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I went into Sainburys for the first time in years the other day and I find it bizzare and wierd as ever. Do all the Sainbury's have those horrible disjointed asiles that prevent you from simply going up and down?

It depends on the store. A Sainsbury's near me has the frozen food split, with the cabinets containing boxed things like ready meals at one end of the store, and the open chest freezers containing bagged things like chips at the other.

Oh and I passed a garage somewhere out in the sticks after getting lost coming out of Consett where the petrolwas. *drum roll* 99.9

At the risk of sounding extremely naieve, are there actually any petrol stations which have got to £1 / litre yet?

nodnirG kraM wrote:

Isonstine wrote:

DAS wrote:No fruit salad would tempt me to share that.

Not even with extra slices of apple?

Ison, why was there a loaf of bread in the bus stop down the road? Was that the one you promised me back in 2002??

Well I didn't like to say...

Mr Dragon, I share your thoughts on cheap washing up liquid. However, I do feel Persil rather outshines Fairy these days.

As for this active foam nonsense, well I really don't know what to make of it. I use a brush, not a sponge, so presumably I shalln't be able to use it.

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cwathen wrote:At the risk of sounding extremely naieve, are there actually any petrol stations which have got to £1 / litre yet?

Oh yes.

Do a Google for Dean's of Marlborough. They've been fifteen to twenty pence a litre over the odds for years and are famous for it, not to mention giving short measure to further improve their profits!

J.Christie wrote:Bottom: Series 3

For a moment there I thought we were still talking about toilet paper.

Do a Google for Dean's of Marlborough. They've been fifteen to twenty pence a litre over the odds for years and are famous for it, not to mention giving short measure to further improve their profits!

Again, at the expense of sounding extremely naieve, how exactly do they manage to sell any fuel if they charge so much over the odds for it?

For fairly obvious reasons, I avoid Marlborough like the plague if I've less than half a tankfull left, so I'm not an expert, but I THINK they're the only petrol station in the town.

They pick up the odd customer floating down the A4 on just the fumes; a few idiots who fill up first and look at the price board afterwards; and they DO have a regular clientelle of little old ladies, with blue rinses, who LOVE their attended service, so they don't have to get that nasty fuel stuff all over their hands.

I honestly don't know what they're charging at the moment, but I DO know they were on 92p when everyone else was around 69p. They don't sell much, but what they DO sell, they make a bit out of, even after paying their short-measure fines.

Last things I bought (today):

Double cheeseburger and Coke £1.98, McDonalds
20 Marlboro Lights £4.87, Asda
EuroStar tickets, Brussels £50, RailEurope
Hotel in Brussels, €190, Lastminute.com
SNCF Rail Travel €400, RailEurope
Hotel in Nice €300, Lastminute.com
Paris-Bournemouth flight, €0.99, ThomsonFly.com
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, £*cough*, PCWorld
Office 2003 Professional for Windows 32-Bit Server, £*splutter*, PCWorld

Oh, and on the petrol front, BP/Safeway(Morrisons), Bournemouth, 112.7ppl for unleaded!

steddenm wrote: Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, £*cough*, PCWorld
Office 2003 Professional for Windows 32-Bit Server, £*splutter*, PCWorld

Linux Distro, £FREE
OpenOffice, £FREE

Haven't bought a single thing today. Left the house with only 5p, and the vending machine at work doesn't accept credit cards unfortunately.