Good Friday fun! From biiter personal experience, it was really scary having to prowl the aisles of my local Somerfield in person ;-)

Where Joe wrote: "some observers scratching their heads about what exactly had gone wrong", I though surely Sainsbury's know all about eggs and wouldn't put all of theirs in one basket. I certainly, from a business continuity perspective, would counsel separate data centres for 'warehousing' and 'customer records'.

They decided to bring IT back in-house from Accenture... look what happens! If they can't match the competence of the suited androids this is a sad position to be in. If the rest of the IT supporting the business is in this sort of state no wonder they are losing market share...

... that I'm not the developer who decided to drop the database instead of just merging it.

"Some are even reported to have left their houses in search of sustenance, after perusing Ray Mears' tips on foraging for food in modern Britain."

oooooo meeaow,shirley shum mishtake.

That's a Roadkill Readymeal(tm) featuring pressed hedgehog cutlets with a drizzle of heavy oil jus and a bottle of Chateau Ringroad Trampwee to go, cheers!

Now all we need is for them to charge correctly.

I put in my first Sainsburys' online order last week. It did turn up (prior to the server crash) - but a goodly number of the prices were wrong. They overcharged to the tune of nearly 10%.

Calling Sainsburys just got a response of "our computers are down"...

Whether or not they get a second go depends on how much they grovel when it comes to apologies...

"I put in my first Sainsburys' online order last week. It did turn up (prior to the server crash) - but a goodly number of the prices were wrong. They overcharged to the tune of nearly 10%."

Heh interesting, I walked around an old-school Sainsbury's the other day (usually order online, though I had no idea they were down) and noticed the price of just about everything had gone up - wonder if that's related.