Reading in another thread about Aldi and Lidl reminded me of our Lidl experience.
We normally shop in Tesco/Waitrose. Last year, on holiday in a strange town (as in strange to us, not strange) we just needed some shopping and found a Lidl. Keen to try, we got our stuff there.
Apart from a much reduced choice, we happily picked up all the usual things, not recognizing any labels. Bit like shopping abroad.
You get a feel for roughly how much your basket is going to cost, of course, so I had "about £30" in my head. So it was that well known Lidl surprise when it was twelve quid. I spent some time walking back to the car triple checking the receipt, which was correct. And the products were perfectly acceptable.
When we got home from the holiday we said how good the Lidl had been and so on - and immediately went back to shopping in Tesco and Waitrose. True, we don't have a Lidl, but we do have an Aldi, whose doors we have never darkened. No idea why though.
So, any products or habits you resolutely stick to even in the face of contrary evidence of others being as good/cheaper/more convenient?
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in some things yes. In most things its quality is guaranteed. Cant consistently get good ripe avocados anywhere else for example.
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Top tottie in Waitrose though. Jodhpurs often, muddy ones...
Pfnarr pfnarr...
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All the supermarket chains seem much the same to me. Some are better for some things, some for others, but they are all much of a muchness.
There's a terrific, very busy Tesco near us. Seldom seems worth going anywhere else. It's got a bakery and delicatessen counter.
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>> All the supermarket chains seem much the same to me.
There's a Lidl and a Waitrose in Woodley. I can only assume you've never been in a Lidl AC :)
(Not knocking it BTW - we use both, although do the main shop in Asda.)
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The Lidl in Woodley is just too small to be reliable in my experience, Fl. Every time I've popped in there for something, they haven't got it. Doesn't happen at the branches in Reading and Basingrad. The Reading Oxford Rd branch has recently doubled in size and is really good now.
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>> The Lidl in Woodley is just too small to be reliable in my experience, Fl.
>> Every time I've popped in there for something, they haven't got it.
Don't go in there that often TBH; if I'm after something in particular, I might pop in Waitrose and Iceland first as they're closer (when walking over from home near the bike shop).
So when I do go in, it tends to be for a browse as much as anything, because it is so different to Waitrose; variety is the spice of life etc. Mrs F tends not to go in as 'it's like being in Russia', not that she's ever been there of course :)
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I can assure Mrs Fl that Lidl is nothing like Russia, neither the Russia of today nor of the Soviet era, for entirely different reasons......... :-)
My Mum used to say the same until she actually took the plunge. Rarely shops anywhere else now, and she's the sort who used to moan that there wasn't a Waitrose near her in Wales.
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>> Mrs F tends not to go in as 'it's like being in Russia',<<
Now there's a woman I agree with!
Pat
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Lidl's own brand shampoo has the slogan "because you're worthless". ;-)
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>> Lidl's own brand shampoo has the slogan "because you're worthless". ;-)
They've sussed out where you bank?
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>> The Lidl in Woodley is just too small to be reliable in my experience, Fl.
>> Every time I've popped in there for something, they haven't got it. Doesn't happen at
>> the branches in Reading and Basingrad. The Reading Oxford Rd branch has recently doubled in
>> size and is really good now.
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Basingrad......BRILLIANT, just BRILLIANT.
I shall have an Hobgoblin now to celebrate. £1.25 for 500ml from
Lidl.
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Or Tesco. Same price. And they'd have brought it to your house.
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>> in some things yes. In most things its quality is guaranteed. Cant consistently get good
>> ripe avocados anywhere else for example.
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If you want to consume your avocados within 24 hours, it's probably the only place to buy them.
And their fish counter doesn't smell fishy, unlike some other supermarkets.
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Of the supermarkets, I support Sainsbury's wherever possible. My local store employs my daughter along with several others who might, shall we say, require special consideration from an employer.
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Macallan, I don't drink a great deal but when I do...
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When my wife was poorly I was sent by her to shop in Aldi and Sainsburys with a list of items to be purchased in each shop.
Quite a different experience in each it has to be said. In Aldi, first of all you had to put a coin in the trolley to use it ( goodness knows who would steal a shopping trolley but hey ho ) then after shopping and at the till they just sort of threw your items at you giving you no time to pack them. It didn't upset me as it appeared I wasn't being singled out for this bombardment, but it was a little bit of a surprise. Then they wouldn't take a credit card, which again wasn't a problem but seemed odd.
