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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Uncle Mort on November 09, 2010, 09:55:30 AM
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Why do the shop assistants in Boots always ask "have you got a Boots Card?"
If I had one I'd proffer it. It's not likely that the customer will reply with "thanks I'd forgotten I had one"
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Just friendly customer service like whistle:
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Prolly have targets for getting people to sign up, store cards are a good data mining tool.
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Why do the shop assistants in Boots always ask "have you got a Boots Card?"
If I had one I'd proffer it. It's not likely that the customer will reply with "thanks I'd forgotten I had one"
I've got one but I always forget it.
I've got a Shell points card too, and always have to be reminded by the assistant.
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Roolz prolly... noooo:
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Same everywhere I go "Got a nectar Card?"
cussing: "NO! And I don't want one either"
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I had over £70 worth of points on mine ...until I spent them all at the weekend like ... sad24:
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Same everywhere I go "Got a nectar Card?"
cussing: "NO! And I don't want one either"
I've been handed the nectar card for when I buy petrol today... ::)
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I take Groucho Marks' attitude "I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have me"
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I have a Nectar card, I always have it ready so I don't get asked. Seems obvious.
When I was convalescing I shopped with Sainsburys online. After I'd set up the account I found that I could see everything I'd bought in the previous few months eeek: but useful though.
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I have a Nectar card but I refuse to use it on principle, like. Have you ever used the Nectar points for anything?
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Only as credit against a big shop. Currently got about 50,000 points.
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Well I got petrol (thirty five freaking quid eeek:) and didn't use the nectar card - that bloody showed them! whistle:
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Only £35 quid? Tank half full was it?
I filled the Land Rover at the weekend £65, then Her Ladyship's Corsa £47 Banghead
You could have knocked me down with a feather ...... 'cept I was already on me knees, weeping like.
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Same here. £43 for my Ford Fusion yesterday. eeek:
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SWWLTBO gets about 350 miles out of a tankful. The Land Rover (diesel) will give around 450 miles to the tank. Both give something like 25 miles fewer to the fill up if we use Supermarket fuel (as previously discussed).
Fortunately I don't do many miles in a week but Her Ladyship eats 'em up.
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Fiesta at Tesco... the bloody price thing was whizzing round significantly faster than the litres thing... noooo:
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Fiesta at Tesco... the bloody price thing was whizzing round significantly faster than the litres thing... noooo:
4/9 a gallon when I started driving .... that's about 22.5 pence in this new fangled money so price per litre would have been 04.9 pence.
Think I'll buy a pony and trap.
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Fiesta at Tesco... the bloody price thing was whizzing round significantly faster than the litres thing... noooo:
4/9 a gallon when I started driving .... that's about 22.5 pence in this new fangled money so price per litre would have been 04.9 pence.
Think I'll buy a pony and trap.
I think it was 50p a gallon when I started driving...
Mind you, it was only CY£0.2 per litre when we moved to Cyprus... the EU changed all that of course.... noooo:
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Every so often I get to point where I balk at the cost of petrol. The last couple of times has cost me over £40 whereas previously it seemed to be about £30-£35. But in the end I figure what choice do I have? and just get used to the cost again.
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Every so often I get to point where I balk at the cost of petrol. The last couple of times has cost me over £40 whereas previously it seemed to be about £30-£35. But in the end I figure what choice do I have? and just get used to the cost again.
The government knows that of course - which is why 85% of it is tax... noooo:
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That's what they rely on Uncle .... I do have a bus pass but they can't get my Mobility Scooter on the bus so when I get to the end of the journey I just have to sit in the bus depot and wait for a returning bus to get me home again. Pointless!
I could "borrow" a mobility scooter from the shopping centre but their office is half a mile from the bus depot. Banghead
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I think it was 50p a gallon when I started driving...
And those Model T's went for miles on just the one tank. whistle:
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Anyhoo...
Petrol is still remarkably cheap when you think about it (tax excluded of course)...
To think they can pump it out from the bottom of the ocean, ship it half way round the world, refine it and then deliver it to your local confiscation petrol station for 20p a litre and still make billions in profit is quite remarkable... worthy:
Peak oil my fat, hairy arse! lol:
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My village has a couple of buses a day. Harlow or Epping. So, foe example, how do I get my sprogs to school in Ware?
I don't do many miles p.a. but I need to do them.
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Where?
Collar, leash, WALKIES!
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Walkies? surely it's wheelies in your case. ;)
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Indeed!
We used to live in Bengeo, when the THW was a baby. Lovely family walk down through the common, along the river to Ware for a pint and then toddle back home again.
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I like Ware, it has a nice unhurried feel about it. Pleasant river walks, proper high street (http://www.wareonline.co.uk/webcam/default.asp) with lots of old buildings. Even the Tescos is tucked away out of sight. I'd happily move there but the ex got in first.
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Many years ago I had a contract in Ware. Mrs Nick would call me to ask where I was. It always ended in a row noooo:
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lol:
Yes ~ I know what you mean. We used to guard a site in Ware and every time I went there on a site visit SWWLTBO would call me on the radio and ask "Where are you?" and I would reply "Ware". She would then key her mic several times in annoyance, making a clicking noise on my receiver, at having fallen for it again!
Happy days when things were Anna Log and I was not selling but managing guards.
For Uncle's benefit it was a Xerox site (he prolly knows it). We also guarded Northern Telecom (as was), Pitney Bowes and several other sites in Harlow.
Awful place Harlow...... nothing but trouble noooo:
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Many years ago I had a contract in Ware. Mrs Nick would call me to ask where I was. It always ended in a row noooo:
lol: lol: lol:
My dog is called Skilos which means 'dog' in Greek...
Great fun when a Cypriot asks what his name is.... lol: