Entries from Londonist tagged with 'sainsburys'
October 28, 2008
Clapham Sainsbury's is a nice enough place to do your weekend grocery shop. On Sunday, Clapham resident Neil took his girlfriend there to get a few bits. In their trolley they picked up a nice jar of cooking sauce, some bread, a small chicken and some Ariel Colour Liquitabs (good to see they're looking after their garments). Then, without warning, Neil suddenly burst into song, slightly distunefully, with an 'original' take of the Madness......
Continue Reading "Bread (tick), Ariel Colour Liquitabs (tick), Acapella Marriage Proposal (tick)"August 14, 2008
We all know that the Loony Line needs an upgrade, so what’s stopping them? Where not to eat in Leytonstone. A guard was shot and injured by an Enfield pensioner who wanted to try something new yesterday. A man was killed when a tree fell on his van at Clapham Common yesterday. One man was shot in both arms and another in the buttocks in an attack in Camberwell. The smuggler of £1 million......
Continue Reading "Extra, Extra"June 26, 2008
It's either a sign of Islington advancing or people getting priced out of their homes, depending on how you want to look at it. The Woolworths at Angel has been bought by the slightly posher Waitrose, with the change-over of shops to be complete by the end of the year. Waitrose manager Mark Price has said there has been great demand for one of the supermarkets in the area, and that those worried about......
Continue Reading "Angel's Woolworths to Waitrose Fairy Tale"June 13, 2008
In the mind-boggling case of the man killed by a punch in a fracas over a supermarket queue, a woman has been arrested following the detention earlier this week of a Tony Virasami, her partner. Antoinette Richardson is also to be charged with murder. It would seem that Richardson called Virasami (as you would a highly trained but mindless rottweiler) to come and take action after somebody pushed ahead of her at the tills. The......
Continue Reading "Supermarket killing: woman charged"April 16, 2008
O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! That would be the '20 per cent off' leg of lamb in the freezer section Hamlet is trying to defrost in time for Sunday lunch... And that's pretty much the kind of thing you can expect to bump into if you go to Supermarket Shakespeare in Lee Green this weekend and the beginning of next week. Teatro Vivo......
Continue Reading "Preview: Supermarket Shakespeare"March 16, 2008
This is what we have learned whilst you have been out buying Easter eggs whilst silently cursing the commerciality of it all: It’s been a weekend of protests and marches, ranging from the serious: a prayer vigil for Tibet and the Stop the War Coalition, to the verging-on-militant: cross BA pilots, to the jolly: St. Patrick’s Day stuff of course. It has emerged that bingo can be dangerous. Another weekend, another teenager: this one......
Continue Reading "Weekend Round-Up"January 10, 2008
Now Londonist, who has a very good friend who is a shopkeeper, would love to run a ‘how are the mighty fallen’ story around this tale of Sainsburys’ shortcomings and the evils of the food giants. But we thought we’d try something new today…. Not that we are planning to endorse the supermarket ethos in any form, shape or size. Nor are we going to attempt to defend the big orange one. Selling out of......
Continue Reading "They’re All As Bad As Each Other…"