Abandoning ASDA

roxiegriff

asda is my closest supermarket but i dont use them, i hate asda, the staff are rude the customers are grabby and rude the store doesnt sell much in real food its mostly reeady meal type food. so i mainly shop at aldi , and but other bits at tesco. and i buy my custard doughnuts, and pork shanks from morisons

N9eav

I like ASDA, but we do shop about and don't get all our stuff in one place.
Love ASDA pizzas, wine deals and special offers, but tend to avoid their meat as its expensive and gross looking. I get most stuff in there, but
ALDI is getting a lot of my money these days. Chicken £3.29 today. Love their smoked streaky bacon (no rind unlike ASDA)
etc

DCFC79

Dont go to asda much as its always full of the buggy parade, customers going to knock into you with the trolley, whereas at tesco/sainsbury's/lidl/aldi theres maybe just 1 buggy or none at all and you dont get the feeling your going to get knocked over by a trolley. Although saying that ive been in other asda stores and they're completely different to the 1 here.

asparagusnextleft

I shop at Asda and it's the best local supermarket by far (I'm up north by the way). It's very rare that I can't find what we need and we don't eat ready meals, I cook from scratch. The store is always clean and tidy and the staff are friendly and helpful. The only problems encountered are when I time it wrong and arrive just after the free bus does - it's not good, there's carnage in the veg aisle when a lot of pensioners land at once!

Tesco is the supermarket I refuse to shop in, I hate Tesco with a passion.

Living_proof

I think a lot of the stress involved in food shopping is the level of uneccessary noise, muzak, etc. in shops. I cannot abide the noise in a busy Morrisons - the high pitch bleep of everything going through the scanners completely grates on my nerves. The best time to go shopping is first thing in the morning (I went at 8am today) and the chavs will still be in their pits for hours yet. I have been surprised by the difference in ambiance between shopping on a Saturday at 9.30 say and then at 11.30, by which time every bad tempered baggage in the county is out and the whole experience of negotiating the aisles is humourless and stressful. I would be interested to know what late late night shopping is like, as I am too far from town and need too little to make this a possibility for me.

Edwardia

I try hard to avoid:
* lunch time
* after school
* half term
* end of the month
* late night unless really late eg 1am or something - if it's hot and we're wide awake we have vamoosed off to the air-conditioned Tesco up the motorway
* Saturday mornings
* Sundays

I don't mind ASDA FM and I am not aware of the bleeps being any noisier than cash registers were (dimly remember as a child). I DO get annoyed by people standing in the aisle for convos and cluttering up the place and kids screaming.

abwsco

I do go to Asda but not very often as more often than not it's full of the great unwashed and you'd expect to hear the music from Deliverance playing:o Te$co's can be the same as well.

surfsister

Edwardia wrote: »

My mother hasn't been well so we hadn't done our fortnightly shopping marathon lately.

I had noticed previously that a new section of clothes had arrived and the book section is now no longer than a small sofa, compared to the two aisles it used to be. The DVD section had been reduced to two aisles as well.

Yesterday, looking at the vegetables, I noticed that they still took up the same amount of space ie four aisles, but the nature of the veg had changed. Not just fewer loose veg and more prepacked, but more prepared stuff eg carrots and swede, stir fry packs, carrots and peas etc.

Went into the meat and poultry section and whereas previously there was a good choice, there has been an explosion of ready meals and fresh meat has shrunk beyond belief.

The fresh fish counter didn't have any of the fish offers I'd picked out from the website so I went away with just two whole rainbow trout for £4

Decided to go to Morrisons. What a difference. Picked up Cornish lemon sole, dabs, Scottish salmon fillets, ray wings and a whole red gurnard.

Seriously considering Lidl + Morrisons now instead of ASDA.

Anyone else have ASDA moans or Morrisons praise ? Have you noticed fresh prepare & cook yourself produce being squeezed out by ready meals in your local supermarkets ?

Yes I've found morisons great for real food eg fish off the bone meat etc and the staff are really helpful too,nothing is too much trouble for them.

I rarely shop at tesco now and only at asda at 9pm when I knock off work and the bargains are ready eg bread for 10p!!

I do like george clothes though!! and seem to send more on clothes there than food!! lol. They are proper sizes and fit really well!

A._Badger

I dislike all the big supermarkets but I find Asda an improvement on Tesco in every respect, save one - its fresh food is short dated, consistently. As this means more frequent trips, I often shop elsewhere.

That aside my local branch (Kent) is no more 'chavvy' than Tesco, the staff are more personable, the prices are better and they seem to have some notion of proper stock control, which Tesco hasn't. You also don't get the sense that you need to triple check every 'special offer' in Asda to look for the hidden trick, unlike slippery Tesco.

There is one Morrisons within driving range. It looks like an explosion in a cardboard box factory. It's like a madhouse.

Locally, Sainsbury's seems to be a more civilised place to shop but Sainsbury's prices are poor - in some cases very poor.

Edwardia

The yellow sticker plum tomatoes and cherry tomatoes which I bought at ASDA on Thursday to make tomato sauce with are furry and had to be chucked.

The 2 for £4 whole rainbow trout was completely tasteless too. Definitely don't recommend it. OH said it was like cardboard.