'My MoneySaving Mistake' blog discussion

veruccasalt

We are going birthday shopping to Westfield this morning:j, then onto Harefield Hospital to visit my Dad:kisses3:.

Our best lunch ever there was last year, soon after it opened. We were feeling quite frivolous, so decided to treat ourselves to some delicious burger and chunky fries in the basement cafe at Marks and Spencers. The bill for the four of us came to about £25, so we decided it wasnt much different to Burger King etc, and much better quality.

20 minutes later, we were still waiting for food, so I went back to the serving hatch to enquire where it was. A manager was there, very apologetic, and offered to refund us COMPLETELY and still have our meal which was nearly ready! He said he hoped we would come back another time and give them an opportunity to get it right (which we did and they did!)

So we had a gorgeous lunch for free and a very warm feeling towards M&S! Then we went and did loads of Christmas shopping in store, so it was probably worth it for M&S!

Still cost us a fortune in parking there though!!

Sorry to read you were having a bad day, Martin, hope a bit of retail therapy helped (apart from the can of coke obviously!).

beaker141

I was about to buy an over priced pasty in Manchester Piccadilly station that was about £3, then remembered Greggs was just outside the door 50 yards away.

gelato_cat

... but you're not concerned about paying a few £ for a salad which would have cost you pence to put together at home

Suze

MSE_Lawrence wrote: »

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