{"id":783,"date":"2008-12-10T03:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larelle.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/10\/asda-lutons-improvements-and-little-booze-lost"},"modified":"2008-12-10T03:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T03:32:00","slug":"asda-lutons-improvements-and-little-booze-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/?p=783","title":{"rendered":"ASDA Luton&#8217;s Improvements and Little Booze Lost."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    For five years now, the ASDA store in Luton has been our local supermarket. When we still had a car it was easy for us to go elsewhere and we more often than not shopped at Morrisons or even other ASDA stores instead of our own.<\/p>\n<p \/>Without a car we&#8217;ve had little choice but to shop there. Most of the time we just couldn&#8217;t face it and would shop with ASDA online instead. Especially for out main fortnightly shop.<\/p>\n<p \/>Luton&#8217;s ASDA was always cramped, lacking in certain items and was just generally an unpleasant shopping experience. Early in the Autumn, the store began an expansion. It made shopping a little inconvenient at times. And at one point the store was closed completely for an EXCRUCIATING 90 hours!<\/p>\n<p \/>But for the last few weeks the store has been finished and fully operational again. I got to see the completed work for the first time today. Wow! What an improvement! A store you finally want to shop in! The isles have been widened and better stocked. There&#8217;s now a small pharmacy inside. It was just a muc<\/p>\n<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Media_http2bpblogspot_kipbf\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/larelle.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/media_http2bpblogspot_kipbf-scaled500.jpg?w=98\" width=\"98\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>h more pleasant shopping experience. You didn&#8217;t feel rushed. The store felt roomy. You didn&#8217;t feel pushed for time&#8230;it was FAB!<\/p>\n<p \/>We did a stop-gap shop there. We filled up two &#8220;old grey-haired lady&#8221; shopping trolleys with stuff from the store. A good list of items for just a tad over &pound;50 that&#8217;ll see us through probably until the end of next week. It was good.<\/p>\n<p \/>We caught the bus home as we had a lot of stuff (even though we&#8217;re only 10 mins from the shop &#8211; Em would&#8217;ve walked, but it&#8217;s a big hill for me). As we were walking from the bus stop, just before the corner to our street, I heard crying &#8211; not sobbing &#8211; but sort of like yelling. At first, I thought it was a kid, I stopped and looked behind me and there was a cat, running to me, meowing at the top of its lungs! It ran up to me and was just looking up at me meowing so loudly. I bent down and patted it. Then as I went to walk off, it started following me! We encouraged it to follow us. All the way it was meowing. Poor little thing!<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Media_http1bpblogspot_gcajy\" height=\"195\" src=\"http:\/\/larelle.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/media_http1bpblogspot_gcajy-scaled500.jpg?w=200\" width=\"200\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>So we got home with little &#8220;Heart-breaker&#8221; in tow. Em gave her a bit of Chris&#8217;s food and she stayed around, all the time meowing really vocally. We locked Chris away in the bedroom and were trying to console Heart-breaker. She spent the next 4 hours hanging around, meowing really loudly through the door when she was locked out. I was REALLY starting to get worried. Em even took a walk down to the newsagents to see if there were any lost cat notices in the window, to no avail. Eventually poor Heart-breaker seemed to disappear. Hope she&#8217;s okay and found her way home, wherever it is?!<br \/>She just appeared from nowhere when I first saw her!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"posterous_download_image\" src=\"\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For five years now, the ASDA store in Luton has been our local supermarket. When we still had a car it was easy for us to go elsewhere and we more often than not shopped at Morrisons or even other ASDA stores instead of our own. 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