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Yep, apps and chatbots, banks, most landlords/estate agents, car hire and extra charges, repair folk that don’t / won’t turn up, most utilities…
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Okay! A small rant about supermarkets.
Been down to our local Tesco. For the past couple of months they’ve been improving my “shopping experience”.
Have they bollocks!
Nothing is where it used to be, no logic behind the new layout. Shelf after shelf of processed crap, can’t find what you came in for, so you walk to the other end of the building to find a member of staff who tells you that it’s back where you just came from!
After wasting what seems like forever wandering the aisles you head for the checkout only to realise that where there was once 10 there are now only 4 with the adjacent space given over to self checkout points. You begrudgingly use them only to find that even though you have bought four cans of zero alcohol cider you still need to wait for a member of staff to check that you’re over 21!
You vow never to return to this hell-hole but to pay extra and go to the middle class warmth of Waitrose. But deep inside you know you’ll be back as you’ve a whole shit-load of clubcard points to redeem!
Arrrgh!
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Supermarkets?
Aye.
In France, last summer, the checkout lady watched me unfold my bags, flap them to open them, then place them in the trolley to receive my shopping.
She then asked ho look in the bags.
I refused, telling her she’d just seen me open them from flat.
She told me she had to insist as it was store policy.
She had NOT checked the bags of the two French families in front of us.
So I explained to her that she had a choice: she could adhere to store policy and look in my bags, or not do so.
But I told her my policy: you insist, I’ll walk out leaving all my shopping on the till belt.
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Haha! Same here at Tesco Gainsboro a few years ago.
Big weekly shop, nearly all checked though, then they spotted three packs of paracetamol. Store said no.
Why?
You might take them all and that’d be dangerous! Or words to that effect.
Yeah, I do that all the time. Call the manager.
Manager comes.
Mrs Gurn was there, so I said one was for her.
Oh but we know it’s you who wants to buy them/pay for them, etc etc. Only one per transaction etc.
OK, so let me buy one then another one then another.
No, cos we know you want three.
Stalemate. So, a big weekly shop already checked through was emptied onto the belt with a flourish and we left.
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Simple solution – don’t go back. Works for me every time.
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£x.99 prices. I know it’s a proven marketing tool but please stop this brain sludge charade FFS.
Not going to end soon is it?
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Worse than that, restaurants that price their menu at (for example) 7.5 when they mean £7.50.
They must save £££££££s on printing ink 😂
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Don’t sully the menu with £s darling. A restaurant isn’t really about about feeding you for money, it’s about giving you a truly fabulous culinary delight in an ambient atmosphere. Or in Alcy’s case, an annoying time :)
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Another motoring one: SUV’s.
What’s that all about?
For a start, the first letter is a lie. They aren’t “Sport” at all. Most are sluggish, and will fall over if cornered quickly.
And “Utility”? No more utility than the average hatch.
Why on earth are there so many, each manufacturer having several?
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Absolutely on board (or not as the case maybe) about the ridiculous increase in townies acquiring these unnecessarily large vehicles. Not needed, but clearly wanted. Block your vision of the road in front of you, blind you at night coming the other way. Should be means tested. If you don’t really need one, you’re restricted to a smaller less bulky car.
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The large suv type vehicles are crazy and I’m not sure what the clamour for them is, as regards the small medium sized suv’s, well they are quite a bit higher than the average car and are therefore a lot easier to to get in and out of as you get older. I can confirm this as in the last year I traded my c class merc which I’d owned and enjoyed for ten years for a 15 month old seat Ateca, really pleased I did, not as much fun to drive of course but a much better option for longer journeys for us older folk, quite nippy too and much cheaper to service. So it’s a yes and no from me if that makes sense 😂
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Aye, have disabled the lane change warning system on my car. If I don’t know I’m changing lanes then I’m not concentrating!
But for every new bit of kit you lose something else. Whatever happened to cassette/cd players and cigarette lighters?
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