However, for reasons only known by the Manager of Asda Barnsley, they decided that this week, the busiest week of the year, they would stop opening 24 hours. So this morning we arrived to be greeted by a crowd of seasonal shoppers standing outside in disbelief. The big white cricle in the photo is actually a big red "24 hours" sign but didn't come out, which is a shame lol.
The moment the doors opened at 6am, there was a stampede towards the fruit and veg isles with people pushing and shoving to get to the goodies and someone ended up in tears. To make matters worse, instead of re-stocking the shelves overnight, they had only just started so much of the stuff everyone was looking for was missing!
The place looked a disgrace, with rubbish all over the place from the chaos the day before, cleaners had only just started work, trying to sweep up without being bowled over by herds of disgruntled shoppers.
So, Manager of Asda Barnsley, you win Muppet Of The Year 2005 hands down, just what were you thinking off!
Paul.
5 comments:
eeekkk...I hope you don't venture into my shop on a busy day! hehe.
Happy Christmas to all of you :O) xx
Just stopping by to wish you a very merry christmas x x x
Doncaster 24 Asda was closing at midnight too. Purly so the poor loves could stock up the selfs ready for the next day, Glad we did our food shopping on Tuesday to avoid the annual crush and rush.
merry Christmas Debbie and Paul.
Tesco wasn't much different. And you get stupid 17 year old check out girls IDing you because you got a bottle of wine among tampax and Pringles when you clearly look 21 and ARE 21 and have NEVER been IDed in your LIFE.
Bloody people...
- Astrantia
I can understand your frustration about Asda not opening for 24 hours. Recently, I have been reading about the company that took over Asda, Wal-Mart and its absolutely revolting exploitative employment practices. Sadly, despite its denials, Asda is attempting to introduce similar practices into the UK (squeezing out trade unions, abolishing Xmas bonuses and the like), incrementally, so that the actual customers do not notice. If you are interested, I recommend Liza Featherstone's excellent Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart. It is perhaps easy for me to say that I never intend to spend a penny (!) of my hard-earned cash in Asda again as my boycott would have such as infinitesemal impact - as an ex-pat who only visits the UK twice or three times a year max. We really shouldn't let them get away with ruining the conditions of our store workers, as the other supermarkets would soon follow suit. Anyway, from the political to the personal: Happy New Year (I am posting this on January 1st) and Happy Blogging in 2006! :)
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