Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

TrulyMadly

No shortage of crisps in the D store today. I hid some cheese and onion ones to collect at dinner time but no need. There was plenty still on the shelf.:rotfl:
Indicative I think of how few mags were given out

Picasso7

Hello everyone

Congrats granny TS! Bubbs are you moving to a normal house where you are not evicted every year?

I've had another email from M offering me 4000 points when I spend £40. Happy days.

TrulyMadly

Picked up a few of these in T

Purina 82p and dressing 31p

Freewheeling

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Picked up a few of these in T

Purina 82p and dressing 31p

Ooo, that's a great price for the Purina. That's the only thing my cats will eat! I'll have to check in my T's for it. I got one of those dressings last week for 31p too. It was quite sticky, it looked like another bottle had spilled on it so I thought that was why it was reduced, but maybe it was just the last one.

TrulyMadly

I think this has been mentioned but just reminded of it today in T.

£3 TMF on the pizza would make this a good buy:)

Savvybuyer

choclate24 wrote: »

In my store I wasn't allowed the variety one as the picture wasn't shown

What is it about "Free Walkers Baked 6x25g Pack" that whomever refused you doesn't understand? If terms and conditions are in conflict, such as someone might argue (and I would even take issue with that and say there was no conflict), between the picture of three specific packs and the more generic wording, then the interpretation most favourable to the consumer must prevail.

In my view, the two parts are consistent and not in conflict - but even if there is, most favourable interpretation rule applies - the packs featured are merely illustrative examples and the wording does not state that other flavours, or combinations of flavours, are excluded. I would expect, if there was any such exclusion, that significant restrictions to an offer be fully and expressly stated (otherwise it can be argued to be misleading by omission).

What if, for example, there was an offer for a free Persil (or Fairy) product and no restrictions were stated? I would expect it to apply to the entire range of Persil (or Fairy whatever the case was), at least so far as available in the UK or GB in any store in which the coupon was valid, and wouldn't expect every possible product in the brand range to be pictured even if all were included in the offer.

However, your member of staff's apparent failure to understand the words "Free Walkers Baked 6x25g Pack" does now allow me to argue that any word could mean just about anything I wanted it to, no matter how absurd it may seem to others or how unreasonable. Just about anything is possible if I am to take seriously what your staff member apparently thought, even though I had already reached this point several years ago now of being unable to put it past anyone holding any human opinion at all, no matter how bizarre to me. I just can't rule out any opinion, no matter how bizarre and just plain factually wrong, from being held by someone. Perhaps you merely found someone just being a little more protective of supermarket stock - maybe someone that didn't like their employer very much would be a better bet, I don't know. Of no help, I have had no problems with the coupons - staff seem to be fully aware of them and I even had no problems with a Magnum Vegan pack on one shop as well - I thought it wasn't going to work but it did - the till operator (more carefully selected by myself:rotfl:) just took both coupons, plus the one for the crisps, and scanned them. Manufacturer's coupon just knocked off £1.00 - some may have been altered to scan at 6p but BC on mine ended 1006 and scanned fine as £1.00.

Any Walkers Baked pack, that matches the number and weight mentioned, is included in this offer as far as I am concerned. If a member of staff thinks otherwise, there seems to me to be a staff training issue and to be fair most members of staff seem to have been made aware and informed properly of how to deal with the coupons. However, the actions of a member of staff such as this, whom I would expect to represent a tiny minority in the organisation, put the retailer at risk of complaints about not handling a promotion properly and causing unnecessary disappointment to customers. I would think the retailer as a whole would be keen to avoid complaints like this arising, not least because there is no reason to give consumers justifiable grounds for a complaint.

TrulyMadly

I've heard that the Veganuary manufacturers coupon is working too savvy

Savvybuyer

Here we are - a bit of law - see how the member of staff, by refusing against Variety version, has potentially put the retailer into a bit of legal jeopardy IMO.

Consumer Rights Act 2015 (law has been updated and the piece of legislation changed to this Act since I last looked at the topic many years ago)

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/15/part/2/enacted

Section 69:

Contract terms that may have different meanings

(1)If a term in a consumer contract, or a consumer notice, could have different meanings, the meaning that is most favourable to the consumer is to prevail.
[My emphasis]

A "consumer notice" is defined through section 61:

(7)A notice to which this Part applies is referred to in this Part as a “consumer notice”.

(8)In this section “notice” includes an announcement, whether or not in writing, and any other communication or purported communication.

The coupon itself is clearly an "announcement" - or "any other communication or purported communication" in my view, even if the ejusdem generis rule were to be applied (try that one on them!).

You thought it was a coupon (or incorrectly, that it was a voucher). No it isn't just that according to me - I now also see it as "a consumer notice within the meaning of Part 2 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015" in my opinion:rotfl:.

(There is of course complex law as to whether these could be contract terms or could be incorporated into a contract if it is something the retailer is giving away free, which I cannot deal with here. I do not give any legal advice.)

TrulyMadly

Been enjoying some new breads today.....last nights whoopsies:D

This sour dough bread is lush. I had it for breakfast toasted with poached eggs.

Other couple of loaves took their place in the freezer:)

Not bad for 12p a loaf

Savvybuyer

TrulyMadly wrote: »

I've heard that the Veganuary manufacturers coupon is working too savvy

:rotfl:Thank you.

I think I can be rude (think anyway:rotfl:) as you know what I say isn't meant in any bad way.

Didn't I just say this?

Savvybuyer wrote: »

[...]I have had no problems with the coupons - staff seem to be fully aware of them and I even had no problems with a Magnum Vegan pack on one shop as well - I thought it wasn't going to work but it did
[...]

Try reading my post next time:D:p!:rotfl:

(I've done this myself though - I quite often read the first few words of something, then skip something out and read the last part, and then comment on something only to go eventually and read the whole lot that I should have read and find it has already been said:o:o.)