It's getting tough out there. Feeling the pinch?

Rosa_Damascena

annabanana82 said:

Katiehound said:

timehastoldme said:

Anxious introvert, and big fan of self scanners, wish Aldi did them. Small talk is exhausting. 

Aldi has self scan tills in our local store. They've been in for at least a couple of months. However, they are not patient! If you hesitate for even a moment the wretched thing has some kind of message for you.  If you have 30% stickers on anything you need to leave them to the end as an assistant puts in the discount code.
There are cash ones & cards ones- 6 or 7 in total and I think have replaced 2 traditional tills. If I have a very full trolley I would use the normal till.

I remembered when a local Asda introduced the self scan, and I was stood in queue to pay when the two ladies behind me fed up of queuing said aloud "let's go to the self scan, it's cheaper". I remember thinking it'll never catch on if the shoplifting is going to catch on! 
But many years later its still going, I guess the reduction of staff compensates and additional costs from thievery.

I did inform a member of staff of what I'd heard

I think it been around for long enough for people to realise that the tills are highly calibrated towards product weight and people are on CCTV so any dishonesty might be pulled once but am pretty sure the security staff work to a rogues gallery.

elsien

Calibrated for colour as well, to catch either people swapping the expensive veg for the cheap prices. And they have cameras on them.

I noticed that if I put (for example) bananas on the scales it comes up with a list of yellow items to choose from.

And when the machine swallowed my £20 note, they asked security to review the CCTV footage to check what note I’d actually used. I hadn’t realised the amount of camera coverage there is. 

pelirocco

ladyholly said:

Deleted_User said:

... I struggle to understand how a number of items are increasing such a lot and so quickly ...

Not only are ingredients are going up but remeber up until now there has been no help for business electricity costs plus people are wanting higher wages and all that is on top of other prices. Most commodities are paid for in dollars so until the £ settles down this will cause more price rises.

Up until now no help with business electric  ?
I have a business and have no help with electricity cost ?
But had an unexpected  50% rates rebate for covid relief this year ,very pleasant surprise, we were £500 over the rateable  value limit ,to claim covid grant  previously

pelirocco

linz said:

Those people with Shell Energy it looks like theyve added the £67 to accounts. Just noticed the credit in my account has gone up by about that figure since I did the meter reading on 29th Sept

British gas refunded to £67 to my bank ,think that's a crazy idea it should stay credited  to fuel accounts

GaleSF63

pelirocco said:

British gas refunded to £67 to my bank ,think that's a crazy idea it should stay credited  to fuel accounts

It's even dafter if your DD is less than £67. They (well Scottish Power do anyway) refund the amount of the DD to your bank account and put the difference to your account. 

London_1

GaleSF63 said:

pelirocco said:

British gas refunded to £67 to my bank ,think that's a crazy idea it should stay credited  to fuel accounts

It's even dafter if your DD is less than £67. They (well Scottish Power do anyway) refund the amount of the DD to your bank account and put the difference to your account. 

It is indeed My DD to Shell is £36.00 per month as I am a low and careful user, and I know there is over £300 in credit to my account at the moment 

RobM99

pelirocco said:

linz said:

Those people with Shell Energy it looks like theyve added the £67 to accounts. Just noticed the credit in my account has gone up by about that figure since I did the meter reading on 29th Sept

British gas refunded to £67 to my bank ,think that's a crazy idea it should stay credited  to fuel accounts

 What difference can it make? You'll probably have to pay it out again in winter.

EssexHebridean

pelirocco said:

linz said:

Those people with Shell Energy it looks like theyve added the £67 to accounts. Just noticed the credit in my account has gone up by about that figure since I did the meter reading on 29th Sept

British gas refunded to £67 to my bank ,think that's a crazy idea it should stay credited  to fuel accounts

Absolutely agree. while some people will immediately transfer the money across to their gas account, or just ringfence it for use in a few months, there are plenty more who either won't even notice it landing and will just think they are a bit better off that month, or worse, will see it as a nice little bonus/new pair of shoes/big takeaway splurge/treats for the kids or whatever, and won't have the money when the higher winter fuel use starts landing. 

It's easy on here to forget sometimes that an awful lot of folk out in the real world aren't as savvy with money as most of us are! 

CCW007

EssexHebridean said:

Absolutely agree. while some people will immediately transfer the money across to their gas account, or just ringfence it for use in a few months, there are plenty more who either won't even notice it landing and will just think they are a bit better off that month, or worse, will see it as a nice little bonus/new pair of shoes/big takeaway splurge/treats for the kids or whatever, and won't have the money when the higher winter fuel use starts landing. 

It's easy on here to forget sometimes that an awful lot of folk out in the real world aren't as savvy with money as most of us are! 

It is such a worry, I still see people on some of my FB groups asking what this money is so some people are definitely still unaware, despite all the news coverage.  In my pre MSE years that would have been me.

YorksLass

London_1 said:

I think I might make some of that tomato and red pepper soup as I can use either tinned tomatoes or fresh as I have plenty of both, and I have a red pepper that's starting to look a bit sad,so it will do for a couple of lunches this week.

Definitely be using up some stuff from the fridge this week  I know I have some wensleydale and cranberry chesse to  use up as well.
JackieO xx

I used tinned tomatoes for the soup and perked it up with a teaspoon of tandoori marinade paste, very tasty.  Our weather is set to change to cooler from tomorrow. so the soup will be welcome as will some of the winter type meals I've got on this week's meal plan - a liver, bacon, onion casserole and corned beef hash with dumplings.

Snap with the Wensleydale and cranberry cheese!  I'd ordered the one with apricots but got this as a sub instead - doesn't matter, we like both.