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I paid the store a rare visit today. Well, it is Wednesday so I signed up for the aged person's discount card. This enabled me to purchase some bits and pieces for 10% off what was probably 5 times what I would consider to be a fair price and I guess 25 times or more than what they must have cost B&Q to purchase.
Talk about Halfrauds being a rip-off, ay least their trade card gives a decent discount.

Then, to add insult to injury, I was expected to check out the goods myself at their newly installed self scan checkout. I don't want to do this. I'm a helpless pensioner, I can't cope with this new-fangled technowotsit. In return for their inflated prices I want to have some sort of service and human contact. Not that that used to happen much anyway in B&Q.

No wonder there are so many unemployed.

I've not finished yet, Oh no!
Reading the fitting instructions, obviously written by a non English speaking person, left me in complete confusion as there were two quite contradictory statements in adjoining sentences. Why do they bother to enclose instructions if they are just wrong?
And why, on their website, is everything, absolutely everything, marked up in price as eg. ONLY £25.99 or ONLY £64.99 ?

That's it..... for now.

Wot you doin reading the instructions? That's an admission of defeat, surely....

Duncan wrote:Wot you doin reading the instructions? That's an admission of defeat, surely....

Don't you start....

I haven't been into B & Q for a long time. Hadn't realized their prices had become so inflated.

You could always try Homebase, same quality items, 15% extra for the area they are in

I use most Trade DIY and Builders merchants and save a small fortune on B&Q prices.
What is funny often the same product from Screwfix is cheaper and they own it.

JohnDotCom wrote:I use most Trade DIY and Builders merchants and save a small fortune on B&Q prices.
What is funny often the same product from Screwfix is cheaper and they own it.

Screwfix were excellent until sold out to B&Q. Still pretty good but no use for just the odds and sods when Mrs L wants something done "...today"
They also have the "ONLY" pricing syndrome which I find very irritating.

I should have driven about the same distance in the opposite direction. There is still an old fashioned ironmongers shop in Alcester. But since new ownership, even they have fallen victim to the curse of the pre-packs. At least you get served by a human being.

Have you not yet stepped into my 'Mellow' thread Bernard?

its Sainsburys i hate as you well know Bernard, anyway a pensioner with a V8 is not the norm i would suggest

Zeb wrote:Have you not yet stepped into my 'Mellow' thread Bernard?

Mellow? Bah! Humbug!

Trebor wrote:its Sainsburys i hate as you well know Bernard, anyway a pensioner with a V8 is not the norm i would suggest

Yes, I can understand about Sainsbury's. Thanks for reminding me.

Oh! and you're right, don't call me 'Norm'

our local b and q camps cars they think are misusing the car park inc. cases of folk in the shop

Mmm my local B&Q has also introduced the self checkout thingies - but as I was buying glue a memebr of staff had to come and ok it in case I was going to sniff it.

Tourerfogey wrote:Mmm my local B&Q has also introduced the self checkout thingies - but as I was buying glue a memebr of staff had to come and ok it in case I was going to sniff it.

How did you assure them that you would not?

Bernard wrote:

Tourerfogey wrote:Mmm my local B&Q has also introduced the self checkout thingies - but as I was buying glue a memebr of staff had to come and ok it in case I was going to sniff it.

How did you assure them that you would not?

I told them I only sniffed lighter fuel