The New SU Shop

Claasman

Well? What do ye think?
Personally i think it looks great inside, however... Anytime i go in there the queue is massive:eek: :eek: , and there only seems to be only 2 people serving! :mad: On more than one occasion, the queue went always back to the deli counter!!:mad: which is a good bit back. Seriousely, it needs to be sorted.


Other than that, i think it was a positive move.:D

Any thoughts?
Claasman

kaimera

Queues are crazy for the deli counter.

Sandwichs and hot food beside each and a massive queue. Bah.

Other than that..I miss the scholars

morbo

kaimera wrote:

Queues are crazy for the deli counter.

Sandwichs and hot food beside each and a massive queue. Bah.

Other than that..I miss the scholars

I think everyone misses Scholars. The queues are a bit of a joke alright. Was in there this morning, and there were guys fixing lights and drilling into the ceiling over the deli counter. Needless to say, I skipped the roll and headed for the Stables for a breakfast.

cooperguy

Ya at the moment they are short staffed so when they have more staff hired the queues should be sorted.

I miss the Scholars too:(

bluedolphin

Queue for this, queue for that, queue for something else...

It's all pretty and everything, but......

I guess I'm just a Scholars person...:( *sniff, sniff* I miss the late, lazy pints in there...

Funkstard

i) Far, FAR, too many sweets on sale - I'm not a health freak but they have dairy milks on sale in 3 or 4 different areas of the shop - replace both sides of the display in front of you when you walk in with something other than sweets
ii)People are stealing by just walking out of the shop from the deli - they need a few cash tills over there
iii)It's just the same food with more of it, I had hoped for some more variety
iv)New coffee machine/doghnuts is great
v)Queues are mad
vi)A little tiny fruit stand tucked away in the corner

Peteee

Tis nice to look at I'll give it that. Very lush marble floors and what not.

I'd agree with the too many sweets, and despite the space, it still feels a bit cluttered and crowded, as for the deli queues....bit of a joke alright.

All in all Scholars > SU Shop

zilog_jones

Funkstard wrote:

i) Far, FAR, too many sweets on sale - I'm not a health freak but they have dairy milks on sale in 3 or 4 different areas of the shop - replace both sides of the display in front of you when you walk in with something other than sweets

I agree. There's not even that much of a selection - it's mostly all the same stuff. No crazy foreign stuff like in the Londis in town

ii)People are stealing by just walking out of the shop from the deli - they need a few cash tills over there

Yeah the location of the door is retarded. The problem is the tills are in front of the other front door. IMO they need to put in a new door by the tills and get rid of the other one.

v)Queues are mad

They're not really much worse than before, but at least there's room to queue now! As others said, they need more staff.

I think they should officially name it the Scholars Memorial Shop.

bluedolphin

My anger towards the shop has gotten greater as the week has progressed. It's p*ssing me off big time!

It's basically the same shop, only enlarged...like a picture enlarged on a photo-copier...except now the problems are more apparent. Whereas before the queues were hidden winding around the aisles, now they're blatantly obvious. Queue, queue, queue...

Same stock as well, only more of it. Or, proportionately, less of it...in the case of fruit/dairy products/anything with remotely less additives...

Tbh, it hasn't justified itself.

dr.bollocko

Not to cruelly pick on one person or anything, but when I was there in the old SU shop there was always a ridiculously long queue, and one dithery old woman serving. I just remember silently screaming at her to just scan my ****ing roll so I could get out of there. I have never seen a slower shop assistant in my life.

Peteee

dr.bollocko wrote:

Not to cruelly pick on one person or anything....one dithery old woman

Whoops

They seem to have more staff on now, was in there today and they had 4 people on tills.

Queue still reached half way across the shop mind!

Funkstard

There is one assistant who is a cold piece of ****, never looks at you, never says thanks or anything, always puts your change on the table. Get out of here.

dK1NG

dr.bollocko wrote:

Not to cruelly pick on one person or anything, but when I was there in the old SU shop there was always a ridiculously long queue, and one dithery old woman serving. I just remember silently screaming at her to just scan my ****ing roll so I could get out of there. I have never seen a slower shop assistant in my life.

she's still there.....:(

Funkstard wrote:

There is one assistant who is a cold piece of ****, never looks at you, never says thanks or anything, always puts your change on the table. Get out of here.

what a BITCH!:mad:




All i'm waiting for next is to be stopped on the way out the door to be asked for my receipt - god help the poor so-n-so who does so!

zilog_jones

Are you talking about that old woman who never presses the subtotal button on the till so you often end up asking how much everything was again? Grrr.

ergonomics

I'm on Co-Op so I don't know if the situation is still the same but it used to drive me mad in the old shop that even though the queue was out the shop the deli workers still worked at the same speed they would if there was one or two people in the shop. I'm convinced that's why the queues are so bad. They need to speed up and stop trying to make each sandwich perfectly.

bluedolphin

ergonomics wrote:

They need to speed up and stop trying to make each sandwich perfectly.

Ehh, they don't do that either...I've gotten plenty of shoddy sandwiches in my time

Peteee

I'd be fairly pissed off if I paid for a sandwich and it was sloppily made tbh

Claasman

bluedolphin wrote:

Ehh, they don't do that either...I've gotten plenty of shoddy sandwiches in my time

And thus what i like to refer to as the 'gravity roll' is born. A roll, its main characeristic being that the only thing holding the filling in, is gravity, its basiclly stuff on bread.:mad: Really grinds my gears...

ninty9er

dK1NG wrote:

All i'm waiting for next is to be stopped on the way out the door to be asked for my receipt - god help the poor so-n-so who does so!

They're perfectly within their rights to ask for a receipt, but they feel so uncomfortable about it they won't...put some erasmus students on the door and everyone's receipt ll be ckecked

Mr. CooL ICE

The old SU shop used to get its stock from the Spar suppliers, and now the new shop is officially a Spar. Explains why the stock is the exact same.

As for the 2 doors - if they left those tills where they were and put a new, single one in right beside the other door so that people who were at the deli counter can pay there instead of queuing at the other place, it might make things much better.

And yes, that old one - she the blame for a lot of queues.

dr.bollocko

Feelin pretty bad about bringing up that old lady now. She is after all only doing her job, even though she cant do it well at all. And she has nearly made my eyes bleed with anger. But still.... its not her fault they keep letting her back in to serve.

zilog_jones

There is an area by the counter that's closed off now - maybe they're fitting a door in there?

Funkstard

Yeh I asked earlier, they're putting in a door right beside the tills. Makes alot of sense.

JoseJones

dr.bollocko wrote:

Feelin pretty bad about bringing up that old lady now. She is after all only doing her job, even though she cant do it well at all. And she has nearly made my eyes bleed with anger. But still.... its not her fault they keep letting her back in to serve.

Can you all please leave her alone, she's only trying to make a living. As you said, it isn't her fault.

zilog_jones

Not knowing how to use the till is her fault.

kaimera

C'mon folks.

Lets play nice.

ninty9er

zilog_jones wrote:

Not knowing how to use the till is her fault.

No it's not it's a training shortfall!!!!

cooperguy

I saw the shop for the first time during the week when I went in to vote (Im on CoOp) Im impressed it does look very good. Though as was said already that section for chocolate bars is massive. There really is no need to fill the shelves with 2 cases of each type of bar.

Its also nice to see a variety of donuty type stuff as opposed to the generic Cuisine de France that seems to be everywhere. Smoothie bar is good too.