Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

MKS

TrulyMadly wrote: »

This is what I ordered MKS

Just tried again and it will no longer accept the code:o

Sorry

Thanks, TM (and Hillbern). It worked for the Prezzo meal. x

mattswife

TrulyMadly wrote: »

No Tuna for me:o

But well done everyone.

Tuna and chicken. My perfect things to glitch:)

Talking of chicken. I know I've mentioned this before but the 3 for £10 chickens in M&S are such good value if you pick the right ones. Look for the ones with the longest cooking time as they are all packaged as weighing 1.1kg. I picked the largest on the shelves and each one weighed between 1.6kg and 1.7 kg:T:T

I used a £3 off £15 on Mr TMs sparks card and paid the balance with gift cards:)

lol i do that with the chicken in M&S too!!!

its_a_secret_66

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Yeah I didn't think of that one. But then I'd be the one putting £10 in, causing embarrassment to everyone else and not seeing any of it:rotfl:.

Even so, I have got to admit (too honest) that I don't like doing several £10s in a row. I don't know what I think might happen or whether I think the local cashier will see me numerous times in a row, report to head office that that is what someone has done and then see the whole promo. pulled. I get a bit unduly nervous just being me anyway in a situation like this (no problem with normal buying at other times). Of course I don't know what to say if the cashier asked me something, I couldn't find the words to make them like me and let me get away with it, I just... don't know what to say or how! I just have no success in any of that. I tend to try a couple of times in a row, as if I forgot to put enough petrol in the first time and was just returning to fill up properly and then go to another store nearby and do the same thing. I may return to the other store later in the day when another cashier has come in. That's how I've done this thing in the past. It's defeating the point to travel somewhere to get petrol. But if I am in other place already anyway...

I wouldn't be bothered if anyone laughed at me for it. I just haven't got the courage to do four or five separate £10 fills in a row:eek:.

Imagine me going in: "I'm autistic. Can you make reasonable adjustments to act the same way as you would have acted if I'd successfully persuaded you to let me have several £10 fills in a row without any question?" It ain't going to happen! (Besides, I think what would happen... would be they would cut me off halfway through and not have the energy to listen or be interested in it all as me putting the question properly would be too long-winded. [Strike]Or, as usual, a non-autistic person would come in and the cashier's brain would be immediately distracted to turn away from me and onto the non-autistic person who came in.[/Strike])

EDIT: Tell you what (I'm not saying this in a snapping way, I've merely given up trying to perfect this post), I'm doing two versions. I've messed around with this post twice, changing it back and forth because I think the short 'clear' version is more ambiguous but my attempt for clarity is worse because it makes it too long-winded. So here are the two versions (both meanng the same) and you decide:

Version 1:
Or, as usual, a non-autistic person would come in and their brain would be immediately distracted to turn away from me and onto them.

Version 2: My long-winded version:
Or, as usual, a non-autistic person would come in and the cashier's brain would be immediately distracted to turn away from me and onto the non-autistic person who came in.

I didn't want to keep version 1 because for me there was too much ambiguity in it. Even though I supsect there's no doubt, or not much, and it is actually clear. I didn't like the ending of version 2 because I thought I'd now made that ambiguous because it wasn't clear where they were "coming in". I mean walking into the petrol forecourt shop.

I had the initial problem that "their" and "them" were two different people.

Hello Savvy

I had a cashier last year that threatened to ban me if i did it again.

I had done three separate £10 transactions , there wasnt a queue.
I was so embarassed i do think it is down to the area you live, some staff act like its coming out of their own pocket.

pandoraskids

LANGO1966 wrote: »

Just tried Sbobs gift card, no voucher, also sister in another store got Debenhams card and no voucher.

I seem to remember that on the last swipe to win promotion it was reported that the S gift cards didn't generate a voucher but others did when you also spent £1 on something else to generate a nectar point - or did I dream that :rotfl: :rotfl::rotfl:

pandoraskids

4 x S shops 500 & 3 x 200 Ok I guess

A far more successful shop at T

7 crisps & 26 Tuna
Oh and a wombled petrol coupon

The Tuna in brine on the normal shelf had SEL £1 and only had 1 pack left. The sunflower & spring water both scanned at £3.50. However, on the aisle end display there were heaps, all had SEL £3.50 - all the brine scanned at £1

Self scan took 2 crisp coupons per transaction without asking for approval

shirley999

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Another good morning at S.

