No wonder people avoid the shops.... - Page 2

shillelagh · 15-11-2008, 21:18

At the minute everyone else is doing my shopping for me - with a carpet burn running the length of my nose, 2 black eyes, graze on my forehead its better for me to hide out rather than have everyone else staring at me!!!! But come next week i'll be out and about. So anyone sees me dont worry i aint been mugged!!! just been ill!!!

By the way i took a header into icelands basket at the front once when i was ill there and it went everywhere ... but i cant help it ...

Caz · 15-11-2008, 21:20

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with a carpet burn running the length of my nose,

Sorry Jen, couldn't resist!

garinda · 15-11-2008, 21:34

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Originally Posted by shillelagh

At the minute everyone else is doing my shopping for me - with a carpet burn running the length of my nose, 2 black eyes, graze on my forehead its better for me to hide out rather than have everyone else staring at me!!!! But come next week i'll be out and about. So anyone sees me dont worry i aint been mugged!!! just been ill!!!

By the way i took a header into icelands basket at the front once when i was ill there and it went everywhere ... but i cant help it ...

Blimey, you have been in the wars again.

Hope you're soon on the mend x

Perhaps we should buy you an American footballer's outfit for Christmas.

Caz · 15-11-2008, 21:38

Hope my post wasn't thought to be unfeeling.

I have a son with epilepsy, and you have to make the best of a bad situation. We turn many a situation into something to have a laugh about. Sometimes you have to laugh about it, or you would cry. Hope you're feeling better Jen.

Royboy39 · 15-11-2008, 22:11

I agree with online shopping 100% but you will have your local councilors bleating that is taking trade away from the town centre, although the town centre is a dead duck anyway.
Let's hope this current situation stops or even curbs the ideas for change and silly spending of taxpayers money.
Build Supermarkets by all means but let them make up the shortfall in rates.

shillelagh · 15-11-2008, 23:47

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Originally Posted by garinda

Blimey, you have been in the wars again.

Hope you're soon on the mend x

Perhaps we should buy you an American footballer's outfit for Christmas.

I'd probably hurt myself even worse!!!! lol

Caz ... i have it cant do owt about it and if you dont laugh then you would cry ... and have done a few times but its one of those things .. Shops sometimes dont know what to do .... they can panic and make things worse

glasgow guy · 16-11-2008, 16:02

when I worked as a manager in retail I always done the trolley test before opening or after moving things about - or I got my staff to do it and it was basically someone walking round the aisles/displays etc with a shopping trolley, if they could get round withouto bumping into anything or getting jammed then sorted - if jammed or whatever we always moved things so no probs..

jaysay · 17-11-2008, 10:45

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Originally Posted by glasgow guy

when I worked as a manager in retail I always done the trolley test before opening or after moving things about - or I got my staff to do it and it was basically someone walking round the aisles/displays etc with a shopping trolley, if they could get round withouto bumping into anything or getting jammed then sorted - if jammed or whatever we always moved things so no probs..

Its a pity more anagers don't do that GG, would save a lot of problems for customers

Caz · 17-11-2008, 10:48

Getting through with a trolley, doesn't mean you can get round with a double pram or wheel chair though.

Tealeaf · 17-11-2008, 14:20

There is a simple solution to all these whinging women shoppers - sex segregation. Men are logical when it comes to buying their goodies; they know what they want and where it is located, so it's in to the supermarket, straight down the relevant aisles, pick the stuff, put in the trolley, to the checkout, pay and then finally exit. Any delays are invariably caused by women blocking the aisles either through gormless chatter with their chums or worse still simply not knowing what they are doing there in the first place.

The answer to it all is to let women only wonder aimlessly around the aisles monday to saturday and then hand over to men on a sunday when no silly hold-ups will happen. I can guarantee that men will get more shopping done in one day, at a cheaper price, than women can manage in six.

grannyclaret · 17-11-2008, 15:29

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The answer to it all is to let women only wonder aimlessly around the aisles monday to saturday and then hand over to men on a sunday when no silly hold-ups will happen. I can guarantee that men will get more shopping done in one day, at a cheaper price, than women can manage in six.

what planet are you from then Tealeaf......

or better still what booze are you on....
only joking

magpie · 17-11-2008, 16:27

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Originally Posted by Caz

Getting through with a trolley, doesn't mean you can get round with a double pram or wheel chair though.

Very good point... or a wide wheel chair

Lilly · 17-11-2008, 16:38

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

There is a simple solution to all these whinging women shoppers - sex segregation. Men are logical when it comes to buying their goodies; they know what they want and where it is located, so it's in to the supermarket, straight down the relevant aisles, pick the stuff, put in the trolley, to the checkout, pay and then finally exit. Any delays are invariably caused by women blocking the aisles either through gormless chatter with their chums or worse still simply not knowing what they are doing there in the first place.

The answer to it all is to let women only wonder aimlessly around the aisles monday to saturday and then hand over to men on a sunday when no silly hold-ups will happen. I can guarantee that men will get more shopping done in one day, at a cheaper price, than women can manage in six.

You're right men do know what they want from the supermarket and they do seem to get it done very quickly.

Fabulous, you think.............until you start unpacking what he's brought home and discover that all he's bought is beer, pizza, crisps and some putrid looking microwaveable burgers.

Then the woman has to go back the following day and do it again properly.

Caz · 17-11-2008, 17:06

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they know what they want and where it is located,

Would like to know of a supermarket that always has its products in the same place..part of their marketing ploy to move things round.

You shopping for a family tealeaf? Think not.

Think we should make him do someone's weekly shop for a family with a pram and toddler in tow.

garinda · 17-11-2008, 20:51

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Originally Posted by emzy

i have a nightmare all year round with the double buggy, wilkinsons is always bad for it, as is the pond shop (the one thats just moved)

I try and avoid these shops as I just end up getting bad tempered

I can imagine that really must be hard work.

I'd be tempted to find someone to make me a double decker buggy.

Does anyone sell them?

If you had an upstairs/downstairs contraption, at least you could get two children out and about, and it would only take up the same floor space as a single pushchair.