Originally Posted by 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...

Originally Posted by Swerv-o

I love raw onion too - Have to cut up two for chilli etc as I will have consumed one long before it gets into the wok.

My pet supermarket hates are:

1. Awful, terrible illogical layout. I think that both Coles and Woolies employ Stevie Wonder to do the layouts for them.

2. Portion sizes. How come they are either for feeding a family of 8 or not quite enough to satisfy a small dog? There never seems to be any middle ground.

3. Cheese. How can there be so many different varieties of cheddar style cheese that all taste the same - i.e. bland and of nothing - and only ONE type of blue cheese?

4. No cheap lo-cal lemonade. Sadly I really miss this from Asda - It was about 20p for 2 litres, and was a great mixer for fruit juice, cordial etc, and didn't make me fat. I used to buy bottles of the stuff but here I can't find a similar product.

5. Spice. how come everything is always 'Mild' or 'Medium'? Where do you buy the extra super hot stuff? This is particularly noticeable in dips (See Turban Explorer's comments). There are never hot dips for sale!


I'm sure there are more too. I also hate people who say "You should really go to your local <insert supplier here> instead of the supermarket." When I complain about quality/quantity/availability of stock. They may have time for trailing around a plurality of individual suppliers, but I don't! As Brian Potter said "All under one roof!"


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Originally Posted by scottishcelts

No's 1 & 2 really irritate me, as does no.8.

The biggest one for me is how slow some of the check out chicks are - grrrr! It doesn't appear to bother them how big the queue is or how long people have to stand bored shitless, staring into space. It's the whole 'not making an effort to get the queue down a bit quckier' thing that annoys me.

Originally Posted by paulry

That's where they have it right in the UK with their "if there's more than one customer in front of you, we'll open another till" approach.

Originally Posted by paulry

That's where they have it right in the UK with their "if there's more than one customer in front of you, we'll open another till" approach.

Originally Posted by hevs

Followed by...but you can pack yer own ******* bags while we launch all of your bruisables down the conveyor belt faster than the take off any space shuttle you care to name......

Originally Posted by jad n rich

Noticed in our local woolies and coles milk has suddenly dropped to $1 a litre

Not sure if its to distract us from the fact that meat and veg seem to have doubled in the last 2 weeks.

Or a clever marketing ploy, who doesnt buy milk? so their number one seller gets a reduction.

Or it might be none of that a new aldi opened a month ago and I havent seen the carpark empty yet.

Originally Posted by Pollyana

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showp...&postcount=433

Apparently cheap milk is unaustralian........which to me sounds like a good reason to buy it

Originally Posted by Pollyana

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showp...&postcount=433

Apparently cheap milk is unaustralian........which to me sounds like a good reason to buy it

Originally Posted by hevs

Followed by...but you can pack yer own ******* bags while we launch all of your bruisables down the conveyor belt faster than the take off any space shuttle you care to name......

Originally Posted by Turban Explorer

Another interesting thing seems to be the colourings and additives that are used here - especially amongst the drinks - Lime cordial is the colour of kryptonite and the home brand is almost identical to the eucalyptus toilet disinfectant.

Originally Posted by iamthecreaturefromuranus

Hove you seen the green pickled onions?
Now they look well dodgy