Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Letter

I often get annoyed about things. Somethings things that I get particularly annoyed about are evil and injustice. There is one thing that I find even more annoying and sickening than these. This is the Oadby branch of Sainsburys, located just down the road from my school.

As far as I can tell there are two ways to deal with my beefs with Sainsburys. One is to go there a night, put the sore on the back of a lorry, drive it to the coast, and throw it into the sea. Another is to write an angry letter. I prefer the latter.

This meant that one day, when me and my friend were stopped from entering the shop my immediate response was to write a letter. A rather offensive letter. I then planned to hand it to the customer service desk for them to give it to the manager.

Unfortunately, I am an utter prick and I accidentally gave it to the manager himself (the man who had come up with the idea of not letting people enter) who then read it in front of me and then spoke bollocks about why it had been done for a very long time whilst I stood in embarrassment and hoped the ground would open up and swallow something, providing enough of a distraction for me to run away.

Here is that letter:


Dear Sir/Madam


As a regular customer at your supermarket I was absolutely outraged to find that, on a recent visit, I was prevented by a rather large and threatening man from entering your store. This was because there were already three young people inside of the building. This is unacceptable for many reasons, not least that our lunch breaks are not long enough for us to be stood outside waiting for people to finish shopping.

Whilst I am almost certain that this oppressive and controlling stunt will probably have huge implications on your shops profits (in my opinion stopping young people from entering a store that is within walking distance from a large college is moronic at best) what I find most puzzling, and frankly offensive, is that people, like my friends and I, are stopped from entering the shop even though we are all old enough to have left education, moved into our own houses and have started a family, all completely legally. It seems utterly absurd that a person who could have done all of these thing should be restricted from buying lunch.

That fact that we are prevented from entering your store purely because we have decide to continue our education at a higher level (something that the person who came up with this tyrannical idea obviously did not do) both sickens and infuriates me. It seems that problems of racism and sexism are no longer what society has to deal with but ageism and discrimination against people who have made the choice to continue education instead.

Personally, my family have shopped at branches of Sainsburys all over this fair country for generations and I have been brought up to believe that as a store Sainsburys is not only the best but it should be respected and trusted. Where ever my family are we will always go out of our way to shop at a Sainsburys supermarket instead of any other. However, the disgusting way in which I have been treated at your store recently has forced me to very seriously consider taking my custom elsewhere.

Yours appalled,



Joe Pick

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