*supermarket tannoy*

Customers. We are having difficulties maintaining your expectations for pickled walnuts in truffle oil. Please make your way to the exit and pretend you are shopping in pre-Perestroika Moscow. Thank you!

I'm just hoping Tesco bring my turkey crown tomorrow in my shopping delivery, or I'm stuffed

*Grabs last jar of pickled beetroot and exits*

Hi Pam   OMG I haven't ordered them, I'll never get any now  Are you ready for Christmas?

You are welcome to those, I only like beetroot without vinegar

*lets g&p off, as shoplifting is apparently the seasonal practice* Enjoy!

It was out of date though

Hi Lowi! And no! I'm not ready for Christmas!  Also, what the chuff is a turkey crown? A piece of Christmas headgear?

It was pickled... should last for decades... or that's what my granny said!

Pam, You're not ready   A turkey crown is the top half of a turkey so more or less just the breast meat, with no legs, I don't think they have wings either.

That is typical at Tesco

The things they can do with genetic breeding these days!

I'm just glad it can't fly away If, they deliver it tomorrow

Totally Lowi...

...1923

I'm getting hideous images right now of wingless/legless turkey breasts... I think I'm going to have to go veggie now!

She would have been a young woman then, yes!  

Since the floods here in Cumbria, and the Town's road access bridges went, we can't get to the shops without very long detours. So for Tesco  we rely on deliveries, although I have heard they have opened a temporary store on our side of the lost bridge in a dis used factory building.  We might try going there for any last minute xmas Eve sell off bargains.

It is a ready basted one, and should be lovely for our Christmas Dinner

I didn't know you lived in Cumbria Lowi.
Must have been dreadful month for you..
Were you actually flodded?

Luckily we weren't flooded  We still have alot of disruption to local services, people getting to and from work.  The teachers can't get to school at the start of the day and after school clubs are cancelled.  Getting to the shops or should I say not getting there is a bind. Clothes are a nightmare, I do shop online but it's hard getting the sizes right.

It just shows how much we take for granted Lowi.

I am hitting bed now.
Goodnight ladies and don't forget to stack the trolleys neatly..
Night

Goodnight Greenandpink  sweet dreams  and I'll be neat and tidy with my trolley, after getting my pound out

Wot! You won't even allow a bit of Christmas trolley rage? It's 'de rigeur'!

I'm going to bed now I need to be ready for my delivery tomorrow
Goodnight Pam  

Was it you who dumped yours in the canal?

Me and the other troll-y dollies!

I had no expectations before but they sound really nice and I want some now. 

My local Tescos is only shut on Christmas Day.  It closes 6pm on Christmas Eve and opens again at 9am on Boxing Day.  How are people going to cope with the shops shut during that time?!  It's a nightmare!  They need to fill every possible cupboard with food!  

  @ deej's comment

tho I now fancy some pickled walnuts in truffle oil too... tis too late to get some now, my delivery is on it's way.. and I don't do the going out to shops thingy. .

Wonders how much of it will end up uneaten, in rubbish bags on the kerb before New Year..
It's obscene, really.

I was just about to post the same thing, Toid (sorry to read about your op drama btw). When I was a kid the shops were shut for far longer and I don't remember all this fanatical food buying.  Makes me very cross - can't bear food being wasted.

Cheers, Moomin
You're so right about shops that used to shut much earlier before Christmas. Now it's an orgy of buy,buy,buy, right up to the last minute. Exactly how much do people really think they need, or can eat?
I think it's pretty sickening and wasteful, especially considering how many other people are facing Christmas with bugger all.

Agreed Moonin & Deman, how much food can folks actually eat without popping I used to work in a Supermarket and it honestly used to make me feel queasy, folks would come in, go to the cafe, stuff their faces and then shop for enough food to feed a small army.....where do they put it all???

I feel sorry for the staff. They get moaned at for the shelves being empty, they get moaned at for the queues at the tills and they get moaned at for shutting for a day.

...and the Supermarkets are closed for such a short time, they hardly get any time off, and the time off they do get they are knackered due to working up to the last minute so the greedy Supermarkets can milk every last penny thye can

my online shop arrived fully intact, apart from my sprouts being substituted with mini jackets spuds

I do a online shop to last me 3-4 weeks as i can't get to the proper shops and it's easier for me to shop in bulk and more environmentally friendly to have one delivery a month, but it then coincides with all the mad Xmas shoppers doing a months shop at the same time but theirs is only for a week or a couple of days of stuffing their faces and then it ends up in the bin, as peeps have already said.. worra shame and a waste