Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

TrulyMadly

Rushing in like a crazy person to let you know there's a glitch on the Ted baker mini sprays. In stock. In boots
75p should be £3.50

Stocking filler?

pandoraskids

diluvsdiscounts wrote: »

Stratford upon avon, Oxford andvthen staying with friends near Milton Keynes :j

Very nice, have a great time x

Freewheeling wrote: »

Just in case anyone missed it this morning, it's currently looking like my husband will be going thirsty tonight. Of course, it's his own fault but if somebody out there isn't planning on going themselves I'm sure he'd be very appreciative!

You won't be sharing with him? :rotfl: :eek: :rotfl:

pandoraskids

Today, DS who is 19 and has asperger's has plucked up the courage to make the journey to Aberdeen (where his gf is at uni) for a long weekend. I went as far as Wigan with him & put him on the train to Edinburgh and he has now let me know that he made the change at Haymarket ok and is now on the train to Aberdeen. May not be a big deal to some but this is a HUGE achievement for him :j :j

Enterprise_1701C

altojack wrote: »

I've been umming and arring (?) whether to go out or not. I don't need any shopping, I just fancied some cinder toffee . Do shops still sell it?

Not sure who sells it but is very easy to make, only problem is I burned the last two lots I made :eek:: You do need a massive pan to make it in, I use my preserving pan, and a very big pan to pour it into.

Freewheeling

pandoraskids wrote: »

You won't be sharing with him? :rotfl: :eek: :rotfl:

I might treat him to a lime and soda .

Savvybuyer

HILLBERN wrote: »

THANK YOU REDFOX,

But what a shame we had to move house, It never feels quite the same as the old house.
we have 3dogs posts, now we need savvy
The pictures are on the walls, time for a cuppa now, whos going to join me...I have a little while whilst dear little grandsons are having their nap

Well you've got me today because I have three posts, including this one, in my thoughts to write, but whether or not I will actually get round to the other ones... we shall see. I can see now that, just as I thought, my last post got greatest number of thanks. This isn't a bragging or anything - it's just because people like to know what is going on and I didn't write it for those thanks - I am just happy to have 'popped in'. Glad to be of help. (And obviously 'just as I thought', because I'm always flamin' right aren't I? Actually - as I waffle on now - I've even had situations in the past when I have not even been trying to right, yet still turned out to be (as ever:rotfl) right. What about that one, eh?:D Always, always the usual pedant and pinhead dancer. Loathed and disliked:rotfl::rotfl:.)

Now, as regards those posts, I have a reply to the first one. It's the post below, followed by a load of detailed analysis, attention and waffle from me as usual:rotfl:. So, here we go:

Anon wrote: »

You would think the newest ones would survive as they are likely to have had sound recent research into the market to justify the investment. It will likely be the older/unprofitable stores facing the chop.

The high street has changed and will continue to as our shopping habits have changed to increasing shopping online. On saying that, T must be know something that they have gone the other way and closed their online Direct operations.

We sound shocked when these closures are announced, but still want the cheapest price possible with convenience.

Anon

I'm a nosey parker about things sometimes. I think I'd be good if I was a police officer:eek:, a tax inspector:eek::eek: or a journalist. Of course we all want to know which stores are closing and I always want to know some information, especially if it currently isn't out there and therefore currently being kept away from me (though I am not suggesting or saying that it is being withheld or anything deliberately keeping it from me - I'm making a mere statement of fact, that it is not publicly known and therefore is currently kept away from me). I had even thought, a few hours ago, about making a freedom of information request to my local Council to see if they have ever received, and thus now possess, any information, which could have come from business rate or anything else, as to the expiry date of the lease of the local Debenhams store. Apparently, it's the ones which happen to have leases up fairly soon that might be more likely to be closed. Thinking about it, it could well be more likely to be older stores as leases would have run for longer time and thus might be more close to being up. Really I am just poking my nose into things, prying and being nosey (and sometimes that's a good thing!).

I didn't mean to suggest that police officers, for example, are nosey parkers. The point I was trying to make, and probably not doing so very successfully, is that police officers might be people, for example, investigating whether a law has been breached and therefore looking into things, turning things over, leaving no stone unturned, and therefore, to some extent, being nosey, or at least curious, about things can help such a thing. I'm a type of person often like that, on one view, tendency to pry into, on another view, simply interested in, things and tending to want to correct people about things on which they are wrong which, somehow(:rotfl:), :doh:they don't really like. Well I've no idea why not:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.

