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And even the craft shopping is not as much fun as it should be, because invariably if one is looking for a particular object, one will find everything BUT that object! On 1/31/12 6:12 PM, Agnes Boddington wrote: What do you mean: Shopping is becoming a real chore ..? I loathe shopping, shopping for food, shopping for clothes or shoes etc. The only shopping I like is craft stuff shopping! Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK -- Martha Krieg Michigan USA "God expects spiritual fruits, not religious nuts." To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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In the US food people are supposed to wear gloves and change them often but I have also seen them accepting money with the gloves on in food courts. Wonder if those gloves are recycled or go into the trash. Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org >Sue, > Well firstly I >would like you to wash your hands, I got a funny look and she turned and >grudgingly washed her hands but was very surly when she served me. I had a >word with one of the managers strolling about and he seemed as if I was >being finicky about the matter, but what do others think, was I being fussy? Hmmm - I can understand where you're coming from, but here in Australia all food handlers must wear those disposable plastic gloves. Isn't that the case in the UK? David in Ballarat, AUS To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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In the UK, under food handling regulations, people should remove the gloves and dispose of them when handling food. What makes me spit is that often they prepare your food then hold their gloved hand out to take your money. As we tell delegates, when you have finished preparing some food, go put the gloves in the bin, wash your hands (whilst singing happy birthday ...) and put on CLEAN gloves. I do despair on occasions. Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ Hmmm - I can understand where you're coming from, but here in Australia all food handlers must wear those disposable plastic gloves. Isn't that the case in the UK? David in Ballarat, AUS To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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We were trying to work out how long to advise our delegates to wash their hands before starting their cooking session. Apparantly, signing 'Happy Birthday' for two verses is the right amount of time. However, we have to remind delegates to sing it IN THEIR HEADS. 16 people singing happy birthday all slightly out of sync is a terrible thing. Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ Well firstly I would like you to wash your hands, Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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Sue, Well firstly I would like you to wash your hands, I got a funny look and she turned and grudgingly washed her hands but was very surly when she served me. I had a word with one of the managers strolling about and he seemed as if I was being finicky about the matter, but what do others think, was I being fussy? Hmmm - I can understand where you're coming from, but here in Australia all food handlers must wear those disposable plastic gloves. Isn't that the case in the UK? David in Ballarat, AUS To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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Along the line of supermarkets bad habits, the other week I went to the fish counter and there was nobody there to serve me so the girl from the meat counter next door said "wait a minute she's on her break I will serve you when I have finished serving this lady," she finished serving her customer and came straight to me and asked what I wanted I replied Well firstly I would like you to wash your hands, I got a funny look and she turned and grudgingly washed her hands but was very surly when she served me. I had a word with one of the managers strolling about and he seemed as if I was being finicky about the matter, but what do others think, was I being fussy? Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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The bags I use for supermarket shopping are the "Bags-for-Life" which the supermarkets themselves sell. These are substantial good-sized plastic bags with strong handles; they cost 10 or 12 pence, they last a long time (years in my experience), and when they wear out the supermarket will exchange them for a new one, free, and recycle the old one. These bags fold up tidily and I carry four in my handbag so they are always in the shop when I reach the checkout. And Sainsburys give me an extra Nectar (loyalty) point (worth half a penny) for each bag of my own which I use. Yes, I do have a very large handbag ... Margery. margerybu...@o2.co.uk in North Herts, UK > -Original Message- > Joy Beeson wrote: > > This happens to us all the time.the problem is forgetting to > put the bags back in the car after you bring your shopping in to empty them > > Many times we go out, realize the bags are missing and come > back and find them under the hall table or in the kitchen from last week! To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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Joy Beeson wrote: > I'm not at all sure how that happened, since I store my bags in the trunk. DH was with me, which may have had something to do with it. This happens to us all the time.the problem is forgetting to put the bags back in the car after you bring your shopping in to empty them Many times we go out, realize the bags are missing and come back and find them under the hall table or in the kitchen from last week! To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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Cautionary (true!) tale! We store our collection of brown paper carrier bags and a few cloth bags in the garage ready to go the shops. In April last year, I put the collection into the car, went to the supermarket and returned with the shopping. After I had unpacked the shopping in the house that I noticed an awful smell, which I eventually tracked down to the collection of unused carrier bags. I assumed I must have left some fruit / veg /meat in there on a previous occasion and it had rotted. This smell hadn't been discernible when the bags were in the garage, as last year, we were having a more normal winter and the garage was still at around freezing point. My son came running, when I screamed. sadly I had found a dead and rotting chipmunk in the cloth bag at the bottom of the collection. I was very glad the woman doing the packing of my shopping in the supermarket hadn’t needed to use all the bags, and so didn’t discover it!! Sue sueba...@comcast.net To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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The packers at our supermarkets have been told that meat goes into a separate bag, but they haven't been told why, it's a rule to be blindly followed, like walking into the teeth of the traffic even when you have no chance at all of getting out of the way when you see a car coming -- so the lunch meat and the pork chops go into the same bag. Fortunately, all of them package everything in sealed containers -- not just shrink wrapped, but heat-sealed bags -- so it doesn't really matter. Still, I prefer Aldi, where I can pack my own bags, sorting into "garage" and "kitchen" as I do so. Or pack my trunk, as I did once when I forgot to take my bags. I'm not at all sure how that happened, since I store my bags in the trunk. DH was with me, which may have had something to do with it. Many is the time when I parked my cart outside the restroom (so it wouldn't be unpacked and put away) and ran back out to the car for my bags. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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My day job involves food. I have to be current on my food hygiene certification and I have certification on food safety that you would expect for someone running a restaurant. The last time I phoned up Ocado and told them that putting raw and cooked meat in the same bag was an issue on food hygiene grounds the girl at the end of the phone said; 'Are you sure?' Now am I sure. YES I AM. I explained that I if my suppliers at work did this we would reject the consignment with no negotiation. She then asked 'Are you sure?' Head - brick wall, head - brick wall. I have had an on going battle with the major supermarkets who think putting gluen free bakery products in the bread aisle is good so I don't feel vitimised by having to go to a separate aisle. As I said to the girl from Tesco's 'why on earth would I want to go down the aisle that has the stuff in it that if I breathe in the flour alone or bread crumbs will have me doubled up in agony?' She replied; 'I don't know'. Urghhh! For those of you who are abroad you can only imagine the niceness of the people who work at Waitrose. They get upset if things aren't in stock, will spend hours looking for things for you and try to offer alternatives and if you shop with them regularily even get a bit tearful if you are looking a bit peaky or have a sniffle. One time I had to go shopping because I had run out of food and had flu like symptons as did the rest of the family. I couldn't order on line as our broadband was down so in person shopping was needed. When I went to the deli counter I stood back and apologised for being ill and explained why I was out and while she sorted out my order I was given lots of help and advice on how to get rid on my symptoms. Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ Liz, I have been reporting those supermarkets to Trading Standards and Public Health on the first instance of them putting cooked and raw meat in the same bag, in fact raw meat with anything else. I also have written to the chief executive of the company concerned about the standard of their staff who put eggs in with tins, and asking him to train staff in the reason why people have gluten free products and the health risks to customers of substituting gluten containing products for gluten free. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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Liz, I have been reporting those supermarkets to Trading Standards and Public Health on the first instance of them putting cooked and raw meat in the same bag, in fact raw meat with anything else. I also have written to the chief executive of the company concerned about the standard of their staff who put eggs in with tins, and asking him to train staff in the reason why people have gluten free products and the health risks to customers of substituting gluten containing products for gluten free. Whenever I've complained to Sainsburys, they've usually told me to go away, but have given me a few thousand Nectar points to do so; at least I get something out of it. At one time it got to the point where the manager would go for coffee if he saw me enter the store. I don't suffer fools. My best was in the early 70s when supermarkets were just getting going and Tesco opened a store in the town I was then living in. It was long before the huge distribution centres, and food was packaged at the back of the store. I bough two quarters of frozen chicken and some fresh lambs liver. I cooked the liver and found it wasn't lamb's liver at all - it was pig's liver, and we can't stand the pappiness of pig's liver. Mistake I thought, never mind I'll give it to the dog. Then the next day I defrosted the chicken, rinsed