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I don't shop in Sainsburys. :lol: I shop in Asda or Tesco because they are the nearest supermarkets! I have cooked for the last Lord Sainsbury though! :thumbright: A pleasant, polite man.
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i shop in waitrose..............nice :thumbright:
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So, is Asda a "less" or a "fewer"?
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Stoday wrote:So, is Asda a "less" or a "fewer"?
Asda is a Fewer - as in "the fewer times I go to Asda the better"

Tesco is the Less - as in "I wish there were less Tescos about"

I am with Handy - Waitrose for me!! It was one of the clinchers when I bought my house - only two Waitroses in the whole of Devon & Cornwall, one of which is 1/2 mile away :thumbright:

PS - Waitrose has the "Only Baskets" option for the speedy checkout.
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and the waitrose check out girls are a bit more classy than the asda ones
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Just a touch!

(well, that is what I say to them :lol: )
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I go to Tesco because I can park there for 3 hours without needing a £1 coin, great for the bank or town shopping! I go to Asda because it is handy for town shopping and the library! I never go to Waitrose because it's over 24 miles away! Morrisons is handy because it is next to the hospital and the B & Q warehouse. Sainsburys is out of the way but I suffer from mild claustrophobia if I go in there, something to do with the aisles being too close together. I like Lidl and Aldi because they sell foreign chocolate with a higher cocoa content and weird stuff sometimes and their bags for life are roomier. I'm not at the stage where I have to go to only one supermarket every week! Variety is the spice of life as they say. :thumbright:
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think this thread is definatelyy off-topic! :lol:

I buy my food from Waitrose rather then somewhere like Tescos as I don't need to try and find the 'Finest' range or whatever - Waitrose basic fresh food is equal to the best Tescos can rip their suppliers off for.

They have not been too good for the non-food stuff (washing powder, loo roll, etc) price wise, but recently have been putting good offers together.

Lidl is just plain weird :shock:

And my local-local (walking distance) shop is Spar - there are hundreds round here and are great for deals on alcohol :thumbright:
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Hoovie,

This is off topic but I couldn't give a stuff!! Anything that takes my mind off things is good! :wink:

The Co-op is everywhere here and is very pricey. There have always been lots of Spa shops in far flung places in my experience. They sell strange things!

Somerfield is another one, a bit like stepping back in time in some ways.
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I hate it when people use 'text talk' in e-mails or forum posts etc!...it's just pure laziness!... :angryfire:
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Gadget wrote:I hate it when people use 'text talk' in e-mails or forum posts etc!...it's just pure laziness!... :angryfire:
:thumbright: :wav: We should do a poll to see who likes and who dislikes texting.
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Gadget wrote:I hate it when people use 'text talk' in e-mails or forum posts etc!...it's just pure laziness!... :angryfire:
You beat me to it! :-)

I do use text, as Mrs M is very deaf, so doesn't hear on the phone. Otherwise 'fewfriends' Mooncat gets very little use out of his mobile phone.
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I text quite a lot as it is convenient, but I hate the text speak b*llox.

Now I have the new phone I don't text as much as it is difficult to use :oops:
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Netto`s :thumbright:

(thats a joke by the way)

hate texting ..normally just to the wife saying on way home (from work)
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Poll for and against textspeak?

well, I thk NE1 using txtspk shud ave thr fingrs chopd off - espc n frums :lol: :thumbright:
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