Morrisons

I like Morissons.
I suppose I am a little bit biased as I used to be a trainee manager at this store.
That was many moods ago and the store in almost unrecogisable from when I used to work there.
The store is large and has just about everything I need.
The buy one get one free offers always grab my attention and I am a tight get and I always stock up on bargains.
My German Shepherd is allergic to wheat products and Morrisons sell a wheat free dog food so that has a bearing on where I do my shop.
I love tiger bread! And it is a great bonus that I can ask a member of staff to put it through the slicing machine. Or it wouldn’t last half as long as it does.
When the store is really busy they always open more checkouts.
I have had problems in the past were things have broke or have been sub standard. But that’s life and the staff have always replaced these items with the minimal of fuss.

I’m really not a fan or Morrisons as it is… the drab décor, the horrible floor that looks like… er, i’ll not even say it.
Anyway, my friend and I had a full english breakfast from here and like Alexandra said… rubbery eggs, soggy toast, really unusually hard stale beans… it just wasn’t nice.
I can’t say much for the staff either, they’re not very polite or accommodating and seem to be utterly bored of their jobs. Cheap but definitely not cheerful. Spend your money elsewhere.

You may wonder why I am reviewing a Morrisons as most people will know what they are and what they sell. If you have ever watched a TV, especially around Christmas time, it is very likely you will have seen the advert. Fake snow, big cakes, Denise Van Outen or ‘that bloke from Top Gear’ stroll around Morrisons looking glossy whilst their signature Take That tune blasts out in the background. If not you will probably have seen one of their 420 stores throughout the UK. They are big, garish and bright yellow. That’s the one.
I shop in the Morrisons in the city centre on occasion, due to their very low prices and the fact that they stock pretty much everything. But recently I visited the Hunslet branch. The difference, they have a café!
I was starving. Having had no breakfast whatsoever, my stomach was grumbling like a grumpy old man who had lost his slippers. Food was needed fast. They had a selection of sandwiches, but they were cut into triangles and laid onto cling film covered plates with a handful of crisps and salad. Fair enough, but odd as I expected the usual packaged sarnie. They were also quite sweaty looking, with condensation on the inside of the cling film. Not very enticing. So, I thought, hot food. YUM. But I couldn’t see a menu. This is how hot food works.
1. Go to counter one with a display of pictures of various breakfast type hot food. (Sausages, beans, bacon, eggs, toast etc)
2. Choose what you want and tell the lady, she then gives you a green plastic disk with your number on it. (I chose scrambled eggs on toast)
3. Go past coffee machine, grab coffee if required.
4. Go to till, hand second lady green plastic disk with number on, pay and receive a red plastic disk with number on.
5. Find a table, put red plastic disk in the flag-​post-​thing and await your food.
Right. Done. Sip coffee. Extremely milky with hardly any actual coffee in it, cue sleepy effect instead of caffeine buzz required. Bummer. The food arrives within five minutes. Rubbery egg, soggy toast and tasteless tomatoes. Double bummer.
Satisfaction: None
Wallet: down £3.80

Morrisons in Hunslet in Leeds is a fairly large sized Morrisons easily accessible with a large free car park. It has a café, a fresh bakery area, fish, cooked meats, butchers and homeware section. It sells everything you would need for a full shop without needing to go anywhere else and the prices are so low — certainly the cheapest of the big four for me. It also has a petrol station and small shop where you can collect Morrisons points which are redeemable against your main shop. It is a great supermarket and you can make some big savings here. One of my favourites. Also, try the salad bar!

Oh dear. I want to be objective about this Morrisons, but I’ve just had a Morrisons-​related-​strop and it’s very difficult.
This is the closest large supermarket to my office, which means most lunchtimes it is filled with people in suits and that, buying sarnies and salads and bits of pork. It’s well stocked, most of the staff are friendly, and it has one of those mini HSBCs in that most Mozzas do.
This morning, however, I got really grumpy with the till lady, and I still don’t feel bad about it because it was such a farce that I ended up dropping my shower gel and the plastic broke and it spilled all over the floor.
I only wanted some cereal for my breakfast and then I got drawn to the toiletries aisle and ended up with lots of stuff and then I queued for five minutes because there were only about 4 tills open, and then when the guy in front was about to pay, the till lady said ‘Oh you can’t pay by card, no’. Like it was some kind of ridiculous request. The guy had to prompt her to find out why, and she then pointed to the chip and pin thing and said ‘It’s broke’. So I offered ‘Well why didn’t you put a sign up so people didn’t queue up in the first place?’ and she said ‘Because it’s only just broke ten minutes ago, and we ‘an’t ‘ad time’.
She didn’t say that every single chip and pin machine had broke, which they had, so I carted my stuff to another till, where some lady was having to peg it to the cashpoint to pay for her shopping, and then I asked another till lady what was going on, and she said ‘All broke like’, so I chucked my stuff on a spare conveyor belt, swore and stomped out the stupid store. And now I’m late for work. Full of toothless wonders, Hunslet Morrisons is. Especially today.
Grumble grumble grumble.