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The Call of the Wendigo Admin
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| I do believe Poundland are still charging £4. _________________ ![Farmfoods, Heron Foods, Iceland etc - Page 5 Bunnyd10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f62/19/90/50/40/bunnyd10.gif) |
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![Farmfoods, Heron Foods, Iceland etc - Page 5 Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Farmfoods, Heron Foods, Iceland etc Mon Jan 29, 2024 4:42 pm | |
| Heron are charging £4.50 for a 360g bar of Dairy Milk but only £2 for a 200g bar of Galaxy. Now I have a dilemma. I much prefer Dairy Milk to Galaxy but Galaxy is now much cheaper. ![bawl](/users/3715/63/33/29/smiles/540545940.gif) _________________ ![Farmfoods, Heron Foods, Iceland etc - Page 5 Bunnyd10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f62/19/90/50/40/bunnyd10.gif) |
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| I will always happily pay more for anything Cadbury. ![aristojar](/users/3715/63/33/29/smiles/2591357779.gif) |
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![Farmfoods, Heron Foods, Iceland etc - Page 5 Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Farmfoods, Heron Foods, Iceland etc Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:44 am | |
| - The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
- I do believe Poundland are still charging £4.
Poundland are now also charging £4.50 for 360g of Dairy Milk ![bawl](/users/3715/63/33/29/smiles/540545940.gif) But only £1.50 for 150g of Terry's Chocolate Orange. ![happy](/users/3715/63/33/29/smiles/2622191953.gif) That makes it £1.25 per 100g for Dairy Milk and only £1 per 100g for Chocolate Orange. Thus, I have just bought 2 chocolate oranges. _________________ ![Farmfoods, Heron Foods, Iceland etc - Page 5 Bunnyd10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f62/19/90/50/40/bunnyd10.gif) |
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| 3 Chocolate Oranges would cost £4.50. The equivalent weight in Dairy Milk would cost £5.63. ![Colbert](/users/3715/63/33/29/smiles/586931285.gif) _________________ ![Farmfoods, Heron Foods, Iceland etc - Page 5 Bunnyd10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f62/19/90/50/40/bunnyd10.gif) |
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| At what point did Cadbury's become luxury chocolate? ![rollingpin](/users/3715/63/33/29/smiles/4056708747.gif) _________________ ![Farmfoods, Heron Foods, Iceland etc - Page 5 Bunnyd10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f62/19/90/50/40/bunnyd10.gif) |
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| It was round about the time someone let Kwazi Kwarteng loose at the Treasury. Almost everything related to basic survival and simple pleasures became a luxury product within days. |
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![Farmfoods, Heron Foods, Iceland etc - Page 5 Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Farmfoods, Heron Foods, Iceland etc Wed Jan 31, 2024 2:11 pm | |
| So Poundland - where everything used to be a pound - don't even round up to the nearest pound anymore? ![oh no](/users/3715/63/33/29/smiles/4123417129.gif) What's the point of Poundland when things can be -.50?! |
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| A big Poundland has opened at the Braehead shopping centre so I find myself buying a lot more PL stuff than previously.
Most recently I bought a large zip-up square storage bag to go on the back seat of my car and contain nomadic necessities like my mini clothes airer, spare keyboard etc. _________________ ' "Haven't got houses." Where do they live then?'
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| - Butterfield wrote:
- So Poundland - where everything used to be a pound - don't even round up to the nearest pound anymore?
![oh no](/users/3715/63/33/29/smiles/4123417129.gif)
What's the point of Poundland when things can be -.50?! They made a rod for their own back with that name. As soon as inflation kicked in, which it was always going to sooner or later, if not to this extent, they were set to look like the most unusually brazen liars on the high street. Or be compelled to have an expensive corporate rebrand. Personally I’d have gone with ‘Worths’, as a nod to Woolworths, an offer in itself that worth is found here which seems to be what they want from a name, and as one of those prestigious sounding names in its own right. The kind of thing a grand old department store would be called. If only they’d asked me I’d have said this to them for a very competitive fee of about £3m (as well as all taxes and other related costs taken care of by them) to me personally, plus a 1% profit share for the first three years to various charities and other causes of my choice. I’m not greedy. |
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| I read that Poundland have a subsidiary called Dealz for Eurozone countries.
