Sainsburys have online shopping?

They were pretty rude on the phone to us as well.

On a semi-related note, does anyone use/know about Hungry House?

Curiosity, it's not the first, won't be the last. I have sometimes used meal2go.com, from which I can order nasty cheap pizza from 3 places near me, using Paypal / credit cards.

I know. Just calming you down before you go and tell your folks, and they're all like 'Duhhh! It's hardly an e-commerce breakthrough! God, when are you going back home again? The wrong identical twin survived.'

I don't get those Cravendale adverts - what can you take out of milk to make it purer? What can be removed from milk to make it more milky? It's already milk! That's as milky as it can get. By definition, anything you take out of the white stuff that comes from cows makes it less like milk, not more. It's crazyness, I say!

Fair enough, that makes sense. Doesn't that just make it like UHT though? Anyway, the bacteria gives it flavour. Hmmm, Streptococcus bovis, my favourite.

UHT isn't to do with filtering though, is it? I thought it was just heating the milk to an Ultra High Temperature...

Perhaps I should try Ocado. The only times I've been in a Waitrose store it was really expensive though.

They don't want any old rifraff shopping in there.

A friend of our family has done a fair bit of retail work in her time, including waitressing, and has spent time behind the tills in Waitrose. She said without question Waitrose was the worst because whenever anything went wrong the customers where just horrible to her. Incredibly rude and condescending.

Abel and Cole! Or some other kind of local box scheme.

It's not a case of being lazy. My local Tesco is fucking huge and it's a 3 minute drive. However, the actual act of shopping takes around an hour - probably more like an hour and a half to get there, park, shop, pay, come home, carry half the bags up to my floor, go back to the car and carry the rest. Doing it online takes about 15 minutes the first time you do it, then about three minutes after that, for an extra £5.
I'll say my time is worth more than £5 an hour, TBH.

True, but you don't get to rummage for the bread and cheese that has an extra day on the Best Before date. I imagine the short dated stuff is wheeled out on deliveries.

I've genuinely not noticed this to be the case with Ocado, but haven't actually gone to the trouble of checking what turns up against what's available in an actual shop that day or anything.

Well it's self evident that minwage boy is just going to grab the first one there rather than rummage, even if he's not actively looking for short dates.

My sister works at Waitrose (somewhere near Stevenage, I assume, as that's where she lives), working as as the Head Chef. Waitrose, she says, is a terribly unfriendly work environment, as is John lewis. I, myself, have had a run-in with someone at John Lewis who told me to 'run along now, little girl' last year.

Anyway, If you work at Waitrose you get a staff discount, which you can use in any Waitrose or John Lewis (I think slightly less of a discount in John Lewis). When doing the shopping, if she is with her partner (they are not married) then they will only give her the discount off of HALF their shopping, as he will be using half of it - if they were married, however, then they could get the full discount. This means that she has to shop alone or he has to scuttle off whilst she goes to the tills, and has to wait in the car.

I was with her in john Lewis in brent Cross once where she used her staff discount and the woman was so unbelieveably rude. She asked no less than eight times if the goods were for her, pointed at me and said 'because you can't use it it buy things for her, you know' and when it came to filling out the discount slip, held it aloft and said 'what's that supposed to say? Why have you written some kind of code where your surname is supposed to be. What does that code mean?, 'H O Y?'. My sister, a bit wound up by now 'that's my name!' to which the woman replied 'your surname .... is... HOY?!'. I had to stand on Lucie's foot to stop her from completely losing her rag.

Well it's self evident that minwage boy is just going to grab the first one there rather than rummage, even if he's not actively looking for short dates.

A lot of places that can be viewed as a step up the class ladder can be a nightmare to work in.