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8:48am on Saturday, 29th November, 2025:
Anecdote
I was in Sainsbury's yesterday at about 11 in the morning. It was quite busy, despite this being a weekday.
At one point, a woman who was shopping with her late-teens daughter said to her: "No, I can't go up that aisle, there are too many people, I get anxious, you know I get anxious."
OK, that's fair enough. However, she followed it up with: "There ought to be a time of day when only a certain number of people are allowed in at once". She wasn't joking, she was annoyed.
Hmm. Well 2 in the morning would work, as there aren't many people in the store at that time anyway. I'm therefore guessing she meant some time more convenient to her.
I can see a reasonable argument for giving people who have medically-diagnosed anxiety disorders free home deliveries, but it takes a rather entitled view of the world to want the second-largest Sainsbury's in the country to shut its doors for an hour to all but a handful of customers in order to accommodate their feelings of nervousness.
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