Supermarkets - the Megathread

r93kaey5p2izun · 07-04-2020 10:59PM

AulWan wrote: »

I got an email from them that they have removed the option during the crisis and pickers are not supposed to be doing substitutions during this time as they're so busy.

However when I collected my shopping last week they did loads of substitutions which I had to return as they were unsuitable.

Well I sincerely hope they do substitute. It's so hard to get any supplies at the moment, if they leave stuff out completely we will be in a bad way! SuperValu left out 20 items a couple of weeks ago which was a disaster. I'd rather have the option of rejecting items than nothing at all.

Muahahaha · 07-04-2020 11:30PM

Axel Scrawny Treasurer wrote: »

Surely they are falling well short of the food labeling & packaging requirements? E.g. the mince has no mention of fat / collagen / country of origin

Its not clear from the website what packaging meats will come in, none of the pictures show the packaging, just the product itself. Its obviously been put together with a lot of haste

Sheep Shagger wrote: »

You certainly wouldnt do your big shop at Fresh - pricey enough.

While this isn't for your normal shop as it is a wholesaler, so packages are larger, some might find it useful, free next day delivery to one of their click and collect locations when you spend €30

https://collect.pallasfoods.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMItq31m5zX6AIVRLTtCh1tUQdMEAAYASAAEgLkFPD_BwE

Yeah Fresh is 6 euro for 400g of mince :eek: Their stores are all in central areas with big rents so thats what you're paying for really.

That Pallas site is very good, they have a huge selection of food. Wont be using it right now myself but good to know there is a place where you can get more unusual stuff like venison steaks and other wild game.

AulWan · 07-04-2020 11:30PM

Asa Magnificent Nut wrote: »

Well I sincerely hope they do substitute. It's so hard to get any supplies at the moment, if they leave stuff out completely we will be in a bad way! SuperValu left out 20 items a couple of weeks ago which was a disaster. I'd rather have the option of rejecting items than nothing at all.

I've no problem with them substituting, once you can return what you don't want.

elperello · 08-04-2020 12:11AM

leck wrote: »

I thought all supermarkets had asked shoppers not to bring kids into the shops. Today I saw four or five kids in Tesco with three different mammies. They were old enough that they could have been left outside in the car, even if no-one to watch them at home. One lad going around pawing all the Easter eggs.

Is it a suggestion rather than a rule?

I know kids can be annoying but it is best not to judge without the full facts.

Could be a single parent or partner might be frontline worker.

Hard to know looking at a kid if they are safe to leave in a car.

greasepalm · 08-04-2020 12:31AM

If parents are bringing kids into stores are they making sure they have used a sanitizer on their hands before entering store.?
If you are a responsible adult you will do that every time you enter a store and sorry in a hurry does not cut it.

Queasy Tadpole · 08-04-2020 09:02AM

So after being out at a few different shops it''s Tescos and Supervalu that are on the ball with this with Tesco in particular. 1 in 1 out policy. One way in and one way out. Security at entrance and exit. Massive social distancing within the stores and hand sanitizer on entry.

Aldi and Lidi are doing feck all. One had security in the morning but it was not a 1 in 1 policy and pretty much zero social distancing but these stores are smaller and more cramped. Just my observations the few times I've been out in the last month.

FTCV041 · 08-04-2020 09:05AM

Queasy Tadpole wrote: »

So after being out at a few different shops it''s Tescos and Supervalu that are on the ball with this with Tesco in particular. 1 in 1 out policy. One way in and one way out. Security at entrance and exit. Massive social distancing within the stores and hand sanitizer on entry.

Aldi and Lidi are doing feck all. One had security in the morning but it was not a 1 in 1 policy and pretty much zero social distancing but these stores are smaller and more cramped. Just my observations the few times I've been out in the last month.

Aldi are desperate, they are not doing a single thing bar sticking a few stickers on the floor to indicate the 2m. I was in one yesterday and I was a nervous wreck while I was shopping

Queasy Tadpole · 08-04-2020 09:11AM

FTCV041 wrote: »

Aldi are desperate, they are not doing a single thing bar sticking a few stickers on the floor to indicate the 2m. I was in one yesterday and I was a nervous wreck while I was shopping

I felt exactly the same! Nervous and rushed. I won't be going back again any time soon. Tesco a much more relaxed, professional atmosphere overall.

FTCV041 · 08-04-2020 09:13AM

Queasy Tadpole wrote: »

I felt exactly the same! Nervous and rushed. I won't be going back again any time soon. Tesco a much more relaxed, professional atmosphere overall.

Tesco is a way better. They are controlling numbers going in, enforcing social distancing and because their stores tend to be larger, there is a lot more room per customer

Kivaro · 08-04-2020 09:30AM

FTCV041 wrote: »

Aldi are desperate, they are not doing a single thing bar sticking a few stickers on the floor to indicate the 2m. I was in one yesterday and I was a nervous wreck while I was shopping

We need to stop shopping in these places then ........ until they get their act together.