In Sainsburys there were some scouts or something willing to pack my bags in return for a donation, the trolleys weren't chained up and a nice Eastern European man cleaned my car for what I think was a reasonable price.
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>> ( goodness knows who would steal a shopping trolley but hey ho )
Not so much steal them as just use them to carry their shopping home, and not bother to take them back, There's a road near me that doubles as an unofficial Waitrose trolley park.
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Not so much steal them as just use them to carry their shopping home, and not bother to take them back.
Hmm, that's funny, because Tesco has a liveried van that carries my shopping home, then takes itself back. What's a trolley?
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Ah but does the driver wash your car?
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No, but he will unpack my shopping in the kitchen for me if I'm having a bad day....worth it's weight in gold.
Washing the cars is Ian's job!
Pat
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>> (goodness
>> knows who would steal a shopping trolley but hey ho )
A Sainsbury's trolley may or may not have been adapted for use as a barbecue grill at my student house many years ago. I don't blame Lidl and Aldi for chaining their trolleys up, especially on Reading Festival weekend. Waitrose in Caversham has to employ extra staff to recover their unchained trolleys from all over the place. The local Aldi and Lidl seem unafflicted. Which is odd, a quid to have one's 200 cans of apple-based alcoholic beverage wheeled to the vicinity of one's accommodation seems a bargain.
>> Then they
>> wouldn't take a credit card
Lidl and Aldi both now take Visa and MasterCard credit cards in the UK. This wasn't always the case, I know.
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>>.........require special consideration from an employer.
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It is worth supporting any employer who puts a little back into the local community.
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I do most of my meagre shopping at Aldi in Kendal, or the newly opened one in Bingley. Plus Asda in Keighley, Kendal & Shipley. Dead animal always comes from my local butcher. My local, supposedly upmarket Booths is hopeless. Slow service, two tier pricing, and boycotted by several friends. By two tier, I mean if you present your loyalty card a loaf of xxx bread is £1. No card, £1.50. Same applies to other products, and if you have a card, but don't have it on you, tough. The check out service is incredibly slow, I want to get served & away, not chat about fripperies whilst people queue behind. No self service either. I love the Aldi service. Put everything back into your trolley then pack it into your own bags on the full length counter behind the check outs or empty the trolley contents into the car. Simples. The sooner Booths is replaced by an other supermarket the better.
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If it's any consolation LL, their Distribution Centre in Preston is just the same.
Queue's of lorries all waiting to tip and they work at one speed.......slow!
Pat
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Queue's of lorries...
Looking for a home for your rejected apostrophe, Pat? Or is it just that we're discussing (green)grocers?
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Listen W de B, you're skating on thin ice there.
I've been in of these 'posh, high fallutin' meeting things all morning with people with titles where I had to pretend I had made the transition from lorry driver to management successfully.
No fag break for 4 hours???
Now I'm home, I'm back to my roots and in lorry driver mode so be warned.....:)
Pat
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>> 'posh, high fallutin' meeting things all morning with people with titles where I had to pretend I had made the transition from lorry driver to management successfully.
OOOH, ponce ponce...
'No, it isn't a mace, Lord Whassername, it's a tightening baton I use for securing loads and threatening annoying individuals.' (Spins baton like old New York policeman and briefly balances it on nose).
I'm sure you are an asset to all concerned Pat. Keep'em on their toes!
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Don't worry AC, once a lorry driver always a lorry driver.
Take note Mark, I think you have form there too!
Pat
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4 hour meeting? b***** amateurs.
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a 4 hour meeting
Sounds like somebody has meeting-itus. Perhaps 80% of all meetings I went to were a complete and utter waste of time. Basically served as a sounding board for those who liked their own voices.
Now defunct for fairly obvious reasons, but I was on the committee that decided the location of new TV relays as the BBC representative. We only met every six months but at least stuff was done. I was even able to use one meeting site as a stop off to the Prescott Hillclimb. Crown Castle had a big enough car park to take my Discovery towing a Morgan on a trailer, ensemble wasn't as long as a 40 tonner, but it was still quite some length. And yes, it provoke a car park inspection at the end of the meeting.
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>>BBC representative. We only met every six months but at least stuff was done
Stuff was done?
That's pretty damned unusual for meetings involving the BBC. Whether it was DSO, MUXservices, DTVSL or network ops, meetings involving the BBC have frequently caused me to lose the will to live for their puerile futility and coma inducing prevarication.
