The packsize thing has been going on for years - in our house we call it 'after eight syndrome' as that was what we noticed first. It even extends to some pre-packed veg I've found. One pack used to be enough for a family meal and now everyone is getting very small portions - annoying!
'The packsize thing' as Butterdays calls it, has been going on for decades. I remember in Rhodesia (during sanctions) when rice was almost unobtainable, and any holiday down to South Africa was regarded as a shopping trip. A 10kg pack of rice was more expensive than 5 x 2kg packs. Why on earth? I went back home with 15 x 2kg packs of rice in the back of the car!
The best way is to vote with you feet if your not happy. Shop elsewhere. You can always right a letter of complaint too.
Nothing wrong with charity shops. Our newest little town is full of charity shops. Sometimes they are trying to sell things for more than they cost new in poundstrencher. But most of the time I can grab a bargain. At Christmas my work secret santa was to spend £10 in charity shops. We all got masses of things. I got a lovely gardening book, gnome shaped soap, a bird house, a Christmas tree pin there was something else but I can't remember what it was. We all enjoyed the hunt for presents, we got more than we would have. Plus the charity shops got some money.
Going back to the use it or loose it topic regarding local shops. We needed a new bed. My father in law nagged us to go to a local shop to have a look. We did. When we got there the sales person was lovely. We chose a bed, then found out my father in law had already been in and arranged to pay for it himself as a gift. Which you certainly couldn't have done with a larger chain store. They promised we would have our bed the following week. Six weeks later it still wasn't here. We had had to ring them several times to find out what was happening. They didn't ring us once. Eventually our bed arrived. The mattress did not match the base. And not what we were expecting. So we cancelled that order. We found a good quality bed in argos ( less than half the price of the first one.) It was delivered quickly, when they said it would. We had a phone call to say the bed was on its way. No problems. I will not be buying from the local store again.
We had quite a different experience when we bought a bed from a firm near Cardiff where they hand-made the bed and delivered it over 80 miles away.
We were so pleased we have since bought another bed and two separate mattresses from them. They kept to delivery dates and delivery charges were minimal as they were coming west anyway.
We start buying Xmas Presents from us to us (there are only 2 of 'us') straight after Easter from Charity Shops and £1 shops. I wrap the presents as soon as we get home labelling them with our initials so that come Xmas Eve I then mark on the gift tag which animal they are from eg: To Master love Patch. We have completely forgotten what we have bought and have wonderful surprises plus cheap Xmas'
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Oh - and another thing - larger pacs which are more expensive than buying 2 smaller ones - specially to fool those who don't do the sums -
e.g. buy one 100g item for £1.45 or buy a larger 200g pac for £2.99......
The packsize thing has been going on for years - in our house we call it 'after eight syndrome' as that was what we noticed first. It even extends to some pre-packed veg I've found. One pack used to be enough for a family meal and now everyone is getting very small portions - annoying!
'The packsize thing' as Butterdays calls it, has been going on for decades. I remember in Rhodesia (during sanctions) when rice was almost unobtainable, and any holiday down to South Africa was regarded as a shopping trip. A 10kg pack of rice was more expensive than 5 x 2kg packs. Why on earth? I went back home with 15 x 2kg packs of rice in the back of the car!
The best way is to vote with you feet if your not happy. Shop elsewhere. You can always right a letter of complaint too.
Nothing wrong with charity shops. Our newest little town is full of charity shops. Sometimes they are trying to sell things for more than they cost new in poundstrencher. But most of the time I can grab a bargain. At Christmas my work secret santa was to spend £10 in charity shops. We all got masses of things. I got a lovely gardening book, gnome shaped soap, a bird house, a Christmas tree pin there was something else but I can't remember what it was. We all enjoyed the hunt for presents, we got more than we would have. Plus the charity shops got some money.
Going back to the use it or loose it topic regarding local shops. We needed a new bed. My father in law nagged us to go to a local shop to have a look. We did. When we got there the sales person was lovely. We chose a bed, then found out my father in law had already been in and arranged to pay for it himself as a gift. Which you certainly couldn't have done with a larger chain store. They promised we would have our bed the following week. Six weeks later it still wasn't here. We had had to ring them several times to find out what was happening. They didn't ring us once. Eventually our bed arrived. The mattress did not match the base. And not what we were expecting. So we cancelled that order. We found a good quality bed in argos ( less than half the price of the first one.) It was delivered quickly, when they said it would. We had a phone call to say the bed was on its way. No problems. I will not be buying from the local store again.
We were so pleased we have since bought another bed and two separate mattresses from them. They kept to delivery dates and delivery charges were minimal as they were coming west anyway.
We start buying Xmas Presents from us to us (there are only 2 of 'us') straight after Easter from Charity Shops and £1 shops. I wrap the presents as soon as we get home labelling them with our initials so that come Xmas Eve I then mark on the gift tag which animal they are from eg: To Master love Patch. We have completely forgotten what we have bought and have wonderful surprises plus cheap Xmas'