OMG............................
So yeah we went this morning....what a joke.
Alarm went at 5am and we crept about getting a quick cuppa and a wash etc. OH warmed the car up and I left the monitor in Emily's room so she'd hear Heebs. The pooches went back to sleep on Em's bed and all was going well.
Left the house at 5.40 and drove past the big Tesco at the end of the main road we live just off - like a mile away. I said to OH shall we just got there but we decided to carry on, in the snow to the Tesco Extra another 25mins away..... Got there and we were the only people in!
The excitment was short lived. I asked the staff where calenders are and the bloke just pointed 'down there by the stationary...' I went - not there...asked someone else eventually found them somewhere else....
We set off round and it was a disgrace. You know when you used to go in places like Netto years ago and the floors were manky and covered in packaging....it was just like that - not even Lidl and Aldi are like that these days.
We were tripping over crap on the floor and all the stuff on the shelves said 'display until 21/12' or worse some stuff was actually out of date on the shelves. No choice. No double cream, no red grapes, no nice ham joints....it's Christmas FFS!!!
So we half heartedly started then OH just said 'fook this - lets go back to the one by us'. I wanted to cry BUT it was the right thing to do. I told the manager why we were abandoning the shopping and they didnt give a toss.
We got back to the local one at 7am....the place was spotless and even though they were still stocking some fresh stuff the dates were well past Christmas Day and where they were shelf stacking they were putting the packaging in the cage thingys they bring it out in - what a difference. I saw a manager when we were up and down and I told him. I'm going to email Tescos too. So we got our free shop and then we went to Sainsbugs to spend our Nectar points. It's a ting store but again it was lovely, clean and well stocked with good dates. I dont know what it says about the expectations of the people who shop at that Tesco's Extra but uuughh.....