Pacing Mule · 08-04-2020 09:38AM

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

If you are going to eat mince, may I suggest you go to a butcher and select the piece of meat you want minced.
As an aside paper doesn't refuse ink. I remember the burgers that were labelled as beef but looked like Black Beauty pre burger stage.

May I suggest you're only half fooling yourself when you do this and leaving your meat for the next person.

There's a lot of meat still in the worm of the mincer from the last mincing. So when your selected piece gets thrown in what comes out first is meat from the last run and what's left in the mincer after is part of what you asked to mince in the first place.

Decent butcher will try and throw the first output back in to push through what was just put in but it's all getting mixed up in there.

McDermotX · 08-04-2020 10:23AM

Was going to hit Tesco this morning after finishing night shift, after the elderly/carer hour, but on a whim I checked the online delivery and having had the usual 3 weeks out block booked, I was pleasanty surprised to see a few slots for tomorrow afternoon opened up.
Perhaps the result of greater capacity or some sense being shown in some households and a few cancellations opening space.

ArmaniJeanss · 08-04-2020 10:58AM

FTCV041 wrote: »

Aldi are desperate, they are not doing a single thing bar sticking a few stickers on the floor to indicate the 2m. I was in one yesterday and I was a nervous wreck while I was shopping

It really does seem to be different store to store.
Perfectly happy with my local Aldi (Mulhuddart). Staff on door, separate door in and out, one in/one out policy, handed wipes and given sanitizer before going in, strict about one person per trolley policy.
Inside a bit flawed as these stores have thin aisles and it gets worse if they doing restocking as a chunk of the aisle can have a pallet on it.
But to help this they are keeping a really good amount of tills open (much mroe than normal) which is getting people out quickly.

FTCV041 · 08-04-2020 11:32AM

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

It really does seem to be different store to store.
Perfectly happy with my local Aldi (Mulhuddart). Staff on door, separate door in and out, one in/one out policy, handed wipes and given sanitizer before going in, strict about one person per trolley policy.
Inside a bit flawed as these stores have thin aisles and it gets worse if they doing restocking as a chunk of the aisle can have a pallet on it.
But to help this they are keeping a really good amount of tills open (much mroe than normal) which is getting people out quickly.

God , my local couldn't be more different

ongarite · 08-04-2020 11:36AM

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

It really does seem to be different store to store.
Perfectly happy with my local Aldi (Mulhuddart). Staff on door, separate door in and out, one in/one out policy, handed wipes and given sanitizer before going in, strict about one person per trolley policy.
Inside a bit flawed as these stores have thin aisles and it gets worse if they doing restocking as a chunk of the aisle can have a pallet on it.
But to help this they are keeping a really good amount of tills open (much mroe than normal) which is getting people out quickly.

My local Aldi (Clonee) the same as above. No fear of using.

On a general point, I think Aldi, Lidl business model has been exposed or is stretched to breaking point with this lockdown.

Their staffing policy works just about but now they need 40% more staff in store to keep tills open so queues are short & not blocking up aisles so people can keep 2M apart & to keep the shelves stocked.

limerickabroad · 08-04-2020 11:37AM

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but do people know the supermarket opening hours for the Easter weekend? I was planning to do my big weekly shop on Sunday morning (usually a quiet time ), but the supermarkets are usually closed on Easter Sunday? Cheers!

ongarite · 08-04-2020 11:38AM

Signs up in Aldi saying closed Easter Sunday. Dunnes will be same too.

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/supermarket-opening-hours-ireland-easter-18060031
Looks like only Tesco will be open.

blueser · 08-04-2020 11:42AM

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

It really does seem to be different store to store.
Perfectly happy with my local Aldi (Mulhuddart). Staff on door, separate door in and out, one in/one out policy, handed wipes and given sanitizer before going in, strict about one person per trolley policy.
Inside a bit flawed as these stores have thin aisles and it gets worse if they doing restocking as a chunk of the aisle can have a pallet on it.
But to help this they are keeping a really good amount of tills open (much mroe than normal) which is getting people out quickly.

Same with my local Tesco last saturday. Had about 15 minutes of (social distancing) queueing to get in. But fine after that.

limerickabroad · 08-04-2020 11:45AM

ongarite wrote: »

Signs up in Aldi saying closed Easter Sunday. Dunnes will be same too.

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/supermarket-opening-hours-ireland-easter-18060031
Looks like only Tesco will be open.