Used our second family member;) nectar card for the first time today and was less lucky .....3 x 200 and 2 x 500. The car will take another £20 so I'm going to do that tomorrow:) there's no cumulative balance showing up on receipts but I'm assuming that's cos it's a new card.

I'll hang onto the receipts until they show.

I was luckier with my card with 2000 back on a £10 next card, 1000 on a next gift card, 1000 on a £10 shop that I got down to £3 with coupons......I need to relook at this as it should have been down to £5. Ihen another 2 x 200 on next cards.

I haven't dared hand over the really really mucky wombled one yet:rotfl:

Self-scan?

wendyak

I'm stilL T mag -less. Tried every day and even got promised by an employee but no luck,.
Tried to print from the online but that didn't work either ....well jell xx

wendyak

If anyone has Showfilmfirst and is Londinium based there are free tickets for tomorrow for Black Eyed Peas at Hammersmith !! £3 booking fee xx

MKS

pandoraskids wrote: »

4 x S shops 500 & 3 x 200 Ok I guess

A far more successful shop at T

7 crisps & 26 Tuna
Oh and a wombled petrol coupon

The Tuna in brine on the normal shelf had SEL £1 and only had 1 pack left. The sunflower & spring water both scanned at £3.50. However, on the aisle end display there were heaps, all had SEL £3.50 - all the brine scanned at £1

Self scan took 2 crisp coupons per transaction without asking for approval

Glad that you were successful with the tuna.

Savvybuyer

fuzzgun19 wrote: »

I managed to get some crisps yesterday, 1st time, just got two chicken and 1 BBQ, went on SS and accidently put 3 chicken through SA was fine and just did mocs

The BBQ ones are really nice! Taste like the BBQ Rib flavour Walkers used to do.

2nd time in and got other bits (Lenor/Magnum) and 4 crisps, used the hand scanner thingy, scanning 4 chicken.
At the till, it let me scan all the mocs without an SA EXCEPT the crisp ones.. young jobsworth came and tried to say they only work on the ones in the picture on the moc, I said it doesn't specify but jobsworth was adamant, but offered to show me on another till - she tried only scanning the BBQ then said see it doesn't work, but I asked her to try the chicken and she was proved wrong lol.
I swapped one pack of the BBQ for chicken but sneaked through a BBQ as it was at the bottom of my bag and she just took my word it was chicken

Going to try a different T tomorrow, hope to get more BBQ, if not I'll try swap at CS.

Hmm:think:. Interesting in my current self-motivated study on neutrotypical behaviour. In fact I could just about look at everything that goes on in my life (including reading about other people) and now see, at every stage, autism from me and how that is affected everything else around me. I'm not doing it deliberately - it just happens compared to how I didn't quite take a step nearer to the perimeter of the car park but instead ended up a little bit closer to a woman that was coming of the supermarket than might have been best - we almost bumped into each other:rotfl: - just happened, my clumsy manoeuvre about again, or maybe I didn't see her early enough - or maybe it's just me imagining and it's the woman that hasn't seen me and then proceeded to walk a little bit nearer to me on her way out.

Anyway - I have diverted from the point - the description of what happened in the store, between you and her - and I've highlighted the parts about her, as I'm looking at her behaviour not yours, is interesting on numerous points about what I assume to be neurotypicals. Actually, it could be autistic but seems to me much less likely because sometimes I can think something to be true but be mistaken and then be perhaps even more insistent than most people that I am correct unless they show me that I am wrong. I capitulate very easily though (sometimes way too much:o) the moment it becomes clear I am wrong. I think it's more likely that it shows (and again this is giving and seeking of information yet again and not chat:rotfl:) people's tendency to make assumptions, on the basis of lack of knowledge, that are incorrect, are then adamant that they are correct when they are not, because they believe they are right, then try something and think it shows they were right (they're still wrong btw:rotfl:) and then, if it gets beyond that, are the presumably surprised by something that came as a surprise to them because it shows they are wrong - assuming they then recognise that it does that - that should have been no surprise at all all along as they were always wrong.

