sam vimes
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If it weighed 110Kg, you'd need a forklift to get you to the water's edge!
Bargains. Let us know.
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If it weighed 110Kg, you'd need a forklift to get you to the water's edge!
I went to Aldi for one of the chairs mentioned here previously but there were none. Perhaps I got the week wrong.
However I bought a pair of size 11 leather work boots for the grand sum of £24.99. I got the last pair of sensible size but if anyone needs fairy size boots there were plenty size 8.:wh
However I bought a pair of size 11 leather work boots for the grand sum of £24.99. I got the last pair of sensible size but if anyone needs fairy size boots there were plenty size 8.:wh
fishplate42
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The chairs only available mail order, at the moment, I believe. I managed to buy a couple for £14.99 in my local store about six months ago when they had some left after the Special Buy fishing event had left them with excess stock they were selling off. They are great and my brother and I use them when we are fishing together or on the move. They are light and good and strong. Here is my 'little' brother sitting his 15 stone frame on one with no problem.
Great value for money, even at £20.00 each. I often buy Aldi stuff, most of it is good value for money and good quality. Here in SE London, they don't seem to have the custom to shift fishing gear very quickly and often sell it off cheap a couple of weeks down the line. It is the clothing they seem to sell out of quickly, although I bought a pair of those elasticated wellies for £9.99 weeks after the fishing event. I think they must have found a box in the back of the store room that did not get out on display, as the rest went almost immediately.
Ralph.
Another Dave
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Got myself a pair of Diem fishing boots today at Sports Direct, half price at £40 Diem All Terrain Mens Fishing Boots | Fishing Boots
They also had another style for £25, but those had a fuffy lining which put the sizes out by a half, if that makes sense.
Diem Lite Tech Mens Boots | Mens Boots
They also had another style for £25, but those had a fuffy lining which put the sizes out by a half, if that makes sense.
Diem Lite Tech Mens Boots | Mens Boots
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I see SD are doing Diem eva stink bag for around £8, I have been trying to see if any sizes given to judge how many nets it will hold.
Another Dave
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Sorry Mark, didn't see any fishing gear when i was there, our local branch rarely has any.
Another Dave
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Forgot to say, popped into Decathlon while i was in retail therapy mode and they have lightweight black waterproof trousers for about £11 and they looked decent enough quality for the money, so i got some to stick in the rucksack side pocket. Unless you're a midget don't even bother with anything less than XXL though, i'm built like an accident at the pipe cleaner factory and even the 'large' were a bit snug.
Bargains NOT !! Just been to Tesco. Their fruit and veg stands now sport mini paper carry bags instead of plastic ones. Very strong with handles in fact.
The lady at the checkout emptied out the fruit and veg from each bag and weighed it all separately. She said each bag puts average 3 pence on the price of the items inside because of their weight.
So our 4 bags would have been 12 pence which would not only pay for the bag but go a considerable way to negating any value of the Tesco points . Crafty old Tesco.
The lady at the checkout emptied out the fruit and veg from each bag and weighed it all separately. She said each bag puts average 3 pence on the price of the items inside because of their weight.
So our 4 bags would have been 12 pence which would not only pay for the bag but go a considerable way to negating any value of the Tesco points . Crafty old Tesco.
rich66
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Surely that’s against weights and measures ? I know our shop grass seed scales are calibrated to -18g to negate the weight of our paper bags and if we run out of bags we are not allowed to sell the grass seed.
You are probably right. I suspect Tesco will get away with it until someone challenges them. They are a devious firm judging by the way they have been criticised for they way different versions of similar products are compared for value.
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But if she took the stuff out of the bag before weighing it whats the problem ?
Thats not the normal practise. Its a woman we know who did it off her own back. Not everyone gets that.
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I see. I think I'd be making an enormous nuisance of my self at the till then.....especiallly if the price I'm getting charged for my paper bag varies depending on what's in it. That is a con.
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fishplate42
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Whatever way you look at it, I am sure they will say they have taken that into account, somewhere along the line.
Nothing is for free and bags, and all the other things that supermarkets supply right down to the paper in the loos, will have been factored into the fixed and running overheads of rthe store. We end up paying for them one way or another. Not to charge us for something is never going to happen in reality. The only way to do that would be for the big players to take it out of the profit margin, and that is never going to happen. That's business.
Ralph.
Nothing is for free and bags, and all the other things that supermarkets supply right down to the paper in the loos, will have been factored into the fixed and running overheads of rthe store. We end up paying for them one way or another. Not to charge us for something is never going to happen in reality. The only way to do that would be for the big players to take it out of the profit margin, and that is never going to happen. That's business.
Ralph.
Yes I realise that Ralph. Problem is that these new paper bags are more like carrier bags. They are very robust and have carry handles so you can re use them multiple of times. I think thats the idea. Very environmentally credible. Especially as you would be paying for them over and over again each time the produce is weighed.
Very very clever.
fishplate42
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I don't know about clever, more like that famous pair of words 'Value added' (for the retailer, that is).
I know we are straying from the topic a bit here, but talking about rip off. How about frozen fish. When it says 100% cod on fish fingers that is not true, is it? What about the bread crumbs and coating? I bet if you took off the coating from the fish it would weigh as much as the fish, if not more. So anyone who buys battered/breadcrumbed fish is paying for the coating at the rate of the fish a 500g pack of 'fish' is probably only 250g of fish. I must go and buy a packet and strip out the fish, just to see what is what...
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The cod will be little bits of fish that have been cut off fillets when ppreparing them, so just the scraps moulded together, same as tins of tuna etc!
fishplate42
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Exactly! At least in the tins of tuna it is all fish and not breadcrumb,or whatever. I feel a survey coming on, remember the 'Canned Sweetcorn Exposed' one?
Ralph
mikench
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Angling Direct, or at least my local branch , have 300m spools of Sensor in 3 and 4 lb bs and Brown or clear for £4.50!