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I have the actual Jeremy Sainsburys deliver my stuff personally, and whilst they say its a partnership I find it easier to play John and Lewis off against one another to see which one wants my, substantial, business more.
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Having been converted to Lidl by my wife a few years back you are absolutely insane if you do your shopping for everyday household items in Sainsburys, Tesco or Waitrose. It’s literally half the price for a big shop.
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Jan 9, 2022 17:47
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My sister's mother-in-law is a dreadful snob. Talks down to people, deeply concerned with appearances, the worst kind of middle-class Hyacinth Bucket. She works in a Waitrose as a checkout operator and I don't disdain that work *at all*. I've done that work, it's hard. But she's very, VERY careful to emphasize to everyone that she works at WAITROSE. She saves the bags and takes them with her to Sainsburys and Asda so people don't see her with a lower-class bag. She's hilarious.
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Jan 9, 2022 17:50
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Can't remember the last time I shopped in Waitrose or M&S. Do all my shopping at the local farmers market.
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Jan 9, 2022 17:52
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It’s an extremely English trait to worry that people are going to pass judgement on your social and class status based on a plastic loving bag
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Jan 9, 2022 17:53
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It's true though, if I see you walking around with disposable carriers I'm going to assume you are absolutely minted.
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Jan 9, 2022 17:59
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I shop in Sainsbury's or Tesco because they're the only places that let you scan your shopping and bag it up as you go round
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Jan 9, 2022 18:03
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Asda also let you do that, though whether they have rolled it out everywhere or not I don't know.
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Jan 9, 2022 18:08
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Julio Cruz posted:I shop in Sainsbury's or Tesco because they're the only places that let you scan your shopping and bag it up as you go round Waitrose as well. Also Waitrose self-checkouts don't weigh what you've scanned for some bizarre reason.
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Jan 9, 2022 18:11
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I shop in the coop because it's near (and has a decent cooperative copartnership system) except for things like detergent and cleaning supplies and bulk pasta and paper towels where QD quality discounts or Aldi or the online win out for price.
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Jan 9, 2022 18:13
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Tesco & Lidl here, decent discounts for me on the Tesco clubcard and Lidl always has items at reasonable prices. edit: as always with me nowadays; "it's even cheaper if you don't buy it" appears to be my mantra (used to be a horrid impulse buyer). 
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Jan 9, 2022 18:26
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Very glad I'm not the only one to get mad at this https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1479976288240685056?s=19
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Jan 9, 2022 18:27
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Mega Comrade posted:Doesn't John Lewis somewhat treat its staff like human being also? I remember when I was younger it was regarded as one of the better retail jobs to have. If you kept it. John Lewis closed a bunch of their stores during the pandemic. The Aberdeen store is currently in use as the vaccination centre.
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Jan 9, 2022 18:29
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ThomasPaine posted:Very glad I'm not the only one to get mad at this Language is like the virus, always mutating.
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Jan 9, 2022 18:30
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whats wrong with jab? Isn't that what theyve always been called? Is she a brit or from somewhere else where they don't say jab?
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Jan 9, 2022 18:34
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I can't shop in Lidl. The Aisle of Wonder is too dangerous for me to be near, I can't keep going in for a dozen eggs and some fruit and coming out with an arc welder, a watercolour painting set, and a set of thermal underwear. I've even stopped going to the retail park in Charlton (formerly one of my "Need shopping but also a nice long walk" destinations) because the siren song of a Lidl *and* an Aldi is too strong for my weak will to ignore.
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Jan 9, 2022 18:38
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Look if you know of a problem that cannot be solved by the application of a 200 piece screwdriver set, a textured rose print toilet seat, and many dodgy chinese arc welders then I don't know what it is.
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Jan 9, 2022 18:40
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The queues always annoy me in Lidl or I might shop there more often.
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Jan 9, 2022 18:43
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For me it's more the sheer terror of trying to bag my stuff up faster than the checkout person is scanning it. It's a stressful game I never win.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:whats wrong with jab? Isn't that what theyve always been called? Is she a brit or from somewhere else where they don't say jab? I say jab. It's wrong?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I can't shop in Lidl. The Aisle of Wonder is too dangerous for me to be near, I can't keep going in for a dozen eggs and some fruit and coming out with an arc welder, a watercolour painting set, and a set of thermal underwear. Sounds like Costco, which I have in the past described as the only place you can get a chainsaw, a trampoline and a birthday cake under the same roof.
