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by bilky asko
Fri 28 Mar, 2025 13.23
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Replies: 2247
Views: 1192829

Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake



WH Smith bought by the owners of Hobbycraft

https://news.sky.com/story/bluesky-13337092


… with the high street stores to be renamed as TG Jones. Which just sounds like something they’ve made up rather than meaning anything?

They’re keeping hold of the travel stores though.

Let’s hope the ...
by bilky asko
Thu 27 Mar, 2025 13.50
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread
Replies: 2146
Views: 1330805

Re: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread



Recently I had a till receipt in Sainsbury's that decided not to print out the bar code, so had to wait for the checkout assistant to let me out.

My experiences of the exit gates are usually good, but there have been times where the barcode scanners simply don't read them or they've had to take ...
by bilky asko
Sun 23 Mar, 2025 22.38
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread
Replies: 2146
Views: 1330805

Re: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread

The camera on the fruit and veg scales saves a lot of messing about looking for the exact item you want. My major issue is that the scales never seem to get cleaned up my end, so they're always filthy (in comparison to Tesco's less advanced, yet pristine, scales).
by bilky asko
Sun 16 Mar, 2025 03.09
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread
Replies: 2146
Views: 1330805

Re: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread


The holsters for the scanner guns in M&S are infuriating. Why are they on the wrong way? They're such a clart to take the gun out and use it compared to the Tesco equivalent.


Aren't they the kind that work in a hands-free mode when they're mounted on the trolley holster? I presume that's the ...
by bilky asko
Wed 19 Feb, 2025 10.14
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Old supermarket signage
Replies: 51
Views: 124584

Re: Old supermarket signage


The blue and white aisle singage in the 1995 video is ALMOST right, but it was one long continuous strip the whole width of the store rather than broken into sections as it is here.

The 1999 section also has the old logo on the carrier bags. That logo did hang around on carrier bags for a couple ...
by bilky asko
Fri 24 Jan, 2025 11.49
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread
Replies: 2146
Views: 1330805

Re: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread


To be honest, I didn't even know they had any cafes left, all the stores I've been into over the last couple of years have the old cafe space walled off.


My local Sainsbury's is one that still has a Café. It's a bit hidden as you have to walk past a wall where the Argos is (on the mezzanine) to ...
by bilky asko
Fri 17 Jan, 2025 07.26
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread
Replies: 2146
Views: 1330805

Re: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread

If only they made a condensed variant of the Gotham font for just such a purpose. They could call it Gotham Condensed.
by bilky asko
Sun 05 Jan, 2025 19.38
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Does this background music in this Morrisons advert have a name?
Replies: 3
Views: 8214

Re: Does this background music in this Morrisons advert have a name?

That's the period when they were using "Shine" by Take That in their ads - it just seems to be a jingle based on that.
by bilky asko
Sun 08 Dec, 2024 22.13
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: The current state of Christmas lights
Replies: 22
Views: 31748

Re: The current state of Christmas lights

Good to see they've cracked proper vintage-style LED Christmas lights here - and, it seems, in the US:

by bilky asko
Fri 06 Dec, 2024 18.42
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread
Replies: 2146
Views: 1330805

Re: The Tesco & other non-Morrisons supermarket thread

Coincidentally, I spotted today that my local Morrisons has changed its hot food counters from serve-over counters to self-service heated cabinets, to match the pasty counter.
by bilky asko
Tue 03 Dec, 2024 15.27
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Pour Bill gates down the sink... Or is that milk?
Replies: 6
Views: 14111

Re: Pour Bill gates down the sink... Or is that milk?

barcode wrote: Tue 03 Dec, 2024 10.47is anyone here happy with Bovaer being added to the milk?
Well, as the source in your own post states, it isn't being added to the milk, nor does it get into the milk via the cow.

There's an easy way to get around the issue - stop drinking cow's milk.