Aspies For Freedom

Canned chicken soup.  I cant eat enough of it.

yes I do remember Amy!  :oops: But I wear them a lot with a denim skirt and I think they look good fun! (not much of a clothes horse...    )

Stella

yes I did like them and they were very cosy too - specially on a day like today - all cold and grey and drizzly. I can just see the sea from my bedroom window but tonight the lights of ships going up the channel are all lost in the rain.

I know what you mean about people looking at you. It gets me down sometimes   so I try not to attract attention.

Stella

But often, the amount of new jobs created by a new store is wiped out by the number of people who lose their jobs in local independent shops.

We used to use Tesco Online to order our shopping, but they have never got an order completely correct.  Most of the time it is due to shortages in the warehouse, but often it is because the staff have picked wrong items off the shelf.  Once there were about 15 items missing, and when my step-dad called the hotline asked for a refund, they said they would credit his account but it never happened, even though he called them twice.

So they got that £2billion partly by stealing money off their customers! :evil:

When they open a new store somewhere, they couldn't care less if it means local shops going bankrupt.   There is actually a campaign in my local area about this - where they are trying to get planning permission in an area where there are already local shops. [/i]

more from stella about her adventures please!
becca

Some big stores in Canada where I like to shop:  Walmart, Costco, Dominion, Loblaws.   I can ask for help and find staff when I want.  Otherwise no one bothers you usually.  Small boutiques tend to pay staff on commission so they are more aggressive.  

Chapters is a big bookstore that do not actually mind customers reading the books.  You can sit down and read.  They have big chairs there.  Usually I do not read for long.

I like to keep my pantry and freezer well stocked.  My husband tells me what he wants for dinner every day.  Some people work from a weekly menu but that never worked for us and caused alot of agruments.  My husband also comes grocery shopping with me.  I do like shopping by myself but it is ok with him and no complaints.

In a large Tesco at night, when there is no one there,  you can look down the long aisles of goods until they vanish into infinity.  Perhaps down there, at the far end of the lane are people who have got lost and never been found, goods whose sell buy date expired before you born, things from by-gone eras for which there is no longer any demand, and goods marked in languages which no one alive can understand,  but held in trust for us by the low humming of the freezer chests....  

Stella

I don't go to just any Tesco - but the same one whose layout I know well and whose staff I know by sight, and sometimes by name.

It is one of those Tesco Metro outlets - medium sized - rather than very large - so the chances of becoming lost or simply being swallowed up by strange shopping lanes, or ambushed by unfamiliar displays of goods, or crushed beneath a toppling mountain of canned goods seem much smaller.

Stella

I have energy saving bulbs throughout my flat -  there's one of those pound shops just by the Tesco I go to in Portslade-on-Sea, and they have energy saving bulbs there for £1 - the cheapest I've ever seen them.

Stella

My Tesco Metro sells both coconut milk and groundnut oil, so stocking may be done on a basis of projected local demand.

It is true that a number of shelves have been given over to Christmas products, including part of the very useful stationary shelves, but I suppose this is the same everywhere. But I rather enjoy looking at all the different sorts of Christmas puddings now and again.

This Tesco has no Santa -for which I am truly grateful - as i find Santas vaguely frightening. The idea that they might seize one of my hands and force it into a lucky dip barrel of sawdust....  ugggh!

Stella

Sjöjungfru, I actually enjoy my frequent visits to Tesco, and being able to look at all the products. I shouldn't have nearly so much fun if I had to order online. I like being able to choose my tomatoes and other veggies individually, and look at all the long lines of different coloured bottles and cans. And I don't suppose they have a half-price shelf online either, an important factor in my small budget! And I always look at the stainless-steel kitchen equipment too!

I don't think I should go if they had a Santa though, as I wouldn't feel safe.

Stella

JSL - and with baking potatoes it's essential to choose them individually for size, freedom from blemishes, and a nice regular shape if they are to bake well.

You can't get good results with just any old potato - not even the ones the supermarket are selling as "bakers" where only a handful out of a great big basket will produce the baked spuds we all dream of but so rarely find in the world.

Some autistic groups are troubled by predatory vicars trying to pick off the more vulnerable individuals, and it's always an idea to ask them what arrangements are made for baking and roasting in heaven generally - are Aga and Rayburn ranges provided for all, and if so, is there an allowance for coke to heat them with, or is it all gas and electric in heaven nowadays?

Stella

:grin:  :grin:  :grin:

Remember the old folk saying: "When Curebies are out, the vicar's about."


Stella

coo that's got me thinking of making some toffee apples, Amy!  :smile:

Stella

I didn't see that, no Amy. But I do nearly all of my shopping in my local Tesco Metro. I go there every day, and many of the staff know who I am, and I know who they are.

I know the layout of the store, so there isn't the fear of becoming hopelessly lost, and perhaps never finding the way back home, that you get with larger supermarkets and shopping precincts.

Stella