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FreddieUK Oh, I never fall for "offers" unless they really will help, which is not often. Nor do I fall for tricks like fresh bread or coffee scents, the stuff they display next to the till queues, etc.
My nearest Tesco is a small branch, so its range is not very great, but the supermarkets generally tend to work on large ranges with limited choices in many of those anyway. While their buying policy denies local management any choice, and is designed to wipe out local food producers.
I buy food generally little and often, with the occasional expedition to Aldi or Lidl, but about the only shop I can be said loyal to is the independant. local baker's shop not far from home..
As for the idiotic "piped music"...
The Head Office picked, totally pointless, naff music and self-advertisements pouring out of the ceiling make we want to shop and leave as quickly as possible. It must cost them quite a bit in royalties, though they include that in the goods prices anyway.
I aim the same criticism at the grasping owners of the motorway services, too. I use those only for the loos, in which the awful piped music is even louder; and I can't be doing with all services' shops, video machines, American junk-food chains and general tat. Though some have attractive grounds in which you can stroll well away from all the crowded gimmicks.
What pointless counting-house clerks imagine they must inflict endless streams of their own choices of nowt but old pop hits on everyone - staff and customers - in service-areas and supermarkets, and
why?