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ThomasPaine posted:Very glad I'm not the only one to get mad at this I mentioned this a few weeks ago and the consensus was that it was part of an effort to use plain language, and that most people found nothing objectionable about it. I was sort-of persuaded in that I think that my objection to it is probably irrational now, but it nevertheless persists.
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Jan 9, 2022 18:50
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I was born a Tesco man and I will die a Tesco man There has been a Lidl open up the same distance to me but every time I've been there the queues have been massive so gently caress that noise. ThomasPaine posted:Very glad I'm not the only one to get mad at this Jab is perfectly normal and has been used for ages though? Like my mum was a nurse and always referred to getting jabs etc. when I was a kid.
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Jan 9, 2022 18:53
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Oh yeah I'm being completely irrational but it still annoys me for some reason I can't quite place
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ThomasPaine posted:Oh yeah I'm being completely irrational but it still annoys me for some reason I can't quite place Because it's infantilising.
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EvilHawk posted:I was born a Tesco man and I will die a Tesco man Americans have started using it, originally the antivaxers because somehow it sounded scarier than "shot", and for a while it was this weird shibboleth that had hastagresistance mutants flipping out at fubpee weirdos on Twitter, which was nice.
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ThomasPaine posted:Oh yeah I'm being completely irrational but it still annoys me for some reason I can't quite place You're gonna hate that I call my blood donations "visiting Dracula's castle" then.
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What I unreasonably dislike is when you go for a flu jab and the nurse says 'sharp scratch'. It doesn't feel anything like a scratch 
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Yes but if you tell americans they're going to get some shots then half of them will hide under the table so it's understandable.
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Tangential Prince Andrew and Peter Mandelson news https://twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/1480093487840305157 https://twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/1480093490826596352 https://twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/1480093492089176066
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Oh dear me posted:What I unreasonably dislike is when you go for a flu jab and the nurse says 'sharp scratch'. It doesn't feel anything like a scratch Yeah it feels like having a needle stuck in your arm. Which is much less unpleasant, scratches hurt for ages afterwards.
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Bobstar posted:Yeah it feels like having a needle stuck in your arm. Which is much less unpleasant, scratches hurt for ages afterwards. Yeah I never got that. If anything it feels like my bone's being scratched most of the time.
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EvilHawk posted:I was born a Tesco man and I will die a Tesco man There's an old kids song, wonder if it was just my area or not. "Lets all go to Tesco's, where X buys all his best clothes, nah nah nah nah" With alternate line 'Where X hokes the bins for his best clothes' which I think is funnier.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:hastagresistance What kind of weird Spanish is 'hasta gresista'- oh it's a typo  Oh dear me posted:What I unreasonably dislike is when you go for a flu jab and the nurse says 'sharp scratch'. It doesn't feel anything like a scratch Sharp Scratch is the name of the spell that activates the vaccine magic in your blood obv.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Americans have started using it, originally the antivaxers because somehow it sounded scarier than "shot" Despite the fact that if you go for your Covid jorts and use the secret phrase from The Magna Carta "I carry an epi pen, could I see the allergen sheet please?" they'll go through each line of a datasheet that clearly says "[company] [name] SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine" at the top with you.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I can't shop in Lidl. The Aisle of Wonder is too dangerous for me to be near, I can't keep going in for a dozen eggs and some fruit and coming out with an arc welder, a watercolour painting set, and a set of thermal underwear. I've even stopped going to the retail park in Charlton (formerly one of my "Need shopping but also a nice long walk" destinations) because the siren song of a Lidl *and* an Aldi is too strong for my weak will to ignore. I still have a Raclette I bought in LIDL 8 years ago in germany that i have never even plugged in but have taken it through 4 countries...its got a heating coil, some super hefy cooking plates and 8 little non stick pans for melting raclette and or nibblies in that go under the heating element like a grill. One day... One day i will host a dinner party with lots of little cheesy nibblies and things and it will be the pride of the table. At which point I'll plug it in and it'll either burn the house down or be so laughably ineffective it won't even melt the cheese. I don't even own a table to have a dinner party on because lol. People visiting. I now want to go browse the aisle of wonder =(
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therattle posted:Because it's infantilising. That would be jabby wabby.
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therattle posted:Because it's infantilising.
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Mebh posted:I still have a Raclette I bought in LIDL 8 years ago in germany that i have never even plugged in but have taken it through 4 countries...its got a heating coil, some super hefy cooking plates and 8 little non stick pans for melting raclette and or nibblies in that go under the heating element like a grill. That's an impressive feature list for a cheese.
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