I've done it at our local Asda before. Discovered the perks after nipping out for medicine for the kids one night. It was great over the Christmas period for those forgotten things on the list. Down side is, they're still stocking shelves so you may not always get what you'd hope to get. I've now discovered online shopping. No more queues or heavy bags anymore!
I do my shop at our local asda's at 4 am every friday morning back home for 5 and back in bed by alarm goes off at 7.
I have once shopped in Tesco at 2am in the morning as I woke up with an acute bout of cystitis and needed some on the shelf medication quickly.
The only drawback I can envisage to late night shopping trips is a personal safety issue.
It'll be packed now people will go there to do there shopping because you said it was quiet and It will be quiet in the day you have changed the way of the world what have you done
Life as we know it will never be the same again
Molly xx
I used to live backing on to one of them. They're an excellent idea if you don't go to bed early, you can shop entirely without screaming kids and elderly women trying to pay in farthings in front of you in the queue ;)
Disadvantages, safety might be one, but I can't see that it's any worse than coming back from the pub, for example. The only other problem is that there are usually no discounts and perishables can be a bit thin on the ground.
I always shop in the middle of the night... you can do it so much quicker. But you have to pick the time of the evening... the wrong time and there is nothing left on the shelves... bread especialy goes quickly. Once you work out the restock times of your local supermarket you can have fresh bread and zero queues... plus they usualy play nice music on the PA.
>>> I only opened this thread because I thought people were having sex in Tesco's
hehe never to late to start a new trend there Satin ;)
There's some good dogging to be had ion the car park at night !!!!!!!!!!!
I love going shopping late at night and have been a few times after going to cinema as Asda not too far from it. Always very safe at that time as well lit and you aprk right outside of the doors. You even have time to talk to real people as well at that time of night in there.
By 3 am my Tesco's is almost out of fresh fruit and veg.
One big reason for me going to Tesco's is when I arrange to meet up with someone and by 3 am the young male shop assistants have more of a chance to get away from me, so I can not see so many bending over.
TS
My husband (soon to be officially ex - just put in for my decree absolute) lives in Swindon and works in a car plant, he therefore works late shift every other week and finds the 24hr Tescos great. The hot deli sell off everything well cheap, he says.
I've been doing online shopping for as long as Tesco have, and it's the best. Spesh now I live miles from a supermarket. First started to use it when only had a motorcycle, so had to taxi to the store and back, even when I lived in Swindon, the store was only about 2 miles away, the taxi fare was more than the delivery charge for the online shopping.
It is a great help to disabled people and people in rural locations. I would be shafted if I could not buy everything via the net. Amazon cater for my books, DVDs vids etc, clothing from just about anywhere, alcohol - tesco or virgin wine, Reese gets his mushrooms from an online supplier, too. I love the 21st century.
Judy TV, just a little bit of info for you, Chorley Tesco has over 80 cctv cameras that are recording 24/7 so be careful if you go playing in there.
Horwich Tesco has over 200 cctv cameras in it, again all recording 24/7.
Chorley carpark may be a better idea or even try Blackpool Tesco as it has just been revamped and not yet have its full complement of cctv cameras fitted.......
Regards
Paul_Bolton
See you at Satins......
I work nights and used to shop at Tesco in Leytonstone. I think its the best time to shop especially between 4am and 6am. The shelves are stacked by then. I also had my first 'carpark action' there. It was quick but exciting...
I've popped around 11pm or 12am a few times, and it's certainly a change from the hectic daytime shopping - even if you do have to run the gamut of an army of kids restocking the shelves.
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The make-up which has its shutters down I can only think will be to discourage petty theft. Unless they saw you comming and didn't want you to buy the whole lot before anybody else has a chance.
as there have been a few times I've driven home after a hellish shift thinking "I could really do with a beer when I get in..." but knowing that the house was dry! 
they even played romantic music 
