Warning ! Supermarket Chaos Expected

sparkymark_3

1. I have noticed that next week ASDA Tesco Sainsburys are keeping their stores open 24 Hours - normally Xmas week they close Midnight/ open 6AM to allow shelves to be re-stocked without customers getting in the way and slowing down the process !
Several years ago they tried this and end result was huge checkout Q ( operators will be thin on ground) with people complaining about empty shelves at 1AM AND shelves NOT RE-STOCKED properly by next morning. (perhaps Boots advert with wrecked shelves is a prediction LOL) Do they never learn from mistakes ?

2. Remember Christmas Eve is on Sunday this year and stores only trade for 6 hours so avoid food shopping at all costs on that day as Checkout Q,s will be huge and stores packed (and greedy stores open until Midnight on Saturday= empty shelves)

iwanttosave_2

Of course there will be chaos, the shops shut for a day, so every begger and its dog goes out shopping on christmas eve to panic buy 20 loaves of bread, 60 litres of milk and 5 gallons of water. I hate it when my normal shopping day co-insides with the few days before christmas.

sparkymark_3

Hope I will not start a Nationwide panic but they are shut Boxing Day as well (and 1st Jan )

iwanttosave_2

They are shut for 2 days!!!!!!! :eek:


I think I will manage some how :rotfl:

Sparky, if there are any trolly by grabbins, then I will be holding you to blame for the mass hysteria :D

Poppycat

We found best time to do weeks shopping was at Christmas eve as it was dead last year in my local store. I still have a £100 of stamp for shopping to spend.

RAMBLER

Poppycat wrote:

We found best time to do weeks shopping was at Christmas eve as it was dead last year in my local store. I still have a £100 of stamp for shopping to spend.

Not in the morning its not, but by lunch time, I agree

Norma_Desmond

I haven't got any supermarkets anywhere near me - all my shopping is on order from my friendly local shop AND they deliver to my door!
Totally stress-free.

looby75

Yep i agree with you there Bobthedog. I love it when I visit my sister in kilmarnock, and we can happily stroll round asda at 10 pm on sunday night.....only problem is we ususally end up there at that time to get vodka and you can't buy it at that time :rotfl:

looby75

LOL I always look for the 10pm rush, its really funny seeing people with nothing but beer in their trolley rushing to the tills then 10 mins later they carry on with the rest of their shopping! I suppose it would be exactly the same in England, but I never go to the shops that late here

sparkymark_3

RAMBLER wrote:

Not in the morning its not, but by lunch time, I agree

But the different day makes a lot of difference - 6 hours to trade on a normally busy Sunday.last year lots of stores opened at 6AM on 24th

iwanttosave_2

bobthedog wrote:

I'm sure our Asian friends keep their shops open... :rolleyes:

No, sorry, that is too sensible an idea, no, we must run out and bulk buy everything we could possibly need and more.