From: Ronald Raygun 
Subject: Re: Loyalty cards: has Tesco pinched Asda's Christmas?
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:41:17 GMT

Tumbleweed wrote:

> are you saying that Tesco is painfully full and Asda comfortably empty,
> because if so, isnt Asda in the best position having sold stuff? Or is it
> just that Tesco have better shelf stackers?

[Your quoting is broken]

No, no, when he says full/empty, I don't think he means the shelves of
goods, but the shops of people.  Surely the adverbs expressing pain and
comfort are to be taken from his point of view, i.e. it is a pain to
mill around a crowded shop but comfortable to dance around the aisles
when you can swing your cats.

His observations, though, don't hold true for my local T and A.  They're
mostly equally full.  There are much more important factors which affect
my choice of which one to patronise, such as whether they stock the
stuff I want, and the fact that one has speed bumps on the car park
access drive which are so vicious that I dare not buy eggs.