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Astonishing what they've managed to cram into the place. And almost comically good humoured staff. But the rather unedifying hordes made it one of the most gymnastic gauntlets I've run in a shop in quite some time. I'm assuming the desperation to get one's hands on some mouth-wateringly ripe mango and impossibly-trimmed asparagus spears will subside in the days to come and it will soon become less of a challenge.

I disagree Chief. A 'snacky freebie' is always welcome.


If you happen to be on LL today, and don't mind a scrum, it's worth popping in for a sense of 'opening day fever'. There's a huddle of what look like M and S middle management convened on the pavement and the store itself is 'rammed', as Jeremy Corbyn would say.


Apparently expectant queues stretched down to the bank on the corner of Ashbourne Grove by the time they opened the doors this morning.

LondonMix Wrote:

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> taper Wrote:

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> > Oh happy day. Oh day of days. What's the

> > underpant section like?

>

>

> Its a Food Hall-- no clothes (or pants)


Oh no. But that's what I've been looking forward to for the last decade.

Haha-- its all for naught!


taper Wrote:

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> LondonMix Wrote:

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> > taper Wrote:

> >

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> > -----

> > > Oh happy day. Oh day of days. What's the

> > > underpant section like?

> >

> >

> > Its a Food Hall-- no clothes (or pants)

>

> Oh no. But that's what I've been looking forward

> to for the last decade.

derwentgrove Wrote:

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> Just back from my first visit to the new M & S

> Food Hall where I discovered that:

>

> 1. It was very busy indeed, having opened for the

> first time at 10am today. This was not helped by

> the average customer bringing 2.5 young children

> to share the opening day excitement. Hopefully

> this will drop off once it is appreciated that

> Percy Pigs are (wisely) not positioned near the

> tills.

>

> 2. The staff were friendly and helpful. I cannot

> recall being greeted with a cheery hello or handed

> a basket at the Co-Op or Sainsbury's before.

>

> 3. The range was good: plenty of dinner ideas but

> also a decent range of fruit & veg and other

> essentials.

>

> 4. The tills were working.

>

5. There was no sign of Louisa or Dulwich Fox picketing outside.

>

> I suspected they would do well but now I am pretty

> confident about that. I would take some convincing

> to return to the Co-Op ever again.







No. I wasn't there..


Foxy ;-)

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> titch juicy Wrote:

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> > That queue, or more to the point, the fact that

> > people are actually queuing, is hilarious.

>

>

> I'd say there's something sad about it. What are

> people expecting to find? Narnia?



Hilariously sad

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