itigo

The worrying thing is that most of them drove to the shop!!

paulry

Noticed that too.

And over here the aisles are often much much narrower - even in the larger stores, making "excuse me please" encounters more frequent.

Pollyana

Even when they live 5 minutes walk away!
Why do so many Aussies spend two hours pounding the streets for "ëxercise" then when they get home they drive the five minutes to the shops to buy dinner! FFS Buy the dinner while you're out!!!!

Beedubya

You have a few items in your basket so you go to the express queue, you know the one near to the service desk where they sell fags. So nowadays the check out person can't sell them to you (no idea why?) so you pay for your few groceries, walk 10 steps to the service desk, then the same check out person turns from their till and comes to said desk and can then serve you, but only from one special fag till.

WTH is that all about???? This one REALLY pees me off especially when I have no cash!!

p.s. No quit smoking tips needed from the non-smokers thank you very much.

paulry

Why pay an arm and a leg for "The Real Thing"? We go for the "el cheapo" and sugar-free brands of coke etc. It seems to taste better over here and is a fraction of the cost.

The tuna in those poxy mini cans. In the UK we used to make tuna bake with 4 "normal-sized" tins which was bad enough but with those mini tins I reckon we'd have to open ten or more of them

Try baking your own bread. You won't regret it.

A list combined with determination helps OH and I to not overspend. Otherwise we would go in for a few items and come out with a trolley-full.

Even worse is when they have a dozen checkouts, a store full of customers and only one or two checkouts manned/womaned. And the chance of them opening another till because there's more customers in front of you than there are people in the Aus perm migration queue is close to nill

And my own gripe: Having to go to several supermarkets, etc every week to get the pick of the deals.

paulry

I used to get frustrated waiting to be served at the ciggy queue for the dozens of Lotto customers to buy their tickets.

Centurion

1. People who go to the express check out and, despite the queue behind them, make the check out chick go and get them 100 Holiday or whatever chav smokes they want. Because nobody else had anything better to do than stand there and that's why they went to the express lane

2. People who wear no shoes in supermarkets despite the obvious risk to loosing a toe. Really - are you that stupid ?

3. The fact is usually cheaper to buy two smaller quantities of something than the larger combined single item.

4. Anything which proudly tells me this item is reduced by less than 5c. That's just rubbing salt into the wound of the stupidly gouging prices which we are fleeced with everyday.

5. Coles flybuys are the most insulting loyalty program ever and why someone there hasn't worked out that people find free Qantas flights with Everyday rewards a better deal is beyond me.

6. People who wear PJ's when shopping into the evening at the IGA. You are, frankly, a dag who deserves to live in your fibro shack with two staffies.

7. During the busy times, make sure that you only have 2 checkouts open and have at least 3 staff behind the "management" counter bit looking busy. Your not and we know it.

8. Not selling booze. Instead open up BWS bottle shops next to your supermarket and pay more overheads. I realise this is just the Australian government protecting us from ourselves and the dangers of alcohol. Lest we become a nation of binge drinkers who consume more than most other western countries...oh wait...

carolinephillips

That bloody tune "we are the fresh food people" being played incessantly. Get my shotgun please....

Beedubya

Fag counter is maybe 8 steps away in my local shop, and oh yes it is only chavs who smoke cigarettes I forgot, somebody should have told Princess Margaret this.

For the record it is 25 Benson and Hedges Smooth. I am a superior type of chav.

carolinephillips

Princess Margaret WAS a bit of a chav- drinking and smoking and rumour has it, doing drugs. Failed marriage and a series of toyboys.....'nuff said.

paulry

And superior prices too (B&H were my brand)

...In the end I think it was the superior prices that pushed me over the edge and forced me to stop.

Beedubya

Dearie me, drinking and smoking, a bit of weed, a "failed" marriage and a few boyfriends, how terribly common. Anybody would think she was a human being............

bcworld

Pollyana

OMG I have a twin! I couldn't have ranted better if I'd done it myself

Turban Explorer

The fact that Orstraylia doesn't really do 'food', either that or there is some sort of en masse taste bud failure going on.... Crikey.... I'd eat a boomerang for five minutes in the M&S food hall.