Yet another rant at Morrisons

Incidentally, is it store policy elsewhere to not actually bother asking for Saver cards? All the tills at my local store have an 'override' Saver card, which they seem to use for all transactions.

used to love the "scan and go" thing safeway used to have where you scanned your own stuff with a portable and put stuff in green boxes.

All gone now

According to a friend who used to work for Safeway, the Scan and Go system was failing to attract customers, and it was costing them money through general running/upkeep and customers forgetting to scan things (whether innocently or otherwise). Safeway apparently only kept running it to save face.

I use to work for Safeway when it launched Scan and Go all those years ago. We use to get loads of complaints from customers saying they wasn't trusted as on occasions when they finished the shopping, it would ask them to unpack what they scanned for a checkout operator to put their goods through the till. Unfortunately for some, it was happening one to many times.

Saver card? Didn't think they had those any more! The only places I know that have them now are Tesco and Sainsbury's.

Harry and Molly. Still have a fridge magnet of them. Amazing campaign.

http://www.somerfield.co.uk/site/saver/the_scheme.asp

What appears to be one of the last surviving Safeways in the country, that of Safeway Megastore Plymouth, is finally being Morrisons-inised.

The store still has it's bright, fresh, modern, Safeway signeage that was designed only 4 years ago, whilst the petrol station has now been rebranded to Morrisons

And it's complete ****e. The curvacious Safeway roadside petrol prices sign has been replaced with some thing, square, angular thing with a particularly naff looking yellow LED display to show the prices, meanwhile the pay @ pump facility has been removed - the 'bits' being covered over with a black perspex panel declaring 'Miles better value!'. The range of products inside the shop has gone into terminal decline, with the quite small kiosk now looking cavernous as Morrisons have severely rationalised the range.

Now they've got their hold on the petrol station, the main store cannot be far behind. I await the day when the bright, fresh, enticing images of fresh fruit and vegetables get replaced with black and yellow plastic stickers bearing the Morrisons monicker.

I've never been a fan of needlessly replacing brands (indeed, i utterly hate the way that TV channels feel the need to rebrand themselves every 3 years) but surely Morrisons have got to have noticed that the utter cack that they are bolting onto Safeway stores looks vastly inferior and older to the stuff they're taking down?

Over a year down the line, I'm still somewhat in shock at what is happening to Safeways, and I still disagree with the way that Morrisons are trying to pretend Safeway never existed so that their own tinpot brand can build, I still find it unbelievable that they claim their change is for the better even though everyone who ever shopped at Safeways knows that ranging and product quality has vastly deteroriated since Morrisons moved in, but if they are going to Morrisons-ise everything, they could at least have bothered to design a store image which looked at least as good as the one they are removing.

Every 'conversion to the Morrisons format' I've seen happen involves fitting signeage which looks like it was recovered from a store closed down in the early 80's, and removing half the product range in the name of making things 'clearer'.

I'm sure the Safeway takeover is the best thing ever to happen to WM Morrison, but it sure as hell is the worst thing ever to happen to people who shop at the stores they now own.

I defected to Tesco 6 months ago, and by God am I staying there - they're cheaper the Morrisons, and a damn sight better than Morrisons.

He's already explained.

I remember an ad for that Scan and Go thing years ago and another one about the blokes that worked at their deli.

How exactly did the Scan and Go work? Did you scan your stuff and then give the cash to a real person? If so, wasn't it incredibly pointless?

Oh and my local Safeway's just changed into a Morrisons.

At the end of your shop, you handed the scanner over at a mini checkout, who would then check (estimate what's in your trolley) and ask for payment.