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ChrisK....._3

worried_jim wrote: »

I went to school with a girl who was convinced that if a full bottle of wine had 12% alcohol volume once half the bottle had been consumed then the remaining wine would be just 6% alcohol. She now runs customer services for a (soon to be huge) supermarket chain. Not Lidl though.

I have had to refer to Tesco Customer Service Desk for two incidents in my life

1/ When Tesco were advertising Chips (£2.00 = £2 per Kilo) when in fact the packs only contained 900 grams - I reported this to woman at C./Service counter who said it's a mistake and nothing she could do about it but change the ticket. Next visit reported the same to the same advisor - again she said she would change the ticket. Next visit reported the same where she got very irate - IVE CHANGED THE TICKET - THE PRICE IS CORRECT - I DID IT MYSELF YESTERDAY - " but it's always advertised the correct price - but the new ticket is STILL advertising the wrong weight which means the price per kilo is wrong - She just wasn't seeing the problem so I just gave up. Thought about writing to the Manager

2/ Bought 2 packs of Fish on offer from £4 pack to £1.99 pack - Charged the full £8 at the checkout - reported to a different woman on Customer Service desk and also reminded her of the "double the difference" price promise on a poster directly behind her. She worked it out and arrived at £1 refund divided by 2 equals 50p
???????????????????
She tried another 4 times and arrived still at 50p
This time I did ask for the Store manager who promptly gave me
(£8 - £3.98) price over charge x 2 = £8.04
And I kept the fish

You would think that minimum of Maths Level 1 to work on Customer Service counter

parkrunner

The advert has been removed, I think they have got the point.

neilmcl

It would be interesting to know whether the actual product was 100% cotton or not.

Tom99

parkrunner wrote: »

The advert has been removed, I think they have got the point.

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]With the message:[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Whoops! Looks like we've slipped up..[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]And a picture of a 100% cotton banana skin[/FONT]

parkrunner

neilmcl wrote: »

It would be interesting to know whether the actual product was 100% cotton or not.

It wasn't.

Lip_Stick

That Lidl reply gave me my biggest laugh of the day. Didn't she wonder to herself how an item could be both 100% and 35% cotton?

Sheldon_Cooper

Oakdene wrote: »

No different to saying a Big Mac is made with 100% UK beef.

Quite honestly you are making yourself look rather foolish with these daft replies.

Any vaguely intelligent person knows that the 100% beef refers to the meat within the buns, the 100% cod refers to the fish in the breadcrumbs and the 100% horsehair refers to the bristles attached to the handle.

You analogy is flawed.

A more reasonable analogy would be mcdonalds claiming that their burgers were 100% beef when the meat part was actually 35% beef and 65% pork.

Lidls are in breach of the law selling the shirts described the way they are, although I'm sure it was a genuine mistake. The response was stupid, but it does seem that there are a few people who actually are dozy enough to accept it.

photome

Sheldon_Cooper wrote: »

Quite honestly you are making yourself look rather foolish with these daft replies.

Any vaguely intelligent person knows that the 100% beef refers to the meat within the buns, the 100% cod refers to the fish in the breadcrumbs and the 100% horsehair refers to the bristles attached to the handle.

You analogy is flawed.

A more reasonable analogy would be mcdonalds claiming that their burgers were 100% beef when the meat part was actually 35% beef and 65% pork.

Lidls are in breach of the law selling the shirts described the way they are, although I'm sure it was a genuine mistake. The response was stupid, but it does seem that there are a few people who actually are dozy enough to accept it.

Maybe oakdene and the Lidl employee are one and the same

welshbookworm

Sounds like the T shirt was made of 2 different materials
65% of one material was 100% polyester
35% of another material was 100% cotton.
eg a t shirt with a lace insert/ overlay.
Which is how I reacd the advert.

Pollycat

welshbookworm wrote: »

Sounds like the T shirt was made of 2 different materials
65% of one material was 100% polyester
35% of another material was 100% cotton.
eg a t shirt with a lace insert/ overlay.
Which is how I reacd the advert.

I think items usually say something like 'main 100% polyester, trim 100% cotton' in those circumstances.
If the T shirt was the same material all over i.e. no trim it should have stated '65% polyester 35% cotton'.

As for example M&S and Next do with their linen/cotton mix clothes.