I'm not shocked at all by hearing things like this (and I wouldn't be able to sound anything I was not - which is hard on me as I am disadvantaged by being unable to avoid revealing my true feelings - or lack of them, I won't laugh here because it's actually serious as it affects people's jobs - but that's also revealing my true feeling, that I don't find people losing their jobs funny). I tend not to have emotions on such announcements however, whereas other peope say they are shocked by such unshockable things. I think it could be that, sadly, closures of some business are announced so regularly that they don't shock me - I may not have expected any particular business to be announcing anything but it still doesn't shock me - I think I'm probably just indifferent (the worst thing to be) to it - context-blind - although I do empathise with any possible job losses. I don't seem to get affected though, as some people, not directly affected, do - it seems to have no effect on me, unless it is my own job (comes across as if I am now adding but not meant like this at all) and then it affects me even more than anyone but, in experiencing that, in the past, I know how it might feel to others later in a position such as this. Life goes on and other opportunities come up I suppose - have to look at it on the bright side although, at the time, it's really shocking.

So maybe announcements of losses and closures (if people are making losses must mean they have had some way too good bargains on:rotfl: - that we have probably missed since the announcements come after the event:() don't shock me because of, sadly, their regularity these days. However, even when they weren't being announced so often, I still wasn't shocked by them.

You say that we "...still want the cheapest price possible with convenience." I think that's true of 98-99% of people (at least those for whom price is important). I still want the cheapest price possible, even if it is with inconvenience:huh::rotfl:.

You mention we sound shocked. Do you mean that people are sounding shocked, even though they are not actually, and are just pretending to empathise when in fact they don't really have nny such empathy?

The general perception certainly does seem to be (in other words, my perception of a perception:rotfl:) that people are shopping more online and there's probably figures showing that this is true - I don't mean that people shop more online but that they are shopping increasingly online rather than shopping at a store. Some of this may be concentrated in some areas, such as the range of products than Amazon sells. (I am now inadvertently advertising Amazon. But, we know where these places are and there is no point hiding it. Other places might be available:rotfl:.) I suppose it depends on how available and convenient online services are. Sometimes people might find it better to buy larger items more conveniently online - or sometimes these are the items that some people may prefer to buy instore, because they are unusual purchases, of items that are more costly and maybe they like to go and look at those in a store. Different people do different things - it's all preference or what suits each person - and overall of course those economic choices add up to what is happening in the marketplace. I have lost people by this stage:rotfl:.

You say T must know something as they have closed Tesco Direct. We make assumptions that people know things - although maybe they do, maybe they don't. My approach nowadays is "never to assume that you can assume anything, including this assumption itself" - I've tended to find, though, that almost everything I once assumed has turned out not to be correct and the vast majority of things that nearly everyone assumes to be the case are incorrect. I think clearly it's the case that, for whatever reason, Tesco Direct wasn't making enough profit for them and it's a business decision that they have closed it. Whether it could have continued in a different form or selling different products is a thought, but either this wasn't considered or, if it was, they've obviously decided that it wasn't worthwhile for them doing so.

mrsmac10

pandoraskids wrote: »

Today, DS who is 19 and has asperger's has plucked up the courage to make the journey to Aberdeen (where his gf is at uni) for a long weekend. I went as far as Wigan with him & put him on the train to Edinburgh and he has now let me know that he made the change at Haymarket ok and is now on the train to Aberdeen. May not be a big deal to some but this is a HUGE achievement for him :j :j

Awwwwww That's such a huge achievement Well done young Mr pandora

braveheart60uk

pandoraskids wrote: »

Today, DS who is 19 and has asperger's has plucked up the courage to make the journey to Aberdeen (where his gf is at uni) for a long weekend. I went as far as Wigan with him & put him on the train to Edinburgh and he has now let me know that he made the change at Haymarket ok and is now on the train to Aberdeen. May not be a big deal to some but this is a HUGE achievement for him :j :j

Astonishing achievement, trains are so cramped and noisy, I always need to stand at the door or use the seat there, so I can have minimal physical contact and I can distract myself by looking out the window. eadphones with music that you like can also block the noise.
Haymarket is always busy, so even the train change is strenuous.
:T:T:T

curl_girl

pandoraskids wrote: »

Today, DS who is 19 and has asperger's has plucked up the courage to make the journey to Aberdeen (where his gf is at uni) for a long weekend. I went as far as Wigan with him & put him on the train to Edinburgh and he has now let me know that he made the change at Haymarket ok and is now on the train to Aberdeen. May not be a big deal to some but this is a HUGE achievement for him :j :j

Dora, that's fabulous
You should both be really proud......

curl_girl

Called in for crisps.
1 assorted and 1 cheese.
Daren't put more than 1 in 2 shops

Noticed Chicken flavour were reduced in the jumble bins at 75p, now wondering if the coupon would have scanned at £1.50 still?
Will try to go tomorrow after my petrol top ups........