I've discussed in detail now:rotfl:. At least I don't leave you guessing at what aspects of the behaviour I'm finding interesting. You then sneak a BBQ through (a slight 'deception' on your part - are you non-autistic? - top or bottom of your bag makes no difference to me but presentation is absolutely influential to non-autistics like I assume the SA to be - maybe, because it was bottom of your bag, you didn't realise and therefore are to be forgiven) and she's obviously non-autistic as she fails to notice it isn't chicken:rotfl:. That swapping of packs would have never got through me:o:o - thank goodness we have SAs that are non-autistic:j (if my assumption about that is correct). Or maybe she was impressed at the audacity of your "white lie" about the pack being chicken, that she liked you and let you have it anyway:cool:.

If it had been me... I don't know why, from the information I've understood from this thread, the coupons don't recognise BBQ flavour. I'd then have gone by the most favourable part of the coupons in accordance with the Consumer Rights Act 2015 which, to me, should be that all flavours are covered but, because the coupon didn't scan would probably have been conflicted by an internal company rule, if there is one, about not allowing coupons through if they don't scan so would then not have known what to do:o:o and would have waited ages for a supervisor to be called. They would then, with their lack of knowledge, might have told me something I didn't agree with(:o) and then I would feel uncomfortable if they are telling me something that might potentially break the law, so would be in a right conflict between the rule of having to follow what superiors ask you to do and the rule in the Consumer Rights Act (assuming I'm right) and not knowing which was right.

I'd probably follow the supervisor, with a little bit of internal reluctance but keep quiet, even though I wouldn't be comfortable doing so, but I suppose the hypothetical supervisor would have approved the hypothetical breach of a law not me so I am all in the comfortable clear and following all the rules. Or most probably I'd think coupon doesn't scan but company policy (hypothetical - there may not even be such a policy) is overruled by what I think should be allowed and let you have the BBQ anyway:cool:. Just so so lucky I'm not on a till or at SS:rotfl:.

I've got no clue have I? Others would see why make a simple job like being on a till complicated? I'd have probably envisaged and thought about situations like this arising in advance though, when I read [red] any company policy documents in full after my induction which no other staff member bothered to read, and would have planned in advance and thought about and catered for the situation and what to do so I would then quickly follow whatever I had decided was the right way to deal with it. Or, more probably perhaps, the matter of "what if a coupon doesn't scan?" would have been failed to be addressed in the policy, as non-autistic people writing policies are so incomplete:rotfl:, and then I'd have asked the question about "what about this, that isn't covered by the rules?" and then be thought to be pedantic (about what was a foreseeable and real situation that arose later on) and probably total silence as I'd hit a point they have not even thought about. Or, else, if anyone did cater for it, would probably then find lack of clarity in the rules.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I'm glad I had the job that I had, and that I do what I do, so that these situations would not occur. It's made me think though - even a cashier at a supermarket is not a straightforward job is it?(:rotfl:) - and, having thought about that, if I decide to apply for a supermarket job at some point in the future (if so, I can't see that far ahead - anything could happen years away from now - who knows what will intervene?), will now make me more suitable.

I'm good if people tell me exactly what they want me to do and then, most probably, will do a far better job than the vast majority of people can manage to do.:cool: It wouldn't need returning, to me or anyone else, for not being done properly and, if you don't think it was done properly, then it was your instructions that were incomplete and at fault:rotfl:. I've done my job, it's you not doing yours properly:o:o - but I won't tell you that. What this results in is, because society won't let you tell it that you are wrong, even when you are, and would penalise me in that event, for being correct, I just keep my mouth shut whilst you devise a procedure that I can see, when no-one else can, will inevitably fail. And then I sit back and, when it's introduced, follow it and then, five years later, the inevitable failure comes, just like I thought and knew it would, just like I would have told you so, if only you had been amenable to that, and then I have a chuckle to myself when you then have to introduce the alternative procedure instead that I had in my mind at the very start. You get there - just delayed by five years and entirely inefficiently:rotfl:.