No score

A few days ago, I paid my festive visit to the interior of the refurbished Sainsbury's at Kiln Lane, having decided that two boxes of beer would be straining the 5kg SWL of my own trolley.

Sainsbury's fairly busy inside, although not as busy as Waitrose seemed to be late yesterday afternoon, that is to say around 15:00 Sunday. Never seen the place so busy, but there had been a run on red grapefruit and I needed to top up. And their topping up had been efficient, as John West kippers were back on their shelf and I was able to buy two more tins against the planned boil-in-the-bag kipper fest. For which see reference 1.

The car park was fairly full, but not to the point of having to drive around waiting for someone to leave. I was impressed by the size of the car next door: clearly the Longmead Estate's take on the Chelsea tractor. According to carcheck, a 2023 Toyota Hilux Invincible X D-4D4WD DCB A. Price seems to depend a lot on both year and miles, but maybe £30,000. Not as much as I had thought.

And in the stack next to the car, a new-to-me trolley handle. Perhaps Sainsbury's call up hire trolleys for the busy season? In which case, one might have expected to see more of them.

I couldn't find anything about trolley hire at reference 2, but I did find a form to fill in about finding an abandoned trolley. In the TrolleyWise part of  360° service. I wonder how many people make use of it?

After due reflection, a no score day on my trolley front. In any event, I have more or less abandoned hope on the end-year target, splatted by the bad hip. And even if the hip could now take it, I am never going to make it from No.769 in the few days left after Christmas. And things had been looking so good for a few weeks. I had even planned my celebration menu at Cappdocia.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/12/a-tale-of-two-taverns.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/11/trolley-769.html.

Reference 3: https://www.cappadociaepsom.co.uk/.