Thank you! Very helpful (if inconvenient for me!). God knows, the workers deserve a day off in fairness

zell12 · 08-04-2020 11:53AM

Bin trucks have cameras and weigh rubbish. Remember 12-15 March with the panic buying?

increase in black bin waste which has recorded an increase of 18 per cent over the past fortnight as householders are increasingly throwing out packaged and processed food past its sell-by date.
bin collection companies nationwide are linking a record surge in household waste to overbuying at supermarkets during the coronavirus crisis.

https://connachttribune.ie/city-bin-company-notes-surge-in-brown-bin-waste-in-galway-during-lockdown/

FTCV041 · 08-04-2020 12:05PM

some disaster. All the panic buyers and hoarders and it all going to waste

iamwhoiam · 08-04-2020 12:10PM

zell12 wrote: »

Bin trucks have cameras and weigh rubbish. Remember 12-15 March with the panic buying?

https://connachttribune.ie/city-bin-company-notes-surge-in-brown-bin-waste-in-galway-during-lockdown/

It could also be that many people were doing clearouts of wardrobes etc and also garden rubble etc .Our bin is full today , not one scrap of food in it but lots of rubbish from the garden and from clearing out old bits and bobs

odyssey06 · 08-04-2020 12:13PM

zell12 wrote: »

Bin trucks have cameras and weigh rubbish. Remember 12-15 March with the panic buying?

https://connachttribune.ie/city-bin-company-notes-surge-in-brown-bin-waste-in-galway-during-lockdown/

Dubious about this. Loads of people working from home now, not eating out, of course there's going to be a lot more waste generated in their home bins.

punisher5112 · 08-04-2020 12:13PM

More at home is of course going to generate more waste....

Less eating at work and out etc.....

SozBbz · 08-04-2020 02:04PM

zell12 wrote: »

Bin trucks have cameras and weigh rubbish. Remember 12-15 March with the panic buying?

https://connachttribune.ie/city-bin-company-notes-surge-in-brown-bin-waste-in-galway-during-lockdown/

Yeah I don't think so. There will be a natural uplift in the amount of rubbish in home bins as everyone is working from home and eating 3 meals a day there. For me and many like me this is a huge shift.

Also, I'd say a lot of it is garden waste. People are at home and the weather has been good. I cut my grass about 2 weeks ago and its already badly in need of doing again. I also have notions about cutting back hedges and other bits and no doubt the brown bill will continue to fill up.

I'm sure there is some waste from all the nonsense a few weeks back, but that article implies that its all because of that. I'm sure the bin trucks that would have done city center routes comprising of offices and restaurants are empty and that its balancing out.

freshpopcorn · 08-04-2020 02:17PM

It does make sense that people’s bins may be heavier at home now but that doesn’t make a cool headline.
Even when the panic buying happened there were people with your average weekly shop and people were saying wow look at the panic buying.
They either lived alone or mammy did there shopping from what I could see.

elperello · 08-04-2020 02:49PM

SozBbz wrote: »

Yeah I don't think so. There will be a natural uplift in the amount of rubbish in home bins as everyone is working from home and eating 3 meals a day there. For me and many like me this is a huge shift.

Also, I'd say a lot of it is garden waste. People are at home and the weather has been good. I cut my grass about 2 weeks ago and its already badly in need of doing again. I also have notions about cutting back hedges and other bits and no doubt the brown bill will continue to fill up.

I'm sure there is some waste from all the nonsense a few weeks back, but that article implies that its all because of that. I'm sure the bin trucks that would have done city center routes comprising of offices and restaurants are empty and that its balancing out.

Going a bit further off topic but watch out for nests. A light trim will do.

Princess Calla · 08-04-2020 02:56PM

My dunnes is great all the trollies are wiped down and plenty of them.

However I really wish they'd limit couples going in.... I've said this in another thread but I don't buy the argument that couples are quicker... From my observations coupled in front of me in the queue on the way in were either at the register at the same time as me or behind me.....I'm shopping for 3 adults and 2 kids so big enough shop.

Had one couple debating the pros and cons of pasta for ages to the point another customer was asking me to move along as she wanted to get to the pasta, I'm like well I'm waiting for this pair to move social distancing n all that.... It was shaggin dunnes own brand pasta, didn't deserve the culinary debate!

Then there was two lots of people shopping in 3's ffs can't even get down the aisle with this craic and maintain social distancing.

pm1977x · 08-04-2020 02:59PM

My experience of couples and duos shopping is that they don't stick together and inevitably create a moving obstacle which essentially shuts down the aisle they're in, I'm starting to think some of them just want to tag along for something different to do :rolleyes:

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 08-04-2020 03:01PM

Princess Calla wrote: »

My dunnes is great all the trollies are wiped down and plenty of them.

However I really wish they'd limit couples going in.... I've said this in another thread but I don't buy the argument that couples are quicker... From my observations coupled in front of me in the queue on the way in were either at the register at the same time as me or behind me.....I'm shopping for 3 adults and 2 kids so big enough shop.

Had one couple debating the pros and cons of pasta for ages to the point another customer was asking me to move along as she wanted to get to the pasta, I'm like well I'm waiting for this pair to move social distancing n all that.... It was shaggin dunnes own brand pasta, didn't deserve the culinary debate!

Then there was two lots of people shopping in 3's ffs can't even get down the aisle with this craic and maintain social distancing.

People standing around dithering over which packet to buy are a pita at the moment. You either have to stand around waiting for them to move and holding up other people behind you, or walk around them with less than 2metres separating you.
Most people just want to get in and out of the shop as quickly as possible. Just grab what you want and move.

Supermarkets - the Megathread

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