Rival Supermarket Etiquette

[BarcelonaAnalPark]

I recently found myself in a peculiar situation by where I was doing some inter-pressa shopping in Asda and I found myself face to face with a Sainsbury's worker still in their uniform, doing their own shopping!

Now with the availability of home delivery, it's rare that I have to visit one of these awful places but have things changed so much that 1 supermarket worker can brazenly walk into an opposing supermarket unchallenged?

It's quite disorientating being faced by multiple branded uniforms in one place. What are my rights, as a consumer, if I need to ask a supermarket worker which, for example, aisle I need to find vinegar (balsamic) but the worker I ask doesn't know because of their own lack of familiarity? Do supermarkets operate a system of seniority and how do they avoid blue on blue situations?

I asked the lass on the till if she thought it was acceptable but she just laughed.

 

[Auld-Yin]

I recently found myself in a peculiar situation by where I was doing some inter-pressa shopping in Asda and I found myself face to face with a Sainsbury's worker still in their uniform, doing their own shopping!

Now with the availability of home delivery, it's rare that I have to visit one of these awful places but have things changed so much that 1 supermarket worker can brazenly walk into an opposing supermarket unchallenged?

It's quite disorientating being faced by multiple branded uniforms in one place. What are my rights, as a consumer, if I need to ask a supermarket worker which, for example, aisle I need to find vinegar (balsamic) but the worker I ask doesn't know because of their own lack of familiarity? Do supermarkets operate a system of seniority and how do they avoid blue on blue situations?

I asked the lass on the till if she thought it was acceptable but she just laughed.

She thought you were a stupid cūnt as well then?

 

[greyfergie]

Is this mumsnet all of a sudden?

 

[Skunkmiester]

Same shitty company arent they?

 

[Solo Dave]

I recently found myself in a peculiar situation by where I was doing some inter-pressa shopping in Asda and I found myself face to face with a Sainsbury's worker still in their uniform, doing their own shopping!

Now with the availability of home delivery, it's rare that I have to visit one of these awful places but have things changed so much that 1 supermarket worker can brazenly walk into an opposing supermarket unchallenged?

It's quite disorientating being faced by multiple branded uniforms in one place. What are my rights, as a consumer, if I need to ask a supermarket worker which, for example, aisle I need to find vinegar (balsamic) but the worker I ask doesn't know because of their own lack of familiarity? Do supermarkets operate a system of seniority and how do they avoid blue on blue situations?

I asked the lass on the till if she thought it was acceptable but she just laughed.

You don't get out a lot, do you?

 

[lokiuk]

Is this mumsnet all of a sudden?

I've seen no discussion about Center Parcs being a code word for ****, so we haven't reached Mumsnet levels of depravity yet

 

[Tomasz Krachanaker]

Do they allow those ID lanyards with "I'm a nurse please give generously to the food bank"?

 

[Welch Man]

I've seen no discussion about Center Parcs being a code word for ****, so we haven't reached Mumsnet levels of depravity yet

Center Parcs is the swinging base. Portugal is a bit past it........

 

[PapaGolf]

Asda? You bourgeois pig! What's wrong with Aldi?
Which reminds me, I must pick up a socket set with my tuna and sweetcorn violin hammer

 

[Oddbod]

Asda is owned by Walmart.

It's where poor people shop.

Same shitty company arent they?

Nope.

 

[wheel]

Asda is owned by Walmart.

It's where stupid people shop.

Corrected for you

 

[Conniesdad]

@wheel
No no no, they aren't stupid on their own planet, they just don't do very well on ours.

 

[Skunkmiester]

Asda is owned by Walmart.

It's where poor people shop.



Nope.

Sainsbury’s-Asda merger - BBC News

 

[jim30]

Is this mumsnet all of a sudden?

AIBUI I think that the OP needs to take up a hobby and fucks off to leave this site to discuss flounces, donkey porn, that rifle, midget porn, deltics, clown porn, BAOR and your mums porn?

 

[BarcelonaAnalPark]

You don't get out a lot, do you?

I try not to. Ocado helps to keep me away from all those dreadful supermarkets.

 

[HappyNomad]

Same shitty company arent they?

Sainsbury’s-Asda merger - BBC News

You sort of answered your own question there... they may one day be the same company but as your link shows, it hasn't happened yet.

 

[Oddbod]

Sainsbury’s-Asda merger - BBC News

So Asda is still owned by Walmart & Sainsburys isn't owned by either, which is what I said.

 

[WolvoExPunk]

I have got a decent carrier bag from Lidl, which I use in my local Aldi.

 

[old_n_fat]

I try not to. Ocado helps to keep me away from all those dreadful supermarkets.

You utter flange. The reality is if they hadn't started to put ring pull lids on cans of beans you'd starve to death.

 

[Welch Man]

I try not to. Ocado helps to keep me away from all those dreadful supermarkets.

Ocado and end up in Asda? Butler drop dead or sumfing