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I remember two of us rolling into BT for a meeting, expecting to be a small meeting, but they had 15 people there. One person was there specifically to take the notes and had no other role in the meeting, neither did the Chair - professional meeting Chairperson I guess. Don't recall achieving anything..
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OpenWorld meetings had to be the worst. Although Movio ran them a pretty close second.
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>> I remember two of us rolling into BT for a meeting, expecting to be a
>> small meeting, but they had 15 people there. One person was there specifically to take
>> the notes and had no other role in the meeting, neither did the Chair -
>> professional meeting Chairperson I guess. Don't recall achieving anything..
I remember one meeting at a japanese bank (a now discredited bank) where I was the Saleswomans ears and mouth.
The senior Jap would talk to me, I would pass the comment on to my saleswoman, she would reply to me and I would pass it back to the senior Jap. All in english, he wouldn't deal with a woman.
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>> The senior Jap would talk to me, I would pass the comment on to my
>> saleswoman, she would reply to me and I would pass it back to the senior
>> Jap. All in english, he wouldn't deal with a woman.
You'll probably get into trouble in a minute for use of the J word like that. Which means I shall be hanged, drawn and quarter for reposting this sketch no doubt.
youtu.be/Vc8tfioOKvU
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>> I shall be hanged, drawn and quarter for reposting this sketch no doubt.
>> youtu.be/Vc8tfioOKvU
Why? She's an entertaining old dolly.
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>> You'll probably get into trouble in a minute for use of the J word like
>> that.
Well people can try, its an abbreviation - nothing more. Do you get offended if someone refers to you as a "brit"? I dont.
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Maybe more so in the States, t seems, but perhaps it is here too. I dunno. None of my best friends are Japanese.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jap
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None of the Japanese people I have met could possibly be called 'Japs'. They are a tremendously civilized lot, far more so than we longnose devils are. Cool too.
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>> Maybe more so in the States, t seems, but perhaps it is here too. I
>> dunno. None of my best friends are Japanese.
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>> en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jap
Some people have got beyond the WW2 hatred syndrome
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What about the short form of Pakistani, though?
Instant condemnation from, well, you know who.
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It entirely depends on the context in which it is used.
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>> What about the short form of Pakistani, though?
>> Instant condemnation from, well, you know who.
Thing is though Roger, any casual racial epithet is going to offend someone, often with good reason, although there are people who make the most of it all and scream the place down for nothing.
Setting those aside though, I've found it sensible to avoid all expressions of that sort, even when sorely tempted to be rude. It can make people think you're a racist when you aren't really.
Except just a bit, hmmmm? It's dyed in the wool with us whites however vigorously we wash our hands. We have to be constantly alert, seems to me, or we will mislead people.
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Stuff was done?
Hard to believe but yes it was. Probably helped that everyone was a flavour of electrical engineer and no corporate dandies.
All us of knew people and strange on the face of it, favours were sometimes done. I did stuff for both NTL and Ofcom with BBC equipment but pretty well in my own time (evening). My boss at the time knew and had no problem with it as the BBC did eventually gain too.
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>> 4 hour meeting? b***** amateurs.
Heh heh... back in the day they used to go on all day, and carry on the next day too sometimes. I had to sit through a lot of them, listening to faffing marketing and advertising executives whose salaries, twice or three times mine at least, paid for their quite sharp suits, saying absolutely nothing of any value to man or beast but clearly feeling very chuffed with themselves.
Sometimes I wasn't grand enough to get to the whole meeting, but was just summoned to give my market researcher's take on whatever the faff was about. What I was able to tell them on short notice was often very sketchy, but that didn't matter as what I said was systematically misunderstood anyway.
I'm hardly exaggerating. I did meet a couple of good guys, with brains and not poncy, now and again.
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Meetings typically benefit when its members learn the difference between "listening" and "waiting to speak" and "saying something" versus "contributing".
One should apply the SFW test to every intended comment, and if it doesn't pass then don't make it.
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"Heh heh... back in the day they used to go on all day, and carry on the next day too sometimes."
Huh - that were nothing ........... OUR meetings used to go on for weeks - sometimes months; I had to excuse myself once to retax the car and check that the missus hadn't run off with anybody else.
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So glad you prioritised properly... :-)
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And Booths have never, ever, replied to several 'customer comments cards' which both myself & friends have left in the feedback box. Comments have been courteous & constructive, so no excuse.
W*****s!
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I've been known to tell them B******* when I've been in a hurry and in hindsight, I'm glad they didn't respond to that either:)Pat
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> Put everything back into your trolley then pack it into your own bags on the full length counter behind the check outs or empty the trolley contents into the car.
