deserve to be nominated.
They take advantage of the fact that they’re the only places open on Sunday evenings to profiteer to a ridiculous extent. Take Sainsbury’s Locunt for instance – they charge £1.50 for regular own brand mozzarella (2.75 for the grated stuff), 80p for 250g own brand beetroot, and 85p for own brand pasta. Even the.Co-op is cheaper than that.
How can these places be so greedy that they’re losing out to the fucking CO-OP?! It’ll never happen but legislation needs to be passed to bring these cunts into line with their bigger stores (or, in the case of Spar, Londis etc the rest of the retail market.
Nominated by OpinionatedCunt.
I’ve never been in a Sainsbury’s locust.
But I like the Co-op .
Go on a Sunday just before closing and take all the reduced baked goods.
Otherwise it’s donated to tramps.
Don’t see why some fuckin hobo should get free fresh baked rustic bread and custard tarts.
I’d rather feed it the ducks
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They should copy the food vans and make the tramps tidy up the shop front for their free food.
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Make them do the can can
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You are Ebeneezer Scrooge, and I claim my five farthings.
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I like the notice saying ‘fresh from our in-store butchery?’.
They’ve got a slaughterhouse around the back, I presume. Halal, naturally.
Morning all.
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Sorry; rogue question mark there
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Probably the same place where the NHS outsource their hospital meals from. Mo and his mates scratching their balls on some industrial estate.
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I think the pre-packed ham sandwiches offered to inpatients are made from old men called Derek.
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Sainsburys own brand mozzarella? Oh how could you, Opinionated?
If it’s cheese you’re after you can’t do better than my own favourite little deli. I’ve placed the order for you – it just needs your details and payment:
https://www.fortnumandmason.com/basket
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They say you can’t beat foreskin cheese, but you can if you do it vigorously.
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Parmegiano Smegiano
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Organzola.
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Penis parmesan, Bellend brie or Organzola?
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most of these stores are for cunts who don’t give a shit about the cost, they haven’t had to earn the money to pay for the goods ……..same as the local p**i convenience shops, top price for out of date stuff which the feckless aren’t to fussed about whilst buying their vapes,scratchies etc….shop local, mr ali….taxi, immigrant cabs…petrol, khan petroleum…post office, hijab family…’IN ENGLAND’S GREEN AND PLEASANT LAND’
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We may unfortunately have to change it to “peasant land” when the final nappiehead rows in single handedly.
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Dudi where’s my elephant?
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Glenn’s Vodka and Redbull/Relentless mixer to accompany the Greggs sausage roll.
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Won’t ever use the Co-Op, ever!
Commie, pinko bastards!
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We Mancunians stick with tradition, due to the Co-op being the first.
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I try to use Aldi if I can but unfortunately the Co-op is right opposite my house.
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No legislation is needed, just keep fucking walking.
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Certainly don’t what politicians controlling prices through legislation fatjon. Us old ‘uns lived through prices and incomes policies, no fucking way do I ever want to go back there. The legislation that’s needed is the abolition of the Sunday trading laws which are an anachronism from the days when the UK was a Christian country.
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Agree with this nom, they’re scalping cunts who get away with it because it’s convenient for shoppers. My town has still got independents and farm shops, a bit further to travel but real food with less shite in it.
A good read this, cheap to buy s/h too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopped
Fuck the corporations.
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And yes, I’m aware that prices are a little bit more expensive to count for the price differential. But when you’re 20-30%+ more expensive than the fucking CO-OP you do start to think they’re taking the piss a little. Hell, a Spar near my home (which happens to be run by Parking Stanleys) charges £2.20 for 4 pints of milk ffs.
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To account for the convenience aspect rather. Deary me.
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Never even looked at the price of milk. Is that a lot?
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Yeah, now inflation has settled down somewhat it’s around 1.45-1.65 depending where you get it from.
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No paki shop gets my hard earned , zero, the filthy sub-human arse wipes.
