GREAT 'WHAT SHOPS DON'T WANT US TO KNOW" HUNT

carlyh69

I work for ASDA too! The Smiley vouchers are mainly used for price differences if say an ASDA smartprice tin of beans was out of stock and we give you heinz instead and put the difference on the smiley!

Also as said above we do a 200% guarentee (on ASDA food and grocery products only, excluding electrical, tobacco, cd's and DVD's) if something is wrong with the product, e.g it is off, we offer you a refund for the faulty product and give you a free replacement.

We also (at the CS assistants discretion) produce £2 goodwill vouchers if you have been overcharged on your bill x

carlyh69

Forgot to mention, ASDA also do a "advert match" service, where we match the price of other supermarkets deals, provided you have the promotional flyer with you, e.g the somerfield flyers

themadbird

pdrg wrote:

Oh, and I used to work at a holiday park where the only access between the bars and the real outside world was through the 'amusements'. A boss of mine was a smart chap, and one hour before the bar closed he'd swap all the £5 notes in the till for £1 coins - so you'd get all your change in coins.
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I can confirm this myself as it still happens in a well known holiday park on the East Coast..... not saying how I know though.....

ejd_2

Edinburghlass wrote:

That used to be the case with British Home Stores, the price was the item code backwords, this was a lot of years ago now and it has been changed.

hey golden oldie I worked at BHS when the reverse code for price system operated - shame they scraped it as its a pain when the price tag falls off!:p

robnye

had a bristan slider shower rail fitted over a year ago as part of a loft conversion.

rail holder and slider bar got broken (no volunteers)

contacted bristan..... sent new spare parts free...

also triton shower - couldnt find receipt - standard 3 year gaurantee, just quote code on bottom of shower unit...... they can tell whether it is within its gaurantee period and then you can get it fixed free

BobBlueUK

carlyh69 wrote:

We also (at the CS assistants discretion) produce £2 goodwill vouchers if you have been overcharged on your bill x

It's actually company policy rather than at the discretion of individual staff members, and is mentioned on the ASDA website:

Unfortunately the web page can't be linked to directly, but can be found as follows:
Asda Homepage > Customer Services > Frequently Asked Questions > Our Services

Interestingly according to the policy wording you could actually claim a £2 gift card even if you were UNDERcharged for an item! Never done this myself but I'd be impressed if anyone managed it...

pinky8

James_Bond wrote:

I've heard that various "GAME" and other similar shops can sell pre-owned games for whatever they want aslong as they make at least 40% profit. So if more than 40% profit is made, the workers get a share. So I guess it's worth haggling in these types of shops, although I'm haven't tried it myself.

Rgds,

James Bond

Hi,

Sorry I thought i'd better let people know that staff at GAME do not get a cut on any of the games they sell. I also know that the preowned games are a set price from head office so they can't be haggled.

I hope this helps xxx

worotan

superhoop wrote:

- I was in Debenhams recently and saw NO signage or reference to Nectar, and I wasn't asked at the till on two occasions.

Why not say 'I saw no signs...'?

I might seem like nitpicking, but 'signage' is a meaningless extension of the word 'signs', used to make a notice sound more official. I've noticed this in a few large shops now, and really demonstrates that the person who wrote the notice doesn't know what's being said. It comes from George Bush Jr's ridiculous habit of adding '-age' and other suffixes to words, to sound more authoratative and scientific.

This may seem irrelevant, but salesmen have always used jargon to baffle customers and get them to spend unnecessarily; this is an new way of people who know little puffing up their authority. And more authority means more confidence to charge more, even when it's based on childish errors.

vaderag

pinky8 wrote:

Hi,

Sorry I thought i'd better let people know that staff at GAME do not get a cut on any of the games they sell. I also know that the preowned games are a set price from head office so they can't be haggled.

I hope this helps xxx

The first bit is true, however (unless things have changed in the last 2 years, which is pretty likely) it used to be staff discresion (to a reason) how much to give you when trading in. Selling price is set however depending on age, condition and how much it was traded in at.

SydneyBristowe

Not a 'shop' as such, but probably useful to people

I've recently joined a posh gym. It was the second to last day of the current joining promotion and they were charging a £40 joining fee plus £51 monthly membership (corporate disc of £5 on regular membership) but if you signed up then you got freebies worth £94 for free.

I couldn't afford the £40 + pro rata membership to take me to the en of the month so close to pay day so asked if there was any chance of them reducing the joining fee. He said there was no way they could do that but asked if it would be helpful if he could redue the monthly payments to £42. I said that if he did manage it I'd almost definately sign up. Lo and behold teh next day he called saying that he'd managed to get me the deal so I'm paying £14 a month less than the regular membership

So... always try to wrangle a discount towards the end of a 'promotion' period. They have sales targets to hit and will do a lot to secure your business. Also worth in a City Centre to name drop a equivilent level competitor and see if they will price match.