Did they sneak the offending spuds in hoping you wouldn't notice the difference

hahaha.. 

they have to list the substitutes at the begining of the invoice so I checked them straight away..

I had frozen sprouts already so wasn't too annoyed. .the mini jackets look nice but I can't work out how they thought that was a like for like or near as substitution 

As a further comment re supermarket workers...... Tesco's, at least, are not recognising Monday as the official Boxing Day holiday. They say it's the 26th, a Saturday, so they are not giving their staff the benefit of having the Monday off if they wish. I think that's tight, with all the profits they make, you would think they would show a bit more Christmas spirit to their staff. Bah Humbug!

I couldn't get any multi packs of baked beans or cheesy snip things yesterday, what an outrage!

Wow, that is low.
But not surprising, sadly.

oooooooooh  ello you! 

and shame about the beans and cheesy things.. ..booo!!!

not just Tesco - my Lad works in a branch of a large retail organisation and they only honour Christmas day 

He is working all the other days including Boxing day and  new years day  

It's so unfair.

I worked New Year's Day last year. But I was ill with flu, so the OH had to come and pick me up and take me home again

Well I'm going to do my christmas food shop a little later (when dad and brother arrive they can babysit ) I will update you all on the goings on in ASDA and/or sainsburys I may even take notes

That's bad really, they should at least give staff the option.  I thought they were shut or at least on shorter hours all over the Christmas period this year, with Monday classed as a bank holiday.

My poor mum and brother did all the food shopping last night, cant wait till Christmas Looking forward to me sausages wrapped round chipolatas and me sprouts! Going off on a slight tangent, next year me and my son want to do something different on Christmas Day, we'd love to go and visit old people who have no family and who will be alone and bring mini-hampers or something (not random door knocking like a bailiff - I mean like in an old people's home ) Really wanted to do it this year but I can't get out

What a lovely idea Karma

Great idea, Karms
A couple of years ago I helped out at my local community group's festive dinner for the old 'uns. It was a hoot - I never realised such frail-looking old dears could have such hearty appetites, they were a load of gannets! We kitchen slaves had just about got all the plates loaded and taken out, before they started arriving back with us for seconds!

Deman I bloody love old people! Their no-nonsense honesty is so refreshing when you work in a world of fake air kisses and 'we're doing better than anyone' rubbish. I used to love going to visit them when I was in the school choir, we went every Christmas for years, they all used to clap and sing along except one old bloke called Arthur who used to shout 'will ya turn that bleedin racket down fa Gaawwwwwds saayyke'

If anyone has any ideas how I can find out more about this it would be really appreciated, or any other volunteer stuff to help old people all year round, would be really welcomed, thanks

Try Help the Aged Karma. I know they put on Xmas lunches each year for OAPs who would otherwise spend the day alone. Your local community centre or church would probably be able to help too

Incase I don't see you before Friday......I hope you have a great Xmas

That's brilliant Cags thanks doll! xxx I've made a note and will contact them

And a very merry one to you and yours too missus! xx

The sad thing about these store opening hours though is that if people weren't queuing up to get in the doors at 9am boxing day they wouldn't have to open. I've driven past Tesco in the past and there's loads of them waiting for the doors to open. My sister also used to work for them and she says that when they do get in they complain about the shelves being empty so this year drivers need to work Xmas night to get the food to them for Boxing day opening.....meaning nightshift also work Xmas night. Supply and demand.

