This episode is a forensic breakdown of Sainsbury’s Local as a system, not a shop.

What’s sold as convenience is friction. What’s sold as efficiency is unpaid labour. What’s sold as design is psychological manipulation that fails the moment you’re tired, parenting, or in a hurry.

From hostile layouts and absent staff to self-checkout purgatory and inflated prices, this is a critique of how modern “local” supermarkets quietly disrespect time, dignity, and common sense.

This isn’t nostalgia. It’s not brand hate.

It’s a lived audit of consumer experience from the perspective of a father, a customer, and a human being who just wanted milk and left annoyed.

Includes an explicit comparison with Aldi, and why Aldi consistently wins on clarity, flow, and respect.

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Rickie Haywood-Williams sits down with Dope Black Dads to talk honestly about health, fatherhood, lifestyle changes and the NHS Healthy Choices Quiz.

In this episode, Rickie breaks down what life really looks like behind the microphone and the Instagram posts. Late nights, early mornings, family responsibilities, Liverpool stress, and the quiet signals from his body and mind that something had to change.

The NHS Healthy Choices Quiz is a free, five-minute quiz you can take online. It asks simple questions about your eating, movement, smoking or vaping, drinking, mental health and sleep. At the end, you get a score out of 10 and a plan with links to free NHS apps, tools and advice to help you take the first step.

Rickie shares his experience of taking the quiz, his reaction to seeing his results, the changes he has already started making, and why small, realistic shifts matter more than chasing perfection.

Watch if you want a straight conversation about midlife health, energy, mood and dad life.

Healthy Choices Quiz

Take the free five-minute NHS Healthy Choices Quiz here:

https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/healthy-choices-quiz/

Key topics in this episode

– Why Rickie wanted to support the NHS Healthy Choices Quiz campaign

– How work, late nights and stress show up in his body and mood

– The moment he realised he needed a more honest health check

– What it felt like to answer the quiz questions and see his score out of 10

– The plan he received and the first changes he has made

– How fatherhood, age and responsibility shift your motivation to stay healthy

– The version of himself his family sees at the end of the week

– Football, Liverpool and competition as a lens on health and identity

– Why he would recommend the Healthy Choices Quiz to friends and family

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What does a welcome home really feel like? with @MarvynHarrison https://www.youcanadopt.co.uk/blackadopters

In this special episode, we sit around the dinner table to talk honestly about adoption, family, culture, and belonging. Over food that reminds us of home, we explore what it means to create stability and love for Black and mixed-heritage children who are waiting the longest to be adopted in the UK.

This conversation is part of the You Can Adopt campaign and features lived experiences from adoptive parents within the Black community. We talk about food, identity, family reactions, myths around adoption, and how a home is built through care, consistency, and culture — not perfection.

This is not about having the perfect house.

It’s about creating a home where a child feels seen, protected, and chosen.

If you’ve ever quietly considered adoption, this conversation is an invitation to learn more.

Find out more at:

https://www.youcanadopt.co.uk/blackadopters

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