Abandoning ASDA

macma

Our local Asda is ok,the staff are a wonderful bunch,always cheerful and helpful.We buy a great deal in Lidl and again the staff are lovely.It's always clean and tidy and their fruit and veg is always fresh and well priced.The local Sainsburys is a grubby place although the staff seem ok,I only venture in for their red label teabags and 5k sugar (we make our own wine ).
Mmm and then there's Morrisons a beautiful store ,clean, well stocked with a splendid variety of fruit and veg,lovely fish counter,friendly staff and then you get to the checkout:mad::mad::mad:
without exception I have NEVER been when there hasn't been a queue,the support to their checkout ops is slow and often nonexistant,the poor (new) girl who served us the other day was completely out of her depth and the woman in front of us had to swap a loaf of bread (damaged) get another cabbage (no barcode)all this while despite people waiting at the 50% checkouts that were open they were CLOSING one :mad: I used to be a checkout manager for Mr Ts so I know what it takes, pity they don't

scot88

My asda is within walking distance. Staff there are really friendly and helpful.I don't like their fresh meat as it never looks very fresh,some of it I wouldn't feed to a dog. The veg/fruit section, sometimes is fine other times looks like the stuff has been there for weeks. Morrison's fresh meat on the other hand is awlawys fresh and good enough quaity.

lindseykim13

I hate asda but force myself in for the whoopsies! However it is more like a wrestle is there than any other supermarket.

RE kids in supermarkets- How will they learn how to behave in one when they don't get to experience it?
I take all 3 of mine with me and no they don't always behave but neither do a lot of teenagers and adults alike.

bornintoit

lindseykim13 wrote: »

I hate asda but force myself in for the whoopsies! However it is more like a wrestle is there than any other supermarket.

RE kids in supermarkets- How will they learn how to behave in one when they don't get to experience it?
I take all 3 of mine with me and no they don't always behave but neither do a lot of teenagers and adults alike.

Good point but I think it's more about children of a certain age. My youngest will of course experience supermarkets and has done if I have had to pick up a single item or a couple of items if passing but I would not take him for a big fortnightly shop. I know many people who do the same so even though I may look lonely on here I know I'm not actually alone :rotfl:.

lilac_lady

I don't lke Asda or Tescos. I shop in Sainsburys, Morrisons, Lidl and the Co-op. I think a supermarket is only as good as the manager and many of them couldn't care less about standards and customer service.

Edwardia

If OH is in ASDA with me and some kid is screaming he mutters 101 reasons why not to have kids, as we pass it..does he get filfthy looks

Nara

If I could imagine a hell it would be shopping in a supermarket, esp if its busy.

I do 99% of my shopping online, saves me petrol (nearest supermarket is a 20min drive), masses of time (hate driving there then shopping, then packing at the till, then driving back, then carrying it indoors, then unpacking) lots of money as I always overspend when throwing stuff into my trolley in the shop, I save a good few hours of my life having it delivered to my door and cannot understand why everyone doesn't do this:rotfl:

I used Asda once for my online shop, but never again, i wasn't impressed with their food or the fact all my frozen stuff turned up melted.

I mainly use Tesco's and apart from making the odd mistake myself and ending up with the wrong thing its been pretty good.
I use Ocado sometimes too and then tend to cycle thro them using codes they email me with money off, it's win-win if you ask me :-)

Oh and I hear Morrisons are thinking of starting home deliveries too