It’ll be interesting to see what eventually happens to own brand stock that they sell both on the high street and travel locations such as stationery, will it remain similar, or will one half of the former business launch a completely new range

Sounds like a made up shop you’d get on Corrie, like Freshcos.

I can see why they’ve gone with Jones, but I would have thought there were already too many shops with initials starting with a T

Here’s something I don’t get. My local Morrisons has Christmas wrapping paper… AFTER the checkouts.

A lot of the issues in supermarkets come from cutting overnight staff. I worked briefly for one chain who went through it and standards instantly plummet. There’s no real chance to reset, deep ...

I stumbled across this screenshot of mine (upload date: 2012) as the voucher offers on some credit card, and it looks like a who's who of failed or failing stores.

What are the chances the number of closed options is >50% before the end of next year? Frasers, HMV and Homebase have to be the ones ...

I think Burger King snuck their price rises in beforehand so it seems less bad now. You also get the unlimited refills... or at least nobody ever questions you using the freestyle machines endlessly.

Costa's food is extortionate now. The breakfast wrap is now £5.50 which means if you have that ...

Some of the polls we got along the way were way off, they probably shouldn’t really get the coverage they do

Some had Labour with ludicrous 500+ seats, some had the Tories on like 50 seats, Lib Dems as the official opposition and didn’t one even have Reform in second place?

Obviously Labour got a ...

One of these shops has opened in my small village

Brash inner city style frontage (that you wonder whether it should need planning permission) selling vapes, American sweets etc, the store is spotless with everything perfectly fronted up, probably as there are never any customers

We already have a ...

On the plus side, stores seem to have been sent signage for their (bizarre) little seating areas dotted around the stores now, rather than the home-made stuff each store was bodging together.

These random seats have clearly come from a “what zero-cost thing can we do?” meeting. I was ready to ...

I agree with these thoughts. It seems delivery drivers get priority, as there are presumably targets to be met, drive thru is second, as if the queue gets too long it backs out onto the road and disrupts the flow of traffic

A distant third place priority seems to be people who have been the least ...

There was a proper branded poster in my store detailing the information

The only issue seemed to be no smartshop and no contactless, but chip and pin was working

I also notice there is no record in my bank app of any transaction, so I’m guessing the transactions may only exist within Sainsburys ...

If they’ve got money available to spend on their stores, I think it would have been preferable to spend it in literally any other way than changing the sign outside