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UncleBFester wrote: | Except it does.
Stevenage - old offices that do NOT pass those regs had the planning restrictions 'removed' by the council who owned the building so the old offices could be sold off for commuter flats.
One such building is Vista Towers, ironic really as the only view is ASDA carpark and the service entrances of the shitty town centre shopping outlets.
If i try and shop in the old town, there are spaces you can't get into due to the angle of the parking, Naziesque traffic wardens hovering to catch you 2 minutes over a time allowance. More pubs / fast food outlets than actual shops and what there is, is over priced and understocked.
That leaves the town centre which is largely £ shops and 'ethnic' food outlets - you can almost smell the rot over the stench of cheap pasties.
I could go to the many local ( and increasingly half empty) retail parks but then you've got to deal with the pillocks they are staffed by. A few exceptions to this in those stores, you seek them out and if they are off on the day you mistakenly wander in, then you leave and buy online.
Parking is plentiful but fat people in people carriers are unable to open their doors wide enough to pour themselves out without denting everything around them - assuming they care, which they don't. Add in their whining mewling brood of badly behaved feral animals .....
No thanks, i'll buy online and have it delivered to work or home. |
Ooof, Stevenage. You have my sympathies. Not been to the town centre in ages, but it was rough last time I was there. The old town was still ok last time I was there, parking has always been a pain though!
If the missus gets the urge to go shopping it's generally Milton Keynes, which for me seems to be going a similar way (to Stevenage) unfortunately. Online shopping is just so much easier. Paying for returns for stuff that doesn't fit is a small price to pay. I have no problem supporting local shops, but the ones that are local and cater for my hobbies tend not to stock the stuff I'm after so it needs ordering in with a three day lead time and it's generally a touch more expensive. ____________________ My Flickr |
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Buiders merchants and supermarkets here. I like to pick my own food, grab the ones from the back with the longest
time until use by date. Carefully select my fruit and veg (worked on a stall when I was 12 so I know my onions )
and handle my food as if it's food. Before now I've gotten pissy with checkout people because they've hurled my food
down the till chute like it's a fucking bowling alley. I've abandoned the lot and walked away before now too, I've just spent
40 mins choosing it all, please don't launch it at me. Builders merchants because I usually need those things right away
because landlord. Everything else pretty much, ebay or amazon. ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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^^^ I watched some grubby little female 'squeeze' just about every hovis loaf on an Asda shelf today.
An Asda 'colleague' read shelf stacker just stood there watching her.
I was going to say something but why bother. Spotty youth is on pennies an hour and isn't going to say anything that might get a customer complaining against him ____________________ Triumph Trophy Launch Edition |
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Polarbear wrote: | ^^^ I watched some grubby little female 'squeeze' just about every hovis loaf on an Asda shelf today.
An Asda 'colleague' read shelf stacker just stood there watching her.
I was going to say something but why bother. Spotty youth is on pennies an hour and isn't going to say anything that might get a customer complaining against him |
I worked in a small self-service grocery shop in around 1973, alongside an old deaf bloke.
He thought he was discreetly murmering when he yelled: "Look at that wifie touching all the fucking scones!" ____________________ Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 323 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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