why do you shop at supermarkets ?

Deon, he wants you out of a job mate.

Merthyrs biggest employer, supplying meat to all large supermarkets and Brownie wants rid of slaughterhouses and open up a butchers on every other street corner.

He will be closing banks and bringing out ration books next

F*cking loony tune

Interesting. I'm a manager at a major food retail company, and I think you'll find that we do great community work, as well as supporting local charities and supplying our milk, meat and cheese from Wales and the rest from the UK.

Prices are good and so is the quality. Small businesses can't survive anymore and that is a sad fact, I agree. But the company I work for provides thousands of jobs, and there are more made all the time. Which is addressing a bigger issue in the UK at the moment with unemployment rates as high as they are.

So you are making huge assumptions here, without much research.

The price is good but the quality is rubbish, you treat customers and staff like robots. Millitary Junta is correct, this obsession with price, over quality and local identity is ruining the human experience throughout Britain. Look at the rebrand.

Complete rubbish, the whole post

You treat customers with exactly the same contempt. And you manage the whole supermarket?

No, we do not, we treat every customer as an individual and go out of our way to meet their needs as best we can, they pay our wages and we appreciate the custom from each one.

I work in the convenience sector, which is aimed at the local community.

You just dismissed me as talking rubbish, that's contempt & dehumanising, with strangling affect Tesco and Sainsbury's have on competition, it's almost certain i am your customer, captive consumer and you couldn't even be bothered for a huamn reply, just dismissed me as rubbish and moved on.

I challenge anyone who believes that my store and staff don't provide quality products and play a part in the community

I challenge anyone who believes that my store and staff don't provide quality products and play a part in the community

Ok do you sell authentic bread made with authentic live yeast, In the traditional Baker's way?

I challenge anyone who believes that my store and staff don't provide quality products and play a part in the community

What store is it ?

I challenge anyone who believes that my store and staff don't provide quality products and play a part in the community

What store is it ?

He'll tell us after ordering some decent bread.

Because they are cheaper and with the extra 10% I get, because my boy works there, they are cheaper again!!

I challenge anyone who believes that my store and staff don't provide quality products and play a part in the community

What store is it ?

He'll tell us after ordering some decent bread.

Think you'll find our bread that is baked in store is of fantastic quality

I challenge anyone who believes that my store and staff don't provide quality products and play a part in the community

What store is it ?

He'll tell us after ordering some decent bread.

I challenge anyone who believes that my store and staff don't provide quality products and play a part in the community

What store is it ?

He'll tell us after ordering some decent bread.

Think you'll find our bread that is baked in store is of fantastic quality

Such is the quality of your food, You don't the answer to my question on the contents of the most essential food item in the British kitchen

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I challenge anyone who believes that my store and staff don't provide quality products and play a part in the community

What store is it ?

He'll tell us after ordering some decent bread.

Deon, he wants you out of a job mate.

Merthyrs biggest employer, supplying meat to all large supermarkets and Brownie wants rid of slaughterhouses and open up a butchers on every other street corner.

He will be closing banks and bringing out ration books next

F*cking loony tune

merthyr biggest employer is the council and then NHS!!!

St merryns are the biggest independant employer you whopper, both the council and NHS are funded by the government.

So now youve contradicted yourself because these supermarkets and all the taxes their staff pay, and VAT they pay on their goods contribute massively to the national taxes, enabling the government to fund areas like Merthyr with government jobs and benefits.

Merthyr, along with Swansea and parts of Scotland, is massively funded by government jobs, over 1 in 3 people employed in Merthyr are employed by the government.

Deon, he wants you out of a job mate.

Merthyrs biggest employer, supplying meat to all large supermarkets and Brownie wants rid of slaughterhouses and open up a butchers on every other street corner.

He will be closing banks and bringing out ration books next

F*cking loony tune

merthyr biggest employer is the council and then NHS!!!

St merryns are the biggest independant employer you whopper, both the council and NHS are funded by the government.

