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WH Smith and their naffing half priced chocolate!
sparkidee
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Does anyone else get asked this? "you want some half priced chocolate" there stacked up on the counter and no one ever buys them. Oh and they give you free book vouchers even though you dont want them. Is it the same everywhere else? cos here in Kent they seem hell bent on selling all this chocolate
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I personally find they're far too expensive. I only buy newspapers from there, nothing that they can set the price for themselves.
I know, I'm a miser:rolleyes:
Same here.
They charge about £1.50 for a 500ml bottle of juice at the branches near me.
:eek::eek::eek: HOW much? :mad::mad::mad:
They charge £1 quid for a single can of diet coke as well.
I still want to go and buy one at that price just for the hell of it though
I remember when cans used to be 25p
It sounds like WHSmith are just another shop to adopt the 'forced sales' technique at the checkout. The Post Office recently introduced this (you go to buy a stamp and get offered life insurance or something!) and clothes shops always do it.
Gargh.
I walked into Next and had a look around the mens bit and a bloke came up to me and said can I interest you in this mens aftershave its only blah blah price. No thanks Im just browsing, he persisted to try and sell me more guff I didnt want so I said to him you know what? I'll have all of it. So he went over to the counter, went out the back to get some bags and while he was doing that I walked off out the store. Im not going back there again. Its like your mum catching you watching porn! a barrage of questions and they wont leave you the frig alone until you give them an answer :mad:
I miss Woolworths
Sainsburys have jumped on the same bandwagon.
Argos finally seem to have taken the hint regarding their product insurance thing and also their credit card. I've not been asked in there for ages - thank heavens for their self-serve tills!
BHS are dreadful though. Even when you say no, they still carry on. I'm not as a rule rude to them, they're just following orders afterall, but it really is a challenge sometimes, especially when I'm trying to pay, and stop my 3 year old wrecking the shop at the same time.
They still are in shops called Home Bargains around here, Diet Coke or Pepsi, 4 for a £1.
and Tesco. Any fuel? got a clubcard? want a clubcard?
meanwhile theres a cue forming at the pumps
If you time it right, you can pick up some pretty good bargins there, I recently bought a whole bunch of Pilot V5 Gel pens for just a little over a pound each, most retailers sell them at around the £2.50 mark
The worst IMO for trying to sell you their card everytime you purchase an item is Debenhams. I don't want one of their rip off store cards.
I'm tempted to say "If I wanted chocolate, I'd have fcuking asked for it".
I also get it at BP garages, namely "any tea, coffee, hot snacks?". Erm, no, you're a garage, I come here for petrol, not food. How am I supposed to drink or hold a coffee whilst driving? And I'm not going to eat any food after handling your disgusting petrol pumps.
If I get offered store credit, I just say 'Im blacklisted'. Sometimes 'No thanks' simply doesn't work.
I did buy a bar of Galaxy once though as i was peckish, and it was almost at its use by date and tasted a little strange. It also had some white on the chocolate, a sure sign its old or been left to melt / re-harden. Never again.