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Reviews about Sainsbury's Local

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  2017-09-23, by Sara Collier
  As the 3 star review sugests 'its okay' - certainly very handy for picking up a snack to take into the cinema next door, a lunch deal or random grocery item. The major disadvantage is the teeny shop size meaning that at peak times it's just a bit too busy. Has both manned and self service tills, and a small bakery area.
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  2017-08-01, by Richard Curran
  It's Sainsbury's so most people know what to expect already, but you'll find that the selection is not great and in terms of comparisons the Tesco just a 100 meters away seems to pack in twice as much choice per square foot. One time I went there and realised I needed to check my bank balance so left the shop to use the ATM just outside - I was followed out and harassed by the security staff who must have thought I had run in to shoplift. The security staff member may have been doing what he believed to have been his job but I hadn't been near any shelves and his job is surely not to follow people out onto the street and harass them at an ATM. The self service tills are slower at counting coins, which is a frustrating waste of time and they use a trick forcing customers to go to the pay screen then hit back to take off discounts like 2 for 1s from the total bill. There seems to be too many members of staff given the sparsity of products, there is almost always one or another member of staff ceremoniously rearranging bottles on a shelf or getting in your way one way or another as you try to dodge them. There is a lot of room for improvement in this shop.
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  2017-06-15, by New One
  Went in and out this Sainsbury's a couple of times and got called a Packi!!!! for no giving money to the shops resident Jackie (coughs ) beggar. Its no if I was in and out of there in a flash sports car or wearing designer clothes. A lot of folk of all creds are struggling these days. . I was minding my own business when he turned on me for going about my own business , its funny how he does not level the same accusations at his own kind(or the way he sees that in his own narrow little mind ) who pass him by daily without a word or a penny day in day out. . I suppose a Bigot always needs an excuse and a scapegoat. He's sitting out in his blue top asking for coin then when he doesn't get any he singles me out for a bit of the old verbal puke . As the city is a lot more diverse these days I wouldn't be surprised if he was not pulling that old rancid chestnut on anyone of a certain colour who does not give him something. Supermarkets should take a firmer hand against those unfortunates who they let sit outside their store and how they conduct themselves with shoppers and passers by . Intimidating behaviour no doubt could have an effect on people shopping there if they feel they are going to be singled out for racist behaviour because of an irate white guy who's own community , government and society are a significant contributing , (the vast majority of whom are white)factor for his decrepit state of being. In addition to his own actions.