thats right.

safeway *supermarket in australia* are a bunch of complete wankers.

I walked in last night, needing some eggs, i only actually needed 1 egg to make a microwavable (sp?) cake. but todays society makes it necessary to buy six.

having absolutely no idea where the eggs were, i made a bee line for the litttle piece of paper which tells you where everything is.

Firelighters, isle 8

foot care, isle 3

eggs, produce cabinet.


where the fuck is that!? mutters me aloud....

i wandered around the perimeter of the store for about 10 minutes, looking for anything that could possibly be containing produce. at last i found a cabinet with the words "fresh produce" stuck on it. EXCELLENT! this is surely where the eggs are located!

how wrong i was.

The cabinet was filled with mushroom, lettuce and other greenery, no eggs to be found.

The piece of paper was wrong! i felt hurt and betrayed, that piece of paper was supposed to know more about the store than any hormone crazed 15 year old angrily stocking bananas for drug money (such people seem to make up a large part of the workforce...)

i decided to ask someone, i had already been in the store 20 minutes and had not sighted a single egg.

I approached several people. most of whom made no eye contact and made no effort to help me whatsoever (bitches!)

eventually i found a nice looking young man helping and old lady put mangoes in a bag, i sidled up to him and said
"scuse me, could you please tell me where the eggs are"

"ISLE FIVE M'AAAAM!!!" came the reply no more than a nano second after i had completed my request.

It took me a minute to work out what he had said, before i wandered off to isle five, and there they were, not in a cabinet of any sort, but on a shelf, like everything else in the supermarket.

appauled at the wrong information i was given, and lack of customer service from the pimply workers, i paid for my eggs and left, wondering what was the matter with the world these days.

here ends the rant.....

well i'm in scotland and you could have just described my local safeway.

Describes just about ever supermarket I reckon :)

Asda, for instance, put all their stuff completely at random. You can find the baked beans somewhere between the milk and the socks.

haha.

i should write a letter to someone detailing my concerns....

Geez. Some people rush too much. That's half the fun of going to the supermarket, learning where things are.... especially when you're a regular there and they shift it all overnight... fantastic fun!

Cloudane spouted:
Describes just about ever supermarket I reckon :)

Asda, for instance, put all their stuff completely at random. You can find the baked beans somewhere between the milk and the socks.

In my local Asda, the salad dressing and mayonnaise is beside the organic frozen foods. And in the one near my mum's house, Branston pickle is next to frozen veg. AND the chilled sandwich fillings are nowhere near the meat and cheese bit...

Kinky McFoxxy spouted:


In my local Asda, the salad dressing and mayonnaise is beside the organic frozen foods. And in the one near my mum's house, Branston pickle is next to frozen veg. AND the chilled sandwich fillings are nowhere near the meat and cheese bit...

lol this amused me :P you seem pretty annoyed by the location of those sandwich fillings :P

my asda is a fucking nightmare. its like a warehouse. and there is NOTHING it doesnt sell. a trip to get some supplies quickly turns into an excercise in frustration.

It just makes no sense! You put cheese on a sandwich, you put honey roast ham on a sandwich, you put andwich fillings on a sandwich...

I love going to the big Asda WalMart in Livingston. ITs like the size of Wales or something. I doubt the staff would even notice if you didn't leave for several days. But again, everything is all over the place. The milk and cheese aren't even next to each other :S

some people dont leave for days and it aint for want of trying. they just cant find there way out. its handy as anything though at 3 in the morning when you need something. i can walk to it in about 10 mins so its been a godsend in that respect but you cant find anything! then when you start to know where stuff is what happens?? they move it all!! arrrrrggghhh!!!

We used to use Sainsburys, but after they reduced the number of lines they stocked in our local store we decided to go elsewhere.

We now go to ASDA which is further, but nicer.

All our Safeways are turning into Morrisons, which tend to be inhabitted by minging smelly people who never wash in their slippers :S

i dont wash in my slippers either. i always remove them first.

Oooh, I agree with this thread, although I'm gonna whinge about Tesco's where Ive just returned from.

I only popped in to buy a few "vitals" - tea, coffee, alcohol, etc. Firstly, when I got to the basket bay, there wasn't a basket to be found. So I traipsed back outside to find a trolley - ditto. After hunting round the car park & successfully locating a trolley (in the pouring rain), I headed inside...

Now having a trolley instead of a basket as planned, my 6 items couldn't go through the express checktout, and I queued for AGES at one of the normal checkouts. So much for the "if there're 2 people ahead of you we'll open another til" bollocks!

And to top it off, I got home over an hour later with my precious 6 items to realise I'd forgotten the most important essential - toilet rolls! No way am I repeating the saga, methinks we'll just have to use newspaper for now......;-)

you should have pushed the trolley through anyway.
maintaining that you had a right, as a purchaser of less than 6 items, to proceed through the express checkout, along with the vessel they had provided you with.

sure, you'll probably never be allowed back in the place, but you'll be rocking the boat of a multi-million dollar corperation, which is always satisfying.

had a nice suprise from Tesco in Longton, Stoke on Trent.
I bought a takeaway curry in a bag, got home , opened bag, discovered that there were no naan breads or onion bhajis. Peering at the reciept i discovered a freephone number for the store which i duly rang. The girl who answered ( Penny ) said she would get the duty manager to ring me back ASAP which he duly did. I explained my problem to Simon who bent over backwards to apologise. He suggested that i pop into the store but seeing that i live 18 miles away he promised me he would sort it out via the post. Fast forward 4 days and i duly received a £10 Tesco voucher through the post. Well done Tesco.

I love our Safeway here. We shop there all the time. It is a bit farther away from out house but that is ok. Always nice and the people are friendly. We are getting a Wal*mart Supercenter here. It looks giant!!! The one store that I hate is Food For Less. Good God that place is horrible. Nothing but stinky Mexicans (I can say that because I am married to a Stinky Mexican) and wetbacks. Putrid meat and fruit with flys on it.

Don't worry (be happy). Safeway (UK) has been taken over by Morrisons, who are easily the best supermarket in Britain.

When I die and go to hell, I will be sent to a bizrre hybrid of Tescos on a hot saturday afternoon and the London Underground.

A couple of weeks ago it took me 25 minutes of wandering around trying to find a jar of Nutella and some shoelaces. I would have given up, but I refuse to be triumphed over by men in nylon suits and zitty teenage layabouts.

pardon? spouted:
Don't worry (be happy). Safeway (UK) has been taken over by Morrisons, who are easily the best supermarket in Britain.

Morrisons is the best? jeez, you havent been in the one in Walsall then.

Pikey heaven.

trxiegirl71 spouted:
Nothing but stinky Mexicans (I can say that because I am married to a Stinky Mexican) and wetbacks. Putrid meat and fruit with flys on it.

I shop at Fiesta supermarkets here in Houston, they're Mexican. Top place. And not at all stinky. You do have to watch out for the red backs in the banana section though.

If you want stinky go to Kroger. Badly organised and the slowest/dimmest staff ever (well, outside of Walmart) and always dolescum hovering around outside.

Or ALDI or LIDL. Some of the worst cheap Eastern European crap imaginable, and some of the most obscure customers imaginable

safeway strikes again.

went in there yesterday looking for peppers.

bought 3 in a container type thing, red yellow and green.

ALL MOULDY AND FERAL.

:(

Also known as the Gone Off Taffic Light scenario.