They might as well say "You don't really want any help packing, do you?"
M&S food checkout staff seem trained to pick one item you've bought and comment "Oh yes, they're a real treat, aren't they?"
There used to be a Safeway in the Brunswick precinct - which is what Waitrose opens out onto, in the days when Safeway used to be quite upmarket stocking stuff like black pumpernickel bread etc.
michael adams
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I agree. It's just that I knew that Aldi salaries were on the generous side, whereas I have no idea what Lidl pay.
Booths and Waitrose are the only two supermarkets I actually enjoy shopping in. I think my heart rate actually goes down when I enter, whereas a trip to ASDA or Morrisons raises it significantly. ;-)
(Actually I am not that miserable a git. :-) )
You won't fit in round here then! :-)
That was Safeway at its best - under American management, and with only four or five stores in the whole of the UK. I used to shop at the branch in Manchester. It was the largest delicatessen in the north of England.
Some years later, the franchise for the UK was bought by Sir James Goldsmith, whose much larger (and much more downmarket) Presto chain of supermarkets was merged with the UK Safeway, and the whole lot was rebranded Safeway. For the flagship Safeway stores, there was a lowering of standards, but the Presto stores went sharply upmarket.
The result was positioned somewhere above Tesco and probably slightly below Sainsbury's in the pecking order. It was quite an achievement to pull Presto up to that standard.
Jimmy Gulliver actually. The Scotch bloke who ran Argyll foods who owned Presto among other stores. Jimmy Goldsmith was the looney memeber of the Cleremont Set who sued Private Eye and stood for Parliament, and owned Marmite and other brands under his Cavenham Foods label. Gulliver bought them as late as 1987 and it was downhill after that. Mainly under his successor Alastair Grant. They were doing o.k. before he bought them as well. Later on they had another revamp with fancy lighting etc but the magic had gone. Just remembered they really went downmarket near the end with special offers on Pringles in almost every aisle and loads of other "offers". There were probably still warehousefuls of unsold Pringles when Morrison bought them out.
michael adams
everybody loves a smartarse.
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sthe Presto bit is prolly c
I'll watch out for that next time I buy catfood and loo roll.
Owain
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:50:10 -0000, "michael adams" had this to say:
Morrisons is a bit downmarket, but they do have a very good range of cheeses.
Pity about the checkouts...
There were indeed superb when they were the American owned store. I used to use one in Leeds in the late60s/ early 70s.
I would put Morrisons well ahead of Tesco & Asda. Love the 'Market Street' concept, excellent meat, in store bakery, salad bar etc.
Actually, if you can't answer the question 'How are you today?' by replying 'Wonderful' then you are a miserable git I'm afraid.
The only place that has this stupid disc system is Makro, Washington about 50 miles away. None of the other supermarkets in Penrith, Hexham or Carlisle have it. Though Morrisons Penrith might but I detest Morrisons as a store and only very rarely go there.
Ha you need to be quicker, the answer is "What benefits can I get?"
:)
"Said Dave with his customer-facing head on". ;)
Yup. Morrisons is one of the few places around you can get light soy sauce among other things the other one being Waitrose. Go in there once a week.
Dunno if you're referring to the self-service ones. A while ago they were always breaking down. Now instead the woman's voice drives you mad - "please put the item in the bag" 0.00000001 secs after you've scanned it. For every single item. I've started talking back to the machine now, "yes I know dear " "alright alright just wait a minute" even with a queue of people waiting. I'll probably get carted off one of these days.
michael adams
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Sorry Dave - I understand what you are saying. But when I have just taken my very ill partner round the store and we are desperate to get home that sort of politeness does not come easy.
If a real person simply being themselves happens to tread on my toes in their attempt to interact with another human, I will try to shrug it off and reply pleasantly. I think I usually do so. An inept but real attempt can still be appreciated. But when some customer care consultant has devised the one and only way of first talking to a customer, and it is cunningly devised to have no real answer, I simply feel processed and manipulated.
"Do you have a Nectar card?"
If I had one I'd've given it to you already.
It's often "Do you have a Nectar card at all?". To which I reply "No, not even slightly". Bemused stare...
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