it, cooked it in the oven and, when we came to eat it, found that we had two quarters of chicken, two quarters of giblets and two quarters of plastic bag that the giblets had been packed in. A whole frozen chicken had been quartered and repackaged. I'd fed most of the liver to our dog, but had kept a some back to give him the next day. But having found the problem with the chicken, kept it and called Trading Standards as well as writing to Tesco head office. Don't know if they still do it, but then the manufacturing companies would offer prizes to the manager of any store of any chain who could sell the most of their product. When Tesco investigated they found that, when the store was closed, the manager at that store had built a false wall out back and it was filled with boxes of a dry product. The company producing the product was offering a sailing dinghy to the manager who could sell the most of their product. This manager wanted it and had been ordering loads and recouping the money by repackaging and relabelling other products. I gave evidence in court, he was jailed and I got the best and freshest meat for a month, delivered (in the days before they delivered) to keep me quiet. It didn't. Trading Standards investigated as well, but I never heard what they did. Never set foot in Tesco again until we moved here 15 years ago, but stopped because, on a couple of occasions, I saw a rat at the back of the store when I drove out of their car park, and the milk aisle stank. They said it was continental cheeses, but it was stale milk where the cleaner would mop up spilt milk by spreading it around the floor and under the racks of milk instead of actually washing the floor. If it's not clean on the shop floor, what's it like in the storage area where the public don't go? The I slipped on a grape because the staff in the greengrocery section were too lazy to pick up droppings. My doctor said not to push it too much because he couldn't tell what was a result of the fall and what was because of my RA, but I got GBP100 from them. Stopped going there again, but went back a few years ago when I used to take a blind neighbour shopping until he died, and that was where he wanted to go, but I only bought a few branded products while I was in there. Very happy now with Waitrose, which is clean, the products are good but no dearer than other supermarkets unless you choose their more expensive ranges, the staff are all happy and very willing to help and where you have the choice of going to shop yourself and taking it home with you, shopping yourself and have them deliver, have them shop and you go and collect, or have them shop for you and they deliver. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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I try to remember my cloth bags but take the plastic if I forget or don't have enough bags with me. There are so many uses for the plastic bags that they are not thrown out. The local free meal programs use them for the 'take out' meals. My church uses them in the summer at the produce table from the church garden, and also for the rummage sale and Christmas bazaar. I don't know what those programs will do if they ban the plastic bags in our town. Our curbside recycling takes paper, some plastics, cardboard, small metal and motor oil, but the glass we have to take down to the recycling center ourselves. Compost material must also be taken to the center. Each company seems to do things a bit differently. Alice in Oregon -- where I'm back in my house tonight for the first time since Jan 9. The new bathroom is usable (not quite finished) and the new kitchen is an unknown time, probably next week. We'll still be eating out for a couple more weeks. (Easy on me as cook but hard on the bank account.) - Original Message - From: "Janice Blair" I sometimes forget to take my own bags to the supermarket and save those free ones for lining my trash bin and using on painting jobs, but most of them, along with any other plastic bags I get are taken back to the supermarket and put in their bag recyclable bin. Our curbside recycling only takes paper, glass and plastic containers. So far we don't have curbside composting in this area. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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I had to give up on on-line shopping. I have ongoing rows with the different on-line supermarkets for the following reasons that I hate and they don't think are an issue or worse, contravene food hygiene. What they also don't understand is that when they deliver something broken or substituted that I can't have I then have to go our and buy it which defeats my buying it on line: - putting my tins of baked beans in with my eggs - result - smashed eggs and sticky baked beans. - putting my tins of baked beans in with my eggs and raw meat - smashed eggs and egg soaked beans and raw meat - putting my raw meat in with my cooked or cured meat - yuck. Contaminated raw meat and cooked / cured straight into the bin - putting my raw meat in with my fresh fruit - need I explain this one? - putting any tins in with soft things like bread and raspberries in the same bag - we had pink flat bread as a result - substituting my gluten free bread with gluten containing bread - hello? What planet are you on. I can't eat gluten - IT WILL KILL ME - substituting my fresh lemons with a bottle of lemon juice - so makes the G&T's work - substituting my cooked ham for a tin of ham ... I'm not even going to comment - substituting my decaf tea with non decaf tea - no I'm not saying anything - substituting my soya chocolate drink with milk based strawberry drink - substituting my gluten free flour with gluten based flour - ughh I could go on On one occasion where just under £25 worth of food was useless as it had been contaminated and went through food handling and hygiene issues over the delivery and the girl on the phone said I was being 'picky'. Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ Whoever came up with the phrase "retail therapy" didn't do the weekly shop, neither are they any larger than a size zero for clothes! I do shop on line if I just can't get to the supermarket (DH doesn't drive), and am now glad that they now have the option "no substitutes". Before they did that I wondered at the thinking of the person doing the shopping for me - I wanted fruit shortcake biscuits and got fig biscuits; I wanted plain bio yoghurt for the dog and fruit yoghurt for me - they hadn't got the fruit yoghurt I wanted, so instead of sending another brand, I got double plain bio. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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Maybe it is an age thing. I used to like to shop for clothes, shoes, etc., but now I dislike doing it except for the occasional good sales that we have. The only time I go to an indoor shopping mall these days is when I go to get my haircut and I get there early so I can have lunch in the food court and browse the sales for an hour before seeing my stylist. I used to "treat" myself to a senior coffee (50 cents) at McDonalds and get something off their $1 menu. DH hates fast food, so that is why it is a treat, but now the McD in the mall has closed and I am forced to pay full price for lunch. I sometimes forget to take my own bags to the supermarket and save those free ones for lining my trash bin and using on painting jobs, but most of them, along with any other plastic bags I get are taken back to the supermarket and put in their bag recyclable bin. Our curbside recycling only takes paper, glass and plastic containers. So far we don't have curbside composting in this area. Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org From: Agnes Boddington To: lace-chat@arachne.com Sent: Tue, January 31, 2012 5:12:51 PM Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Green thing What do you mean: Shopping is becoming a real chore ..? I loathe shopping, shopping for food, shopping for clothes or shoes etc. The only shopping I like is craft stuff shopping! Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK > to bring our own. Shopping is becoming a real chore these days. > > Janice To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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I have decided I must be a changling, my Mother, 3 sisters and daughter were all born to shop, I shop out of necessity:-) Dislike clothes shopping. Was close to abandoning our normal supermarket when they refurbished it, but several of them were doing the same thing at the same time, but unlike Jeans, they have left us the cut throughs so now we have worked out where they hide everything we want, we do those bits and ignore the rest. We have lost some of our favourite lines though but even ringing the companies that made them didn't make a difference. I also use cheques to pay certain bills. Happy to pay for what I have, at the time, rather than masses up front. I have received a cheque from my Mum to spend for my birthday and am currently waiting for my brain to decide what I really want to buy (thinking lace items not clothing). Dont want to jump in buy something just because its there and wish I had waited a day or a week when I find something I really, really would love to have, apart from the fact that there are just too many appointments to be kept this week and next. Sue T Janice In this country we can no longer pay by cheque as our bank cards no longer serve as cheque guarantee cards. At one point the banks wanted to phase cheques out altogether but there was so much opposition they had to abandon the idea v- for the present, at least. When I use mail order I always use cheques and so I'm pleased I can continue to do so. I'm with Agnes: all shopping is a bore but I would add bookshops to her list of non chore shopping/browsing. Patricia in Wales To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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Whoever came up with the phrase "retail therapy" didn't do the weekly shop, neither are they any larger than a size zero for clothes! of dog food in one carrier bag and just a tube of toothpaste in another! It never ceases to amaze me why they can't even up the distribution between the plastic carrier bags.> I do shop on line if I just can't get to the supermarket (DH doesn't drive), and am now glad that they now have the option "no substitutes". Before they did that I wondered at the thinking of the person doing the shopping for me - I wanted fruit shortcake biscuits and got fig biscuits; I wanted plain bio yoghurt for the dog and fruit yoghurt for me - they hadn't got the fruit yoghurt I wanted, so instead of sending another brand, I got double plain bio. I've just changed supermarkets after 50 years of loyalty to Sainsburys from the days when they used to serve you and pat butter for you. The reasonable-sized one in Poole town centre removed the seats in the area outside because they were being used by drunks - I don't drink so why should I be deprived of the opportunity to sit down. Then they introduced coin-in-the-slot small trolleys because people were stealing them. I can't use a big one because I can't get the shopping out of it. I can't walk very well so use the trolley as a walking frame and, by the time I've got my shopping into the car, I don't have the strength to take the trolley back to get my coin back; and, before anyone suggests I get an assistant to help me - NO! I want to remain independent. I'm not a thief, so why should I be treated like one. So I moved to the other larger one in Poole, which still doesn't have seats, but doesn't have