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Primani

Primani…. a place where women revert to their primeval instincts. In Primark anything goes, it’s like another world, a modern day journey to the heart of darkness. You walk through the doors in a good mood; it’s a sunny day and you’ve been shopping. But once you get through those doors everything changes. It’s an [...]

Pedestrian Rage

Dear Ambling Pedestrians, Why is it certain people don’t understand the meaning of haste? When I’m walking through town I generally have a goal of where I need to go. To a meeting, work, home, to catch a bus. It makes life far simpler if you know where you’re going when you head out of [...]

Unsurprisingly, they gave me a refund…

Dear sir/madam, On 06/05/09 I purchased some clothes from one of your stores at the Highcross shopping centre in Leicester. I purchased five items on this occasion and returned one of those items later as it was faulty. Unfortunately, I was charged twice for one of the items I had purchased. I had a 15% [...]

Christmas Food Shopping

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I hate food shopping, in fact I have a tendency to get bored to the point that I really do not care if we miss half the items on the list, I just want to go home! So you can imagine how I felt about the Christmas food shop I had been avoiding for two [...]

A cheerful complaint about Walthamstow’s Asda

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Dear Walthamstow Asda, I’m not an angry woman. I like to think of myself as patient and tolerant – I used to teach eight year olds for God’s sake, and they’re bloody irritating. So little things tend not to aggravate me too much, least of all a shopping expedition to the local supermarket. What could [...]

Abusive Shop Assistant

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Dear Madam, Today I purchased 5 metres of Velcro from your shop and feel the need to write to you to explain why I will not be doing any more business with you. I am an Art teacher. Tomorrow we are putting up our annual exhibition. The Velcro will be used on the backs of [...]

Sainsbury Self Service Checkouts

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I would like to complain about the introduction of more and more self service checkouts in my local sainsbury store in Islington. There used to be a fast service area for baskets only with one queue for about 1 or more checkouts which moved very quickly and efficiently. This whole area and more of the [...]