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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2014-01-11 12:36 pm

A Customer Who Doesn't Feel Cramped Is A Better Tempered Customer

Our Sainsbury's in Oldham is beautifully spacious- with lovely wide aisles. It gives you more elbow room and turning space than any supermarket we've visited down south. I presume this has a lot to do with the price of land. One takes note of such things when- like Ailz- one is driving a mobility scooter.

[identity profile] pondhopper.livejournal.com 2014-01-11 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
The very same thing I noticed about supermarkets and other shops when I had to take my mum shopping in her wheelchair.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2014-01-11 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Some stores are set up like obstacle courses- with piles of merchandise in the aisles. Ailz gets very cross.

[identity profile] splodgenoodles.livejournal.com 2014-01-11 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah! I love me a nice wide aisle. Since becoming a scooter user, I have also developed a deep and abiding love of concrete paving. Not paving stones, but lovely, wide, big expanses of concrete. No bumps!

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2014-01-12 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
Ailz hates cobble stones. You get them in a lot of old, historic, touristy cities. Cambridge was purgatory.