All supermarkets here have someone to pack your bags for you at the checkout. A tip of 20 - 30p is appropriate.
For a further 50p they will take it out to the car park and put it in your car.
For about £1 - £1.50 they will push the trolley to your house, within reason of course, put the bags inside and take the trolley back to the store.
Similarly we have very, very, few self-service petrol stations - Chileans don't like self-service. Your fuel is put in for you and the money / CC taken at your window. Having the windscreen cleaned and the oil/water checked while the fuel goes in is about 40p.
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>> All supermarkets here have someone to pack your bags for you at the checkout. A
>> tip of 20 - 30p is appropriate.
Local 24 hour Asda has decided to cut costs by not having *anyone* on tills before 8am. I was in there doing the weekly shop on Saturday and hit the till at about 7.45; it was a nightmare.
Basically the till, which is a big jobbie not like the normal single basket DIY variety, doesn't work very well. So you're always having to call the one assistant over who's trying to cover 5 or 6 tills and their increasingly disgruntled users. It was a joke, and I pointed that out when I filled in the online survey later.
Should really complain in person to the manager next time I'm in - thanks for reminding me.
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>>Local 24 hour Asda has decided to cut costs by not having *anyone* on tills before 8am
Just goes to show how horrendously price sensitive UK shoppers are.
What's minimum wage? About £7 isn't it? So probably a total cost of £8. How long does it take to pack a trolley of shopping into bags? 4 minutes?
So would I pay an extra 50p on my shopping bill to have no involvement in the packing process and stand idly by while someone else does it? Damn right. But it would appear that I am in the minority.
Ditto filling up my car. Would I pay someone else 50p to do it? Every time. But given that the UK is a country where fuel is priced to the 0.01p and people will drive miles and spend hours of their life to save .1p per litre, I don't think it'll happen anytime soon.
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No FM2R, I always appreciate the check out service when visiting the States. Somebody to pack the free paper carriers, although I always use my friends recycled plastic Dog food sacks which she turns into 'bags for life'. She is a wiz on the sewing machine, and I have one in my car now.
The very pretty Hispanic girls in Raleys are worth 50 cents to have them pack my bags, discuss my strange accent and where I live.
Sorry if that sounds sexist, but I'm a bloke...
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>>Similarly we have very, very, few self-service petrol stations - Chileans don't like self-service.
I lament the introduction of self service tills and I miss serviced petrol stations.
I never, as a mater of policy use a self service pump unless the station is otherwise closed and always seek out a cashier at a supermarket.
These automations put people out of work for no real advantage (the shops may make a little extra profit) and are a hassle and often take longer or don't work properly.
Give me a person to smile at and say "Good Moring" any time.
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>> I never, as a mater of policy use a self service pump
Where on earth do you find a manned pump in the uk?
Unless of course you mean a card payment pump? having had to pump the ruddy stuff myself, I might as well save myself the long walk to the queue at the cash desk and back.
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>> Where on earth do you find a manned pump in the uk?
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Incredibly rare but there is one near us. Quite popular, does charge a couple of pence more than the other petrol station. But plenty of people pay for it.
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>>But plenty of people pay for it.
Good. I wish sufficient people paid for it that it became an obvious sales advantage.
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>> Good. I wish sufficient people paid for it that it became an obvious sales advantage.
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I quite like going there for the novelty, if it's cold you don't even have to get out of the car. Just drop the window and push the money through the gap. Only small mind just space for 3 cars at a push. Just one diesel and one petrol pump.
Old fashioned pumps well, remember the ones with the white numbers on a black drum?
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>> I quite like going there for the novelty, if it's cold you don't even have
>> to get out of the car.
And you dont have to stomp around in the diesel slick left around the pump island, and then tread it into the carpet of your car.
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>> And you dont have to stomp around in the diesel slick left around the pump
>> island, and then tread it into the carpet of your car.
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It's got no 'roof' so another plus not having to get out, only downside is it's opening hours. It's not open past about 4pm during the week and noon on a sat.
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>>>> I never, as a mater of policy use a self service pump
Sorry - I meant one where you pay at the pump.
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>> >>>> I never, as a mater of policy use a self service pump
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>> Sorry - I meant one where you pay at the pump.
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Whyever not? A lot quicker than standing in a queue of people doing their shopping.
Don't go to France. Pay at the pump is pretty much the norm there.
