Mace Sunnyside Store

Aargh this Mace really annoys me. Firstly it opened almost a month late, making those of us who were used to lurching one minute down the road to the independently owned shop in the same spot until then rather cross. Take your time in getting the shop how you like it, but don’t say you’re going to be open if you’re not. I wouldn’t have got out of bed for my tin of Coke otherwise, and having got dressed and come home empty-​handed am not happy.
Then, when they did open, there was, and still isn’t, no facility to pay by card. I realise this makes me sound like one of those rich annoying types waving a credit card around for a packet of chewing gum, but no, I only had six quid in the bank, couldn’t take it out of the ATM, and needed milk, fags and the paper. Heavens forbid if I’d needed tampons or something. (I would have said that in the shop too. Loudly. I have no shame.)
Then, the other day, I was so scundered in the shop I still shudder to think of it — although it wasn’t the sales assistants’ faults so I apologise for being grumpy. I woke up after night shift, staggered downstairs, flicked the kettle on, and nada. The leccy had run out. But so had my money. Remembering the policy of Centra on this matter, I scraped three quid together from the caverns of various bags and the piggy bank and tottered over, pillow-​haired, to get enough leccy to do me until the next day, glorious payday. Sorry, it’s a fiver minimum, the guy behind the counter said, forcing me to trail home again, very embarrassed, raid the piggy bank again, and give him a fiver’s worth of 5ps. And he was so nice to me I know he felt sorry for me. Oh the shame. Sort it out, Mace, why the freak can’t someone put three quid on a card rather than five? It’s lucky I only have a rabbit to look after and not a baby.
This shop has been open for weeks now and is still nowhere near fully stocked, not good enough for a chain store that must be ordering loads of stock every week. This Mace only sells mild cheddar in its cheese ‘section’, for example. Mild cheddar? What a tasteless waste of calories that is. You may as well eat lard with a spoon.