Todayâs gripe from me. Waitrose have introduced a new incentive scheme of weekly vouchers personalised to things I regularly buy. Great news! Just download them to my mobile phone!? I donât have a mobile phone! So I emailed them to ask how to access the vouchers without one. Not amused by the reply, evidently the campaign is to encourage smart phone owners to use the app. Was it also to make those of us without smartphones feel like second class customers? Iâve written back to express my annoyance!
Mine has a nice line of moss/algae along the bottom of the windows, on the side that's next to the conifers @Uff. It just appears no matter how vigorously the car gets scrubbed Lichen on it would certainly be a nice talking point though. One of nature's greatest gifts When I was giving the front fence a dicht of paint, there was a lovely little blob of it on top of one of the posts, so I painted round it. Â
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We have to wash ours so we can see out.  Being out in t'country there's either mud or dust blown up from the country lanes. Even so, Harry has to have his rear view reversing camera wiped between washes and on rainy days.
I don't have one either @Ergates, though I have a bog standard mobile for emergencies. The problem is that you're right - we're often made to feel like 2nd class citizens if we don't have one. That annoys me intensely. I get fed up of seeing people out for a walk with their faces planked in a screen. Usually while their r*ddy dogs are running amok, or worse - they're doing it while pushing a pram. How sad is that. ..and don't start me on the other problems apps cause.
I get offers from Sainsbury, although I rarely use them, and you don't need a phone, they just get added to your nectar card. Same with the Co-op. They're just added to your card. Perhaps you should make the suggestion to them, or ask them to buy you a phone. I'm sure they can afford it Â
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Todayâs gripe from me. Waitrose have introduced a new incentive scheme of weekly vouchers personalised to things I regularly buy. Great news! Just download them to my mobile phone!? I donât have a mobile phone! So I emailed them to ask how to access the vouchers without one. Not amused by the reply, evidently the campaign is to encourage smart phone owners to use the app. Was it also to make those of us without smartphones feel like second class customers? Iâve written back to express my annoyance!
Sorry, my post was slightly misleading. I do have a mobile phone, but itâs a steam driven Nokia, and I use it for - wait for it - making the occasional phone call or text! I meant to say that I donât have a smartphone. I suppose if I was desperate I could take my iPad to the store, connect to their Wi-fi, and download my vouchers! Apparently it is a âdigitally based campaignâ whatever that is! Rather knocked my allegiance to the company. Evidently my sometimes eyewatering extravagance in store and on line doesnât count for much, as Iâm seen as an ageing dinosaur.
My usual SM used to have special offers sent as a QR code which OH had to load on his phone for us to benefit. I use my mobile as a phone and for occasional texting and, of late, for checking everyone's Covid vaccine status at patchwork and presenting my own for dancing.
I certainly don't want to have to use it when shopping. My list is enough to manage and they now have seen the light and put offers on my fidelity card. Not so LIDL who insist on the phone. I already hate LIDL anyway and only go for certain wines and their Italian week.
Seems we'll all have to get one if we want to take advantage of the NHS's latest wheeze - book your own blood tests, book a GP visit, book your hospital op at the other side of the country! and others. I'll believe that when I see it, the NHS have a dreadful record of IT failures.
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So I emailed them to ask how to access the vouchers without one. Not amused by the reply, evidently the campaign is to encourage smart phone owners to use the app. Was it also to make those of us without smartphones feel like second class customers? Iâve written back to express my annoyance!
Lichen on it would certainly be a nice talking point though. One of nature's greatest gifts
When I was giving the front fence a dicht of paint, there was a lovely little blob of it on top of one of the posts, so I painted round it. Â
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The problem is that you're right - we're often made to feel like 2nd class citizens if we don't have one.
That annoys me intensely. I get fed up of seeing people out for a walk with their faces planked in a screen. Usually while their r*ddy dogs are running amok, or worse - they're doing it while pushing a pram. How sad is that.Â
..and don't start me on the other problems apps cause.
I get offers from Sainsbury, although I rarely use them, and you don't need a phone, they just get added to your nectar card. Same with the Co-op. They're just added to your card. Perhaps you should make the suggestion to them, or ask them to buy you a phone. I'm sure they can afford it Â
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Apparently it is a âdigitally based campaignâ whatever that is! Rather knocked my allegiance to the company. Evidently my sometimes eyewatering extravagance in store and on line doesnât count for much, as Iâm seen as an ageing dinosaur.
I certainly don't want to have to use it when shopping. My list is enough to manage and they now have seen the light and put offers on my fidelity card. Not so LIDL who insist on the phone. I already hate LIDL anyway and only go for certain wines and their Italian week.