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>Whyever not? A lot quicker than standing in a queue of people doing their shopping.
The last time I tried to pay at the pump there was a limit of £50 and my typical fillup was around £80. Last one was £60, yee-ha!
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>> >Whyever not? A lot quicker than standing in a queue of people doing their shopping.
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>> The last time I tried to pay at the pump there was a limit of
>> £50 and my typical fillup was around £80. Last one was £60, yee-ha!
Really? Paid at pump at tesco this morning* Limit per card transaction there is 90 quid.
*after a truly historic chile dog at the burger van in the B&Q car park.
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>Really? Paid at pump at tesco this morning* Limit per card transaction there is 90 quid.
I live in Basingstoke.
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>> >Really? Paid at pump at tesco this morning* Limit per card transaction there is 90
>> quid.
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>> I live in Basingstoke.
ah, yes of course.
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>> Where on earth do you find a manned pump in the uk?
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>> Unless of course you mean a card payment pump? having had to pump the ruddy
>> stuff myself, I might as well save myself the long walk to the queue at
>> the cash desk and back.
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The Shell station nearest to us, at Fontwell, offers a manned service on its forcourt. It's only available between 9 and 6 I think, but they've been doing it for well over a year. The chaps wear Shell branded clothing, so I presume it's a corporate rather than local initiative?
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I guess if they have them dressed as a builder, a policeman or a Native American next week you can figure out their target audience...
( jus' kiddin' Peter ! )
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If they employed young men I might be with you, so to speak, but actually it's older, semi retired gentleman that seem to be employed in that capacity... :p
The guys behind the till on the other hand... ;)
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>>These automations put people out of work for no real advantage (the shops may make a little extra profit)
I entirely agree. Although it is worthy of note that some of it may be the company wishing to make a bit more money, but equally it is the shopper worried about the last 5p on his £200 bill.
There is something about the mentality in the UK where the buying public will not pay for convenience or service. Cue half a dozen individuals saying that they will; In reality they won't, but irrespective of that the buying public as a whole will not.
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>>These automations put people out of work for no real advantage..
South Africa had a law banning self-service petrol pumps. It provided low skilled employment for quite a few folks.
Didn't do much driving last time I was there so I've no idea if it's still the case.
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I did have a bit of a downer on Sainsburys during my few weeks of domesticity. I always seemed to get stuck behind "Voucher Woman" at the tills.
Voucher Woman puts all her purchases on the conveyor belt, allows the checkout person to scan everything, takes flipping ages to pack everything in what appear to be specific bags depending on the nature of the product and then acts mildly surprised when invited to actually pay for the goods.
She then takes what to any normal human being, would be a most unreasonable amount of time to locate her wallet, wants to pay some of the bill in cash, some on a credit card, remembers she has a nectar card, which is inevitably in another wallet which must now be located, eventually completes the transaction and just when you think she is finally about to leave she remembers that she had some vouchers which would have entitled her to 49p off her £120 bill and asks if they could be taken into account retrospectively.
Voucher Woman completely fails to intuit that the till operative and the people in the queue behind her now want to kill her and makes no moves to escape and instead at best mutters a clearly insincere "sorry" while the 49p is refunded.
I did on a couple of occasions offer to give Voucher Woman the 49p or whatever it was to shove off but whether it was premeditated malice or ignorance of how infuriating she was was being, the offer was at least twice declined.
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>> "Voucher Woman" at the tills.
One of these days I'm going to ask the offending shopper why they leave locating their credit card, store card and other associated bumph until they have been through the checkout and packed their bags. Then it's a time wasting route around their shopping bag to locate their hand bag, another route around their hand bag to locate their purse, and so on.
I remove my various cards from my wallet before I join the queue. Why don't they do the same?
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I'm fairly sure she's the same one who having been to the kiosk to pay for her fuel, gets back into the car but doesn't actually set off and clear the access to the pump for what seems an age.
No, first the till receipt has to be studied, then put away carefully in the wallet, this in turn has to be put in the handbag. Still she doesn't move because the rear view mirror has now to be angled to check the lipstick, the phone has to be consulted in case anything riveting has appeared on facetweet in the time elapsed in the filling station, the seatbelt has to be fastened, the mirror re-positioned, the engine started, the make up re-checked and eventually the car lurches forward a couple of feet when something else is remembered, located, dealt with and at last the car moves.
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>I'm fairly sure she's the same one who having been to the kiosk to pay for her fuel,
The Shell station I used to use on Shinfield road in Reading had a groceries section. I haven't been there for a couple of years because of all the idiots who would leave their car blocking the pumps while they wandered around buying groceries.