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The only time I ever go in there is when I need to use the wretched hovel to collect/deliver a parcel. And even then they didn’t really understand what they were doing last time.
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If people are paying it they will charge it.
The majority of people shopping there are dumb cunts who can’t be arsed to go to the local supermarket and I’ve got no sympathy for them.
The second class of people using them are cunts who can’t be arsed to go shopping because they don’t get up until midday or later and then smoke weed for a few hours until they realise there’s nothing to feed the kids with or they run out of fags or rolling papers.
The ones who get really exploited by these shops are the elderly who can’t make it to the supermarket or can’t cope with the trauma of the shitshow once they get there.
If you ain’t a communist then you have to accept the rules of the free market.
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I do sometimes wake up after midday but in fairness my work hours are shit.
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That’s a whole different world. Working people always have to fit their lives around their job even when it’s massively inconvenient.
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I need to get out of hospitality tbh – I like the people I work with but it would be nice to re-establish normal sleep patterns.
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What’s a massive cunt is these shops usually have cash machines that charge you to take money out.
Oh and selling lottery tickets at normal tills, that boils my piss.
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When I went to Czechia in March many of the cash machines charged the equivalent of £4-5 to take money out. Even in more off-the-beaten-path areas. I enjoyed my time there but that was a fucking rip off.
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Tbh I should’ve taken more physical cash with me before going but I’m always paranoid about losing it.
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I won’t bore you with the details OP but when our elder was in Osaka in 2006 there was a cock-up in the banking system which prevented her drawing any cash from the bank. We ended up drawing Japanese bank notes here and sending them to her in the post!
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Fucking hell Arfur. So far as technology goes we really should’ve stopped at Windows XP.
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These shops always stock stuff by brands I’ve never fucking heard of, and when you partake of said merchandise you can tell why, processed to the hilt and so full of preservatives they’d last longer than King Tuts corpse has. And why do they always block the fucking windows out with garish logos and nasty offers for 2 for 1 crap that would poison a fucking python.
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There’s a few shops like this in Bristol, they stand out a mile because they are trying to look “British” which in the owners eyes means putting Union flags all over the place and also huge colour pictures of plates of food, such as full English Breakfasts. A quick look inside the door confirms they sell nothing but Haribo, cheap and nasty alcohol, vapes,,scratchcards and a few tins and packets of stuff no one in their right mind wants. Add the surly individual behind the till and one or two others standing outside staring at passers by and muttering under their breath, and the picture is complete.
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I used to look after point-of-sale and comms kit in Lidl stores Mary. They also plastered their stores with Union flags although they are a 100% German company. The main shareholders, a German family, are related to the family who own Aldi. The switches installed in the comms room in Lidl stores are Chinese, Huawei.
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I remember the local Budgens turning to shite after being bought out by an Irish firm and stocking ‘Supervalu’ shite. It also had a wall of cake that replaced the deli.
Utter cack. The place lost customers and became a laughing stock until Sainsburys bought it.
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I overheard a rant in the Tesco metro near my work apon the lines of how they could charge over the odds, when the big Tesco up the road was considerably cheaper.
In all fairness to the Joe Daki manager, he explained it perfectly.
“We have to have a minimum amount of staff to stack shelves, man the tills run security and stay at the cigarette counter. Larger stores only need about 30 staff to operate, but they are 10x bigger than us. we need 12 staff in two shifts to stay open 24/7. Factoring in ground rent, utility bills and maintenance, our prices are higher due to higher overheads”.
A reasonable point, until I saw the robdogs were charging £7 for a jar of gold blend and 50p over the ask for 20 B&H gold.
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And it’s funny how everything is so much higher except the pay, they can match the big stores for that.
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The pay is universally piss poor.
My missus was the local Tesco union rep.
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My local Spar is extortionate.
Also, they have created a mess for themselves.
Because they let off African cunts who go shoplifting*, they now have to put stuff like tinned fish and coffee behond the counter with the booze and cigs.
