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Shops that do my head in

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  • Savvy_Sue
    Savvy_Sue Posts: 47,494 Forumite
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    That is exactly what happens to me in HMV, Virgin and other music shops! I thought I was the only one! Now I have to buy CDs online, which is cheaper and I don't impulse buy so much.
    I forgot to add "any shop with a lot of background noise especially music pumping away in the background ..." Have walked out of shops before now because I can feel my balance going with the assault on my ears!
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  • linz
    linz Posts: 1,976 Forumite
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    Sports soccer should make their aisles bigger. Takes me ages to get around their shops.

    Also the shops that start playing their Christmas cd's at the beginning of November
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  • Poppy9
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    I too noticed that WHS has gone all dark and cluttered. The displays are too tall and are blocking out all the light. Staff are nice and helpful though.

    M&S. No staff on shop floor, long checkout queues, staff chatting and overpriced goods.

    Tesco Customer service dept. I think the people who work on this desk are specially choosen. You have to have a proven record as a Sales Prevention Assistant, be able to grunt and look at you disbelievingly and disinterested at the same time and take 30 minutes to work the till to issue a refund! :P

    Iceland - oh they are lovely. Always find you the special offers from out the storeroom. Always have a little chat at the tills. All their veg is GM free. :)
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  • 16011996
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    i love iceland too, but hate sainsburys. rude staff, rude people who shop there, and demented new trolleys.
  • bridiej
    bridiej Posts: 5,775 Forumite
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    Agree about WHS!!

    Tesco & Sainsburys: they made our local stores into megastore things and it takes 45 minutes to do the shopping. We now go to Morrisons (Safeway) and it only takes us half the time!

    Currys: You see what you like then it takes half an hour in the queue to buy it!

    I just pop in now and then.... :)
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  • My least favorite shops are:-

    Tesco Metro. The ques are ridiculous

    Scotmid (co-op) where they stick still stick sweets at the check outs.

    Superdrug. They only have one person on the till at lunch time and there is allways a que.

    Greggs one person serving one person making sandwhiches - que out of the door
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  • MarkyMarkD
    MarkyMarkD Posts: 9,912 Forumite
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    C'mon it's QUEUE not QUE! :o
  • Savvy_Sue
    Savvy_Sue Posts: 47,494 Forumite
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    AAAGGGHHHH!!!!!

    The tinsel shop has opened!

    One of these days I'll work out what it is when it's not a tinsel shop - it's always in the same place!
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  • Nile
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    ............you've spoilt it for me Marky, I was having a 'Fawlty Towers' moment. I could just imagine hearing Manuel saying, "Que?" ;D
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  • 16011996
    16011996 Posts: 8,313 Forumite
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    AAAGGGHHHH!!!!!

    The tinsel shop has opened!

    One of these days I'll work out what it is when it's not a tinsel shop - it's always in the same place!

    do you mean an xmas decs shop? ;D we have one of those, but i never see it being anything else. :)
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