So I went to ASDA last night...

Well, I was in Sainsbury last night (more upper class than OP :D) getting our weekends worth of food.

It was pretty damn busy in there but they held their own in keeping stocks up. The only thing I noticed that was bad was that the WHOLE milk selection was gone. Everything. I think there were a few lactofree cartons left and that was it. Must have been delivery problems but it annoyed me regardless.

The hype and craze that some people are affected by this time of year is mental. Most shops are open boxing day and if not the following day and there is always somewhere open on Xmas day (thanks to our Muslim friends). I really don't see what all the fuss is about.

Holiday is far too commercial. That being said I enjoy family time and giving of presents.
 
jaybee said:
Thing with that, typically I find although stores claim to be open "24 hours" when you go in after 10pm, the night shift lot are in and there are cages of food blocking up the aisles and the store is in a state with no stock on the shelves.
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Still open . . . .

When exactly do you think they can stock the shelves? Plus, if something is missing, ask one of them, they generally know where it is.
 
GinG said:
Me and my gf have probabally spent £250 - £300 over the last 2 weeks to stock up over christmas...the reason?

We want to spend time together with friends, family & each other. The last thing we want to do is go out grocery shopping. I would imagine a lot of other people do this for the same reason...
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Surely most people do a weekly shop too.

So how's the 7 days between Christmas to new year be any different? Do you expect this 7 days to last longer than your regular 7 days? If your weekly shop comes to £100, spending £300 on 3 times amount of food is just over doing it a bit. At most you get that 10% extra for the stuff you eat on Christmas day but after that, its just another regular day.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Surely most people do a weekly shop too.

So how's the 7 days between Christmas to new year be any different? Do you expect this 7 days to last longer than your regular 7 days? If your weekly shop comes to £100, spending £300 on 3 times amount of food is just over doing it a bit. At most you get that 10% extra for the stuff you eat on Christmas day but after that, its just another regular day.
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I dunno about you, but I eat a damn sight more than 10% over the entire week.
 
I have the pleasure of servicing the fastlane checkouts in ASDA. I've seen queues of up to 20 folk waiting to use them sometimes, plus a lot of clowns even queuing behind me when I've got the thing in bits. :confused:
 
I went Asda store near where I live, the shopping wasn't so bad, it was busy but not crazy, also got served pretty quickly which was a bonus. The problem then came trying to get out of the car park. It takes a lot to **** me off but it took over half an hour to get out of there cos no one gave way to anyone else and the snow didnt help to !!!!
 
yet on boxing day, the supermarkets will be mega busy with people doing MORE grocery shopping. Its no wonder some supermarkets make more in 2hours this week, than they do on a whole day during "normal" trading.

Hell my store opens at 8, and by 9 the queues are already 30-45minutes long.
 
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