The UK and Ireland Supermarkets Poll

Totally agree. It makes forgetting your clubcard like a punishment. 'Here's what you could have got...'

I always keep a few bottles of skimmed milk in my stores and prefer it sometimes tbh. It's fine for making macaroni cheese and if full fat milk is even slightly going off I can't abide the taste of it.

I live in between (sort of) a Waitrose and a Morrisons, the novelty of Waitrose has long since worn off for me though and you'll invariably find me in Morrisons.

There's now an Aldi (or is it Lidl?) almost beside Morrisons. I've only been in it once because it opened at the height of the pandemic and the queues to get into it were horrendous. I know people swear by them but I didn't like it. Just checked, it's a Lidl.

when I lived in Ely there was a Waitrose opposite an Iceland, very different customer bases, Waitrose was good there because they would heavily discount soon-to-expire food and all the people in there were too well-off to be looking for it.
In Cambridge Waitrose there are masses of boho hippies who go straight for the discounts, so no point going.

Well, yes, I've only ever shopped in Waitrose for discount items, except when they were selling potato farls (or potato scones, as we call them).

brief trot to tesco because i had to go the other direction but didn't want to go to the faraway sainsburys... and the 4 self-service tills have been replaced with 8 self-service tills in the same space, meaning each has just enough space for a basket in front of it. so you scan your purchases and then there's nowhere to put them. back in the same basket? on the floor?

baking potatoes were 3.5 times as much as the sainburys ones. they'd better be 3.5 times better.

still livid about waitrose

twice in a little over a week I've scanned something and the price was more than the one on the shelf. and when i pointed this out they treat it like it's something I've done.

their solution is to remove the sticker from the shelf so now nobody knows what the thing will cost.

On the rare occasions I go to the supermarket in person, I'm astounded by Dunnes Stores' decision to introduce a delay into the checkout process. They do a coupon for €10 off your next shop with every €50 you spend, so the checkout line often has someone trying to make their shop up to a multiple of €50 so that they'll get the coupon. And sometimes they will LEAVE THE CHECKOUT and go back into the shop to get an extra loaf of bread or a couple of pizzas out of the freezer or something, instead of choosing batteries or gum from the rack right beside them, as God intended. It's so annoying. Sometimes you want to offer them the €10 so that they'll just pay up and piss off.