sainsbury’s and said hello to the local Asda’s.
I know that many of ‘them over there’ slate Wal-mart, but we have had to get used to their “strange” ways…
For instance:-
Special offers:- always in abundance, never empty “sorry sold out” stickers
Fresh veg:- again always in abundance, very fresh, trimmed and prepared if you want.
Meat: better than our local village butchers, the beef is especially good, never had a tough joint yet.
Helpful friendly staff who will happily do anything to help (yes they do, honest!)
Good range of ‘everyday’ clothing - very keen on price.
Lastly, best of all, super-fast checkouts, total efficiency, their all open, and no matter how busy the store is, they work very hard and you check-out very quickly.
Thanks… please send vouchers in post!
Pergau - I’m going to try it. Should I walk backwards as well ?
[H] Highjack [/H]
Just realised that was my **th post. 
STANDBY Mrs. Beech I’m coming home…
sorry…
carry on
I like both, actually. I tend to buy creamy, however, since the crunchy kind is awful on pancakes.
I always wondered what the UK version of “East Bumfuck” was. Awwight, geezer?
How can you possibly doubt it?
The supermarket chain that Morrisons is due to take over is Safeway.
I am, like paul, a Morrisons evangelist. We recently got a branch in Barrow and it fucking rocks. Cheap things, and quality things - and sometimes, those things are one and the same. Shocker.
Good butchers, good fish counter, wide selection of bread, good pie shop, decent wines for £2.99*, more than enough tills. OK, this is a brand new store, and therefore had been designed to have more than enough tills, but I’d reckon that the guiding principles of Morrisons store layout would be carried over into the takeover of Safeway if and when it happens.
The only advantage our Tescos has is that it’s 24 hour.
*yes, actually decent. Put my opinion through the Ignert Bumpkin filter as you wish, though.
That was just my take on a Scottish one. For England I’d say Nether Fuckington on the Arse perhaps. In Wales it’d be Scantilly Clad.
In Ireland, it’s definitely Ballybuttfuck.
From Lords of the aisles
His facial rictus is down to the payment he receives for all those good works. Millions of pounds worth of smirking.
That whole article is highly aposite, by the way.
I’ve got three words for you – Dame Shirley Porter.
That bitch !
You’re quite right, everton; More Thatcher than Thatcher and more bent than Archer.
I’m sure she’s not in control now, though . . . else I would certainly boycott the gaff . . . >>> off to check
I’ve just remembered that the Sainsbury heir and his yahoo friends once came to my town and trashed the best restaurant. Frisbee with antique plates was played.
I disagree; the kind of ‘variety’ they offer is a choice between woodland chickens fed on whole grains from a gold platter and woodland chickens fed on whole grains from a platinum platter; stoneground wholemeal bread milled from hand-scythed Macedonian wild wheat and stoneground multi-grain bread milled from peasant-gleaned Bulgarian water-rye. Seriously, last night there was not a single loaf of white sliced bread of any variety or brand; bread with sundried tomatoes, basil and pine nuts, yep!; bread with olives, walnuts and balsamic fucking vinegar, stacks of it!; sliced white? Nope.
Asda rules.
Quite aside from their sensible range, I can fill a trolley to overflowing for sixty quid in Asda; for the same amount in Sainsbury’s I’ll be lucky to get more than I can carry by hand.
One thing you can’t fault Sainsbury’s for – who else would have modelled a supermarket on the Tellytubbies’ house? It all about priorities.