Should we all shop at Asda for the next few months?

I like the posher ones, too, in the chilled section.

Piccolo tomatoes, with a garnish of basil.

It's one of my favourite things to eat.
Heinz tomato soup. Lovely!!

I love Heinz tomato soup with cheese on toast

What kind of soup will it be?
Homemade Soup of the Day, maybe.
Tinned cream of chicken or tomato soup, or anything like that, no.
I'm fussy about soup. The tinned cr** is full of salt and sugar.

It does not matter why Asda are doing it.
If it helps people, it’s doing good.

Maybe. I am being cynical and maybe Asda are doing this as a massive act of philanthropy. I would believe that if it were free. I haven’t got anything against Asda. I don’t shop there and my one experience of the cafe was not a good one. Good luck to those who like it.

Some really unkind and cynical thoughts of one's fellow man here. Sad........

I doubt their £1 offering will be heavy on the animal products.

Perhaps their vegan/ vegetarian selection isn’t up to par for some people.

There is well over a years wait for our community run (age uk?) lunch club, so maybe people will go to Asda instead.

It's about four miles away, though.

I think it's a brilliant idea.

Loneliness and isolation kill, just as much as physical issues.

It will be taken up by the comfortably-off, like my neighbours, (ex-vice chancellor) who deliberately did some shopping at Waitrose specially to collect their free copy of the Guardian and their free coffee, bringing their very own insulated mugs, (no cafe) so they could take it away.

They’re also running a ‘Community Cuppa’ scheme with reserved areas between 2 and 6 for community groups to meet, free tea and coffee.

I used to live not far from an Asda with a cafe, but I've moved!!!
I unlike many on this thread found their customer services wonderful. They changed goods, refunded money and used to give you a gift card if you'd had something faulty. When I did an on-line Christmas order one year (far too heavy for me to carry) the bags it came in smelt terrible. Two men came round to see them, took one smell and apologised. They took away the shopping and returned a little while later with replacements, gave me my shopping free, and had some flowers for me. They said they had hired extra vans to cope with Christmas deliveries and the one with mine must have been faulty.
The clothes at George are good as well.

YorkLady

Asda do an over 60’s discount??
I never knew this. How do you get it?

Go on a Wednesday.

Our nearest asdaz doesn't have a cafe and I'm not over 60 but is it worth pointing out their essentials range? Even their normal soup is only 50p a tin but

groceries.asda.com/product/tinned-soup/just-essentials-by-asda-vegetable-soup/1000383113774

groceries.asda.com/product/wholemeal-seeded-rolls/just-essentials-by-asda-6-wholemeal-rolls/1000383106098?&cmpid=ppc-_-ghs-_--_-google-_--_-dskwid-92700072428828020_dc&s_kwcid=AL!11432!3!614369220175!!!u!295481011413!&gclid=Cj0KCQjw4omaBhDqARIsADXULuXnVIvI74sIR-_IeeEejHLlikTmR0B58fHHs5K-CjJEEBL8fUuXglwaAsfaEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

groceries.asda.com/search/just%20essentials

Our Asda café (sadly now a Costa) is actually quite pleasant and the coffee etc used to be a bargain there.

Excellent point Gnw
I know that we actually won’t be going anywhere.

I’ll certainly be giving it a go in our nearest Asda cafe. I think it will be in big demand. The only niggle I have is that by Nov/Dec , if covid numbers continue to rise, it might not be a healthy environment for large groups of seniors to congregate for a few hours.

Oh, I see that I’ve repeated other’s comments.
Good

vegansrock

Can’t imagine anything worse than sitting in a garishly lit, noisy supermarket at a wobbly plastic table with an ultra processed watery soup and slice of pappy white bread for an afternoon.

That’s as harsh as supermarket lighting vegansrock

And you also have a rather poor imagination.
Let’s try this scenario for starters:
Freezing cold house;
no company whatsoever;
nothing in the house to eat, or nothing that will warm you up.

Asda do an over 60’s discount??
I never knew this. How do you get it?

Whilst it's a "no" from me, they already do over 60s discount and give free Ella's baby food pouches to infants under 18 months old and have a children eat for £1 offer.
This is just another offer.

It will suit lots of people I've no doubt - and as someone said earlier, it's likely to be warm and somewhere to go to simply change the scenery for an hour or two. I don't despise people for wanting to try it.
Anything that helps some people feel more human can't be all bad in .y opinion.

Couldn't agree more. Just not necessary to be so harsh. If it helps others why does it bother you?

It is no doubt a marketing strategy to draw customers in store. I'm not a fan of Asda despite it being my nearest Supermarket. I did shop there sometimes a couple of years ago, on one occasion I wanted a bag of frozen Yorkshire puddings - I know, they're easy to make so don't slate me - reached into the freezer cabinet and the whole batch was defrosted. I picked one bag out and took it to Customers services explaining what I had discovered and they weren't interested. Stopped shopping there after that.

vegansrock

Can’t imagine anything worse than sitting in a garishly lit, noisy supermarket at a wobbly plastic table with an ultra processed watery soup and slice of pappy white bread for an afternoon.

I can. Where shall we start?
Because of disability not being able to get to this awful place ?
Some of the bloody attitudes on here really really piss me off ?