"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article om,
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For example, a Safeway supermarket near to me was acquired by
Morrisons.

All Safeway supermarkets were acquired by Morrisons. They didn't
acquire it just because it was near you. I know that's not what you
meant but the fact that you phrase it in that way is typical of your
egocentric nature. Everything's got to be about you. Anyone else
would have said, " When Morrisons took over the local Safeway..."

FFS, if you read the rest of the post, Andy was referring to the one near
him as an example - not necessarily the chain. You'd need to be rather
more than just a customer to analyse the change in direction - if any - of
the group.


And what's more, I totally agree with Andy's point about the takeover.
Safeway's (both the one local to my work and any other I've been in) were
quite miserable and cheap-and-nasty enough before. Morrison's takeover has
just removed any of the "plus" bits of what used to be Safeway's and turned
it into the nastiest hole of a supermarket you could ever wish to visit. In
my experience, they also have the rudest, slowest, most poorly trained bunch
of half-wits working for them that I've ever had the mis-pleasure to meet.

Sainsbury's and Waitrose on the other hand (my locals near home) have great
food and the most fantastic, helpful, friendly staff. They really will go
out of their way to assist you if you're looking for something and the
people behind the counters (meat, fish) actually know what they're selling
and how to cut it. Even Tosco's aren't that bad in this respect.

It would make me so happy if Morrison's went bust and removed their stain
from the UK supermarket industry. This has nothing to do with snobbery - I
just expect to find humans working where I shop!




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