never any mist around when you need it

The nearest shop has undergone a few mild refits during the fifteen years and six months for which it has been the default go-to shop when not attempting to find something too obscure for its limited shelf-space or to be more ethical. Most of the refits have involved relatively minor changes to the placement of the tills and the fag-kiosk but the latest overhaul appears to have resulted in slightly lower ceilings, considerably brighter lighting, slightly higher shelves and an average of 25% less space in each aisle, not a particularly sensible move in a shop predominantly shopped at by rucksack-toting students and rucksack-toting people on the way home from work and trolley-wielding grannies and lazy bastards. Despite the vegetable section now no longer having the main staffed-checkout queue drifting through it there's still far less space and also far fewer sorts of vegetable and not as much room for as many layers of boxes of apples as there used to be for when the upper layer has been irredeemably bruised by having another boxful tipped into them by a lazy stacker. There seems to be significantly more space given over to things like pet food and pet shite-retrieval systems, though it's possible that they're just more noticeable in their new location and that I'd learnt to avoid the section where they used to be. The breadcake section is still in the same place but now has about a third of the shelf space and half the previous aisle-width; I found some muffins in another branch yesterday so didn't check to see if there's still a space for them but it seems unlikely and on the whole the adjustments are generally not improvements, especially when the entire shop was full of people who didn't seem to be able to grasp the concept of leaving a gap when a queue spans two sections of an aisle so that people can still move around the shop as freely as possible given the inability of people with trolleys to notice the large queues of people building up behind them in the absence of sufficient space to overtake.