So now youve contradicted yourself because these supermarkets and all the taxes their staff pay, and VAT they pay on their goods contribute massively to the national taxes, enabling the government to fund areas like Merthyr with government jobs and benefits.

Merthyr, along with Swansea and parts of Scotland, is massively funded by government jobs, over 1 in 3 people employed in Merthyr are employed by the government.

Thats correct by the government is still an employer is it not..?

So what do you suggest, close St Merryns, and Tescos and Asdas and just let the government employ everyone

I challenge anyone who believes that my store and staff don't provide quality products and play a part in the community

What store is it ?

He'll tell us after ordering some decent bread.

Think you'll find our bread that is baked in store is of fantastic quality

Such is the quality of your food, You don't the answer to my question on the contents of the most essential food item in the British kitchen

Can I get a translator?

I challenge anyone who believes that my store and staff don't provide quality products and play a part in the community

What store is it ?

He'll tell us after ordering some decent bread.

Think you'll find our bread that is baked in store is of fantastic quality

Such is the quality of your food, You don't the answer to my question on the contents of the most essential food item in the British kitchen

Can I get a translator?

You customer service is f*ckin appalling, I demand to speak with the areas manager forth with.

I challenge anyone who believes that my store and staff don't provide quality products and play a part in the community

What store is it ?

He'll tell us after ordering some decent bread.

Think you'll find our bread that is baked in store is of fantastic quality

Such is the quality of your food, You don't the answer to my question on the contents of the most essential food item in the British kitchen

Can I get a translator?

You customer service is f*ckin appalling, I demand to speak with the areas manager forth with.

So what do you suggest, close St Merryns, and Tescos and Asdas and just let the government employ everyone

Not at all Im just putting you right on who are the biggest employers in merthyr. You were incorrect in your comment.

So what do you suggest, close St Merryns, and Tescos and Asdas and just let the government employ everyone

Not at all Im just putting you right on who are the biggest employers in merthyr. You were incorrect in your comment.

I think local shops would employ more people.

So what do you suggest, close St Merryns, and Tescos and Asdas and just let the government employ everyone

Not at all Im just putting you right on who are the biggest employers in merthyr. You were incorrect in your comment.

They are the largest independant employer in the town. FACT.

Seeing as we are talking about companies and the taxes they pay, and jobs they create why the f*cking hell would we even be thinking about it government funded employers you tool. They cost the taxpayer money ffs.

When the time comes that I move out from my parents i'd probably get my meats from the local butchers but all other things from the supermarket.

Interesting. I'm a manager at a major food retail company, and I think you'll find that we do great community work, as well as supporting local charities and supplying our milk, meat and cheese from Wales and the rest from the UK.

Prices are good and so is the quality. Small businesses can't survive anymore and that is a sad fact, I agree. But the company I work for provides thousands of jobs, and there are more made all the time. Which is addressing a bigger issue in the UK at the moment with unemployment rates as high as they are.

So you are making huge assumptions here, without much research.

The quality of meat is actually quite shit to be fair.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink ... finds.html

By the time you cook chicken or bacon its about half of the size it should be. If you go to the butchers you pay more, unless you're a regular as they'll do you deals then, but you get what you pay for. Its not that much more expensive but the quality is tenfold better.

For everything else, supermarkets are fine. Bread is often made in store in the bakery so is as fresh as it is from the bakers. I have mostly found the customer service in supermarkets to be the same as anywhere else. You get the people who do their job to the best of their ability and go out of their way to help you and you get the drips who just struggle on through the day until they clock off and add more hours to their pay cheque.

I've been in butchers where the customer service has been terrible. Its swings and roundabouts and you move to a new butchers where they provide a better service.

Brownie obviously has not been in a supermarket for years - they have fresh cheese in store, fresh bread from an in store bakery, some even have salads and fruits prepared for you by staff which is then weighed and priced up, etc. This ain't 1999 Brownie.

If you go in a supermarket and purchase rubbish then fair enough but to say there's no options is ridiculous. My only gripe is with the water or chemical pumped meat but then there's alternatives if people deem it not good enough. Most people aren't bothered as it does the job and they're happy enough. Those who aren't happy will go to a butchers instead like I have done myself and pay more for premium freshers cuts.

