Keep calm and carry on....

badmemory · 7 December 2020 at 1:40AM

killerpeaty said:

There's nothing wrong with buying stuff from a failing company, without people buying the stuff they have at the moment they won't get money to pay their creditors which may or may not include their own employees.

Indeed - including their employees pension fund, which some employers seem to have raided. Guess who pays THAT shortfall. The problem with a big one going down is all the small businesses that can't support their unpaid debt.

Many years ago, a very big co still operating, used to drive small companies into being bankrupt by taking a contract, increasing the contract, company thinks Xmas has come, increase contract, increase contract, company has to drop all other customers, increase contract significantly drop prices, and again. Until company goes bankrupt - bye, bye. Now they just go overseas, but January may well change that, so they will just send small countries there. But they all do it now, that is how some supermarkets get such low prices but good margins. And they complain about amazon!

South_coast · 7 December 2020 at 7:30AM

Thanks both, I think I just felt guilty that I hadn't bought anything in store from them for years (although I have bought online)

And on the middle-aged front, it's only 3 years since I got refused alcohol in a supermarket as I didn't have any ID with me! (So I just went to the one down the road instead 🤣!)

South_coast · 7 December 2020 at 7:24PM

I've only just remembered that I can tell Consumer Pulse about yesterday's shopping - I must be busy if I forgot £1.50 of free money for 31 hours 😮!

debtfreeoneday · 10 December 2020 at 4:42AM

Hmmm all quiet on here. You’re obviously off building up that free money!

South_coast · 10 December 2020 at 9:05PM

Nope, just not got anything interesting to say 🤣!

QueenJess · 11 December 2020 at 11:15AM

How's Streetbees been? I seem to have completely failed to log into the app for a couple of months. It only takes a few days of not having any surveys in there and then I completely forget about them. The only time I remember is when you mention it!

South_coast · 11 December 2020 at 7:28PM

There's not been much about this month (or I've not been looking as much, not sure which 🤔). I've had a few rejected for giving the same answers, so trying to focus on ones that I can vary/don't require photos