hi shiverkitten,

I just don't get pips at all and to be honest the grapes i buy are generally gorgeous but I do always try first and they are not cheap by any means. I buy very little fruit in this country but when I go to Spain I buy loads of it and its usually very dirty and of uneven shape the way its meant to be. Go to Alfaz del pi outdoor fruit and veg market and have a field day. It'll cost you but its proper. Get there early in the morning though because by eleven am none of it is worth eating cos the sun gets to it.

Ah a person after my own heart shiverkitten. A woman bought some beautiful looking strawberrys off our local cheap stall and was eating them. I asked her if they had any taste and she smiled and said no. I didn't buy them. They've had them there on and off for months. Every time I go by if they are cheap enough they are selling like hot cakes. The problem people like us face is that the vast majority of people are uncritical and buy on price and looks so sellers cater for them.

-- And why on earth would you want to eat seeded grapes?

Because they taste of grape! I know it's silly and naïve of me to hope that a fruit should taste of what it's named after. What a quaint idea.

Yvonne you say... that would never have happened a few years ago. I could not agree more. I call them old M&S and new M&S.

hi cat,

not the place i went to yesterday. I was wrong as far as they were concerned, not them. Its the staff that annoy me mostly. Today I have been to Marks and Spencer to spend 50 quid voucher I had for my birthday. The shop were emptying the shelves of household goods making it very difficult to see what I was after. When I did find it I asked a member of staff if they could reach it for me as it was on a shelf hidden by this enormous crate thing full of pots and pans and she huffed and puffed and was generally unhappy with my request. She would have been even worse had the pots and pans come down on my head no doubt. I asked to see item out of box because it looked different to ones on show, oh my god you would have thought I'd asked her to fly to the moon. To make matters worse I decided not to buy although I was tempted to get it because I felt so bad asking her to help me in the first place. Shame on you M and S, that would never have happened a few years ago. Service with a smile would have been paramount and then they'd moan about you afterwards probably.

Oh well, times they are a changing I think.

yvonne

I cannot disagree with 'so called special offers' as a generalisation but i have to say that now Morrisons has sorted itself out its special offers are mostly brilliant.

Ok.Well it made me smile.

Ironically I wasn't trying to be very amusing backfoot.

Me too - I get quite shirty if I have filled my trolley with non-special-special-offers!!

Cat

They do if I am involved.......lol

Usually, don't they give you the offer anyway if they have left the signs up incorrectly?

Cat

I totally agree with you.I always check my bill in store to see if the proper credits have been applied and have found on numerous occasions it hasn't.As a matter of principle I would always complain irrespective of amount.the usual answer is that the 'system hasn't been properly updated' or 'that offer has ceased.' Err well if its advertised under SOG Act then pay up please.

Customer's are well advised to check.My amusement was that you all seemed to be writing this late at night so hence my poor joke.

hi shiv,

It was'nt reading the sign that was the problem, it was reading the words, "only if you buy fragranced one", which I believe were not on the sigh in the first place. I know my eyes are not as good as they were but I would defy anyone to see unwritten words.

Yes you drifted a little. Is there anything that you do actually like? And why on earth would you want to eat seeded grapes?


yvonne

hello heartofgold,

Believe me she was so very rude. She did'nt care much for who was listening and she stopped very short of telling me to f... right off. I have been on stores web site to complain. I filled in complaints form and would you belive that it will not send.. That will not deter me though because I will phone them later today. It really winds me up that these people are actually employed at all.

yvonne

hello backfoot, no I don't and never would work for a supermarket. I don't think I'd get the job because I'm not rude enough to people! I'm just bloody annoyed at the way they can slive off a few quid from us all without us shopping brain dead morans noticing.

A few years ago there was talk of a major supermarket at that time, who I believe no longer exists, placing a small item priced at about 50p at the tills. It was before bar coding so items price was put into till manually. The said item was slipped onto your bill hopefully without you noticing. If you did then the assistant would say sorry she thought it was yours! Consider that that supermarket had at least six shops in this city and hundreds more around the uk. Then consider how many tills per supermarket and how many customers paid 50p extra for something they did'nt want and did'nt get. A very tidy profit I think.

If only money came to me so easily.

yvonne