Blindtraveler
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I could have found plenty of use for the Glenfiddich but far less for the Pringles
Reminds me of when my daughter accidentally ordered 10kg of bananas instead of ten. Somebody in the store saw an opportunity and the whole lot were a bit on the ripe side. Six months supply of banana loaf in the freezer!Even with modern systems you still get errors, garbage data is garbage data no matter how it's entered or carried. At my wife's branch one of the partners accidentally ordered 120 boxes of expensive prawns instead of 12, and by the time they came it was too late to return them (even if accepted). Opps!
That would be an alright evening in. I suspect the promotion wasn't good enough to make it worth doing though"Allocations" were the bane of my life. I remember receiving the promotions sheets and if Pringles were on it, my heart would sink; they just didn't sell in our store and we'd end up with case after case sitting in the stock room. They'd also change the barcodes every now and again so that the ones we did have didn't work with the new promotions...
The other one that they kept flinging at us was Glenfiddich.
I was told that shortly before the Municipal Borough of Edmonton was due to be merged into the London Borough of Enfield, they ordered a final batch of 10 000 pre-printed envelopes, showing the address of the soon to be closed town hall. Problem was, they ordered 10 000 gross. A further order was placed for sticky labels showing the new address.They meant to order something like 300 boxes of 6 mince pies, but accidentally ordered 300 cases of 6 boxes of 6 mince pies. They had a best before date of the end of January so they still had piles of them long after Christmas on 5p clearance.
A strange thing happened today in a supermarket I went into where they were giving out free milk, 2 pints of CO-OP semi-skimmed, still well in date with the 30th on them.
Why was the milk free you ask?, well said supermarket was a Morrison's!, obviously a stuffed up delivery and as I suppose they can't sell it as it's not on their system free it is.
In the end of the day we've been billed for it and are unlikely to be able to return it, so better to use it in this way than waste it
My local coop in East Lancs had a load of water softener on offer, nobody in East Lancs would be daft enough to order it as the water is as soft as a baby's bum, had to be a machine mistakeThey still have manual store ordering?
Most of the major chains have got rid of it completely, with most ordering completely automated other than one-off specials and a few other exceptions
You wouldn't believe the amount of dishwasher salt and softener people waste in soft water areas. Most people seem to have little or no idea how hard the water in their area is, or in fact about the fact that water softener just doesn't work on already-soft water.My local coop in East Lancs had a load of water softener on offer, nobody in East Lancs would be daft enough to order it as the water is as soft as a baby's bum, had to be a machine mistake
What is the water softener product? Usually a water softener is a machine you add salt into.My local coop in East Lancs had a load of water softener on offer, nobody in East Lancs would be daft enough to order it as the water is as soft as a baby's bum, had to be a machine mistake
For hard water.What is the water softener product? Usually a water softener is a machine you add salt into.
Unless you mean fabric softener for making clothes soft which is a completely different thing.
But what is the product you add to hard water to make it soft? The previous poster mentioned the co-op had a load of "water softener" on offer, but I don't think that exists as a product and I don't think Co-Op sells the machines.For hard water.
I wouldn't assume that because you think your water was soft for years that it will always remain so. Brum has been mixed for ages now.
Bags of salt for dishwashers? Or those filters that go in water jugs?But what is the product you add to hard water to make it soft? The previous poster mentioned the co-op had a load of "water softener" on offer, but I don't think that exists as a product and I don't think Co-Op sells the machines.
I have a water softener but its a machine sat under the sink that softens the water and then uses salt to regenerate.
I assume they mean something like Calgon.What is the water softener product? Usually a water softener is a machine you add salt into.
Unless you mean fabric softener for making clothes soft which is a completely different thing.
Ah yes, I always think of that as limescale remover, but I guess yes it does that by softening the water! Also most of the time its just referred to by its brand name.I assume they mean something like Calgon.
I could have found plenty of use for the Glenfiddich but far less for the Pringles
That may well have been my wife!But it did cause the funniest moment of my time at the Coop and at the same time teach me a lesson about different perceptions of the word essential
Hebden Bridge type woman walks up to the pop-up shop in Royd (it looked like a portakabin with a serving hatch)
Her - oh, what’s this then?
