Following
my recent, more rural, move, I have had to make a number of changes to my
everyday life. One of these changes has involved visiting a different branch of
Tesco to do my weekly shop.
Formerly I
shopped at a big Tesco Extra store, which always seemed to be busy, even
mid-week when I opt to shop. Queues would often build up and negotiating the
aisles could be a tricky business in itself. But my new shopping venue is a
smaller Tesco store (not an Extra, but not a Metro, something in between),
where the whole shopping experience seems that much more civilised.
To visit
this branch I have to venture out from my new village location to the nearest
small town. Once in the store the aisles are pretty devoid of customers, with
the few I do meet generally pausing to pass the time of day. What a joy not to
have to play ‘dodge the manic trolley driver’ or ‘avoid the mass of parked
trolleys’!
On my first
visit I was pleased to see that the checkouts looked, what I considered to be,
very quiet, with only about one customer at each. So imagine my surprise, when
as I approached, a call came over the tannoy requesting, “All red cardholders
to checkouts please.” Why? Was that busy by their standards? Anyway, I
shouldn’t complain, as I was promptly whisked to an empty, newly opened
checkout where I was given help to pack the shopping!
And no,
this wasn’t a one-off as much the same thing happened on visit number two!
OK, so it
doesn’t offer the all-singing, all-dancing non-food aisles, but at least I can
get my weekly shop without being tempted to buy all the other things that I
don’t really need. Sounds like a win-win situation.
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