Cheap as chips netto (Netto)

Member Name: gimmevodka

Product:	Netto
Date:	22/09/04 (138 review reads)
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Advantages: Cheap food, some good offers, cheap beer

Disadvantages: mouldy food, out of date stuff, no customer service skills

Hello Shoppers, Here we go on our shopping day to Netto. I hope you won't be disapointed with your trip.

Netto, for those of you who don't know, is one of those ever common, "cheap as chips/no frills" shops. A world away from those shoppers from "upmarket" tesco. Netto has been a saviour to me, in my poorer unemployed days. Living across the road from it must have been a deciding factor. Surely! !

Netto is a shop which takes very little pride is appearance, advertising or general customer satisfaction. They tend to cram as much items, food wise and whatever else is on special offer that week into the tiny eisles. Huge boxes left out by the shelf stackers causing a sometimes amusing obsticle course to manover your trolley around. Aleviate the bordom perhaps?. Items aren't in their usual place, like you'd find in "normal" supermarkets. More often than not you'll find something out of date or mouldy. Often i'd bought bread only to get it home and find it mouldy (at times finding out mid bite!). Staff obviously don't care. I even stood next to a shelf stacker, putting bacon ontop of other obviously well past it's best bacon already on sale. How much of a health hazard could that be to some unsuspecting old dear with shoddy eye sight who might buy that curled up, brown bacon!.

It doesn't sell every brand you'd usually expect to find, more often than not selling their own, unheard of brands. There are often queues weaving around the eisles, as 1 checkout is on out of a possible 5. You are expected to pay for your own carrier bags and have to learn to pack at breakneck speed as they throw your food past the scanner. Thankfully they've changed their policy at only accepting switch after you spend a tenner. Netto is the only place a carrier bag costs more than the baked beans.

Netto as a whole is fine for those days you're skint before payday. My advice to you is thoroughly check things for experation dates, and mould. Don't expect any smiles or general banter from the checkout staff, their either too busy chewing gum, or have failed the art of looking interested in their job.

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