Bloody Lidl

It also appeals to the "hunter" instinct in humans. You get a mini dopamine rush when you find what you were looking for ....

Its always been standard practice in supermarkets to spread the staples out around the store. Milk, sugar, bread, eggs, tea and coffee washing powder etc. making the punters walk past all the potential impulse purchases and stuff they'd forgotten they needed..

It also used to be common to have the instore" bakery" near the entrance so the punters were welcomed by the "fresh" bread smell, along with a colourful display from the fresh fruit and veg aisles.

All pioneered in the good 'ol' US in the 1950's

Although obviously with the discounters with their limited product ranges there's very little point any more.

michael adams

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alan_m pretended :

SWMBO's other complain, was that Lidl had moved the location of stuff around, so she was having to seek out some of the more movable items.

michael adams presented the following explanation :

Our local Lidl has that. I heard that some stores even pipe the smell of fresh baked bread, out to the foyer area.

That too.

The other option was to place the bakery at the back of the store and duct the bakery smell to the entrance.

I take it being a Scot English isn't your first language? Or are you just to thick to understand (or look up) what words mean?

Of course - I often use one if I'm not getting much. And carry it. And I'm not 7 ft tall.

These are dark blue plastic baskets with black handles. Somewhere around twice the capacity of a standard wire one. And have two handles, one for towing it around on wheels and one for carrying it.

I've never understood supermarket disctribution. Round here, plenty large Sainsbury and Lidl. No large Aldi, and fewer large Tesco. Waitrose more common than Aldi.

I tend to to it always. In a manned checkout, get annoyed by having to wait for the one in front carefully bagging up before fishing for their purse etc. And the same can apply to a lesser extent to a self checkout - where many seem to complain you're using your own bag, even after being told you are.

I know someone who robbed the wheels off a supermarket trolley, took them home, and fitted them on his bass guitar amplifier/speaker.

Bill

Or fit a device to squirt 'eau du pain' near the entrance.

Waitrose have closed their Barry Store. It used to be Safeway, and I was always surprised that it became a Waitrose anyway at that location.

The building will be shared by Home Bargains and someone called The Food Store (Iceland).

This is curious, Iceland used to have their own warehouse called Booker which was floated off as a separate company over 10 years ago and became very successful. So much so that Tesco bought them !.

They buy up and sit on vacant land either for their own expansion or to stop a competitor moving in too close. Tends to lead to haphazard store placements.

proper mortars (not the lime stuff) will stop water transmission unless you are in an exposed area liable to wind-blown rain.

any rain that does get through the outer leaf of a cavity wall just runs down into the cavity, and that generally happens because of sloppy bricklaying, when the vertical joints are not completely filled with mortar. I've seen plenty of brickies doing this either because they are on piece work or just lazy.

Food Warehouse? I think the tout it as a cross between a supermarket and a cash'n'carry, there's one here but I've never gone in.

I don't understand the logic of one supermarket going out of their way to sell close a branch and sell it to a direct competitor? I'd want it to go to a different type of business altogether ...

They may not own it. If it was built as a supermarket it may not be suitable for anything else.

Local Sainsburys is now stocking large bags of Typhoo tea (£5/402 bags) and 10kg sacks of Gram Flour and other ethnic flour. There were 2

In Barry the two main competitors are Asda and Morrisons (I think). Maybe they just want to hurt their sales by allowing a discounter to move in ?. :-)

But if the first lot couldn't make a go of it, for whatever reason, then why should they fear that a rival would do any better ?

For sheer stupidity though, Morrisons take some beating.

Sainsbury have a really big store with long opening long hours, down a precinct in the high street.

Morrisons took out a lease on a former Blockbusters store no more than 100 yards away around the corner on the actual high street. And then opened one of their short lived convenience stores. Limited stock at much higher prices.

It lasted about three months, if that.

Were I a Morrisons shareholder, which I'm not, I'd be wanting to look very closely at deals like that.

michael adams

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OTOH, I've never heard of a lidaldiland shutting down and becoming a waitrose.