Me - best we can do till the flood damage is fixed. We’ve got the essentials though
Her - good, I’ll take a jar of red pesto
Me - ah, we don’t have that. I can try and get some from another store for tomorrow though
Her - don’t worry, green pesto will have to do
Did you have to ask a staff member to physically mark the item down further or is this some local store initiative of automatic reduction?An extremely random thought I've had.
I've been into a few Tesco stores recently where the fresh bakery items are discounted after 17:00, presumably as a waste reduction measure. Today I wanted to purchase such an item at 16:56 so I waited four minutes for the discount to become available.
This made me think of the London Underground fare system - specifically the fact that they advertise that the morning peak ends at 09:30, but actually start charging off-peak fares a few minutes before that. Does Tesco do something similar - i.e. make the timed bakery discount actually start a few minutes earlier than advertised to avoid customer dissatisfaction? In other words, was it actually necessary for me to wait those 4 minutes or could I have received the discount slightly earlier?
My local Tesco supermarket has an in-store bakery but no loose products since Covid (that I can remember seeing), the open baskets disappeared and everything is packed in paper bags / clear cellophane / boxes and discounts use yellow stickers throughout the day.Did you have to ask a staff member to physically mark the item down further or is this some local store initiative of automatic reduction?
Did you have to ask a staff member to physically mark the item down further or is this some local store initiative of automatic reduction?
At a Tesco Express last week (Shrewsbury) I saw a similar notice along the lines of 'all fresh bakery items reduced after 1700'. That store doesn't have an in-store bakery but does have loose bakery products in baskets (such a croissants) which you bag yourself. I guess for loose items it's difficult to yellow sticker them unless you also bag them. The express store also had some pre-packed bakery products yellow stickered.
My local Tesco supermarket has an in-store bakery but no loose products since Covid (that I can remember seeing), the open baskets disappeared and everything is packed in paper bags / clear cellophane / boxes and discounts use yellow stickers throughout the day.
At a Tesco Express last week (Shrewsbury) I saw a similar notice along the lines of 'all fresh bakery items reduced after 1700'. That store doesn't have an in-store bakery but does have loose bakery products in baskets (such a croissants) which you bag yourself. I guess for loose items it's difficult to yellow sticker them unless you also bag them. The express store also had some pre-packed bakery products yellow stickered.
I've only ever seen manually labelled reductions, so I'm now curious to see I this automatic discount applies in my localI entered it at the self checkout machine and it applied the discount automatically - no yellow stickers involved.
I happened to be in Morrisons this afternoon whilst amongst other stuff, fresh cream cakes were being marked down heavly, to 21p! They were being put in the reduced chilled section, and the assistant had a barrier around him. Although I was only looking, I was told that if I wanted anything, I'd have to join the queue at the top of the aisle. Sure enough there was a queue of about a dozen people there. I didn't hang around.An extremely random thought I've had.
I've been into a few Tesco stores recently where the fresh bakery items are discounted after 17:00, presumably as a waste reduction measure. Today I wanted to purchase such an item at 16:56 so I waited four minutes for the discount to become available.
This made me think of the London Underground fare system - specifically the fact that they advertise that the morning peak ends at 09:30, but actually start charging off-peak fares a few minutes before that. Does Tesco do something similar - i.e. make the timed bakery discount actually start a few minutes earlier than advertised to avoid customer dissatisfaction? In other words, was it actually necessary for me to wait those 4 minutes or could I have received the discount slightly earlier?
I can certainly understand the need for a barrier; I often wished that I had a force field that zapped anyone who came near me when I was carrying out price reductions!I happened to be in Morrisons this afternoon whilst amongst other stuff, fresh cream cakes were being marked down heavly, to 21p! They were being put in the reduced chilled section, and the assistant had a barrier around him. Although I was only looking, I was told that if I wanted anything, I'd have to join the queue at the top of the aisle. Sure enough there was a queue of about a dozen people there. I didn't hang around.