supermarkets

don't get me started on supermarkets - oh well i have started so i guess i am going to have to finish.
it's a day where tescos is reporting huge profit while marks and spencer have yet again lost market share. yet i find what should be a simple task - go in spend money come out with goods in bags is turned into a nightmare.
so why do i care? well i am a batchelor and i am someone who does not like to shop so i want to go into a supermarket and get the things i want, very quickly and then get straight out. i appreciate that there are all types of techniques to make me go around the place in order to find the things i want (it's why the milk is normally at the back to make you walk through the store), and furthermore i am a don't /can't cook sort of person. that should make going into the supermarket so easy as there is so little i need to buy, some fruit, some bread, some pasta, some quorn slices, some hummus, some bread, some cream cakes..... well you get the picture.
it is such a shame that sainsburys (my local supermarket) more often than not never has what i want in there.
this morning looking for bread most of the shelves were empty - i had gotten in there shortly after they opened. in case anyone who is running sainsburys is reading this bread is a staple and in the morning it might be worth while having this section to be stocked up. oh the same goes for the milk as well.
never fear though in my local they did have someone making sure that the booze shelves were stocked (even though you can't buy alcohol that early in the morning.....)
still i managed to get some bread, some cheese and then i thought mmm some quorn slices - once again i go through the shopping safari trying to find the quorn supplies. oh silly me they have put the quorn in the meat shelves. just the place for a veggie to go to...... and when you stumble onto it you are rewarded with nothing, oh they haven't stocked it up.
i wouldn't mind if this was an occasional occurrence, but it happens more often than not.

my experience at sainsburys explains why tescos is number one in the uk - but it is not because they are wonderful, more down to the fact that the others are really bad.

supermarkets are often held up as being wonderful, cutting edge stock control etc - i wish. but as a pal of mine once said it doesn't matter how sophisticated your epos system is, how efficient you just in time system is - if at the end of the day the people who are control the systems are idiots. crap in crap out.

the current thing that is really annoying me is the difficulty to find razors (i need to keep the goatee trim!!) seems like that of all the things that supermarkets carry it is disposable razors are stolen more than anything.
the solution for the supermarkets? don't carry them. looks like i will be ending up with a bushy beard (again) or i will have to find me a cut throat razor.

wish i could get more from local stores - but they have mostly disappeared because of the megastores of tescos, asda and sainsburys.
ah well - so much for the no logo generation.