WARNING - Avoid Shell

d123

sillyvixen wrote: »

yes! i am boycotting them already, i went into today purchase double gloucester cheese and they had run out - tesco's a mile down the road did have some - i feel the shop should have closed as they could not supply the cheese (the only item i had called in to buy) had the shop been closed and an appropriate legal sign been put on the enterance to the car park i would have continued driving the further mile down the road to tesco's and purchased the cheese with minimum of fuss!! as it was i wasted petrol driving round the car park looking for a parking space, wasted time looking for said cheese and was told by a member of staff the item i wanted was out of stock (how rude).
maybe the OP's consevertry selling friend could offer legal advice on trading standards and compansation!

You are right!

I intend complaining that under the Trading Standards Act Sainsburys should have closed, why were they still letting customers in when they only had a PAPER sign up!

I should have posted in full like this

i am disgusted by the treatment me and my mother received at a sainsburys today and i will now be boycotting them and told them i would be posting on this forum and i suggest you do the same.

my mum went to buy cheese at a sainsburys and then we both went to pay for the cheese. when inside we told them we wanted to pay for the cheese and tried to pay using a debit card. the cashier said "sorry we are not able to take credit card payments at the moment because the systems are broken". i explained we were using a DEBIT card not a credit card but he got huffy and said they werent able to take any card at all and that there were notices by the till. i told him there were not notices on the till so went to check we hadn't missed something.

all that was on the till was a printed sheet of a4 paper saying "sorry, cash payments only" hardly enough of a warning that they dont take cards. also how does a big company like sainsburys simply not be able to take cards, makes no sense! i teld him the sign was not adequate and that they should be warning people before they fill up but he tried to argue saying there was a sign up again. he told us we could use the cash machine on the forecort to withdraw cash and pay that way so we did in the end but were not happy.

i will be boycotting there supermarkets from now on and so will my 162 year old mother.

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Sorry four the speeelin and gramma mistakes, itz how evryone rites wen they ar frothin at the mouth....

sillyvixen

OP - your avi has been nicked by a few new posters over on the consumers board!!

marliepanda

sillyvixen wrote: »

OP - your avi has been nicked by a few new posters over on the consumers board!!

Its just one of the general board ones.

Sadly when the OP tried to change her avatar none of them were suitable for the elderly, and the ones that were had big a4 paper signs saying unavailable.

Emz11

just discovered shell petrol stations serve halal sandwiches, so well worth boycotting anyway that is the reason i do not visit the other local garage, to large a range of halal goods.

marliepanda

emz11 wrote: »

just discovered shell petrol stations serve halal sandwiches, so well worth boycotting anyway that is the reason i do not visit the other local garage, to large a range of halal goods.

omg its you subway lady!

We have missed you!

I love you!!!!!!!!!

Paddy2eyes

Emz, thank you for your helpful post. I will join in your boycott and no longer buy any Halal petrol from Shell because they wouldn't let me pay with a birthday card.

d123

Emz11 wrote: »

just discovered shell petrol stations serve halal sandwiches, so well worth boycotting anyway that is the reason i do not visit the other local garage, to large a range of halal goods.

You haven't discovered that they sell fossil fuels reputed to be damaging the atmosphere and causing climate change?

You can add that onto the placard when you stand and dance in the street outside the petrol station doing your boycott protest :j.

marliepanda

Emz11 wrote: »

just discovered shell petrol stations serve halal sandwiches, so well worth boycotting anyway that is the reason i do not visit the other local garage, to large a range of halal goods.

Did they give you some free Halal meatballs

I have never been so excited.

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Who the hell buys stuff at random petrol stations anyway? Everything is way way over priced. Especially when there is usually a more reasonable corner shop near by.

Pollycat

Emz11 wrote: »

just discovered shell petrol stations serve halal sandwiches, so well worth boycotting anyway that is the reason i do not visit the other local garage, to large a range of halal goods.

How large is "to (sic) large a range of halal goods" and what do you consider a suitable number of halal goods for a garage to have on sale?

Do all Shell petrol stations have halal goods on sale (however large or small a range) or are you just making a sweeping statement based on the Shell petrol stations you have visited in your area?