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gottago wrote: Sun 26 Oct, 2025 12.56 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 Junction has one with the George and I think a cafe upstairs though I can’t think of any other branches.

The one in Mansfield's had a mezzanine with George for the last 20 years.

The one next to the Trafford Centre has a big one too, with a lot of the food and other things up there.

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

gottago wrote: Sun 26 Oct, 2025 15.58

Philip wrote: Sun 26 Oct, 2025 15.16 Asda Aintree has a first floor with travelators which is the whole clothes section I think.

Tesco Extra Southport has a first floor with escalators and it’s the cafe and toilets.

Tescos with mezzanines are everywhere, it’s the other ones I’m more interested in!

Sorry!

gottago wrote: Sun 26 Oct, 2025 12.56 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 Junction has one with the George and I think a cafe upstairs though I can’t think of any other branches.

Asda York and Asda Hull Kingswood both have travelators to a mezzanine.

Sainsbury’s Scarborough has travelators up to the Argos (and formerly café). It was added in originally when they extended the store from its ex-Safeway footprint.

Sainsbury's Nine Elms in London has escalators up to the store itself.

Martin Phillp wrote: Mon 27 Oct, 2025 23.04 Sainsbury's Nine Elms in London has escalators up to the store itself.

I'd kind of taken this for granted without considering how unusual it is. Are there any other stores where almost the entirety of the ground floor is given up to parking?

(The old Sainsbury's Nine Elms was a conventional store with a standard car park).

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 Ikea in Sheffield is like it as well.

Sainsburys sending out an email saying that to pay with nectar you now need to use the QR code barcode on the app, or the magswipe on the card.

Collecting can still be done with the other barcode. Assume this is in response to the rampant fraud in spending nectar points

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





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 uniform (at least what you can make out of it where the awful AI upscaling hasn't mangled it- I wish people didn't use that!).

gottago wrote: Sun 26 Oct, 2025 15.58

Philip wrote: Sun 26 Oct, 2025 15.16 Asda Aintree has a first floor with travelators which is the whole clothes section I think.

Tesco Extra Southport has a first floor with escalators and it’s the cafe and toilets.

Tescos with mezzanines are everywhere, it’s the other ones I’m more interested in!

Sainsbury's at Darnley (Glasgow) used to have one. Found it a bit weird when shopping through there on holiday as like you say they're rare.

Believe it's an Argos now.

Sainsbury's at Ripon has it's clothes downstairs (no travellator though) which technically meant Morrisons did aswell as it's an ex Morrisons (unsure what was down there - beer?), believe it's the only store where they kept the Safeway store and disposed of their own store aswell.

Pete wrote: Tue 28 Oct, 2025 10.38 Sainsburys sending out an email saying that to pay with nectar you now need to use the QR code barcode on the app, or the magswipe on the card.

I'd be amazed if the magstripe has anything more than the account# and name on it. So I expect this option to either be dropped or to require physical inspection of the card by the cashier since otherwise the fraudsters could just write this data to any nectar card.