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[Nickbat]

Read this story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7003325.stm

What's worse is Morrison's response, especially when they talk about "the difficulties our staff face in being able to determine if a customer is legally old enough to buy alcohol." Are the checkout staff too thick to tell the difference between a 17-year old and a 70-year old?  

[Marks DTM Calib]

We have a Morrisons very close by which I sometimes visit, not regularly because of the below.

1) They never have enough tills open, even on a Saturday morning there is only half of them open and the result is BIG ques.

2) You can never find anything and the shelves are always half empty.

3) They seem to operate a max IQ employment programme!

4) The signage is rubbish, above one till it says 'baskets, cash only'. The woman on the checkout maoned that nobody was coming to her, I said 'thats because your a cash only till' she replied 'ow no, I take cards to'....when I told her that perhaps the sign might be better if corrected I got abuse back!

5) Monday, Tusday, Wednesday and Saturday, they close at 8.00pm, I dont get home until 6.30pm (like many on our estate) and by the time I have had tea and got the kids in bed its almost 8.00 and the shop is shut!

So the above story does not surprise me one bit and its no wonder that they are not doing very well in the supermarket stakes. Our store was a Safway and although not great it was an order of magnitude better than Morrisons (who removed tills, shortened the opening hours and changed the layout)

I now drive 3 miles to Asda insead and our local little Coop is no doing a raoring trade of an evening!

[Kevin Wood]

Why can no-one be trusted to have any common sense these days?

 

Whatever next?

I thought it was funny when my Dad got asked for ID in the U.S. during a family holiday once. He was a sping chicken then at 49 years old.

I stopped laughing when they refused to sell him a drink for me after reaslising I was only 20.998 years old and therefore under 21.


Kevin

[Kevin Wood]

I have a couple of £5 vouchers for Morrisons sitting in my desk drawer dating back to when I used to buy fuel there. Could keep me in lunches for a week but I haven't had the inclination to go in and spend them yet.

When it was a Safeway they had a nice little cafe in there and I frequently used to pop in at lunch time. The cafe has now been converted into extra tills. Extra closed tills, of course.  

Kevin

[Paul M]

Ha ha well funny.... I'm pretty used to it myself, the rules seem to have tightened up loads in the last few years as I get ID'd more now than I did when I was 17 I was out quite a lot last week cos it was freshers' week at uni and I got ID'd every night, glad of my photographic driving licence as my uni card doesn't have a date of birth on it so is insufficient even in the students' union  

The US is really pedantic about the whole over-21thing, when I was in San Diego a big group of us headed downtown to go into a few bars. I fully expected to have to show my ID to get in, no problem there, but they insisted on checking everyone in the group, even though a few of the guys were 10-15 years older than me and didn't have any ID with them! The irony of them being refused entry while I was allowed in, maybe I should have sneaked out some beer for them

[panther]

I found it rather amusing, it is a state gone mad when we have to ask a 70 year if he is old enough lets be honest you can tell if someone is either over 21 or not. Have to laugh though as i have recently been asked for ID to buy a lottery ticket and i am nearly 27

[Danny]

oh dear oh dear oh dear, I say no more!! has anyone seen my daughter tess cosis-cheaper?

[Jame5m]

its where my mum works...

ive met the manager...