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Err, 10 items or fewer shurely?

NiC | Homepage | 30.10.04 - 11:16 a.m. | #

My Tesco continues to stick with the traditional 10 items or less rather than 10 items or fewer. Not enough pedants go shopping round here, it seems.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 30.10.04 - 11:21 a.m. | #

I hope you're not turning into a curmudgeon...

Tesco's are right about 10 items or less: it sounds better and it's time that the less/fewer 'rule' atrophied into disuse.

gwplf | 30.10.04 - 11:28 a.m. | #

I'm suprised you don't always use a basket. As someone who arrives and leaves on foot, having to carry a basket regulates the amount you can comfortably carry home. It also enables you to whizz round the store without having to manoeuvre a trolly around the piles of junk my local Sainsburys dump on the shop floor.

Biggest advantage is that you then use the automated 'self checkout' which has cut at least 5 minutes off each visit. No longer do I have to queue, or put up with that annoying wait as two random items are slowly placed in a bag to 'save you time'.

Dave | Homepage | 30.10.04 - 11:57 a.m. | #

I can usually carry four carrier bags home without falling over so a small trolley is perfect. Trouble with a basket is you have to visit the supermarket more often, and you can only shop one-handed, and if you fill it too high the stuff balanced on the top tends to fall out. But if there aren't any trolleys...

We don't have automated 'self checkout' in our Tesco either. It may be a big store but for some reason they don't think the people of east London are up to the intellectual challenge.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 30.10.04 - 12:14 p.m. | #

Too few pedants, full stop dg!

NiC | Homepage | 30.10.04 - 12:41 p.m. | #

I had to make a trip to the post office this morning - I think the sooner they give the antiquated behemoth that is the Royal Mail up for lost and disband the whole sorry affair the better. My answer for recorded delivery items is to get them to post it to my work address and give them hell if they so much as hint that they can't do that. It's amazing what threatening to move your account to another bank that WILL deliver to a convenient address will do to a quivering call centre operative....

mat | Homepage | 30.10.04 - 11:22 p.m. | #











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