TWOCHOICEStom
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The best part about that is the "Ripen at home" part! They should be called "False economy, Under-ripe Necatarines".
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What is the worst offer a major brand has tried to get your business with?
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The best part about that is the "Ripen at home" part! They should be called "False economy, Under-ripe Necatarines".
I will never buy cola that isn't proper Coke - the rest are foul. Bar that, I'm with you.
Sainsburys classic actually used to be better IMHO. Then they released a "new improved flavour" and now it tastes foul!
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,198
At a guess I'd say Virgin Media. But as they've made the mistake of printing their name on the outside of the envelopes that arrive every other day, said envelopes can be safely deposited in the bin unopened.
Codner pharmaceuticals
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With you here except own brand Nutella. Don't do it.
You obviously haven't tried the Lidl stuff - exactly the same!
Cian
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Great timing of the thread. Earlier in the week I ordered a pair of smart shoes from ASOS and today they turned up. In the bag was what you'd expect - The normal paperwork and the shoes. However, there was an added item.
A box of Jacobs Crispbreads.
Naturally I assumed that some mental case had been inserting his packed lunch in to the bags, but turns out that I was not the only person to receive them as a gift. It's the first time I'd ordered from then so I'm not sure if this is a one-off thing, or if it always happens but I have literally no idea why Crackers would persuade me to buy clothes more often.
The company I buy RAM and hard disks off for work has a habit of firing bags of haribo in with orders.
I'm sure I'd appreciate it more if the office wasn't already swimming in haribo that we give out to kids at events...
My kids love the Aldi version.
Geestar
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'Free drinks tomorrow'Pubs offer free pint glasses
drew
Drew
Never watch the programme so wouldn't know. However, I suspect there are plenty of bellends that get rich on what everyone buys. Shareholders of a company don't have a bearing on what I buy. Digestive and ice cold milk, beautiful.
TWOCHOICEStom
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You've just reminded me of a story back when I worked at Sainsbury's as a wee lad.
I worked on the fruit and veg section - every day we'd mark down stuff which was going out of date. Later on in the evening it gets silly. We'd reduce everything to 5p just to get it out of the store. That used to just involve us putting a sticker over the barcode. The cashier enters the new price, removes the sticker and scans the original barcode. Simples.
But when there was a 'buy one get one free' offer, it got interesting. The system was so stupid, that it would just automatically deduct a fixed amount from your shop at the end when two of the same item were scanned REGARDLESS of whether you'd reduced or not.
Example. BOGOF on Oranges. £2 per pack. We'd reduce them to £1 for 2 packs by marking down them all to £1.50. Two would be scanned then the system would just automatically take off a fixed cost of £2. So you'd get 2 packs for a quid. We had to explain this to the poor customers until we were blue in the face. One guy though... hit the JACKPOT.
One night, we had a whole crate of Avocados which had been reduced by the new guy. But he didn't realise they had a BOGOF offer on them. So he reduced them to 5p each! A man came over. Bought the entire crate and an Iron from the homeware dept. For every 2 avocados he got 80p back! The deductions don't come up until the end of the scanning either. So a confused cashier ended up charging him next to naff all for a brand new iron and a crate of avocados. He got away with it and walked back to our department and handed us back the crate with a giant grin on his face.
Moshe Gariani
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- Mar 10, 2005
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Once, when Bruce Lee was filming, one of the extras started a fight.
He was amazing at Kung Fu but Lee did a roundhouse on him - No.
He smashed him through a wall.
Instead of firing him, he said, "Go on with the filming".
You know he fights Chuck Norris in "Enter The Dragon"? - No.
You've not seen that? - No.
Have you not? That is a classic.
I've seen him fight Chuck Norris in "Way Of The Dragon"
That's what I meant.
You said you saw him fight Norris in "Enter The Dragon".
He fights Bob Wall in both, but Norris is only in "Way Of The Dragon"
So he's fighting Norris - In what?" - "Way Of The Dragon"
Correct
- Um - You know Bruce Lee's not really dead? It's in a book.
He faked his own death to work undercover for the Hong Kong police - infiltrating the Triads.
You're going to have to translate this for me I'm afraid.
I hate BOGOF. I had a huge row with the wife over 2-4-1 toothpaste a few years ago. I was muttering about how stupid it is as I only wanted one tube, suggesting that if they value my custom or want to encourage me or whatever they should sell it for 50%. Wife started having a go at me for being a knob, so in a fit of pique I picked up a single tube and marched to the till. The cashier pointed out I could have another tube for free which just kicked off the argument again but this time with the wife and a cashier against me. It's a jungle out there at times.
Normal Rob
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My personal pet hate is the 'save 50%, plus an additonal 25%' technique commonly used by DIY stores. To many this would seem like a saving of 75%, therfore you pay a quarter of the original price. However as the additonal 25% is taken from the already lowered price, you actully pay 37.5% of the original price
50% of £10 = £5
25% of £5 is £1.25
combined saving is £6.25! - sneaky *******s.
50% of £10 = £5
25% of £5 is £1.25
combined saving is £6.25! - sneaky *******s.
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Thunder Bolt
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Think yourself lucky. Our offer arrived in the post today which amounted to three x 50 bonus nectar points = 150.
The same kind of confusion happens when they say they'll pay the VAT. Back when it was at 15% I was in a shop that had a "we pay the VAT" sale on and the woman in front of me was complaining that they hadn't taken the full 15% off the price. I tried to explain to her that it's 15% of the original price not 15% of the overall price including VAT so in actual fact you only get about 13% off, she was having none of it of course.