The store was surprisingly empty for a weekday morning. I parked the car, grabbed my white recycled nylon tote bag stuffed with the Ziplocs and, as it turned out, thankfully, put my phone and car keys in my pocket. And since I was fed up with every small dish in the house being filled with piles of 20p and 50p pieces, I headed off with several Ziploc bags full. However, I remembered that the store had one of those machines that take your loose coins to exchange for crisp paper notes. When I had children living at home, we shopped at the superstore weekly, but these days we need much less, so most of our groceries are purchased via local stores, the farmers’ market and the occasional delivery. I confess I hadn’t been a regular visitor to my local Sainsbury’s, in Ladbroke Grove, for some time. Because, after losing my handbag in the store, I’d just discovered staff had allowed a complete stranger to walk off with it - complete with my wallet, bank cards and address - and, worse, without taking her details writes ALEXANDRA SHULMAN I had good reason to be stressed and furious.
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