"Soderators"- so witty!

And the site is down right now, looks like they've been having technical problems, I've had issues getting into threads all afternoon. That's more likely what's causing the missing posts than "soderaters" (hurr hurr hurr) deleting posts on a whim.

One of the Tesco Extras near me now has their spirits in a glass cabinet where you need to press a button and wait a few seconds for it to open, is it like this anywhere else? I'm guessing they must have had booze stolen and this, somehow, is meant to help prevent it.

Looked at some other Tesco Prunella Scales adverts, and suprised just how many were filmed in stores with older decor- like with the old cream and red stripes around the perimiter, signs in the typewriter font and one even has the old 70s and 80s sign on the outside prominently displayed in the ...

Prunella Scales has died, which I'm sure is relevant to this thread!

https://youtu.be/eotCWjKbuOs?si=RH0VhU3UOx9SXxPC

https://youtu.be/vjrJT0QmvCA?si=-Sw1oDqM6h_oTIN6

And in Metropol-esque pedantry, let's point out in the first advert that the fishmonger has the old 70s and 80s logo on his ...

That's quite a common way of building supermarkets these days, I've been in several stores like it- Sainsbury's in Crewe, Morrisons in Birmingham, Tesco in Lichfield, there's a Sainsbury's in Sheffield like it that I've been past on the train but not been in as well. Not quite a supermarker, but the ...

I went to Sainsbury’s Charlton for the first time and noticed there was a first floor level that only had a Specsavers on it. Made me realise I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Sainsbury’s, or indeed a Morrisons, with a Tesco style non-food mezzanine with travelators. Do any exist?

Asda Clapham ...

If I'd known that MTV 80s and 90s were closing down (they're so much better than the FTA Now/That's music channels that they were worth paying for), I probably wouldn't even have bothered subscribing at the new house we moved to last month, pretty much everything else I watch is on FTA channels. But ...

Hardly suprising, it's just a variation on fantasy schedules and mocks which the forum and its predecessors already banned years ago.

Those posters mention a "checkout card" too, a precursor to the clubcard?

Can't find any info on it, but have found a photo of a carrier bag promoting it:

That store being an Express is likely a side effect of all those sort of stores becoming Metros in the 90s and 00s, then all the Metros being folded into expresses in the last few years. The one in the Victoria Centre in Nottingham is another former Metro that feels far too big to be an Express as ...

The one near me says Est. 2006, but it's technically incorrect as there's been a store there since 1980 (though it was demolished and rebuilt in 06- though the petrol station dates to 1996).