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  • fermi
    fermi Posts: 40,542 Forumite
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  • wirehair
    wirehair Posts: 4,291 Forumite
    I just popped to St Leonards Branch and not a lot left , all kitchens and bathrooms have sold stickers on , a couple of dozen lawn mowers with 20% off . And odds and sods all over the place , with 30% off lowest marked price . Picked up an ironing board with reduced to £18.99 on it , thinking that it would have 30% off of that price but wrong , the £18.99 was the 30% of price , so did not bother . very misleading.
    Never pay more than you have too
  • 1984ReturnsForReal_2
    1984ReturnsForReal_2 Posts: 15,431 Forumite
    wirehair wrote: »
    I just popped to St Leonards Branch and not a lot left , all kitchens and bathrooms have sold stickers on , a couple of dozen lawn mowers with 20% off . And odds and sods all over the place , with 30% off lowest marked price . Picked up an ironing board with reduced to £18.99 on it , thinking that it would have 30% off of that price but wrong , the £18.99 was the 30% of price , so did not bother . very misleading.


    See above.

    50% OFF "lowest marked price" on "everything"
    Not Again
  • wirehair
    wirehair Posts: 4,291 Forumite
    Not in my store .
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  • 1984ReturnsForReal_2
    1984ReturnsForReal_2 Posts: 15,431 Forumite
    wirehair wrote: »
    Not in my store .


    Dodgy advertising then
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  • Zanderman
    Zanderman Posts: 4,944 Forumite
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    1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »
    See above.

    50% OFF "lowest marked price" on "everything"
    1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »
    Dodgy advertising then

    No it's not - the flyer reproduced above says 50% off kitchens, bathroom suites and wallpaper - which won't include ironing boards. It's definitely not 50% off everything. I wish it was! Everything 'is reduced' but the amount varies...

    What IS misleading is how they've started putting the reduced price on the items - which is in breach of the statements, posted all over the shop, that there's 20%, 30% etc (depends on what section you're in) off the 'lowest marked price'. If they've changed the marked price to the value with the 20% etc off, then you should demand another 20% etc off.
  • pip007
    pip007 Posts: 129 Forumite
    Been to the Chippenham store today, didn't see any huge bargins, quite a bit of wallpaper & garden furniture left, I picked up some plant pots, stickers fr the kids rooms and a couple of bedside cabinets for £20 each.
    Staff were helping customers dismantle the diplpay kitchens, lots of staff around - all happy to help.
  • Sequeena
    Sequeena Posts: 4,728 Forumite
    supersally01 wrote: »
    MMMM, how much did those items cost individually, as i use that and would be interested! Thanks in advance!!!

    £21.49 for the 7.5kg large breed food and I think it was £9.99 for the 3kg senior food :)

    ETA: on sale the large breed was £12 something and the senior food was about £5.99. Sorry, I'd lose my head if it wasn't screwed on!!
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  • supersally01
    supersally01 Posts: 785 Forumite
    Sequeena wrote: »
    £21.49 for the 7.5kg large breed food and I think it was £9.99 for the 3kg senior food :)

    ETA: on sale the large breed was £12 something and the senior food was about £5.99. Sorry, I'd lose my head if it wasn't screwed on!!

    excellent, thank you. I'll go down tomorrow to see if any left in my local!;)
  • mummyofonechild
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    gwapenut wrote: »
    They'll have to join the queue of creditors to get their redundancy payoffs

    No they dont. This is where the insolvency service step in

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