Re: Food excess in Britain

MM wrote:
On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:53:26 +0100, judith <judithsmith@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:28:38 +0100, MM <kylix_is@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:43:14 +0100, "Akiralx"
<alex1385@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Norman Wells" <norman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:g4smq8$4rf$1$8300dec7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
MM wrote:

Likewise
fish, chops, even potatoes, where it is increasingly difficult to buy
potatoes loose, unless one shops at the local street market.
Have you tried Tesco? Our local one sells loose potatoes.
All supermarkets do AFAIK. Waitrose for one sell all veg loose, just about.

I am now often declining the second item in a BOGOF offer, even though it's free, if I don't think I'll eat it.
That is crazy! You're GIVING the supermarket additional profit. Take
the second item and hand it in at the local hospital, for example. Or
the single OAP that lives down the road. Last year I gave away loads
of surplus tomatoes. I *could* have just chucked them in the bin.
BOGOFs are a scam. The supermarkets should always give the choice of
two for the price of one OR one at half price.

MM

Any chance of you entering the real world?

Why do you think that BOGOFs are a scam/swindle/trick/ruse/racket?

Because they have one purpose only and that is to entice shoppers into
the store and then seduce them further into its maw so that they spend
more than they intended. A BOGOF catches the eye, then the attention
wanders to the shelf next door and the brain thinks, oh, better have
one of those, too. It's very cleverly done. The supermarkets employ
armies of programmers and consultants generating planograms in order
to derive the maximum profit.

But I expect you thought it was because the supermarkets genuinely
like their customers and want to be especially kind to them and
therefore donate BOGOFs as a form of largesse. Have you never noticed
how the *individual* price of BOGOF items seems suspiciously high? Or
wondered how much profit they make on a single item if they can give
one away and STILL make a profit?

What you need to understand is that to the supermarkets we, the
general public who buy goods in them, are merely wallets, purses and
credit/debit cards. Nothing more or less. We are the supermarkets'
human hole-in-the-wall machines. Our existence on the high street, as
far as they are concerned, is only so that we can walk into
supermarkets and buy stuff. As soon as we leave, hopefully having
spent vast sums of money on junk and more than we needed to buy (but
there was just one BOGOF we couldn't resist due to the pretty
packaging and siren banner announcements, we cease to matter to the
supermarkets. They are rapacious *** Turpins who hold us up the
moment our feet cross their threshold. But it's oh so cleverly done
that we don't notice. Until now, when most people have massive debt
and are desperate to save money.

MM

So you are unable to control your own impulses and destiny? Indeed, the use of your wallet or credit card?

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