Coles Vs Tescos which is best?
Jan 28th 2009, 4:51 am
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Re: Coles Vs Tescos which is best?
We prefer Aldi both here and UK mainly for basic stuff. My one big complaint is that they do not provide mobility scooters for shoppers which means I cant shop there myself, I have to get OH to do it.
Saying that, sadly, in Aus, unless ANY supermarket is in a big Westfield mall I cant shop there either, as they dont provide them. Unlike UK where every single supermarket I went to whether its Tescos or Waitrose, all have them as standard. Negotiation of the aisles is also far easier in UK. Here you are constantly manouvering around pillars and posts, or badly positioned food displays, and thats without the rude people who pretend you dont exist and constantly walk in front of you as you are moving along. UK shoppers in my experience are far more helpful and courteous to me as a disabled person.
BTW... it wasnt until I had to resort to a scooter that I discovered just how filthy the shelves in Coles and Woolies are!! I am at eye level a lot of the time... bleughhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
Saying that, sadly, in Aus, unless ANY supermarket is in a big Westfield mall I cant shop there either, as they dont provide them. Unlike UK where every single supermarket I went to whether its Tescos or Waitrose, all have them as standard. Negotiation of the aisles is also far easier in UK. Here you are constantly manouvering around pillars and posts, or badly positioned food displays, and thats without the rude people who pretend you dont exist and constantly walk in front of you as you are moving along. UK shoppers in my experience are far more helpful and courteous to me as a disabled person.
BTW... it wasnt until I had to resort to a scooter that I discovered just how filthy the shelves in Coles and Woolies are!! I am at eye level a lot of the time... bleughhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
Jan 28th 2009, 5:16 am
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Re: Coles Vs Tescos which is best?
Or are they just pumped with more chemicals to make them look that way
(sorry, couldn't resist 
)We prefer Aldi both here and UK mainly for basic stuff. My one big complaint is that they do not provide mobility scooters for shoppers which means I cant shop there myself, I have to get OH to do it.
Saying that, sadly, in Aus, unless ANY supermarket is in a big Westfield mall I cant shop there either, as they dont provide them. Unlike UK where every single supermarket I went to whether its Tescos or Waitrose, all have them as standard. Negotiation of the aisles is also far easier in UK. Here you are constantly manouvering around pillars and posts, or badly positioned food displays, and thats without the rude people who pretend you dont exist and constantly walk in front of you as you are moving along. UK shoppers in my experience are far more helpful and courteous to me as a disabled person.
BTW... it wasnt until I had to resort to a scooter that I discovered just how filthy the shelves in Coles and Woolies are!! I am at eye level a lot of the time... bleughhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
Saying that, sadly, in Aus, unless ANY supermarket is in a big Westfield mall I cant shop there either, as they dont provide them. Unlike UK where every single supermarket I went to whether its Tescos or Waitrose, all have them as standard. Negotiation of the aisles is also far easier in UK. Here you are constantly manouvering around pillars and posts, or badly positioned food displays, and thats without the rude people who pretend you dont exist and constantly walk in front of you as you are moving along. UK shoppers in my experience are far more helpful and courteous to me as a disabled person.
BTW... it wasnt until I had to resort to a scooter that I discovered just how filthy the shelves in Coles and Woolies are!! I am at eye level a lot of the time... bleughhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
even a lot of shopping centres in Adelaide have mobility scooters, and we're supposed to be 'backward' here 
I think the rude people thing is a big city thing more than an Australia thing. I find the Adelaide people pretty friendly, polite and just generally nice people, but then it's a smaller 'town' and people aren't always rushing around here...well not until you hit the city centre anyway. I do hear a lot of interstate people say that Adelaide is the best city in Aus for that though so maybe we just lucked out.
And if it was me, and people were being rude or getting in the way etc I'd just ram them with the scooter
Jan 28th 2009, 5:27 am
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Re: Coles Vs Tescos which is best?
Or are they just pumped with more chemicals to make them look that way (sorry, couldn't resist )
Now you'd think somewhere like Sydney would have that sort of thing wouldn't you even a lot of shopping centres in Adelaide have mobility scooters, and we're supposed to be 'backward' here
I think the rude people thing is a big city thing more than an Australia thing. I find the Adelaide people pretty friendly, polite and just generally nice people, but then it's a smaller 'town' and people aren't always rushing around here...well not until you hit the city centre anyway. I do hear a lot of interstate people say that Adelaide is the best city in Aus for that though so maybe we just lucked out.
And if it was me, and people were being rude or getting in the way etc I'd just ram them with the scooter
(sorry, couldn't resist )Now you'd think somewhere like Sydney would have that sort of thing wouldn't you
even a lot of shopping centres in Adelaide have mobility scooters, and we're supposed to be 'backward' here I think the rude people thing is a big city thing more than an Australia thing. I find the Adelaide people pretty friendly, polite and just generally nice people, but then it's a smaller 'town' and people aren't always rushing around here...well not until you hit the city centre anyway. I do hear a lot of interstate people say that Adelaide is the best city in Aus for that though so maybe we just lucked out.
And if it was me, and people were being rude or getting in the way etc I'd just ram them with the scooter
As i said before, the large shopping malls do have the scooters. Places like Bondi junction, Broadway and Eastgardens, but smaller malls dont have them at all and I am yet to see any supermarket provide them for their own particular shops.
OK.. i will own up, I did once reverse into a couple who trapped me into a corner at the butchers counter whilst they had a snog.
Jan 28th 2009, 6:06 am
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Re: Coles Vs Tescos which is best?
Dairymilk04 that's because you picked a backward state to live in. I can get alcohol in a supermarket 24 hrs a day. Remeber every state has very different laws.
Jan 28th 2009, 6:13 am
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Re: Coles Vs Tescos which is best?
I used to live in Adelaide but didnt need a scooter then so cant comment.
As i said before, the large shopping malls do have the scooters. Places like Bondi junction, Broadway and Eastgardens, but smaller malls dont have them at all and I am yet to see any supermarket provide them for their own particular shops.
OK.. i will own up, I did once reverse into a couple who trapped me into a corner at the butchers counter whilst they had a snog.
As i said before, the large shopping malls do have the scooters. Places like Bondi junction, Broadway and Eastgardens, but smaller malls dont have them at all and I am yet to see any supermarket provide them for their own particular shops.
OK.. i will own up, I did once reverse into a couple who trapped me into a corner at the butchers counter whilst they had a snog.
Good on you 
Jan 28th 2009, 6:32 am
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Re: Coles Vs Tescos which is best?
Jan 29th 2009, 5:27 am
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Re: Coles Vs Tescos which is best?
Most of the women shopping in Woolworths are fractionally wider than the aisles, anyway. You get quite adept at scuttling along the end of the aisles looking up each one to find one free of a cellulite logjam.....
Jan 29th 2009, 8:08 am
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Jan 29th 2009, 8:58 am
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Re: Coles Vs Tescos which is best?
Go to Coles, Fountain Gate, Melbourne SE - the waist size goes up..
Jan 29th 2009, 9:37 am
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Re: Coles Vs Tescos which is best?
But if you can let me know where i may have to rethink states 
Jan 29th 2009, 9:54 am
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