Customer disservice

In a previous post last October, I mentioned the opening of a Carrefour store on Skopelos, with a wider range of stock and sensible prices. Well, it didn’t take long to fail to live up to expectations! A visit on any day of the week will find the shelves half stocked or completely empty, whether due to lack of deliveries or slowness at refilling the spaces – who knows?
A couple of recent episodes have made my mind up that I won’t bother shopping there again. There are only two checkouts in the store and seldom are they open together. The other day there must have been a queue of at least eight people, all with trolleys or heavily laden baskets but still they only had the small checkout open with hardly any room for trolleys to get through. The other checkout was being used, but only to cash up! Some people gave up altogether and just left the shop and I can’t say I blame them. The second occasion was last week. I’d gone in with junior to get a few essentials (not that I found half of them!) and when I got to the till she scanned the things through, stopping when she got to the tinfoil and telling me as it wouldn’t scan I’d have to get another. I left junior by the till and traipsed off to get another tinfoil. On returning, she scanned it but it also failed to go through, whereupon she shrugged her shoulders, told me the computer wasn’t working and then placed the tinfoil behind her! We left the shop with me vowing never to go in again and heading straight for Supermarket Skopelos where you can always find what you’re looking for and they don’t have to rely on a computer to tell them the prices!
Now I’ve got that off my chest just a quick line to say that things may be looking up but I’m not going in to details until everything is settled