Somerfield - attempted rip off again on promotions

[ibilly99]

Bought 2 Magners 1 litre cider bottles ?3-75 each or 2 for a fiver as I approached the till I knew I was going to get ripped off and was watching the till like a hawk. Sure as anything they didn't register the discount armed with info from this board I asked to see the manager. I told him a lot of people are commenting on this and he said he wished they would approach him directly. He was very apologetic and immediately got the cashier to correct this - I asked the cashier if this happened a lot and she said it did. Starting to think that this is more than incompetence.

[Sue]

I gave up on the incompetence theory some time ago.

Edited to add: But it's not just Somerfield.

I bought three bottles of wine for a tenner in Iceland recently and got charged for four.

The cashier expressed no surprise when I pointed this out (I've now started checking all my receipts in supermarkets, sad though it may be).

Nor did the person in charge seem surprised when they refunded me my money.

Another customer said "Good thing you checked your bill." Yeh.

[HonaloochieB]

It's happened to me on more than one beer promotion and has been corrected by the long-suffering till jockey.

I've been advised by the staff member on more than one occasion to complain to the manager.

But I never have.

I reckon beer's making me apathetic when at source and all full of feist-ivity when at keyboard.

I tend to type a good fight.

[HonaloochieB]

Whooooa big cold bottles of cold Peroni.

I've a bladder full of urine and the desire to commit a minor act of liquid-based criminal damage to the lower left hand corner of their shutters tonight.

Who's with me?

Depending on who's on Question Time of course. And I've still got the extras to watch on series two of Saxondale.

Twelveish perhaps?

[HonaloochieB]

Look a stiff/sarcastic e-mail will be sent by me to their head office tomorrow.

In the sternest font I have available.

In red.

[dukesdenver]

I'm sure they will quail before your mighty Wingdings.

[snorky]

HonaloochieB Wrote:

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> Whooooa big cold bottles of cold Peroni.

> I've a bladder full of urine and the desire to

> commit a minor act of liquid-based criminal damage

> to the lower left hand corner of their shutters

> tonight.

> Who's with me?

> Depending on who's on Question Time of course. And

> I've still got the extras to watch on series two

> of Saxondale.

> Twelveish perhaps?

smash the capitalist oppressors. after Saxondale of course.

[woofmarkthedog]

Yeah put green turf on an establishment memorial, then withdraw ?50 quid from your trust fund

W o o yeah man

[HonaloochieB]

dukesdenver Wrote:

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> I'm sure they will quail before your mighty

> Wingdings.

Wingdings DD, great idea.

Interesting you used the word 'quail' in your post, it's a little known fact that Roger Daltrey's trout farm was a haven for quail. How many times did he put a loaded shotgun in my hand and tell me to "take lunch from the sky"?

Oh, Christ.

He looked from the Peroni to the Saxondale series 2 cover and back again and saw he had become one and the same.

[HonaloochieB]

snorky Wrote:

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I've still got the extras to watch on series

two of Saxondale. Twelveish perhaps?

>

> smash the capitalist oppressors. after Saxondale

> of course.

Glad you're with me Snorky, though of course it won't be so much smashing as potentially introducing rust into their shutters.

Unless of course they're galvanised, probably by a half-starved minimum-wage 'earning' immigrant capitalist plaything whose lungs will end up looking like lace curtains because of the galvanisation process he's been forced to endure.

Mind if he's been working for the likes of capitalist oppressors like Somerfield, maybe he deserves all he gets.

Sell out.

I'll let you know about the Saxondale extras. Cheers.

[Sue]

Admin gone on holiday??

:))

[HonaloochieB]

Sue Wrote:

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> Admin gone on holiday??

>

> :))

If they have they could do worse than take a copy of Saxondale series 2 with them.

Though I can't of course as yet vouch for the extras.

[Sue]

:))

[reetpetite]

Still happening in Somerfields.I wanted some mayo and found the Hellmanns mayo on offer at ?1.05 instead of ?2.80. I even double checked with a staff member that it was right,cos it seemed such a big saving. Surprise surprise I got charged ?2.08 ,dont know where that figure came from !

[HonaloochieB]

reetpetite Wrote:

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> Still happening in Somerfields.I wanted some mayo

> and found the Hellmanns mayo on offer at ?1.05

> instead of ?2.80. I even double checked with a

> staff member that it was right,cos it seemed such

> a big saving. Surprise surprise I got charged

> ?2.08 ,dont know where that figure came from !

