Menopause Matters Forum
General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: CLKD on November 16, 2022, 01:11:31 PM
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I have believed that the customer is the most Important Person on the shop floor. Not the 'assistant' now glued to a head set ....... this morning I saw for the 3rd time in 2 weeks, a customer asking for help but being told that 'I am on the 'phone'. To be fair the 'assistant' did find the customer to apologise.
As I said to the woman taking my money, if it happens to me I will leave my trolley and walk. I need to go into other Supermarkets to see if they employ assistants with head sets. I also told her that I would refuse to wear one if working on a Till. What's wrong with ringing a bell?
Supermarkets forget that we pay their wages, i.e. gingerbread 'men' ...... now it seems that staff don't get the chance to help customers.
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I mourn the loss of individual, family run businesses that used to appear on every Main Street. :'(
The personal touch with the assistant remembering your name and little facts about you made my day ::).
A deli where Jim cut thick slices of ham from a cooked joint, cheese cut with a lethal looking cutter ;D and wrapped in grease proof paper, John the butcher who would cut a couple of fillets to my liking (from a huge beast hanging in the corner) ;D
And let’s not forget Sally the baker (who made the best custard tarts) 😋
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We have a very good village shop where every one knows every one else ::)
However, they don't stock all that we require so when in town ..........
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Now that I'm settled here in Bonny Scotland I'm going to make the effort to use the farm shop a couple of miles up the road but I have to say,the staff here in the supermarkets are very friendly and helpful
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Meat may be more expensive in farm shops, however - quality of the various cuts are better. DH buys mince from the supermarket otherwise we use our town butcher who can almost name the beast he's cutting from ;D
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Hahahaha being veggie,it's only OH I buy for but would rather know the animals have had a decent life. The farm shop sells venison,not that hubby likes that but they have a roadside field full of deer,pretty amazing to see so many of them
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I mourn the loss of individual, family run businesses that used to appear on every Main Street. :'(
The personal touch with the assistant remembering your name and little facts about you made my day ::).
A deli where Jim cut thick slices of ham from a cooked joint, cheese cut with a lethal looking cutter ;D and wrapped in grease proof paper, John the butcher who would cut a couple of fillets to my liking (from a huge beast hanging in the corner) ;D
And let’s not forget Sally the baker (who made the best custard tarts) 😋
Aw I mourn that too Songbird.
When I was little on our street we had some lovely shops.
On a saturday when I used to go shopping with my mum she used to know all the ladies in our local shop. I had my own stool and I used to 'help'. Such lovely times.
And the local butcher didn't mind the old person wanting just two slices of something xxx
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Venison is very healthy. Not much fat . A big gamey for me though.
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So true Discogirl re the old person only wanting two slices of something from the butcher (trouble is, the old person is me now!) :rofl:
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me too songbird!!
none of us escape it xxx