>>>>>Agreed. Here the supermarkets DO store info about your buying habits. It's useful if you wish to use their online grocery shopping, when they deliver it to your door. You can have a profile already built up for your shopping basket and just alter it accordingly. However I don't use the facility.
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>>>>So this is a brick-and-mortar(-and-pestle?) profile?
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>>>If I knew what you were on about I might be able to answer you. I was just saying I don't use their toilets - on-line.
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>>Well, you tell me. You said "built up" and "facility" - there's the context, so it must be a building, not ease of operation.
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>Guffaw!
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>I gleaned that after I sent my reply.
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>BTW I'm never sure which is the pestle and which is the mortar

I did look it up. It's like the soviets - which could be councils and/or the whole country at the same time. Mortar is the vessel in which the mortar is prepared. Just like cement is the powder that you mix with gravel to create cement.