Everyone lost in the Ether II

Chrisv

bubbs wrote: »

Hi chris
Hope you are ok?

Hi bubbs :wave: Not too bad thanks, but still confined to the house - managing to get OH to go for C/C, he won't do instore shops though lol.

Miró

nettiebobs wrote: »

Barilla promotion ends today in morribobs.

Been nice while it lasted tho! Many thanks to whoever first posted about it...managed to pick up one or two (cough, cough)

mhoc

Afternoon all

I popped into Asda for the first time in weeks - I've been avoiding the place assuming that my local would also have the new till system installed and I really didn't want the hassle

But I went in search of Soreen bars but my store does not stock them :mad: I even saw the up and go cartons but as I could not get the Soreen bars I didn't bother - so Asda have lost my £3.40 times three as I would have got a set for each TCB

I did though get the oykos salted caramel yog which has a good long date on it. I went to a non busy till and as I only had the one item I said I had a coupon. Inevitably when she scanned the MOC it came up with some gibberish about not being valid and she was about to call CS but decided to use common sense instead and just put it through as a non scan MOC. Free yogurt
She showed me a clip board of instructions all the tills have re the new till system but said mostly its the APGS it affects - I would imagine the number of MOCs they see would be minimal anyway.

I used my last 6 cidres MOCs in sainsbobs - no brothers toffee apple cider so actually this has saved me a lot of time this afternoon - no Soreen and upandgo receipts from Asda to scan for Cos and no cider ones either

tbw

Dexter777 wrote: »

Are you talking about bullying the staff at stores? If so, I think it 's the other way round. How many stories on here of being "trouted" have been told on this alone, marched to CS, claimed the vouchers are fake, ooh you got this shop in a different store, you can't use more than 1 voucher per shop. The amount of excuses is unbelievable. These people don't need bullying, they need slapping with a wet kipper and proper training.

Lack of training by the stores they work for and jealousy that savvy shoppers are able to get their shopping for next to nothing.

If it's bullying on here, report it.

I wasn't talking about bullying on here today.

I used to take a dim view of staff who come up with a lot of feeble excuses to get out of taking vouchers and I have had a few instances of having to stand my ground over legitimate coupons. And there are certainly a few hard core staff who really do go to extremes. However, as time has gone on I have developed a little more sympathy for many of the hardworking staff who are just trying to do their jobs to the best of their ability often after insufficient training. If they get something wrong they can expect to be hauled up in front of maagement staff and given a hard time, if they get something right its just taken for granted.

I am not aiming my present comments at anyone in particular or necessarily on here but when staff are confronted with masses of vouchers, some of which are printed and could be photocopies and some which clearly give a VERY large apg return on a very small 'shop' then surely its understandable if staff get edgy and aren't prepared to just scan everything through without checking ? It doesn't help when systems are changed without proper re-training - thats not our fault but it isn't the fault of the checkout staff either. Also, many stores used to have a maximum number items that you were able to buy in one go but now it seems that customers can strip shelves and noody is allowed to stop them. I've worked as Customer Service Manager for a large organisation and know only too well how unpleasant members of the public can be when confronted with frontine staff such as receptionists or checkout staff when they can't immediately get exactly what they want (even if they aren't entitled to it).

squigs

Serendipitious wrote: »

Tweets, glad you are both home safe.

Just been to car to tidy it up ready for tomorrow's school run, winds nearly blew me over. :eek:

Estimated 50+ mph here, according to the weather warning.

I hope rhosynbach is ok, they say the NWales coast is worse.:eek:

Gusting at 60mph here:eek::eek::eek:

Serendipitious

Mhoc, did you get the overage on the cidre at Sains today? x

bubbs

tweets wrote: »

Afternoon . not good I got frightened walking home from mums in pouring rain and high winds. Poppy kept struggling and trying to shelter and I was frightened her collar was going to come off she isn't allowed off her lead when we out. So god knows what would have happened if she had near the main roads .( Was so glad when we both arrived home I got some pics of Poppy but phone/laptop being silly and wont transfer over. Will try later

Hi tweets:D
Glad you got home ok, very wondy here too but not rain:T

Chrisv wrote: »

Hi bubbs :wave: Not too bad thanks, but still confined to the house - managing to get OH to go for C/C, he won't do instore shops though lol.

That is a shame:( but least you can get some c and c:T:T

tweets

Serendipitious wrote: »

Tweets, glad you are both home safe.

Just been to car to tidy it up ready for tomorrow's school run, winds nearly blew me over. :eek:

Estimated 50+ mph here, according to the weather warning.

I hope rhosynbach is ok, they say the NWales coast is worse.:eek:

That's what weather was like here it was nearly blowing me over . I would have picked Poppy up but she not a lover being picked up. I have told her she should have been a JR then would have been easy to pick up and carry

Isn't Snap on that coast :eek:

DS gone home he said will be back 23rd December til early afternoon on 35th lol 25th then GF picking him up and he going her parents

rosy798

As expected comfort didnt work, oh well. Cooked a lovely lunch and has a couple of glasses of that Yellow Tail chardonnay, very nice it was. Then I wanted dh to get the christmas tree from the loft. Scrooge wont do it. He says because we are off on our hols on 15th December til 15 th Jan its not worth it. But next sat all the family are coming to get their pressies so I need it up for then. Think I will have to fetch it myself when I havent had wine!!!! Everyone says I talk alot when I have a drink, look at me now chatterbox

tweets

bubbs wrote: »

Hi tweets:D
Glad you got home ok, very wondy here too but not rain:T


That is a shame:( but least you can get some c and c:T:T

bubbs :santa2:

Monsooning rain and high winds plus a scared dog not good :eek: