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Jelly_Biactol

squigs wrote: »

Look for a hungover student and smile sweetly!

silverhairgranny wrote: »

or 3.55pm on a sunday afternoon, student of course hth

and flirt with them a bit, or tell them how nice their hair looks or say "Ooh, you're a handsome young man, aren't you!" ... anything that would embarrass a teenage boy into serving you more quickly:o

tigerwhite_2

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Too expensive for me sorry. I noticed these as also on offer in M - don't know if any M comp.? But they go down to 50p r'back in A. (And frozen ones, larger pack, vs T at 30p?) Sorry to diss that result:o.

Frozen ones no longer comparing Savvy. I got some today

Nenen wrote: »

I'm speechless (for once)! I told my dd my tale of woe about being so dizzy I can't travel and my frustration at not being able to do a Sada shop for all the glitchy things at the moment and she very kindly offered to go for me late last night. I gave her a list which included 6 bottles of fizzy, 2 packets of pork chops and a packet of carver ham (plus a few things we needed and some fillers) as I thought this would be about right for a reasonable APG without pushing it.

DD came home very pleased with herself as she'd found everything on my list and decided to double up the quantities! This has produced a voucher for £23.35. She had no idea that large APGs can cause problems - mind you, I'm so new to this myself that I don't really know what the problems might entail, I've just read advice on here to keep APGs below £10.

I'd be really grateful if someone could advise me on what problems this large voucher could cause and if there is any way I can spend it without it causing difficulties. I'm assuming that we haven't done anything illegal or against Sada rules have we?

Ah, don't worry. spend it with a nice SA, do a large-ish shop with it. Top up your bill by adding £5/£10 onto a Gcard to make your receipt longer he he. You haven't done anything wrong, the only reasons people dont go above £15/£20 is that it sometimes puts your head above the parapet (so to speak!). Chill, baby

tigerwhite_2

bubbs wrote: »

Tiger you have a pm

thanks :A

Jelly_Biactol wrote: »

The little people are here!



Lots of excitable children, who get to ride on the merry-go-round and pretend it's Christmas (we've had pretend snow as well, and there's a Christmas tree, and a giant Santa too).
And they get to have their pictures taken, too.
Though I did overhear one rather harrassed mum telling her little daughter: "Now, sweetie, please don't annoy the man that mummy works for":rotfl:

oooh, a xmas tree. :xmassign::santa2::xmassmile

Savvybuyer

Wheres_My_Cashback wrote: »

£9.99 APG will scan without intervention
£10+ APG will need manually inputting
£15+ APG will need manually inputting and is supposed to be checked by a Supervisor. However the reality is it probably won't be, but that's very store dependent. I've used dozens, if not hundreds above £15 and never had one checked....that's not to say one day one of them might be checked.
Pick your SA wisely and you shouldn't have any issue...hopefully. High APGs could alert staff to glitches which obviously you wouldnt want and it could get you noticed, but that again is very store dependent and depends on how paranoia affects you

Last time I had a 15+ I had a young male SA - he scanned it, I think he entered amount, then it beeped again and seemed it might want some referral or other, but he just overrode it:). Pick wisely indeed - and you need your braveness. (Although, think of how it is with me: I could never get a nice smile or do one absolutely correct and get it right. I just don't have any ability to charm, or to flirt (with other cashiers, not the men obviously).) I did manage, somehow, for first time in my life, to get one through where I'd lost the receipt - so glad I started with "I know you're not supposed to, but...". Usually I am unable to get any phrasing right:(. That APG was quite low though, I wouldn't imagine it would be the same trying to cash in a high one without a receipt. I'd just go for young male who you've never seen before (hopefully without a supervisor in sight anywhere), or - at least you (most probably) can tell when other people look bored and thus able to pick someone of them?:)

Delilahh

Thank you all for the advice earlier re: printers... I popped to my local library today and it's 10p per sheet for B&W and the job centre do allow you to print CV's, job descriptions etc (didn't ask about APG's).


Also popped into my Tesco's today as I wanted to take advantage of the BNI deal, with the plan to do a couple of those, stock up the freezer so that if I'm out of work any longer than I need to be - at least I've got something in the freezer.


I was 100% sure I had 10 items in my basket, actually had 13 as I'd also bought some cat food, but planned on splitting the shop (cat food first, then the rest).


Used Self Serve tills as I didn't want to draw attention to the PP that may come out.


Anyway, just as I'm putting kitty food on the floor, the sales assistant bundles over to me and was quite chirpy asking if I was buying for more than one person etc, but then starts doing everything for me, scanning it through etc. And on one of the fillers (packet of Haribo), there was no bar code on it, so she just put that into my bag and called up the total. I said I'd go and get another packet and she said "No, it's ok - it's all sorted now", and I almost wanted to say I'd forgotten something and go grab an apple or something like that, but I was trying not to make a big thing of it.


Needless to say, as that was now only 9 items, no PP came out. I thought the idea of Self Service was to do just that - serve yourself!! Luckily I will eat them and they will be used, I'm just a bit annoyed that I didn't have control over what I knew I should have been doing.

Savvybuyer

tigerwhite wrote: »

Frozen ones no longer comparing Savvy. I got some today

Well I didn't:p, and I'm so glad I got mine some time ago (with a price misSEL on top:rotfl:).:D

bubbs

squigs wrote: »

On the mend now, thanks Bubbs.:)

There has been one good thing that has come out of all the suffering I have gone through and that is I have lost nearly a stone in weight!:D:D

Good glad its feeling better:T:T not an ideal way to loose weight:rotfl::rotfl:

Wheres_My_Cashback

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Last time I had a 15+ I had a young male SA - he scanned it, I think he entered amount, then it beeped again and seemed it might want some referral or other, but he just overrode it:). Pick wisely indeed - and you need your braveness. (Although, think of how it is with me: I could never get a nice smile or do one absolutely correct and get it right. I just don't have any ability to charm, or to flirt (with other cashiers, not the men obviously).) I did manage, somehow, for first time in my life, to get one through where I'd lost the receipt - so glad I started with "I know you're not supposed to, but...". Usually I am unable to get any phrasing right:(. That APG was quite low though, I wouldn't imagine it would be the same trying to cash in a high one without a receipt. I'd just go for young male who you've never seen before (hopefully without a supervisor in sight anywhere), or - at least you (most probably) can tell when other people look bored and thus able to pick someone of them?:)

Yes, I think your own personal confidence helps when using higher ones. The ability to think fast, charm, act surprised, come up with good one liners, be chatty all helps placate the more inquisitive SAs out there

Tinyshoes

Sarahdol75 wrote: »

Check your emails, just received one from savvycircle, I am in the viakal research, sending stuff out in next couple of days.

Me too, I have not done a savvycircle since the Bold and Peony days, got to be couple years ago. :eek:

To be honest I have not been applying for any but thought would give this one a go as we live in a really hard water area.

altojack

I'm surprised to find you all still here thought by now the new thread would be on the go


DId a load of washing earlier, all dried and ironed


Poor Savvy, hanging on needing the loo, hurry up with the new thread please