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The familiar names Foodtown and Woolworths will soon be a thing of the past as Progressive Enterprises, who owns these two supermarket brands, prepares to overhaul their image by choosing to retain only the Countdown brand and giving it a revamp.

This development calls for a Your Views topic! What do you think of the Countdown move? What annoys you about supermarket shopping? Now, at first look these questions are related - yes, they're both about supermarkets. However, the second question is quite unrelated to the news item and rather, specifically gives users the licence to begin moaning and groaning about the most everyday of activities!
In terms of responses, there are those who, ironically, take a "shopping list" approach to express their annoyance at supermarket shopping:

Daytripper (Hamilton)
Lots of things annoy me at the supermarket
1. Narrow isles - so sick of having to wait forever while someone dawdles around the supermarket
2. Constant wine sales - how about a food sale instead
3. Spend $70 at Pak n Save save 6 cents - spend $100's of dollars still only save 6 cents
4. Pak n Save Clarence Street Hamilton store, hot cooked chickens by the front entrance, even in foil bag completely stone cold by the time you get to the checkout.
5. No plastic bags at this checkout sign - Countdown - so what you can just grab a plastic bag at the next checkout on your way out.

Jesse's Poppa (Whangarei)
1: the unruly snotty nosed kids that are not under parental control.
2: the stupid people that use their trolleys to ram your ankles.
3: the ever annoying bloody music palyed in almost all stores.
4: the dozy pathetic drivers than can not park entirely within a parking space.
5: the lazy buggers that leave trolleys all over the car park and in particular and empty parking space.

And some choose to comment directly on the human condition:

Dan Hutchins (Newtown)
Lack of trolley edicate.

Tanz (Napier)
It's annoying when the checkout person is really slow and there is a long line waiting. Grrrrr makes me mad!

Bundi (Te Atatu South)
Arrogant, snotty nosed women who think they can leave their trolleys wherever they want in the aisle and stand at the shelves blocking the only access through. I love my trolley because it becomes as stock car and i just continue past ramming their trolley out of the way to the embarrassment of my wife and kids haha

And then toby enters the fray in an attempt to put things in to perspective:

toby (Hornby)
After reading some of the pathetic moaning on here I have to say:
Be thankful you can walk into a huge building full of food and goods and fill your trolley up with a mountain of them, and then book it up on credit!
Millions of poor/starving people the world over wake up every day and think "how am I going to feed my family today and where will I find enough food?"
So someone left their trolley in your way? Good grief, get a life.

To be fair, toby, moaning is exactly what was asked for by Your Views. Your fellow users were just responding to the question given, a question which specifically asked what "annoyed" people about supermarket shopping, not how they felt about supermarket shopping. We all love the opportunity for a good moan sometimes!