Shops and SupermarketsI used to work in a supermarket where the girl on the deli counter cut off the top of her finger in the meat slicer, but was made to finish her shift before going to hospital. You can now pay £100 to shoot zombies in the store's empty shell, haunted by poor dead nine-finger deli girl. Tell us your tales of the old retail experience, from either side of the counter
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 10 May 2012, 13:50)
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A cheap shop with a quite astonishing sound system.Just before xmas, a few years ago I was in a branch of Dunnes. I don't know how widespread Dunnes is - it has a few branches here in West Yorkshire and as a rather discerning shopper it's not usually my first choice. It's basically a seconds shop, masquerading as a not quite M&S.
I don't remember why I was there - possibly socks or grots which are good value - but as I walked through the door the in-store PA was playing some plinky plonky "Ha Ha Santa Claus, Tra La Santa Claus" wank. Seasonal par for the course.
Then there was a crunch, a bit of crackly noise, and then "Won't get fooled again" on the PA.
At an astonishing volume and clarity. I love The Who anyway and retrospectively I was only 9 miles away from the site of the recording of "Live at Leeds." Most astonishing was the clarity of sound. Every single coathanger was vibrating, this was at teeth-bounce sphincter troubling volume.
It didn't last. Old ladies fled, gum chewing chavs dropped their slack jaws by a further 15 degrees and after about two minutes of full Who noise there was a further sound of a scuffle, a desolate interregnum and a reversion to the seasonal shite at rather more palatable volume.
By hell it was good while it lasted though.
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The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Tue 15 May 2012, 19:49,
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Excellent!can't stand bloody Xmas in store tunes.
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Any time The Who plays, I *click*(
BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Tue 15 May 2012, 20:50,
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Dunnes is an Irish chain.Though they seem to have a few branches dotted around Britain. Did they buy some of the C&A sites?
Their main claim to fame is to have bribed Charlie Haughey.
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When exactly is Pete Townshend's book coming out?(, Tue 15 May 2012, 20:56, closed)
Kevin Bridges said it bestOn an economic scale Dunnes is somewhere between Primark and Shoplifting.
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interregnum is a delicious word(
Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Wed 16 May 2012, 6:02,
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I have the image of a store worker, after three solid weeks of brain-dribbling inanity from the PA, finally cracking(, Wed 16 May 2012, 11:29, closed)
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