Maybe this is the problem, all the queues are by the freezers. We had an Arctic roll on order for delivery on Monday but it was among many items that were either not delivered or substituted. They sent a raspberry roulade. It's not the same
In our Tesco the queue is down the booze aisle (but maybe that should be in the Reasons to be Cheerful thread)
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I went into the small local Tesco. They would only let five in the shop at a time -one in one out. Sanitiser etc available. Unfortunately, the five were bunched together and there was an unsupervised toddler running about. The shops do what they can, but there's no accounting for stupidity.
Our small local Tesco has also got a one out, one in policy and have a one way system around the aisles, with 2 metre markings on the floor. Even so, one very grumpy man was just pushing his way around, grabbing what he wanted with no concern for anybody else - I was greatly tempted to ram him with my trolley!!
There was a traffic jam in my local co-op too. For some reason everybody seemed to be gathering at one point, completely blocking the one way system. Maybe they'd found loo roll. As there was nobody behind me I went the 'wrong way' to get past them.
I have to say that when I was shopping on Tuesday, I was astonished at the disregard fro the arrows on the floor etc. While waiting for a trolley [only one lady in front] there was a bloke standing in the trolley bay on his phone, so she had to go past him [too near] and then after he p*ssed off and i was getting mine, and old bloke appeared from the other side, not in the little queue, and pushed his way in for one. I was very close to losing the plot with them both....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Not wishing to make a sweeping generalisation (she said, doing just that), l have noticed a large number of men in supermarkets looking absolutely bamboozled. Studying lists, on the phone ("Don't worry love, l won't forget the chocolate"), standing by the car double checking the trolley contents. Even my OH noticed it, he has been well trained over the past 8 years and said he knew how they felt. He wouldn't have had a clue where to start back then.
I've noticed this too😊 I bet they still come back with the following: what on earth did you buy that for? You now nobody likes those We've already got three of them That one looks worse than the one in the back of the salad drawer
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In our Tesco the queue is down the booze aisle
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
While waiting for a trolley [only one lady in front] there was a bloke standing in the trolley bay on his phone, so she had to go past him [too near] and then after he p*ssed off and i was getting mine, and old bloke appeared from the other side, not in the little queue, and pushed his way in for one.
I was very close to losing the plot with them both....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Even my OH noticed it, he has been well trained over the past 8 years and said he knew how they felt. He wouldn't have had a clue where to start back then.
I bet they still come back with the following:
what on earth did you buy that for?
You now nobody likes those
We've already got three of them
That one looks worse than the one in the back of the salad drawer