#66

Loads of people waving back and saying bye today, and the old cashier man was singing to her as well. Good shop today

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#67

Supposedly there is an M+S equivalent for everything and they will be stocking more M+S lines than we do Waitrose at the minute. I saw the word ‘cheaper’ mentioned too, which I absolutely do not believe.

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#68

Some decent beer in my Sainos tbh

#69

Mine’s shit. Even the two big ones have a shit selection. Can’t even fall back on a bottle of Banks’s for 90 pence like Asda, Morrisons or even Aldi.

Morrisons seem to have a really good selection of beer.

#70

Mostly go to the shop just to try and feel something :man_shrugging:
There’s a big 24hr Tezzas that’s just slightly too far to ever consider walking to (25m)

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#71

when i was unemployed, the big shop was a proper highlight of my week

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#72

This makes it sound like work has superseded that feeling which can’t be right

#73

certainly not, just that i don’t need to treat ‘going to the supermarket’ as an achievement of the absolute pinnacle of productivity anymore

i do still enjoy it though, still nice to be out of the house and feel like you’re doing something isn’t it

#74

some decent ones in mine - few cans of Drygate, Camden, Beavertown, Wild Beer Co etc, bottles of Yardsman/Hilden/Foxes Rock etc, a few of the different Guinness varieties and all that (obviously alongside all the old man supermarket ales i used to buy before craft beer was everywhere)

some little cans of ‘Hyde & Wilde’ beers that seem to be a Sainos own brand thing that are sometimes reduced

s’alright like

#75

You’ll be surprised, but we are the same price or cheaper than most supermarkets for branded stuff. They’ve put a lot of investment in lowering prices and getting rid of pointless deals to attract families into shop with us. The Ocado deal is the next step in that plan (isn’t going to work imo)

#76

Dunno, it’s an extra few hundred thousand customers each week.

#77

Is that what you guys are working on? If so thats substantial. Suppose we don’t see the detail in stores. But if that’s the case, then it’s positive

#78

Reckon there’s probably capacity for about 400,000 Ocado orders a week at the minute across 3 sites.

Got another big CFC being built at Purfleet, a mini one at Bristol, Andover is being rebuilt - So that’s probably another 200k+ and as part of the deal they want to build another half a dozen.

It’s a serious operation tbf, they wouldn’t be selling that shit to supermarkets across the world otherwise.

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#79

I used to live in a village that had lots of local shops (for local people) and it’s not all it’s cracked up to be.

The whole system was built around the idea that someone in the household was able to shop between 9am and 5pm, which is pretty outdated and a bit sexist. It only worked because the area was full of bankers who commuted into the city, and I would say 75% of the mothers (and the occasional father) at my kids’ school didn’t work.

Obviously there’s something between giant out of town supermarkets and local shops that are never open, but it’s harder for small businesses to compete on opening hours, unfortunately.

#80

Out of curiosity, is that the long-term business model for Ocado? White-label massive automated grocery fulfilment centres and sell them globally? Or will it always be Ocado branded with a local supermarket as a partner?

#81

I think the main thing these days is the Technology business - flogging sheds full of robots around the world (building them for 9 different companies at the moment - there’s already one up and running with a supermarket in Barcelona).
Whether that was the original aim or not I’ve no idea but, now that they’ve got a scalable platform that works, I suppose that has more potential than delivering stuff to customers in a single market (or trying to set up shop as an unknown in another country) which is why they’ve sold half of the retail business to M+S.

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#82

It’s called a supermarket, m8. Read the thread title.

#83

Lidl…Pub?!! :hushed::cowboy_hat_face::beer:

#84

15-minute queue at the bar.

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#85

Do they have Galahad lager on tap dyou reckon??

(I Love a big bottle of perlenbacher tbf)