Nightmare shopping trip!

GrammaH

You're lucky to have a nearby Waitrose. For some reason, the owners don't see why those in our county deserve more than one, which is about 35 miles from us. I know some counties - Norfolk, for example - are very well blessed. The key thing must've been terrifying as I lost mine one day after shopping and couldn't find then anywhere, I was practically hysterical as it'd been one of those days...I forget where I found them now but it was the stupidest, most obvious place. As for Chelsea Tractors...!! Their drivers do think normal carpark rules don't apply to them. I can't understand why anyone not living somewhere with severely challenging road conditions would buy one purely to navigate the local supermarket car park and the school run. I see nobody on here has yet admitted to the challenges of parking such a beast in the local Waitrose car park at Christmas time.

Parked DH’s in the upstairs car park of our nearest Waitrose easily, didn’t obstruct any other vehicle.

I always try to park well away from the popular spaces nearest the entry doors, but doesn't matter where you park, some monster truck will come and stop right next you you.

ferry23

I'm intrigued as to which supermarket you usually go to where you don't need a pound coin? I thought they all do.

Most of ours don’t , only Lidl .

argymargy I have all those stores near me plus Asda, Aldi and Morrisons and only one that does not need a token is Asda. Apparently trolley locks if you try to take it outwith the car park perimeter hence no token/coin.

What a stressful experience you had but I think customer services would've given you a trolley token if you'd asked, Witzend and they'd probably have paiged the owner of the monster that blocked you in, if you'd given them the registration number. I have a couple of trolley tokens on my keyring. They are easy to come by.

Bazza

I feel your pain Witzend, but at least you didn’t lock your car keys inside the car as I once did. I won’t bore anyone with the details as I posted it when it happened. Didn’t your Waitrose have one of those plastic baskets on wheels which are very handy and no pound required.

No, they don’t have those wheelie baskets - local Asda does though.

I once locked keys in my car - or rather, it locked itself with my bag and keys inside it! I was at the local tip, phone in my bag, had to get one of the tip staff to phone dh at work, so I could get him to ring the AA.

I really thought AA man would think I’d done something utterly stupid, but no, he’d known of the same make of car self-locking before, and managed to get it open with no damage. Phew!

Imagine my joy when, amongst the discarded cracker presents left on the table, there was the key ring with the coin shaped thingummy for putting in trolleys. The gods were smiling on me this Christmas.

ferry23

I'm intrigued as to which supermarket you usually go to where you don't need a pound coin? I thought they all do.

My M&S does not

Most trollies require £1 coin??? I have a few tokens which I leave in my car

Ive had shopping days like this, everything seems to be a challenge, I'm always misplacing my keys and phone, however I only drive a mini but it has a wide door so with my bad back and dodgy knees its hell getting in and out the car no matter what size the car is next to me. I just think its supermarkets particularly more than car parks not considering the space required to open a car door. On some occasions I park furthest away with no one beside me and come out and somebody has thought of doing the same drives me potty.

Awful nightmare, thankfully you survived , you deserve a G and T or 2

Am I the only one who has found that sometimes the tokens don’t work in supermarket trolleys?

That would make a perfect comedy with the late great Victoria wood or dawn french
No need to go out for st least 24hrs now!
Telax

ferry23

I'm intrigued as to which supermarket you usually go to where you don't need a pound coin? I thought they all do.

Sainsbury at SavaCentre Hempstead Valley Gillingham Kent doesn't

Mojack26

Most trollies require £1 coin??? I have a few tokens which I leave in my car

No, they don't. I think I've only ever encountered one, within about 15 mile radius of where I live.