Sainsbury’s

Sainsburys in Leeds is a larger supermarket very popular in the local area. I personally love Sainsburys I actually find it cheaper than Tesco. This branch is great, with free parking, a petrol station, and lots of offers in store. The staff are so lovely, that you really do get great customer service here is a real boon. The café serves nice hot food at low prices and the customer loos are clean. The range of goods in the store ranges from clothes (but no shoes) gifts, seasonal items, baby items and fresh flowers to ready made meals, veg and fruit, and pretty much everything you’d need for a month. A great supermarket.

This is my local sainsbury’s that I’ve been going to for 10 years, when it was next to blockbuster originally and before it doubled in size a couple of years ago! It’s a good store, nothing particularly special but the staff all seem to be fairly helpful, particularly if you have young children with you, they seem to understand the pressure you can sometimes be under.
The clothing section is fab, especially for children, although there is about 80% girls clothes, 20% boys, but that’s always the way. Their prices are really great, especially as my little one seems to go into the next size week by week.
The fish counter is lovely and the fish monger with the white beard is very helpful, although they’re all ok.
The café upstairs is nice but you need to use the lift to get up there and when it’s out of order and you have your buggy with you and your shopping and you just want to go for a wee or change your baby it’s a bit of a trek with an assistant to use the staff utility lift, but they do let you.
The worst thing about the store is the horrendous parking, as with all sainsbury’s everywhere in my experience. The spaces are far too narrow, as are the roadways between the parking, makes reversing (which I am good at before you ask) very tight, brilliant when you’ve got a wriggling baby to distract you as well.
Handy having homebase next door too, it’s walkable if you don’t have to carry too much back to the car.

I like Sainsbury’s generally, but I find this one a bit of a pain in the a* if I’m honest. The layout is bizarre (I’m a Morrisons girl usually, and theirs makes sense), with clothes right next to fresh fruit and vegetables. And I don’t like how the vegetables are stored in those big green boxes. It’s tricksy.
I went there today because I was at the Homebase next door, and was really disappointed because all I wanted was some Golden Syrup Oats So Simple, and they had sold out! The whole cereal aisle looked like a tornado had hit it.
The guy at the checkout was either on day release or a bit of a stoner (will I get in trouble for saying that? Hope not). Really slow, half asleep, and even though I’d put a ‘bag for life’ on top of all my shopping so he could scan it through first and then I could actually pack my shopping, he decided to move it to the back of my shopping instead. He then looked at me like I was a bit mental and said in a really pitying tone ‘do you need some bags then?’. No thanks Mr Stoner, I would like the bag I just gave you please. That would be awesome.