Niggles

[Karen and Derek]

One thing that niggles me is that silly and useless piece of paper stuck on every bar of Imperial Leather soap!

 

Dawned on me that that was why I went through bath sponges so quickly-- the label rips the sponge !-- I'll stick to my Pears-- although it doesn't smell like it used to--probably 'cos it is now made in foreign parts.

Those damn foreign pear trees! 

Derek.

[Nemesis]

 

[Nemesis]

Just a warning to you folks.
Last week I had to buy my Saturday Telegraph from Sainbury's as no where else had one left. Upon getting home I found that at least 3 parts of it were missing.
The receipt had no phone number, so we rang, after looking on the Internet the customer 'hotline' Sainsbury's were very apologetic and sent, via snail mail a gift card for the £2 that I had paid.
Thus--- this morning my OH took the card and called to pick up my Telegraph. Guess what?-- even more sections were missing when we spread it out at home. I packed it up in a bag and set off in a non too pleased mood. Believe it or not non of the papers in the store had the sections all complete. The young man at the desk was very nice and went to see if the bits were in the back. back he came---no they weren't.
Eventually after a lot of arguing I was told that as a gesture of goodwill I could have another £2 gift card to spend on something else.-- Red rag to a bull-- I had two senior staff arguing that I couldn't have my cash back.Someone then came out of the back and said that the supplements or sections of the paper were all piled up in the back. The manageress in charge said 'We've only been open a fortnight'--.I then looked them in the eye and quoted the sale of goods act implied terms. £2 was handed over with very bad grace, I went to Smith's and got my paper.

Moral of the story-- the staff are slack-- check your paper if you buy from them. I shan't again.

[Yorkie]

Sounds to me like they have employed a crowd of morons, including the management!  I think I'll go in there just to find something wrong and cause a scene!         

However, should one blame them or the Publishers?    Or the Wholesalers (who are probably W H Smith)?   

[Nemesis]

If the 'spare bits' were in the back, it is the staff. It is apparently one of the joys of being a newsagent--- putting all the pieces of the papers together.
Try the blonde girl-- she couldn't crack a smile if she tried!

[Yorkie]

I'm reminded of a Blonde reading a Newspaper!

A blonde was sitting on the train reading the newspaper.
The headline blared, "12 Brazilian Soldiers Killed".
She shook her head at the sad news, then turned to
the stranger sitting next to her and asked,......
"Wow that is really sad, how many is a Brazilian?"

 L0L

[DaveR]

Just a warning to you folks.
Last week I had to buy my Saturday Telegraph from Sainbury's as no where else had one left. Upon getting home I found that at least 3 parts of it were missing.
The receipt had no phone number, so we rang, after looking on the Internet the customer 'hotline' Sainsbury's were very apologetic and sent, via snail mail a gift card for the £2 that I had paid.
Thus--- this morning my OH took the card and called to pick up my Telegraph. Guess what?-- even more sections were missing when we spread it out at home. I packed it up in a bag and set off in a non too pleased mood. Believe it or not non of the papers in the store had the sections all complete. The young man at the desk was very nice and went to see if the bits were in the back. back he came---no they weren't.
Eventually after a lot of arguing I was told that as a gesture of goodwill I could have another £2 gift card to spend on something else.-- Red rag to a bull-- I had two senior staff arguing that I couldn't have my cash back.Someone then came out of the back and said that the supplements or sections of the paper were all piled up in the back. The manageress in charge said 'We've only been open a fortnight'--.I then looked them in the eye and quoted the sale of goods act implied terms. £2 was handed over with very bad grace, I went to Smith's and got my paper.

Moral of the story-- the staff are slack-- check your paper if you buy from them. I shan't again.

I'm sure buying the paper from a local independent Newsagent would be less stressful. 

[JasonW]

As a former "Independent" Newsagent, we had to insert all the sections ourselves each morning, one of the reasons we had to start work an hour earlier on the weekends.

The larger stores receive this service from the wholesaler (I assume they pay for the service) and hence the issue being found by Nemesis, may not be the fault of the employees at the store.

[TheMedz]

We generally only get a Sunday paper (Being of the hard of thinking it takes me all week to read it or at least look at the pictures.)  and I always try wherever possible to buy it in the pre-sealed package.

There have however been occasions where this hasn't been possible and we've bought it from one of the newsagents down in town and very occasionally found the insert from one title of newspaper inserted into the middle of a completely different paper.

[DaveR]

I picked up a Saturday Daily Post the other week and could tell by the weight that the middle bit was missing.

[Nemesis]

 At the risk of repeating myself !
This all began because Vollams had sold out!-- I wouldn't normally dream of buying a paper anywhere but from Graham and Bea !!!
The sections were piled up in the back of the store as it says in my post--- how do you work out that it wasn't their fault?

[Yorkie]

Poor management, poor training, staff unable to use their own initiative, poor work ethic, - need I carry on!   Of course it's their fault!   

[JasonW]

At the risk of repeating myself !
This all began because Vollams had sold out!-- I wouldn't normally dream of buying a paper anywhere but from Graham and Bea !!!
The sections were piled up in the back of the store as it says in my post--- how do you work out that it wasn't their fault?

My apologies, I missed the bit about the inserts being at the back.
I did say "may not" have been their fault.

[Karen and Derek]

At the risk of repeating myself !
This all began because Vollams had sold out!-- I wouldn't normally dream of buying a paper anywhere but from Graham and Bea !!!
The sections were piled up in the back of the store as it says in my post--- how do you work out that it wasn't their fault?

Is Nigel Roberts still across from Vollams?

Karen.

[Fester]

He sure is.... and trading as vigorously as ever.  D)