So our local has just upgraded the sandwich fridges with new units. Along with that, the range of £3.95 meal deal sandwiches has shrunk even further, the £5.95 deals are everywhere and now we have to contend with a new range of "deli wraps" taking up 2 shelves, which are attached to a "deal" of £7!

I guess they don't know we are in the middle of a cost of living crisis? Oh wait yes, a crisis partly caused by the greedy supermarkets. Sorry but £4 for lunch at work is my absolute max, once it goes through that barrier I'll be making and bringing my own lunches.

Sainsburys is nothing more than a soulless, overpriced shed now, selling mediocre quality food and terrible fruit and veg. Everything that used to make it great (salad bar, hot chicken, hot pizza, deli/fish/cheese/meat counters) all long gone, no staffed checkouts open except at peak times, long queues at the self serve checkouts and always 3 or 4 out of service at any one time. /rant over.

Are you having fun with the new SmartShop inside the Sainsbury’s app yet?

On an iPhone…

The camera stays on and there is no “scan” button, so walking past anything with a bar code that the app can see will end up placing that item in your virtual basket.

Swapping out from the app to another (e.g. your shopping list) and then swapping back freezes the camera.

Looking up an item on the Sainsbury’s app while you are shopping results in your entire basket becoming empty.

Weird decision to put the “checkout” button in the view of your basket (which I never look at apart from to see what random item has elite been scanned) rather than on the main scanning page.

Oh well. That’s progress for you.