Loyalty cards: has Tesco pinched Asda's Christmas?

Painfully Full

...and...

Comfortably Empty

...respectively. When I walk out of Asda they don't know who I am or anything about me. When I walk out of Tesco's they know who I am, where I live, what I buy, whether I'm loyal. I might (they may conclude) be an Asda convert who needs tempting back :)

===are you saying that Tesco is painfully full and Asda comfortably empty, because if so, isnt Asda in the best position having sold stuff? Or is it just that Tesco have better shelf stackers?

No, no, when he says full/empty, I don't think he means the shelves of goods, but the shops of people. Surely the adverbs expressing pain and comfort are to be taken from his point of view, i.e. it is a pain to mill around a crowded shop but comfortable to dance around the aisles when you can swing your cats.

His observations, though, don't hold true for my local T and A. They're mostly equally full. There are much more important factors which affect my choice of which one to patronise, such as whether they stock the stuff I want, and the fact that one has speed bumps on the car park access drive which are so vicious that I dare not buy eggs.

I know thats why I put the divider in. Happens on a few messages, not sure why. Possibly ones posted in html?

Yes, your explanation makes more sense, but I had taken the painful/etc to be from a manager/shareholders POV (This is a finance newsgroup, not a shoppers comfort one :-)

IME both are full of low quality goods, and too many chavs who seemingly take their chavettes in just to shout at them, so I dont visit either very often.

Painfully Full

...and...

Comfortably Empty

...respectively. When I walk out of Asda they don't know who I am or anything about me. When I walk out of Tesco's they know who I am, where I live, what I buy, whether I'm loyal. I might (they may conclude) be an Asda convert who needs tempting back :)

Well, they certainly didn't use my information. We used to get everything at Tesco. Then Costco opened nearby, overnight the entire spending at Tesco was cut to about 5 percent of previous, since we have not moved (Tesco statements are received and some vouchers used) They obviously know that our spending habits changed dramatically, yet they have never asked why. I avoid Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury and especially Morrisons, they are all full of scumbags and the stuff is over priced rubbish, Aldi and Lidl are preferable.

mrcheerful

because they are full of fairly priced rubbish?

Where I live Aldi and Lidl are also full of scumbags - Waitrose & F&M do provide a much better atmosphere - although F&M have a lot of seasonal shoppers right now.

mr 'cheap and cheerful', shurely? :)

Have to say I've never noticed too many scumbags in Tesco, Asda or Sainsbury's, just the usual mothers taking the kids out shopping solely to wallop them.

That must depend on the locality. Our neaest Tesco (Batley) is much worse than our neaest Sainsbury's (White Rose).

I regularly see our (Typically, tall, thin, baseball-hatted, with a flat narrow head. What? Inbred? Surely not! ) scumbag colleagues playing handball over the tops of the aisles. IE one scumbag down each of two adjacent aisles chucking the ball over the top of the aisle as they go around the store.

:-(

DG

"Xmas" wrote

ASDA in Luton seems to be now full of asylum seekers and eastern European types but then so is the whole of the town!