On Fri, 7 May 2004 21:27:08 +0100, "Owain"
wrote:

"Andy Hall" wrote
| | so it sells
| | carrier bags instead of giving them away. Problem? No.
| | Yes. I don't like buying carrier bags.
| So save some Fortnum's bags and take them with you. Social
| escalation and helping the environment in one go :-)
| Well I suppose I could.
| The problem is that in Aldi shops there doesn't seem to be
| anyone to open the door and bring me a chair to sit on while
| they present their wares.

It amuses me slightly when a sweet little old lady on the checkout in Tesco
asks me (a lithe firmly muscled 6 ft specimen of hunkful masculinity[1]) if
I'd like a hand to pack my pint of milk and a newspaper.

She was probably thinking of offering applause...... :-)


| I don't know what retailing is coming to....

One would think they didn't want pne to spend money there.

And as for the waiters in McDonalds ...

With the number of staff they pack into those places, I wonder that
they don't have more industrial accidents.



Owain



[1] Well, 6 ft and male.

..andy

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