Service

[Cyber Controller]

Christ almighty, call yourself contractors? "I popped into M&S for a sandwich and the service was so poor" indeed. Come for lunch at Simpsons and meet some real contractors.

[OwlHoot]

You still get the service in Waitrose and John Lewis.

M&S are cheapskating these days - especially the one on Moorgate.

Same thing with Sainsbury - They're all chavving down to compete with their bogeyman Tescos.

Saisbury has been stocking less high-quality goods over the past year or so, and the other day I bought a box of what claimed to be blank DVDs at their branch in Cromwell Road, and on opening them kater found they were full of CDs.

[Fleetwood]

yacking away to some other checkout proll.

prole

[John Galt]

You were only buying a sandwich FFS! What do you expect? The red carpet, a personal shopper and someone to mop your brow during the transaction?

People are too demanding these days. Here's your sandwich now give me the money and f**k off!

So you think that expecting people who serve you to be polite and friendly is being demanding do you?

This just about sums up everything that is wrong with this country today. Shop staff seem to be of the opinion that they don't earn much so they don't need to put in any effort or even do the job that is expected of them. Everybody wants everything handed to them on a plate - we have bred a generation whose perpetual cry is 'it's not fair'. As a nation we are in debt up to our eyeballs because we are bombarded with adverts which tell us 'struggling with debt - never mind, have some more for longer so you can have that Carribean holiday that you can't afford and if it all goes tits up, don't worry there is a little know piece of Government legislation which means that you don't every have to take responsibility for your own lives'.

[eternalnomad]

You were only buying a sandwich FFS! What do you expect? The red carpet, a personal shopper and someone to mop your brow during the transaction?

No, but a small amount of common courtesy would be nice.

M&S Waterloo - terrible service by gormless spotty oinks
M&S Marylebone - generally much better service with the occasional please and thank you from the staff.

Perhaps it's all down to the local store manager the way they recruit and retain staff.

[Numptycorner]

Let's get this right, you went in one shop and one day and the service was sh1te ergo the decline of western civilisation.

[DimPrawn]

Doomed

[TheMonkey]

TheMonkey is Homer Simpson and I claim my £5!

Doh!

[bogeyman]

prole

Did you actually contribute anything other than snide little spelling and grammar corrections?

Please feel free to repond with some smug little bon mot as usual.

[Mustang]

Thin end of wedge

This thread is so spot on!!

Standards in this country are being eroded slowly but surely. More and more people are willing to accept 98% when they want 100% and before you know it standards start to noticeably slide.

As the make up of society is altered through imigration, so what it means to be British will change. What used to be a standard reaction/response, no longer becomes "standard". Society has allowed things to slide.

If people believe in something, then give the shop feedback. Request that someone acknowledges that standards are sliding. It seems the only thing we have retained as Brits is our desire not to make a fuss, to not complain when we are not happy with something.

If you are prepared to accept something then accept it, if you are not prepared to accept it then take some action. However, don't accpet the spotty kid serving you to understand your beef!!