Tag: shopping
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Every time I see Sainsburys comparing the value-for-money of different brands of toilet roll, the abbreviation they use catches me out and I think they're telling me how much paper I should be "using".
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Online supermarket showing several brands of toilet paper with the price displayed alongside a breakdown showing the price (in pence) per hundred sheets (of toilet paper), but "sheet" is abbreviated to "sht" which looks like... a different word I associate with the product.
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Sainsburys grapes confuse me.
500g of white grapes are £2. 500g or red grapes are £2.20. So you'd expect 500g of half-red, half-white grapes to be... £2.10, right? But no, that's £2 too.
So buying 500g of white grapes and 500g of red grapes is cheaper if you buy the mixed packs and then separate them. Why!?
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Online shopping screenshot showing four packets of seedless grapes. 500g red grapes are £2.20; 500g white grapes are £2.00; 500g red & white grapes are £2.00; 900g mixed (red, white and black) grapes are £3.95.
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Kicking off 3Camp 2026, our annual volunteering event, with the traditional "receive and sort a ludicrous amount of groceries" activity.
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A large group of people stand around a pile of shopping in the centre of a nicely decorated kitchen.
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What's that, girl? Two children are lost somewhere in this bookshop?
Yeah, I should probably find them and take them home for lunch.
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Dan, in a bookshop, holds a book called How To Speak Dog, alongside a French Bulldog.
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Just visited the Logos Hope, an ocean-going, volunteer-staffed floating book fair (run by a Christian charity, but it's not-TOO-religiousy inside, if that's not your jam) that's coincidentally docked for a fortnight right next door to my hotel on Trinidad!
What a strange concept. Fun diversion though.
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White and blue passenger ship docked alongside a building whose roof reads 'Welcome to Port of Spain'.
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Shared Email Addresses
I've long mocked people who've opted to use email addresses that they share with their partner, or email addresses that are tied to their geographic location... but it turns out that I've been doing the same thing for years, albeit only with aliases.
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Tesco Abingdon's phone menu system is diabolical, Dan discovers.
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Needed new UPS batteries.
Almost bought from @insight_uk but they require registration to checkout.
Purchased from @SourceUPSLtd instead.
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Prime and Punishment
by Josh Dzieza For sellers, Amazon is a quasi-state. They rely on its infrastructure — its warehouses, shipping network, financial systems, and portal to millions of customers — and pay taxes in the form of fees. They also live in terror of its rules, which often change and are harshly enforced.
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I'm confused, @sainsburys. What is the difference between these two products? What differentiates a "chunk" from a "piece" of pineapple? #pineapple #confused
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Poundland Nooky
500 Internal Server Error (minxylydia.com) false There aren't many great things to write about Hounslow, other than me being in it isn't the sort of place that brings in visitors. There's a tired shopping centre, an Asda (whose car park has just been closed), lots of planes going over and Hounslow Heath, which frankly is …
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Review of Co-op
This review of Co-op originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. Co-op, 26 High St, Kidlington OX5 2DH, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ Convenient supermarket with reasonable parking. However, recent changes to the layout of the store have dramatically reduced the availability of many product lines (and it's hard to see exactly why …
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Supermarket "price match" deals are marketing genius
Almost five years ago, Sainsbury's supermarkets started giving you vouchers to the value of how much cheaper your shopping might have been elsewhere. That's a win for the consumer, right? Not even remotely, says Dan.
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Buying a House, Part 2
Recently, Ruth, Dan and JTA went looking at lots of houses. Then they decided to buy one, and engaged in a ballsy psychological negotiating tactic designed to get the best deal in the shortest time.
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Weird Music Only Paul Likes
Dan finally works out where Paul gets his weird music from.