Greggs

I have to say, I truly don’t understand the appeal that Greggs seems to have for people. The office here is situated right above the local branch of Greggs – which helps when it comes to keeping the office warm, as they seem to keep the ovens on all day. However, come lunchtime the entire thing turns into a nightmare.

Basically, between about 11.30 and 2pm, there is always a queue of people wanting to get in to Greggs. And that’s what I don’t understand – rain or shine, there’s people queueing outside the shop to get their pasty / sandwich / cake / whatever. And because people seem genetically incapable of common sense, it means that this queue wavers all over the path – or generally just straight out from the shop doors in order to go across the entire path, rather than having any one person with enough IQ to think “Hmm, I might get in the way here, so why don’t I stand to the side, and make the queue form round a corner?”. WAY beyond the general capacity of a Greggs punter. In fact all they seem able to focus on is the word “pasty” or, at a push, “sausage roll”.

It’s not like Greggs are the only place – within easy distance there’s at least two other sandwich shops, and a “West Country Cornish Pasty” shop, whose stuff is infinitely better than Greggs. But no, the punters keep on going back to the same thing. It makes me wonder if Greggs are actually packing their pasties with crack, or something.

Who knows?