I do. It came from them changing over the '0' and the '8'. It's called something. Juxtaposition?

No it's not that, but a bit like it and the word doesn't have an 'x' in it.

For some reason transvetite is giggling around my mind.

Did Eddie Izzard ever play a skit around mayonnaise?

?2.08 you say? For Hellmans? Not bad.

[reetpetite]

HonaloochieB Wrote:

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> reetpetite Wrote:

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> -----

> > Still happening in Somerfields.I wanted some

> mayo

> > and found the Hellmanns mayo on offer at ?1.05

> > instead of ?2.80. I even double checked with a

> > staff member that it was right,cos it seemed

> such

> > a big saving. Surprise surprise I got charged

> > ?2.08 ,dont know where that figure came from !

>

> I do. It came from them changing over the '0' and

> the '8'. It's called something. Juxtaposition?

> No it's not that, but a bit like it and the word

> doesn't have an 'x' in it.

> For some reason transvetite is giggling around my

> mind.

> Did Eddie Izzard ever play a skit around

> mayonnaise?

>

> ?2.08 you say? For Hellmans? Not bad.

But I checked my bill before I left so I did get it for ?1.05 after a member of staff sorted it out ! so well good price ..

[Luisa]

Just went to the check out with 2 bottles of softner advertised on the shelf 2 for ?2.

Thanks to this thread I was very suspicious of what I would be charged.....

?2.89.

I was almost pleased.

I told the cashier, who then went off to check the shelf and see if I was telling the truth and I waited (a little bit excited at this point) for her to come back.

She came back with the sign saying it was out of date, but there was no fuss in giving me the offer.

Me: This happens a lot in here doesn't it? (with smug look on my face)

cashier lady: yes - the manager can't do his job properly. sorry about that.

[lenk]

Always check your change

Shop somewhere else if it is too much to bear

new thread

[Sonners]

HonaloochieB Wrote:

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> >

> I do. It came from them changing over the '0' and

> the '8'. It's called something. Juxtaposition?

> No it's not that, but a bit like it and the word

> doesn't have an 'x' in it.

> For some reason transvetite is giggling around my

> mind.

> Did Eddie Izzard ever play a skit around

> mayonnaise?

I think that you mean transposition!

>

> ?2.08 you say? For Hellmans? Not bad.

[HonaloochieB]

Sonners Wrote:

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> HonaloochieB Wrote:

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> > >

> > I do. It came from them changing over the '0'

> and

> > the '8'. It's called something. Juxtaposition?

> > No it's not that, but a bit like it and the

> word

> > doesn't have an 'x' in it.

> > For some reason transvetite is giggling around

> my

> > mind.

> > Did Eddie Izzard ever play a skit around

> > mayonnaise?

>

> I think that you mean transposition!

> >

> > ?2.08 you say? For Hellmans? Not bad.

I'm confused now Sonners, what's Irvine Welsh got to do with it?

[Sonners]

Didn't he write a book about juxtaposed transvestites called "Transposition"?

[pebbles]

I went shopping today and bought crisps and dips both of which had offers on them. When i went to check out I remembered this thread so asked whether they had put through the offers. The assistant asked what they were and I told him the two items and guestimated the amounts and instead of checking these costs he went straight into the till and gave me change to the amounts that I told him, didn't even check that I was correct or anything and didn't give me a new receipt. Couldn't quite believe it. No surprise and no apology.

[HonaloochieB]

pebbles Wrote:

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> I went shopping today and bought crisps and dips

> both of which had offers on them. When i went to

> check out I remembered this thread so asked

> whether they had put through the offers. The

> assistant asked what they were and I told him the

> two items and guestimated the amounts and instead

> of checking these costs he went straight into the

> till and gave me change to the amounts that I told

> him, didn't even check that I was correct or

> anything and didn't give me a new receipt.

> Couldn't quite believe it. No surprise and no

> apology.

Apology for what? He took your word those goods were on special offer.

You could have been tucking him up like a kipper.

Mmm, kippers, are they on offer?

[pebbles]

Apology for making the mistake in the first place

I'm not a huge fan of kippers

[Zaardvark]

Why don't some of you who have ripped off report these guys to trading standards?

Best

Z