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bilky asko wrote: Fri 06 Dec, 2024 18.42 Coincidentally, I spotted today that my local Morrisons has changed its hot food counters from serve-over counters to self-service heated cabinets, to match the pasty counter.

My local one has done this too, cost saving measure perhaps? As in they won't need a dedicated member of staff behind the counter, other than to prepare/rotate the stock - they can be on other shop floor duties.

Has anyone else spotted the extremely odd Smug Dairy products still stubbornly hanging around in the major supermarkets?

I have no idea why any supermarket would want them on their shelves or why anyone would want to buy them. It's the worst of both worlds, with a patronising name to boot.

woah wrote: Sun 05 Jan, 2025 22.28 Has anyone else spotted the extremely odd Smug Dairy products still stubbornly hanging around in the major supermarkets?

I have no idea why any supermarket would want them on their shelves or why anyone would want to buy them. It's the worst of both worlds, with a patronising name to boot.

I hadn't noticed them, but it does sounds rather like something that a no-hoper PM insists upon in The Apprentice might come up with.

50 years since the first Sainsbury's (or indeed any supermarket) petrol station

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly47xey8gwo

Some new design SELs appearing in my local Asda but - surprise surprise - they seem to be nothing like the design of anything else. A quite ugly bold italic font for both the product name and price.

all new Phil wrote: Thu 16 Jan, 2025 13.26 Some new design SELs appearing in my local Asda but - surprise surprise - they seem to be nothing like the design of anything else. A quite ugly bold italic font for both the product name and price.

Pas ta and Mix & Match

If only they made a condensed variant of the Gotham font for just such a purpose. They could call it Gotham Condensed.

An email has arrived telling me about "Important information about My Waitrose T&Cs"

One of the important points is that I can now save 20% at the cheese counter on Thursdays.

Another is that "The scheme is now referred to as My Waitrose rather than myWaitrose."

Very important, both of those.

I noticed on my recent trip to Asda the other day that there was a load of new POS featuring the older 'Rollback' logo with the big smiley face which they apparently phased out a few years ago but it seems is back again.

I didn't see any of those SELs though - could potentially be an error. I have seen SELs with the wrong font at Morrisons before.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvged0x5ykxo

All the remaining cafes and pizza counters are closing at Sainsbury’s

To be honest, I didn't even know they had any cafes left, all the stores I've been into over the last couple of years have the old cafe space walled off.