Supermarkets locking up the meat

[Pan mixer]

Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere.

Bacon and sausages padlocked in UK supermarket fridges in cost of living crisis

Supermarkets are reacting to thieves stealing meat and attempting to sell it on to willing buyers amid a cost of living crisis. One Tesco in London has even taken to padlocking a fridge

www.mirror.co.uk

I think that it could be lapsed vegans stealing the meat as they didn't want to be seen with any in their trolleys.

 

[delilah]

Local coop has rampant shoplifting due to the self scan thing, folks just scan a loaf of bread whilst stuffing the high value stuff in their pockets.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Local coop has rampant shoplifting due to the self scan thing, folks just scan a loaf of bread whilst stuffing the high value stuff in their pockets.

No sympathy for them.
Local Morrisons is the same, plenty of staff standing around talking but none on the tills, just direct customers to the self service and look most put out when they have to go sort a problem.
I won’t use the self service, have abandoned a shopping trolley by the tills and walked out before now and no longer go there anymore other than on a rare occasion for something I can’t get elsewhere

 

[Sid]

Back to the old school butchers shop where everything was behind the counter.

What goes around comes around

 

[yin ewe]

Back to the old school butchers shop where everything was behind the counter.

What goes around comes around

Always does come round again. Going back to my school days I remember a bread van, grocery van and granny ringing her order to the village shop so they'd make it up for collecting or delivering later.
The supermarkets pushed all these people out but are now back to providing home deliveries, click and collect etc, and the younger generation thinks it's so amazing and innovative.

 

[Sid]

Always does come round again. Going back to my school days I remember a bread van, grocery van and granny ringing her order to the village shop so they'd make it up for collecting or delivering later.
The supermarkets pushed all these people out but are now back to providing home deliveries, click and collect etc, and the younger generation thinks it's so amazing and innovative.

Mr Singh used to come round with clothes van from South Molton

 

[Tarw Coch]

As above, in my youth I can remember delivery vans from the village shop, butcher, baker, fruit and veg, the Asian man selling work clothes and of course the milk man…………………best not mention those selling gates made of glorified tin……especially when they learnt to put sand in the bars to make them feel heavier

 

[Blue.]

Back to the old school butchers shop where everything was behind the counter.

What goes around comes around

 

[yin ewe]

Mr Singh used to come round with clothes van from South Molton

My dad still has a clothes van man call with him every couple of months, been coming for years. The amount of unworn socks, jumpers, vests and shirts he has stuffed into drawers is shocking, says he doesn't want to send him away without buying anything in case he doesn't come back

 

[Hilly]

My dad still has a clothes van man call with him every couple of months, been coming for years. The amount of unworn socks, jumpers, vests and shirts he has stuffed into drawers is shocking, says he doesn't want to send him away without buying anything in case he doesn't come back

Like a old boy used to do my night lambing had a massive bait box and used to throw the sandwiches away after his shift , used to say if he took them home didnt get as many tomorrow

 

[yin ewe]

He once asked him if he had any boiler suits thinking that he wouldn't have them and that would get him out of buying anything for a time, said clothes van man arrived back two days later with a selection for him to try on.

 

[Steevo]

Like a old boy used to do my night lambing had a massive bait box and used to throw the sandwiches away after his shift , used to say if he took them home didnt get as many tomorrow

Did he used to work for the council at one stage by any chance...?! That's how they run their budgets after all.

 

[thorpe]

As above, in my youth I can remember delivery vans from the village shop, butcher, baker, fruit and veg, the Asian man selling work clothes and of course the milk man…………………best not mention those selling gates made of glorified tin……especially when they learnt to put sand in the bars to make them feel heavier

did you have the corona man? we were allowed 1 bottle and it had to last all week.

 

[Tarw Coch]

did you have the corona man? we were allowed 1 bottle and it had to last all week.

No, but I do remember the days when the bottle carried a deposit unlike today when just about all soft drinks come in plastic bottles which can be discarded the minute they’re empty

 

[daveydiesel1]

He once asked him if he had any boiler suits thinking that he wouldn't have them and that would get him out of buying anything for a time, said clothes van man arrived back two days later with a selection for him to try on.

Theres a man calls here with clothes in a silver van but hes dead expensive. Me granny used to buy from him but since she took unwell he doesnt get so much sales here

 

[Pan mixer]

Milkman, Corona man, Butcher (twice a week) bread van (2 of them alternate days 6 days a week, Grocery man, Postman twice a day, Fishmonger, Greengrocer and the man who drove the 'Honeycart' (toilet emptying man).

Rural roads used to have a lot of traffic.

 

[Bogweevil]

Anyone remember those Indian gentlemen who went door to door in the 60s countryside with a suitcase of household wares?

Mother used to make us say she was not in, sometimes loud enough for the poor fellows to hear - they did not look pleased.

 

[Andy Nash]

Did he used to work for the council at one stage by any chance...?! That's how they run their budgets after all.

You really aren’t joking.
I remember digging up some kerb stones for the council, so the lads could lay new ones when I was driving a digger for a subcontractor.
Reason: Money left in the budget.

 

[delilah]

No sympathy for them.
Local Morrisons is the same, plenty of staff standing around talking but none on the tills, just direct customers to the self service and look most put out when they have to go sort a problem.
I won’t use the self service, have abandoned a shopping trolley by the tills and walked out before now and no longer go there anymore other than on a rare occasion for something I can’t get elsewhere

Have been told by a coop manager that the formula goes like this: If they can get away with two staff members rather than than three, due to the self scan thing, the losses are acceptable so long as they are less than the saving on wages.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Have been told by a coop manager that the formula goes like this: If they can get away with two staff members rather than than three, due to the self scan thing, the losses are acceptable so long as they are less than the saving on wages.

From a purely buisness perspective that might make sense.
It’s also someone out of a job that won’t be replaced.

I tend to avoid the automated customer service type things and opt to deal with a human wherever possible