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Shirlz2005 wrote:http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/arti ... /2454/1/2/ offers a different point of view on the RFID.

Gad, that article alone is enough to make you turn against capitalism. It's all the customers' fault; the capitalist system will always come up with a solution; RFID need not infringe your privacy because someone is already selling a product that will protect you from it.

So, that's good, innit?

multiveg wrote:Letter in the local paper from an old age pensioner. She said that there were only 4 seats by the checkout and wanted more to be put in so she could comfortably sit down while waiting for other elderly friends. The manager replied saying that they didn't have any money to buy the seats.

Oh they do like to listen to their customers needs don't they.... every little counts.. grrrr!

On the plus side... they have reported that 1million plastic bags have been saved as a result of the new green points for reusing bags... perhaps they can afford a couple of chairs with the money saved.

Chairs - in a supermarket?

Anyway, reasons to boycott T***o no. 157:

Their baked beans aren't as nice as Heinz!

MMM, you bring us back down to essentials: The quality of the food...

But chairs in supermarkets- yes, it is an essential customer service, I think, at least if they want to attract the custom of parents with kids and elderly or unfirm people (and let's face it, most of us fit into one or the other category sooner or later in life). My father had a bookshop, and he always kept a chair in the corner for elderly customers who came in every day for their paper and needed a rest; or customers who wanted to browse through a book before deciding which one to buy. When he sold the shop, the chair was the first thing to go: The new owner "didn't run a library - people could go home after buying what they came in for". Do I need to say he soon lost a significant number of our regular customers?

I agree - I think there should be chairs in every kind of shop! There's always a time when you are hanging around waiting for someone else to finish their shopping and getting very bored and footsore.

As for at supermarkets, I think I remember a row of them in a Tescos (yeah alright! ) but I don't think I've ever seen any chairs in a French supermarket.

Unfortunately, life in the UK is dominated by 4 large superstore chains, Sainsburys, Tescos, Asda, Morrisons (and Waitrose for posh folks).

We have let it reach this situation, where they have a stranglehold on the British shopper.

They offer neither quality nor value for money - a quick walk around the hypermarket in Calais' Cite de Europe will illustrate that.

They are responsible for all the non-recylable plastic waste that I have to put in my bin, which just goes to landfill.

Pop bottles, meat trays, cling film and other plastic packaging.

I suggest that rather that boycotting them, that we all fill one of their carrier bags with all their used plastic packaging, and return it to them.

That will soon make them rethink their packaging policy.

Find a Tescos in a university town and get all the students to return their plastic waste - what a hoot. Bet you it would make National News.

Make sure each bit of waste has "T***o" printed on it - that way there's no confusion over ownership.


Personally I try to support my local corner shop. OK so the milk's 45p a pint, but it is the last remanant of the decent society that used to exist here.


Ken

45p a pint!!!!

Oi Nev! Does that still equate to about 90c our end??? Far out... We might need to start importing their cows!

Subsidised, Boots. Welcome to the EU common agricultural policy! (Don't ask about the wine lake)

kenboak wrote:I suggest that rather that boycotting them, that we all fill one of their carrier bags with all their used plastic packaging, and return it to them.

That will soon make them rethink their packaging policy.

Find a Tescos in a university town and get all the students to return their plastic waste - what a hoot. Bet you it would make National News.

Make sure each bit of waste has "T***o" printed on it - that way there's no confusion over ownership.
Ken

I think that is a totally brilliant idea, Ken! We could start a SSish pressure campaign like the carry-a-bag one. Anyone?

Boots wrote:45p a pint!!!!

Oi Nev! Does that still equate to about 90c our end??? Far out... We might need to start importing their cows!

How much do you pay for milk? I buy long life and pay 59c (euro cents) a LITRE!!!

kenboak wrote:Unfortunately, life in the UK is dominated by 4 large superstore chains, Sainsburys, Tescos, Asda, Morrisons (and Waitrose for posh folks).

We have let it reach this situation, where they have a stranglehold on the British shopper.

They offer neither quality nor value for money - a quick walk around the hypermarket in Calais' Cite de Europe will illustrate that.

They are responsible for all the non-recylable plastic waste that I have to put in my bin, which just goes to landfill.

Pop bottles, meat trays, cling film and other plastic packaging.

I suggest that rather that boycotting them, that we all fill one of their carrier bags with all their used plastic packaging, and return it to them.

That will soon make them rethink their packaging policy.

Find a Tescos in a university town and get all the students to return their plastic waste - what a hoot. Bet you it would make National News.

Make sure each bit of waste has "T***o" printed on it - that way there's no confusion over ownership.


Personally I try to support my local corner shop. OK so the milk's 45p a pint, but it is the last remanant of the decent society that used to exist here.


Ken

At least you have alternatives in the UK. In France the country is dominated by the supermarket chains and there ARE no corner shops. If I wanted to boycott supermarkets here the only things I could buy would be meat from the butchers, bread from the bakeries (which is awful, so that's why I make my own) and have to travel 18km to the nearest market - only one day a week - to buy overpriced, bad quality vegetables.

For cleaning stuff I could get it from a DIY store (18kms away). Lord knows where I would get milk, sugar or coffee and all the other dry goods, not to mention half the toiletries we buy. Channel Islands probably!!!

There just is NO alternative to a supermarket. So think yourselves lucky!

And here was me thinking that the French had this great small-shop / item-specific type shop thing going on - the impression one receives from reading books like A Year in Provence is of a thriving community spirit shopped around small bakeries, butchers, grocers and so on.

Just goes to show eh?

I've never seen a veg grocers in France. do they exist?

Red

Milk is cheaper here when you buy it in 2 litre plastic bottles, BUT 2 litres is still $3.60AU...

I'm not familiar with euro cents Mandy, but I think the pound has generally stayed about half of our dollar... or is it the other way around? Figure Nev will know, as he just got back...

I stopped buying it when we got our milker and noticed a massive difference. We just buy powdered milk now and throw in the odd bottle when daughter #1 catches me at a weak moment, and bribes me with a cheap brand which are sometimes on special for $2

Local producers have made a real noise about these cheap brands, insisting they are shutting them down, so always feel a bit guilty when I do it, but $3.60 is just plain ridiculous.

I am quite happy using powdered while waiting for our milkers little offspring to make mating/milking age, but can't say daughter is.

I gotta tell ya Boots, I wouldn't have a clue how much milk costs! We get the low fat stuff and buy it when we need it and don't even look at the price. The powdered stuff is good for storage so onya Boots!

I'm just hanging out for the goat!

Nev