question regarding Asda in Slough

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Does it have a post office?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 07:28 (twenty years ago)

don't know. you could 'phone them.

http://www.asda.co.uk/asda_corp/scripts/homePage.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0809928422.1143621232@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccfaddhfdgighmcfkfcfkjdgoodgjg.0&intCatOID=-9114&bodyNavPath=/scripts/stores/slMyStore.jsp&imgName=http://graphics.asda.com/ASDA_Corp/topNavImages/but008_off.gif&imgWelcome=http://graphics.asda.com/ASDA_Corp/topNavImages/welcome001.gif&NotToCache=1&FromPage=FromStoreSection&intShowLeftNav=1&intStoreId=4154

Store Address & Contact Details
Slough Supermarket,
Telford Drive
Slough,
EN - SL1 9LA

Telephone: 01753 524017
Fax : 01753 534670

Key Store Facilities

• The National Lottery
• Rotisserie
• Music and video
• Dry cleaners
• Curry Pot
• Clothing by George
• McDonalds
• Home Shopping (Selected areas only)

General Store Manager
Dermot Kelly

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 07:36 (twenty years ago)

I have got a mug from Slough Museum with a picture of Slough Post Office in the olden days on it.

I have only ever been to Tesco in Slough, and then only once.

Looks like car selling on The Apprentice is coming from Slough tonight, although perhaps I am getting ahead of myself there.

None of this is any help.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 07:37 (twenty years ago)

Thanks koogs for that. I searched for Reading using that link, as I know it has one there. But it didn't say, so I guess I'll have to go deh.

That car lot is about 300m from where I am rightnow.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 07:56 (twenty years ago)

Best thread ever.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 07:58 (twenty years ago)

There's a rather good Italian delicatessen next to the Waitrose in Thame.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 08:18 (twenty years ago)

We sometimes go to Sainsbury's in Taplow. It is not very good, but I think they have a stamp machine.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 08:25 (twenty years ago)

I might just go to Maidenhead.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 08:28 (twenty years ago)

A friend of mine played football fro Taplow United!

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 08:46 (twenty years ago)

my mum has told me that somewhere in windsor they sell off all the unused food supplied to the castle, which is all obviously v high quality stuff. whether this is true, where and when it happens i do not know.

as for post offices, there dont seem to be any post offices near the centre, or rather train station. in fact i cant remember ever seeing a centre of slough.

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 08:52 (twenty years ago)

If you want to post something, perhaps the whopping great sorting office in Slough would be your best bet. Not sure where it is though. Back of beyond, probably.

That is good, Markelby. There is an ancient burial mound there, along the lines of Sutton Hoo. Burial mounds for goalposts.

Cor, castle goodies!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:21 (twenty years ago)

I don't like Asda very much - I'll buy household stuff from there, but I never fancy the idea of any of the meat/fruit/veg - the stores never look very clean, somehow.

I am a Sainsbury's/Waitrose snob.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:31 (twenty years ago)

I once taught English to a supermarket bigwig from Spain, and he reckoned Asda perishables were by far and away the best.

He was a bit mental though.

I don't like Asda either.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:38 (twenty years ago)

It's tough to get into Slough and back from here.

Maidenhead always seems a bit quieter.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:41 (twenty years ago)

I went to Newbury for the first time the other week. Not food shopping though, so I can't comment on the standard or location or accessibility of its supermarkets.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:43 (twenty years ago)

ed told me in 2000 that asda won "supermarket butcher of the year" that year.

waitrose still exceeds all other supermarkets for me, including sainsburys and M&S (the latter i am mystified by - the ofod ive bought from there has been pretty sub-par, and yet is coupled with high prices and waitrose-level quality rep)

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:44 (twenty years ago)

http://www.waitrose.com/food_drink/foodexpertise/readymeals/steamatwaitrose.asp

These are dam nice. For Microwave food. Actually, by most standards.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:48 (twenty years ago)

I think it was morrisons, ambrose, not ASDA.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:51 (twenty years ago)

"Supermarket Butcher of the year"

They took over safeway, and BUTCHERED them!!!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:52 (twenty years ago)

I don't like Asda much either. I went to the one in Manchester once. It was also called Dales. The tins of tuna were spread across at least three different areas of the shop and I never went back.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:55 (twenty years ago)

I like Morrisons - a visit there is like going on holiday to a foreign country, because they have strange pies and things.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:55 (twenty years ago)

You'll love Lidl then.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 10:00 (twenty years ago)

dont start me on that...

ed, i remember it clearly and we were definitely in asda in rotherham! maybe you mislead me all thos years ago....

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 10:04 (twenty years ago)

I remember it being in the Hillsborough Barracks Morrisons. Anyway, we have Waitrose now.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 10:07 (twenty years ago)

are sainsbury's supposed to be posh then? i never knew.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 10:07 (twenty years ago)

The Stafferton Way sorting office (all new!) in Maidenhead is almost always supernaturally quiet. I go there for all my postage requirements.

Ken, we have had that conversation before, on the Early Doors thread.

I have been to Newbury too. There is a big Sainsbury's near the station, but I've never been inside.

Waitrose in Marlborough is, I think, some kind of ideal vision of supermarket poshness.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 10:11 (twenty years ago)

Sounds good then.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 10:21 (twenty years ago)

You'll love Lidl then.

three people recently have told me that lidl rocks. apparently its fruit and veg is excellent. i shall be checking it out. morrisons is very average (although the newlands branch in glasgow has an excellent fishmonger). sainsbury's has an over-inflated idea of its own importance.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 10:29 (twenty years ago)

Asda has the best men's clothes. Your local market has the best fruit and veg.

― Mike W (caek), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 11:44 (twenty years ago)

the stores never look very clean, somehow.

I'm glad I'm not the only person who notices this in Asda! I am a Sainsbury's snob by default (hate Tesco with a passion, find Waitrose too poncey, have never been to Morrisons, etc etc etc).

My local market in london has good fruit and veg in london is great, but the one oxford isn't all that, alas (though occasionally they have great things like mooli radish). Best fruit and veg supermarkt == Somerfield.

― permanent revolution (cis), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 12:33 (twenty years ago)

Cis is very sainsburys, somehow!

I have one ever been into asda once and that was near Plymouth so I like it by association.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 12:43 (twenty years ago)

Right on, guys! Wanna hit up the Red Lobster? Get some grub?

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 12:45 (twenty years ago)

Most depressing thread title ever.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 12:54 (twenty years ago)

The fruit and veg in Oxford covered market is indeed rubbish. Very, very expensive and poor range. Made up for by the fact that the fishmongers next door is DOPE.

― Mike W (caek), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:01 (twenty years ago)

I tht she meant the wednesday market? Which is rub for greens, but makes up for it YUMMY CHEAP CHEESE.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:08 (twenty years ago)

I have never been to Slough Sunday market, yet people say it is fantastic. At least I think they do, I just automatically stop listening.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:10 (twenty years ago)

Your local market has the best fruit and veg

sadly, it doesn't. the tomatoes kick 18 shades of ass, but the rest is limited. it also has very good fish, though. and superb sausages and ostrich burgers.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:12 (twenty years ago)

Also, it's rather an incorrect assumption that everybody has a local market. I think my nearest market is several miles away - either in Brixton or Tooting.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Maidenhead: It was nice.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:14 (twenty years ago)

yes, not everyone has a local market. As in: "Hello, is that my local swimming baths?", "I don't know, it depends where you're calling from."

― Mike W (caek), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:29 (twenty years ago)

The new Sainsbury's by the roundbaout is shooting up, isn't it?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:39 (twenty years ago)

What, like Peter Doherty?

(OK, so our pete only smokes. ..)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:45 (twenty years ago)

How many were shot?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:46 (twenty years ago)

roundbaout

what dialect is this? dorset bradfordian or summat?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:47 (twenty years ago)

All right, all right, you've had your fun.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:53 (twenty years ago)

.. in the land, of the sun"

SLOUGH!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:54 (twenty years ago)

I need to know more about the Sainsbury's Gun Massacre. I have to get something for supper on my way home from work tonight, and I need to be sure that I'm not going to get shot.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:02 (twenty years ago)

There is an ancient burial mound there, along the lines of Sutton Hoo. Burial mounds for goalposts.

Haha I was skimming, read this as "Burial mounds for goalkeepers" and was all wtf.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:05 (twenty years ago)

Well CJ, down here in Mont St Reatham we face that dilemma on a daily basis with Sainsbury's.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Streatham is a suburb of Basra now?

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:17 (twenty years ago)

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