supermarket shop mayhem

glendam

As I said on a post on the vent board.
We left the house to go to Tesco last night at 11pm back home midnight all done. Shop quiet plenty of stock and staff even smiling.

Glenda

love_lifer

aldi was v quiet and civilized today

JoeyG

snaffler wrote:

Another warning is many are not aware or taken on board its normal sunday trading hours on xmas eve so imagine what would normally be 12 hours or so of shopping hell is going to crammed into 6 hours of shopping hell.

On the contrary... I assume at this much holy time of year, people will be respecting the sabbath as the day of rest even more so than usual

comping_cat

Just popped out to get a loaf of bread (usually make my own, but didnt have enough for lunch!!!) and Waitrose was so busy, there was a queue of people outside the store waiting to be let in, and there was a massive queue of cars in the car park waiting to get out!!!! We joined that queue and went to burger king instead (not money saving and not very nice, but better than waiting in the cold for one loaf), and now im home, will be making more bread!!!!

Foosterino

Went to M&S yesterday not too bad, thats me done apart from bread etc

Foo
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Smickan

My mum's just been down to our local market and has just phoned to tell me that the queue for taxi's extend from the rank outside the shop, along the front of the store and down towards the entrance.

Given that the store is an Asda Superstore that is literally huge you get the idea... Apparently there has to be at least 100 people in that queue

embb

Well I'm back and still in one piece - hurrah! all done barring the roasties I forgot and I wouldn't care they were on my list! :rolleyes: would make my own but they always turn out rubbish. It was heaving, but I managed to stay calm and relaxed, walked round with a smile on my face (kinda) and I lived to tell the tale, only had to wait 10 mins for a taxi too

I'm all done *sigh of relief*

I've got to unpack it all now though

heatherw_01

I am going tonight, not looking forward to it either because I know it will be packed.

C_Ronaldo

they just need to calm down, re the hours on sunday its the law for sunday trading, what they may do is let you in half hour to an hour before they open to let you fill your trolley so at ten ur ready to put it onto the till
you'd have to ask your local store about this, i know when i worked at saisnburys this was done a few times

ckerrd

JoeyG wrote:

On the contrary... I assume at this much holy time of year, people will be respecting the sabbath as the day of rest even more so than usual

Our local Asda/Morrisons are open from 9 - 6 on Sunday. Sainsburys is open from 0600 - 1800
Different laws in Scotland