Metropol

Gavin Scott wrote:Laser printer? Come off it. You could provide them with a potato print saying you are a "dog woker" and they'd issue you a trade card.

Personal experience, Gav?

Nini wrote:

Gavin Scott wrote:Laser printer? Come off it. You could provide them with a potato print saying you are a "dog woker" and they'd issue you a trade card.

Personal experience, Gav?

Hardly.

Mine said "Bébé sytter".

Neil Green wrote:If either of you ever see me in there with the other half, please don't tell me who you are - I prefer to live with the idea of Metropolers as pixels on the screen

Except for Mr Scott and Mr Hyma, of course!

*COUGH*

Too late.

Hymagumba wrote:it won't work neil, your cheque bounced so no secret forum for you any more

Tsk.

It didn't bounce.

Everyone knows that for my convenience Metropol has not not accepted cheques since Feb 2007.

And don't deny you received the money into your offshore account. I have spies, you know.

Adders wrote:Moving off the topic of Asda (yet again), I went into Tesco in Stretford for the first time in ages today. I only went in to catch up with someone who works there, but I was quite surprised to see that they've now caught up with the 21st Century and have the self-service checkouts.

It's had those for at least 3 years!

Whilst we're off-topic... has anyone actually been in Barton Square at The Trafford Centre yet? Apparantly, it's quite nice in there, but I can never be arsed walking over the bridge to look at it myself.

We cheated and drove in to the parking on that side (from Asda, to give a vaguely topical element to this post). It's okay, in a not-very-exciting-oh-look-it's-more-fake-vaguely-Italiante-style-decor way.

ashley b wrote:

Neil Green wrote:If either of you ever see me in there with the other half, please don't tell me who you are - I prefer to live with the idea of Metropolers as pixels on the screen
Except for Mr Scott and Mr Hyma, of course!

*COUGH*

Too late.

I obviously need new glasses - you were looking pretty pixelated last time I saw you.

Oh.

Wait.

Wrong word.

I meant 'pissed'.

Neil Green wrote:

Adders wrote:Moving off the topic of Asda (yet again), I went into Tesco in Stretford for the first time in ages today. I only went in to catch up with someone who works there, but I was quite surprised to see that they've now caught up with the 21st Century and have the self-service checkouts.

It's had those for at least 3 years!

Whilst we're off-topic... has anyone actually been in Barton Square at The Trafford Centre yet? Apparantly, it's quite nice in there, but I can never be arsed walking over the bridge to look at it myself.

We cheated and drove in to the parking on that side (from Asda, to give a vaguely topical element to this post). It's okay, in a not-very-exciting-oh-look-it's-more-fake-vaguely-Italiante-style-decor way.

Shows how long it's been since I had a good chat with Sylvia on the checkouts at Tesco. I'm always intimidated by Mr Security Guard. Talking of security guards, I still find it very hard to believe that Poundland has a security guard. The one I went to in Altrincham today didn't have one.

Just shifting this topic back on to Asda... I had to drive past Asda Trafford Park today to get to a sports centre because someone had an accident closing the road I normally go down.

Hymagumba wrote:

Adders wrote:Is Asda Trafford Park the only Asda with a McDonalds in it?

the old co-op hypermarket in palmersville, just outside newcastle has a mcdonalds in it.

so it does. Well done Mr Hyma!

At the Nook we have a Sainsbury's and an Iceland. Iceland is shit so I'm inclined to go to Sainsbury's but the stuff is all so expensive, and it seemed really cramped. Mind, it's only the equivalent of a Tesco Metro.

There's one of those in Jesmond and it's a bit like a jumble sale - all the students go to get cheap food and beer and it's always messy and mucky. There's a MASSIVE ASDA hypermarket in Gateshead next to the Metrocentre and there's a big one in Boldon too, and I've only been in the Boldon one. They made the car park double level recently and made the store double level too, so it looks even more like a great big aircraft hangar. The products are fairly good, it's just the whole thing screams of industriousness and coldness, far from what I'm sure the farmers would have wanted.

Let's just not talk about Morrisons. Have they changed those godawful uniforms yet?

Adders wrote:Is Asda Trafford Park the only Asda with a McDonalds in it?

When I was in Canada I noticed the Wal-Mart I went in had a McDonalds in it, I may have even dinned there. I've noticed one or two Asda stores in the West Midlands, have McDonalds in them.

Asda Spondon (just outside Derby) has a McDonalds in it.

As does Asda Newport.