They don't need somebody on the internet to tell them how to shop. Good grief.

Interesting. I'm a manager at a major food retail company, and I think you'll find that we do great community work, as well as supporting local charities and supplying our milk, meat and cheese from Wales and the rest from the UK.

Prices are good and so is the quality. Small businesses can't survive anymore and that is a sad fact, I agree. But the company I work for provides thousands of jobs, and there are more made all the time. Which is addressing a bigger issue in the UK at the moment with unemployment rates as high as they are.

So you are making huge assumptions here, without much research.

The quality of meat is actually quite shit to be fair.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink ... finds.html

By the time you cook chicken or bacon its about half of the size it should be. If you go to the butchers you pay more, unless you're a regular as they'll do you deals then, but you get what you pay for. Its not that much more expensive but the quality is tenfold better.

For everything else, supermarkets are fine. Bread is often made in store in the bakery so is as fresh as it is from the bakers. I have mostly found the customer service in supermarkets to be the same as anywhere else. You get the people who do their job to the best of their ability and go out of their way to help you and you get the drips who just struggle on through the day until they clock off and add more hours to their pay cheque.

I've been in butchers where the customer service has been terrible. Its swings and roundabouts and you move to a new butchers where they provide a better service.

Brownie obviously has not been in a supermarket for years - they have fresh cheese in store, fresh bread from an in store bakery, some even have salads and fruits prepared for you by staff which is then weighed and priced up, etc. This ain't 1999 Brownie.

If you go in a supermarket and purchase rubbish then fair enough but to say there's no options is ridiculous. My only gripe is with the water or chemical pumped meat but then there's alternatives if people deem it not good enough. Most people aren't bothered as it does the job and they're happy enough. Those who aren't happy will go to a butchers instead like I have done myself and pay more for premium freshers cuts.

They don't need somebody on the internet to tell them how to shop. Good grief.

Fresh cheese?

Fresh cheese?

Yes. I don't buy that cheap mature cheddar rubbish most people buy. I'd rather fresh feta cheese cut. If you buy packaged crap then you will get packaged crap. Its quite obvious. Supermarkets provide alternatives at a premium.

So what do you suggest, close St Merryns, and Tescos and Asdas and just let the government employ everyone

Not at all Im just putting you right on who are the biggest employers in merthyr. You were incorrect in your comment.

They are the largest independant employer in the town. FACT.

Seeing as we are talking about companies and the taxes they pay, and jobs they create why the f*cking hell would we even be thinking about it government funded employers you tool. They cost the taxpayer money ffs.

I only brought up the council to put you right as you said that st merryn was the highest employer.

Another thing about supermarkets is their petrol. The reason why its cheaper is because its more diluted and runs through the engine far quicker yet because its a few pence cheaper then people flog to their forecourt

Fresh cheese?

Yes. I don't buy that cheap mature cheddar rubbish most people buy. I'd rather fresh feta cheese cut. If you buy packaged crap then you will get packaged crap. Its quite obvious. Supermarkets provide alternatives at a premium.

I didn't know Feta had to be fresh. Thought there was a lengthy refining process involved. How old is fresh Feta?

Fresh cheese?

Yes. I don't buy that cheap mature cheddar rubbish most people buy. I'd rather fresh feta cheese cut. If you buy packaged crap then you will get packaged crap. Its quite obvious. Supermarkets provide alternatives at a premium.

I didn't know Feta had to be fresh. Thought there was a lengthy refining process involved. How old is fresh Feta?

Most supermarkets keep feta in natural brine which leaves a horrible overly salty taste on the cheese that is exposed. Fine if you are using it as a cooking ingredient, terrible as part of a chicken salad. Better to buy it from the cheese counter in natural fresh water rather than brine as it'll keep long enough due to salt content.

I work in a shop and what the OP said is utter bollocks.

That will be all.

I work in a shop and what the OP said is utter bollocks.

That will be all.