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Topic ID 120
16/12/2003 by n/a
Hertford's Worst Shopping Experience
I would like to nominate Focus Do It All on Ware Road.
Never enough stock, one open checkout per 100 customers, staff who look like they'd rather stick forks in their knees than be at work and that terrible music!!
Focus never fail to turn the most simple of shopping trips into a depressing ordeal. How are they still open??
Is it just me?
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Reply ID 588
16/12/2003 by Steve
No, it isn't just you. Their logistics and stock control are shameful. Walk around the store at any time and you'll see empty pegs all over the place - not just the odd one or two, but whole groups of them. It's been going on for years. Two changes of owner have made no difference. I'm amazed that senior management have failed to recognise that every lost sale is lost profit. It's just slack.
Reply ID 590
17/12/2003 by newgirl
I have no problem with the stock but the layout of WOOLWORTHS drives me mad. It is a total nightmare with a pushchair - display stands on every corner, narrow aisles, tight corners, stock on the floor.......
Second worst for pushchair/wheelchair users is Methuens bookshop. The area around the entrance is congested with display stands, security barriers and people queuing to pay. We just can't get in or out!
And...while I'm at it.....does the muzak in Matalan have to be so loud???
Reply ID 591
17/12/2003 by sloopjohnb
No doubt upsetting everyone but despite the usual friendly staff there is nothing worse than standing in a queue at the Fore Street Post Office at this time of year. Hundreds of people each with a fistful of envelopes - this one to New Zealand, this one to the Outer Hebrides, this one to Panama and so on. And what is the last posting date to send a Christmas card to Easter Island? - or does an Easter card to Christmas Island get there any quicker? And when all you want is one first class stamp because the automatic dispensing machine is broken again, the whole Christmas thing gets very depressing. The last posting date for Christmas should be Jan 1st - for next year!
Reply ID 592
17/12/2003 by skanky
Top Tip of the Day:
Buy a book of first class stamps from a newsagents and keep it in your wallet. Whenever you're down to the last one, buy a new one. That way you'll never have to queue to buy one stamp again.
;)
Reply ID 594
17/12/2003 by sloopjohnb
You're not my wife under a false name are you skanky? Sound very much like her.
Reply ID 595
17/12/2003 by skanky
Hold on..nope just asked my girlfriend, and apparently I'm definitely not. Which is probably best for all concerned. :)
I was just passing on something that always occurs to me that I should whenever I'm standing in the queue at Stevenage Old Town post office (I work in Stevenage), waiting to buy a stamp. That place has long queues year round, forget about Christmas.
Reply ID 623
14/01/2004 by newgirl
Hey - Methuens the Bookshop has reorganised it's entrance! Perhaps they read this forum?
It's now much more organised and easy to visit with a pushchair so I take it all back - thanks Methuens.
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