Friday, 15 January 2010

Supermarket Nightmare!

I'm dreading tomorrow morning because I will be up very early in order to go shopping at Tesco. Although I have had to use Tesco Metro since Christmas due to inclement weather conditions, I'm afraid I will have to brace myself for the horror that is the main Tesco store.
Even when I go on a Saturday and get there before eight o'clock I will still find that a lot of the shelves have not been re-stocked properly despite the fact that they are open for 24 hours and there will cages littering the store.
Then I will have to manoeuvre my way around the 'dot com' shoppers who will be doing the shopping with their usual gusto and enthusiasm (that should be apathy), for those who simply can't be bothered to do it for themselves or who are living such busy lives that they don't have the time along with those who are too posh to shop.
I will have to check the freshness of the vegetables but with any luck there will be a farmers' market on Wednesday and I will be able to get my supplies from there again but I won't need to bother with the bread because I've gone back to baking my own. Checking the 'use by' dates on fresh foods and milk is a nightmare as many will expire over this week end, so I will be rummaging at the back of the shelves to find items with a longer shelf life, after all, I don't want to gorge myself over two days.
The other time consuming part of shopping is reading the labels to check where the stuff came from and what's in it and I get stroppy at the print which is getting ever smaller on the list of ingredients despite the fact that I wear my contact lenses and reading glasses.
Finally, I will make my way to the check outs only to find there are queues building up as there will not be enough open, that the person in front of me will have a huge trolley full even though it looked less than all the others. To put the icing on the cake, the cashier will have to get someone to go and check a price because the bar code on an item is damaged which will mean that they will have to go to the furthest part of the store (and still won't be able to find it) while all the other queues move faster than the one I'm in!

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