It’s called that because Euroland was rejected by focus groups on account of it boxing them into a corner that inflation would leave redundant.
As I was saying.
Although I think Dealz is probably an even worse name. It puts me in mind of Delboy, or the kind of second hand car trader that would claim to have never met you when the vehicle he sold you stopped working three seconds after you’d driven it off his premises, rather than making me trustful of a quality brand. |
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![Farmfoods, Heron Foods, Iceland etc - Page 5 Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Farmfoods, Heron Foods, Iceland etc Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:55 am | |
| The price of a 200g bar of Galaxy has now fallen to £1.89. The price of a 360g bar of Dairy Milk is still £4.50. That means 400g of Galaxy will cost £3.78, compared to £5 for 400g of Dairy Milk. ![llama](/users/3715/63/33/29/smiles/4134597031.gif) _________________ ![Farmfoods, Heron Foods, Iceland etc - Page 5 Bunnyd10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f62/19/90/50/40/bunnyd10.gif) |
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| How long can this carnage continue? ![bawl](/users/3715/63/33/29/smiles/540545940.gif) _________________ ![Farmfoods, Heron Foods, Iceland etc - Page 5 Bunnyd10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f62/19/90/50/40/bunnyd10.gif) |
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| That's only because Galaxy chocolate is inferior, and therefore must be cheaper to make. |
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| But two years ago, 360g bars of Galaxy and Dairy Milk both cost £2.99. Dairy Milk has gone up way out of proportion to Galaxy. ![bawl](/users/3715/63/33/29/smiles/540545940.gif) _________________ ![Farmfoods, Heron Foods, Iceland etc - Page 5 Bunnyd10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f62/19/90/50/40/bunnyd10.gif) |
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| My local Heron insists on putting the toilet rolls directly next to the kitchen rolls and, because modern toilet paper manufacturers seem to be reluctant to put the words, "Toilet paper," on their packets, it's not easy to tell which is supposed to be which. ![rollingpin](/users/3715/63/33/29/smiles/4056708747.gif) _________________ ![Farmfoods, Heron Foods, Iceland etc - Page 5 Bunnyd10](https://i.servimg.com/u/f62/19/90/50/40/bunnyd10.gif) |
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| _________________ Ibble obble black bobble, ibble obble out!
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| Tell them it's unappetizing. They're selling food - dreams. The loo roll should be elsewhere.
Point out they're losing money. People need to be inspired to buy dreams - if culinary, kitchen roll may aid in the preparation of. Loo roll is not associated with the selling of dreams - unless it's near the condoms and the lube. It should be elsewhere.
It cannot go without being said - Heron is northern. Something similar happened to me in B&M, also a business model of the North I believe. They had dog food next to human food. I might've bought the human food but the placement turned it into a 'no way'.
'Pile it high and sell it cheap' is all very well, but you do need to sell it. Food - and therefore kitchen roll - should conjure up dreams of enjoyment, nourishment, good living, good times. Dog or toilet related products should not be in dreaming aisles.
I know they like to pride themselves on being perfunctory people, plain speaking and down to earth, no airs and graces. However 'here's what you'll be using a few hours after you've used the kitchen roll' is too down to earth. Nothing wrong with grace. |
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| - Butterfield wrote:
- The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
- My local Heron insists on putting the toilet rolls directly next to the kitchen rolls and, because modern toilet paper manufacturers seem to be reluctant to put the words, "Toilet paper," on their packets, it's not easy to tell which is supposed to be which.
![rollingpin](/users/3715/63/33/29/smiles/4056708747.gif) So they can't put "toilet paper" on the packets but they'll likely use red and brown liquid in their advert demonstrations and mention p**namis and d*scharge. ![evil](/users/3715/63/33/29/smiles/2165152897.gif) Exactly. What has happened to us all? Where's the loo roll? Nobody knows, try one of the food aisles. In post pandemic Britain, asking a shop assistant for assistance will result in them looking at you as if you've announced you're a Nazi. Meanwhile there are adverts about ***namis and a group email arrives inviting you to an 'inclusive coffee morning to chat about our vaginal discharge'. |
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