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I do confess to the odd Snickers Duo being acquired in conjunction with diesel.
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>> One of these days I'm going to ask the offending shopper why they leave locating
>> their credit card, store card and other associated bumph until they have been through the
>> checkout and packed their bags.
Do let us know how it goes?
No! Wait!
Let me know where and when you are going to do it and I will make a point of being there to watch the fun.
Tell you what - I will even drive you to A & E afterwards.
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>I always seemed to get stuck behind "Voucher Woman" at the tills.
She was in Basingstoke last week. I called into Sainsburys for a few essentials and got stuck behind her at the checkout. She did everything you mention but then, after paying, she left her trolley blocking the checkout while she went to find the two kids that she'd left playing hide and seek amongst the aisles.
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I use the kiosk to pay for petrol but I often move the car off the pump before I do.
I had Voucher woman a few years ago. Woman with about 3 hundredweight of shopping. All passed through the checkout then her trolley left by the checkout so someone else had to move it out of the way while she walked off with her two squealing brats. I shouted at her to move it but she gave me a look of complete disdain and made her way out. Big mistake as it happened..no one messes with SuperTed.
Whilst packing my meagre pensioner's fare I notice a bunch of keys under a placky bag on the shopping landing pad. I quietly picked them up hidden under one of my items and dropped them quietly on the floor, kicking them under the till area.
Exiting, It was very satisfying to see her stood by an old Fiesta searching her bags and pockets. Pity it wasn't raining.
On reflection, I should have taken the keys out with me, put my stuff away, waited 'til she'd gone back in the shop and moved her car to somewhere else.
Up yours, Madam !
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Brilliant Ted. Unfortunately the CCTV could have caught you moving her car, so you acted correctly.
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>> Up yours, Madam !
>I remember now why she left the trolley..........in those days, there were checkouts which would only take the smaller and narrower trolleys. She couldn't pull the big one through after her and the lazy cow had no intention of pushing it back.
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Lidl stock more brands than do Aldi, where brands tend to be "special buys".
Currently Aldi, according to their email, are offering "Oust" room deodoriser for under a quid, so we''ll pick a few up tomorrow,.
BTW - earlier this week I found 200gm jars of Carte Noir instant coffee at Tesco for four quid a jar. (Normally around six and a half quid.)
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If you didn't buy the instant coffee you wouldn't need the room deodorizer.
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I'm the bottom burper in the house (unless Teddy the dog, a rescued greyhound owned by my daughter, is here for a visit).
I rarely drink coffee these days !
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>> If you didn't buy the instant coffee you wouldn't need the room deodorizer.
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Nothing wrong with the aroma of Carte Noire (Expresso). Quite pleasant, I find.
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>> >>.........require special consideration from an employer.
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>> It is worth supporting any employer who puts a little back into the local community.
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Agree, and that's one of the reasons I tend to do most of my shopping in Waitrose. I have a close friend who works in my local branch is going through an exceptionally rough period which will only get worse in the near term
They have been exceptionally accommodating and gone far beyond what anyone could rightly expect from an employer
They've also made donations through their charity giving scheme to activities such as scouts and local football teams which my kids participate in so any extra cost is well worth it to me - cheapest isn't always best.
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Not disagreeing, but cheapest is ALWAYS best if you're skint.
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Well, as someone who is not on a great income (well under the national average for both me & my wife combined), I/we shop carefully by necessity.
We ARE fortunate in having no mortgage or other debt, though.
I always research major buys carefully, but do like spending on things I want rather than need.
As an example I have just lashed out on 4 Global knives, a veggy peeler and a specialised three stone wet sharpener for them. I had a extra good deal on a damaged box set for three of the items, merely by engaging with the vendors by email.
I always shop around every year for insurances, broadband, utilities and so on and will swap at the drop of a hat if the saving is more than twenty quid or so.
I have also earned over 300 notes by swapping bank accounts, but have settled, for now, with the Halifax for the fiver a month loyalty bung,
We do occasionally shop in Tesco's, Sainsbury's and Morrison's and are always shattered, appalled and amazed at their prices, even for non-branded stuff like vegetables. As for brands - forget 'em UNLESS there is a clear quality advantage. For instance Aldi's brown sauce is horrid gloop, so today we will be buying HP as we need a few other items in Sainsbury's.
I suppose if we won the lottery our habits would change!
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The power of brands - R.P.