Asda was a nightmare this morning, waiting at the till for an hour, the woman in front of me spent £238.00 it would take us a month to eat all what she brought

Oh yes, shorter hours. They close at 6pm on Christmas Eve, closed on Christmas Day, open between 9 and 5 on Boxing Day (Saturday) usual 10 to 4 on Sunday, then open at 6am on Monday (the day allocated in lieu of Boxing Day to everyone except Tesco, and perhaps other retailers). They then don't close until 6pm New Years Eve, and open on New Years Day between 10 and 4. Not much Xmas joy for the staff who have to work. To be fair to them, if I must, if your normal work day falls on the Saturday (Boxing Day) or New Years Day, you do have a choice to work or have it off. But not if your normal day is Monday (the official Bank Holiday). In effect, it gives you one less Bank Holiday in the year, yet the Monday was designated to be the Bank Holiday. Ahhh well, you can't win 'em all!

i went to tesco yesterday and it was HORRIFIC but today im having a small crisis over cooked meat :S apparently i need some ??? im gonna have to go back in

I wa at ASDA this afternoon,all you heard was "First aider to checkout.no.etc!!"  Some Folk were passing out,all wrapped up in warm winter gear,wander round the supermarket and then a 35 minute check out queue.
I was ok I wore a  light top and took off my jacket and scarf in the shop.
I'm going back tomorrow.  Forgot summat.

Cant you just cook the meat you've already got and cheat?

*hasntgotafeckincluebutinputtedanywaysmilie*

I went to Waitrose today - never go there normally but the aisles are wider and the queues are shorter. Worth paying a little extra as the money would probably been used up in petrol in the 30 minute queue just to get in the car park at Tesco!!

That's why I can never shop too close to Christmas. I get hysterical seeing EVERYBODY filling there trolly(ies) to the gunnels. Now I am quite prepared to accept that SOME people regularly shop for a month at a time and that other people have large families and need to buy in large quantitiesand so these large shopping trips will, from time to time, coincide with Christmas/New Year, But when you see a shop filled with several hundred customers and they ALL have one or more deep trollies filled to overflowing with enough stuff each to stock a small shop, you KNOW they aren't all coincidentally the 'once-a-month' shoppers.
Often it's the type of stuff that's in the trollies that's a dead giveaway.

I was in Tesco's today. I bought:- 5 packets of sugar free jelly, 2 packets of paracetamol, 2 packets of bacon, 1 pack of choc chip muffins and a pack of cinnamon whirls and 2 packs of fancy biscuits. I was then contemplating the best part of an hour in a check-out queue, but then the nice gentleman behind me spotted them opening a new till and pointed me in that direction.

You remembered the essentials!  

I did indeed! Salt, bacon and paracetamol were top of the list, but the salt was all sold out. We shouldn't have neeged salt, but Mr Fluffy Thing used my two week supply of salt in two days!

ASDA had no small sausages for the pigs in blankets!! Should be against the law!

ASDA had no small sausages for the pigs in blankets!! Should be against the law!

just wrap sausage meat instead or even better sausage meat and stuffing mixed wrapped in bacon

just wrap sausage meat instead or even better sausage meat and stuffing mixed wrapped in bacon

or sausagemeat - prawns - turkeys   etc

shelves were pretty shameful at 10 this morning

Sons friend called on his way home from work - warehouse worker in local Tesco - the warehouse is full - extra deliveries but .....  no extra staff   during the day to put stock out

I dont have a tin of quality street/heros/roses I have to find one tomorrow! ASDA had none today

Asda was totally ridiculous today.
We queued at the check outs for over an hour. The staff were bringing round bottles of water because people were feeling faint with the crush of people and the heat.
The lady behind us was diabetic and she was helping herself to chocolate and fizzy drinks (keeping the containers to pay for them)
Kids were running riot, young mothers were in tears trying to contol them.

It was a nightmare!!

I find Asda quite customer friendly in situations - in the Summer we had a torrential storm one afternoon - it flooded the car park and brought down part of a ceiling - they opened the cafeteria for free drinks etc and then did a brolly service to the car for those that wanted help - while waiting for fire service to come and pump the car park 

I dont think todays surge is just christmas though - a lot like me havnt been able to get out since Thursday because of bad back roads covered in snow but with the days counting down you get to the stage you have to go and do it whatever the weather

Oh no!!

im up worrying about cold meat ????? FFS this is not normal

I am making my own...the gammon is in!

ohh blimey cant be doing that