* Several treeswingers have been caught nicking. But, while a white person would be nicked, these fucks do the ‘No talky English’ routine and the inane grin. All they get is a very mild ‘Don’t do it again’ and they flounce out. Of course, word spread that is a free for all and more stuff got pilfered. So, instead of addressing the issue, they now put stuff like Tuna fish and Nescafe behind the till. Absolutley absurd in the 21st Century in a supposedly civilised country. But the shop has brought it on itself with such servile woke pandering. No sympathy whatsoever.
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I didn’t even know that Spar still existed.
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Londis are crap too. I used to occasionally pop into one in Donny when I worked at the big Tesco warehouse and needed a pick-me-up – they’d charge at least a third more for some items. They weren’t even 24/7 either. The funniest part is that they advertise themselves as a budget chain (or used to at the very least). Oh, they were staffed by swarthy Parking Stanleys as well.
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And when you just want to get a loaf of bread or a bottle of milk. Loads of cunts cloggong up the queue buying fucking lottery, scratchcards and crappy lager.
These shops are convenient. But they are also magnets for pyjama wearing chavs, who are too lazy to schlep to their local Morrisons or Tesco.
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I prefer a corner shop, where everything is triple the price, the place smells like Ghandi’s flip-flop and the proprietor keeps mumbling;
“Bud, bud, ding, ding, £2.992”.
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And the way the cunts skinned people alive during the lockdown.
A tenner for four bog rolls, or 12 quid for a bottle of hand gel.
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We lost our village shop due to the cunt running it overreacting to BBC/govt scaremongering during Covid. Stopped taking cash and set up this bench thing outside with a card reader so you couldn’t go inside and had a fiver minimum spend. Not great if you just want a paper or a loaf of bread.
The place had a business on site in one form or another since the 1750’s and now its gone forever. Like pubs once these places go its nigh on impossible to get them back.
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Was directed to a ‘Premier’ village shop and post office on recent job to grab some lunch.
The place was bare apart from Yazoo milk, Foreign cured meats, pot noodles, jars of nutella and a few bottles of white wine. Never seen a village shop in such a sad state.
No prizes for guessing who ran it.
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Rishi Sunak?
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Possible relatives.
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Never been in one. I get my driver to take the butler to Waitrose. In Scunny.
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I fucking despise my local Spar with a passion and avoid it at all times.
It’s only a mile and a half from the town centre yet the place is literally a teeming hell scape 24/7.
It’s one of those with the petrol station combined which means there’s a constant stream of traffic and cunts pulling out onto the main road.
The main problem round here is that there’s a tremendous amount of either grossly overpaid thick cunts or benefit/debt happy even thicker cunts, only too willing to pay the extortionate prices that these odious bloodsuckers charge for stuff.
Got to get back home as quickly as possible to watch Netflix and order takeaways from the local rag heads innit.
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When I was a lad we used to have a little corner shop at the start of the town centre. Water Bombs were 1p and sweets were the same price – my sister and I used to load up on the former for a quid and buy a couple of the latter with any leftover change. It was a genial English bloke who ran it too. Eventually the place closed down – presumably because the guy retired – and became a sweet shop for a bit before, of course morphing into a fucking vape/phone repair place. I miss that store.
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Castle News in Melksham, Wiltshire it was called btw – tbh we’ve had phones repaired at the current store previously and the blokes who run it are sound enough but still, it ain’t the same.
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£1.50 for a broccoli at my local Tesco Metro. They were 50p 18 months ago weren’t they? 95p in the big Tesco. Trying to price us out of food, I swear it.
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You can buy an entire bag of mixed veg for less than that.
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I’m glad to say that I live in easy walking distance from a Co-op, and not far from Lidl.
A jar of generic runny honey, for bun baking purpose.
Co-op £2
Lidl 85p
Feets, get walking.
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Would that be the Aldi on St Mary’s Gate? I’m about half an hour from there – either I’ll go there on a day off or go to the city centre Lidl when I work mornings depending what’s more convenient.
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Fuck I misread Lidl as Aldi. Admin, please delete this.
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