Are you all on the night shift at a supermarket? Very amusing stuff.

This week only so called supermarket special offers with a difference

Our apples are marked with the date they were picked on.

We are only stocking dark chocolate Bountys because these are a good combination whether or not you like them. For your guidance milk chocolate Bountys are a bad combination whether or not you like them.

Your checkout assistant will give you her full attention so she will not be talking to a colleague while serving you or allow a colleague to barge in and ask for a price check.

The coffee shop will be serving some edible food.

Customer service will be staffed by more than one person and they will not be engaged in a three way discussion with someone of indeterminate rank doing something involving folding, stuffing or writing something on a form.

I don't find reading signs in the first place to be all THAT great a burden.

I am more annoyed by meaninglessly small offers such as the five 42p yoghurts being sold for £2.00 in Sainsburys. What a bargain! And Tesco are now charging twice as much for their Doritos than they were last week (up from two bags for £1.12 to three bags for £3.) And I hate the way [nameoftoffeeshopeludesmyagingbrain] sell four Alpini bars for £2. Since four bars only last about three minutes longer than one bar all they are doing is charging an extra £1.41 for the same amount of pleasure. And I hate buy-one-get-one-free offers instead of buy one at half price. And I hate it when a remainders book shop has a closing down sale and I notice a book I want to buy and I go back a couple of days later and the book shop HAS ACTUALLY CLOSED DOWN! What are the chances of that?? And I hate the way supermarkets cover the price of out of stock items so that when they are restocked and the cover has not been removed you can't tell what price things are. And I hate it when HMV and Virgin complain about declining sales of CDs when the reason they are declining is that they are charging £13-18 for albums that cost £5-7 in the independent store next door. And I hate and I hate elevator music. And I hate the way nobody else takes unripe fruit and vegetables back to the supermarket and the produce supervisor says why'd you buy them you did the same two weeks ago that's the way we sell 'em nobody else complains. And I hate the way you can't buy seeded grapes. And I hate that they cut off half the leeks/caulieflowers/celery. Why have they stopped selling pear yoghurt? If you only have room to stock one flavour of Bounty or one flavour of Bahlsen who are the monstrous shoppers who would by choice default for the milk chocolate variety over the plain chocolate? Why is there only one chain in Britain that sells drinkable espressi? (Caffe Nero) How do Costa stay in business?

Am I drifting off topic?

Hello yvonne

Same experience. It is as simple as the signs being in the wrong place sometimes and having to check them in detail. I have found if I go to customer service at any of the food superstores they readily offer a refund. I am amazed that you have had rudeness or any problem changing something before you have left the store simply because these stores want as little aggravation as possible because it costs time which costs money and other customers may be looking on.

One thing I do on occasions if I think there may be a problem or more likely delay in a refund is go back to the offer and unhook the sign and take it with me to cs.

anyone noticed how many times you pick up buy one get one free stuff from supermarkets that go through till at full price per item? Its happened so much to me just lately that i really do check my bill afterwards. When I have queried why this has happened at customer service I always get the same reply that the offer was on the smaller bottles or larger packets blah blah. Why then are the special offer notices posted over the items that are not on special offer? It happens too often to be accidental.

For example, today i purchased some facial wipes for 88pence, buy one get one free. At the till they went through at 99p each item. As I had got four, that was nearly £4.00 instead of £1.76. When I queried this at customer services I was told by a very rude sales assistant that the offer was for the same wipes but the fragranced ones not the fragance free ones. I pointed out that the offer did'nt say that at all it just named the wipes. She just said that was the offer take it or leave it. I tried to argue that it was confusing and that they should be clear as to what was on offer with wording etc...

Just how much money are these huge business making off folks who don't check their bill? As if they don't make mega profits as it is.