I won’t be very original by saying that I enjoy shopping and do chill out when doing it. I have noticed of late, however, that this pleasant activity is becoming more and more stressogenic! Since April till the end of June our little town was deprived of its only supermarket ( Somerfield ) as it was sold to its rival ( Morrisons ) and had to be refurbished to host the new store. Like most of the locals, I was rather fed up with the neverending traffic around the small shops in the area making it more than uncomfortable to do even the most basic grocery shopping. When finally the new Morrisons did open I was extatic, thinking to myself – I will save on petrol and the supermarket is known for good deals, etc. Little did I know nearly the whole Bedfordshire would come to shop in our local grocery mecca! When I entered the parking place in front of the store, I spent 20 mins looking for a space to park the car, forget the ones designated for people with kids – they are almost always taken by the lazy shoppers who don’t care about the safety of the little ones! Morrisons do employ parking attendants, but they seem to be busy getting a sun tan as the weather here is still very much summer like. Ok, I finally got inside of the shop… it was crowded beyond any logical explanation! At some point I realized it wasn’t just the customers that swarmed in every square inch of the store, but I was bumping into two or more Morrison staff in every single aisle. Now, how stupid is the idea to make them stock the shelves in the busiest hours of the busiest weeks after the shop opening?! You’d think the management of the retail chain would be experienced enough to know that this will eventually deter people from shopping in the supermarket regularly, let alone all the health and safety hazards caused by unnecessary crowd and trolleys with supplies for the shelves that can’t miss even one item.
It’s July already. Two weeks have past and not much seems to be changing in customer serice and general management of our brand new local Morrison.
I will do my shopping there simply because it’s just 5 mins drive from my house, but spending my money there is far from therapeutic!







I started writing this blog a year ago to the day. I have to say I am proud of myself for being more or less (I like to think it is more rather than less) faithful in posting my thoughts here regularly. Yes, I still live in the UK and I have made myself at home here. I do not feel like a foreigner anymore, however, I have not yet lost the attitude of an observer of everything that is happening around me, which hopefully will prove to be a source of more ideas for posts in the Anglopole Ponglish World!
Let me present you with some statistics about the blog, then.
Blog Stats
Total views: 20,943
Busiest day: 471 — Monday, March 9, 2009
Totals
Posts: 48
Comments: 192
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I am sure experienced bloggers would giggle looking at the stats of my blog. Nevertheless, I am more than satisfied as my blogging adventure is still fairly new and, even though I am no longer a blogger fresher, I still have a lot to learn to make my writing mind blowing!
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I would be soooooo happy to know why these posts and not others have proved so popular! It seems to me that the more controversial the entries, the more readers they attract. Or am I wrong? Surely enough, I am shocked I have proved to be Rusell Brand\’s secret publicist!
Wow! Over 5,700 views of this post alone – isn\’t that something else?
Let me use this opportunity to encourage all the readers of my blog to leave comments as they are the much needed feedback which can help me work on the contents of the blog!
edit.: I forgot to kindly request all those who dislike this blog to simply ignore it and focus on those of interest to them, rather than try to post rude and even obscene comments. I do moderate the coming comments and those with inappropriate content are deleted.
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