Can’t believe there’s been no mention of the Great British Rail livery here 😱

I quite like it, although it’s a little… I don’t know, lacking in creativity? I think if you asked AI to design a Great British Rail train, we’d get what we’ve ended up with.

Saw some branding on the ticket barriers at ...

On a semi related note:

if coffee chains continue to replace static behind-counter above-eyeline menus (that can be browsed pretty much at leisure while in a queue) with "dynamic" TV screens that rotate between three or four pages 20 seconds apart, one of those pages being a fecking advert, like ...

Is this something they've been doing elsewhere prior to this?


Yes I've seen those conversions at the Catford and Lewisham superstores.

To their credit, at least Tesco still have staffed checkouts while my nearest Sainsburys will only open them up if there's a demand.


To their credit ...

All this supermarket chat being reignited got me thinking - I used to live near a supermarket that started as a Safeway, became a Morrisons, then changed to a Somerfield, and now it’s a Sainsbury’s. Anyone else know of a supermarket going through so many different guises?

My local mid-refurb Asda has a travelator DOWN to George and homeware. So there.

My local Asda is having a big revamp. You’d think - they’ve recently updated their branding so it’ll be consistent with that. Of course not. Big lit-up signs everywhere (as is the current trend) where I’m pleased to say, yet another font has been introduced to the mix.

Signage above the aisles is ...

MoeTheMan2025 wrote: Tue 14 Oct, 2025 16.32
All i think of when reading the thread title is of the Channel 4 show Shameless if it revolved around a plug socket

Cool 👍

TG Jones is just such a bland nothingness isn’t it? Appeals to no one. They could have had some fun with it to at least try and stand out.

I thought MTD was Midlands Today? Seriously, this is changing everything I knew about initials.

Now all my cards are on my phone, which I always have with me, I can add offers or vouchers to redeem in the app before I do my shop and they automatically apply at the checkout, or I can use points elsewhere easily (for example Nectar at Caffe Nero by generating a QR code in less than a minute ...

Oh god can anyone be arsed with all that? Why have all these things become more complicated than ‘have some money off for being loyal’ or ‘here’s some vouchers for being loyal’?