coin-in-the-slot trolleys. Then they decided to make it larger. It's now big enough to hold a jumbo jet, but they've reduced the number of lines they sell (many of which I bought "This is an alternative." No! I decide what I buy, not you.") and no longer have the storage space, so many of the shelves are empty. Add to that the rearrangement of the car park with more disabled and mother-and-child spaces than before, but stretching away from the entrance. Now most of those spaces are further from the entrance the able-bodied ones, which are always full. But they are complying with the law on the number of disabled spaces they have to have whether they are useful for the disabled or not. The staff got grumpy because they were being asked where things were, and if you wanted something halfway down one aisle and another halfway down the next, it seemed like a 100 metre trek to get to it - they'd removed all the cut-throughs with the mistaken idea that if you see something you don't normally buy, you will buy it now - wrong! I was getting grumpy before I even went through the door. Time to go elsewhere. And don't get me started on being accosted to open a bank account with them or change my energy supplier to them. I don't buy my groceries at a bank or at the electricity company so why should I bank at a supermarket? Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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Yes, Patricia, book shops I can deal with and decent chocolate shops. And as Sue already mentioned, I do like bead shops too. I'm with Agnes: all shopping is a bore but I would add bookshops to her list of non chore shopping/browsing. Patricia in Wales To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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Janice In this country we can no longer pay by cheque as our bank cards no longer serve as cheque guarantee cards. At one point the banks wanted to phase cheques out altogether but there was so much opposition they had to abandon the idea v- for the present, at least. When I use mail order I always use cheques and so I'm pleased I can continue to do so. I'm with Agnes: all shopping is a bore but I would add bookshops to her list of non chore shopping/browsing. Patricia in Wales -Original Message- From: Janice Blair We don't have the scanner thingy over here yet, at least not in this area, but we do have self checking. I really dislike it when I buy produce and have to look things up that don't have barcodes. I usually pay with a check which also slows things down as I then have to wait for the person who is in charge of at least 6 scanners to get to me and accept the check. I like to treat the supermarket as my bank and usually get some cash change for pocket money. Sometimes there is only one normal check-out open with a regular cashier but if I have veg I stand in line. Apart from Aldi, we still can get bags if we forget to bring our own. Shopping is becoming a real chore these days From: The Lace Bee To: Chat Sent: Tue, January 31, 2012 3:53:58 PM Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Green thing My local Waitrose has refined this system to the point of perfection. I like to use the self scan handset because I know exactly what I've spent before I get to the checkout and that is the ONLY reason I go through this torture when I go shopping. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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My favorite is when you hand them your bags, and they still put your groceries in the plastic bags, then put the bagged groceries in your bags. AARRGGHHH!!! The other fun thing is the self-check out at the local grocery...it has a weight sensor in the bagging section, and when you put one of your bags down it tells you to remove the item from the bag and run it through the scanner. SIGH Peg In unseasonably warm Fairview Park OH...60F today...is it really January? To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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What Agnes forgets to mention is that she can be persuaded to go clothes shopping provided it's interspersed with lots of beads!! LOL Sue in East Yorkshire On 31 Jan 2012, at 23:12, Agnes Boddington wrote: > What do you mean: Shopping is becoming a real chore ..? > I loathe shopping, shopping for food, shopping for clothes or shoes etc. > The only shopping I like is craft stuff shopping! > Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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What do you mean: Shopping is becoming a real chore ..? I loathe shopping, shopping for food, shopping for clothes or shoes etc. The only shopping I like is craft stuff shopping! Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK to bring our own. Shopping is becoming a real chore these days. Janice To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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I don't know why the supermarket staff remind you that there are self service tills, don't the silly people realise that those same machines will one day put them out of a job because when the powers to be find out that everyone is at last using them (by the way I will not in principal) they will bid them all farewell. Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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We don't have the scanner thingy over here yet, at least not in this area, but we do have self checking. I really dislike it when I buy produce and have to look things up that don't have barcodes. I usually pay with a check which also slows things down as I then have to wait for the person who is in charge of at least 6 scanners to get to me and accept the check. I like to treat the supermarket as my bank and usually get some cash change for pocket money. Sometimes there is only one normal check-out open with a regular cashier but if I have veg I stand in line. Apart from Aldi, we still can get bags if we forget to bring our own. Shopping is becoming a real chore these days. Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA where we had a small earthquake last evening. I heard a noise and DH said it was the tv. Wrong! I dislike surround sound, especially when alone. I dislike hearing a noise from the opposite end of the room from the tv. Very disconcerting, but men must have their toys. Not heard of any damage. www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org From: The Lace Bee To: Chat Sent: Tue, January 31, 2012 3:53:58 PM Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Green thing My local Waitrose has refined this system to the point of perfection. I like to use the self scan handset because I know exactly what I've spent before I get to the checkout and that is the ONLY reason I go through this torture when I go shopping. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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Or you could shop on-line and have it delivered with four giant size tins of dog food in one carrier bag and just a tube of toothpaste in another! It never ceases to amaze me why they can't even up the distribution between the plastic carrier bags. Brenda On 31 Jan 2012, at 18:45, Jean Nathan wrote: > You can ask to have someone pack for you if you want eggs at the bottom of > your bag underneath the potatoes. Brenda in Allhallows www.brendapaternoster.co.uk To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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My local Waitrose has refined this system to the point of perfection. I like to use the self scan handset because I know exactly what I've spent before I get to the checkout and that is the ONLY reason I go through this torture when I go shopping. I go in, I put my card through the swipe machine and it shows me a handset to scan the goods myself. I try to take the handset and it jams and locks it's self it. I now can't swipe my card again and it won't let me have the handset. I go to customer service and they reset my id. I go back again with the nice man from customer service, he swipes my card and ... the handset jams. He is now really embarrashed and goes and clears my card again. He comes back and just hands me a handset from his desk. I go round the shop with my list and bags. I scan products and I put them straight into my bag and if there is an offer it beeps and me like a frustrated beepy thing and gets upset because I don't want 56 packets of dog food to go with my cat biscuits. After about an hour, carefully going up each aisle in turn and marking off my list and getting into fights with the other customers over the last pie or dish cloth (they are civilised in Waitrose but can be vicous when cornered those John Lewis women) I go to the checkout. Because I am strange and believe in paying cash I have to wait in line at the customer service (rather than scan a finish bar code, hand over set and leave - it charges your card). After I have stood there about 20 minutes (thinking about my defrosting icecream and frozen scallops) listening to people's weird things they need help with they scan the final bar code and say 'just a minute while I close your shopping and get your total' ... followed by the frown and the fatal words, 'ah it's saying that you need to rescan to check your shopping'. So, having carefull, scanned and packed my shopping in the bags I want it, has to be taken out and rescanned and repacked. Everytime it has come to exactly the same total as I had it. So ask from the bottom of my heart ... WHY WAITROSE WHY ME? Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ From: Jean Nathan One supermarket uses the first of the above or they have handsets which you use if you've registered a credit or debit card. With that, you put your bags in the trolley, take the goods off the shelves, scan them with the handset, put the goods in your bags in an organised way and finalise at a separate checkout. You push the trolley to your car and move the bags from the trolley to your car boot. We used to be served - now we serve ourselves. We always had the goods checked out - now they want us to do it ourselves. How long before they start expecting us the fill the shelves as well? To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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Gosh, no wonder I am exhauted by the time I get home from the supermarket! Btw I hate the self-checkout, and when I am gently reminded by a member of the supermarket staff that I can use the self-checkout, I give them a dirty look. I prefer to interact with the staff at the till rather than with a faceless machine. I have for years now shopped in the same supermarket, once a week, and know most of the staff. We can have a banter, and a moan together, though I look around sometimes to see if I can find the hidden microphone or camera. Most of my bulk shopping is done at the local farmers' market. Once a month I stock up with bread, meat, potatoes, eggs etc., and yes, I do have a large freezer. Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK Subject: [lace-chat] Green thing We used to be served - now we serve ourselves. We always had the goods checked out - now they want us to do it ourselves. How long before they start expecting us the fill the shelves as well? Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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I sometimes think about asking if I will get a discount if I go through the self service checkout! Bet I know what the answer would be. I wouldn't mind so much if these do it yourself tills were actually quicker. In Wales we have to pay for plastic bags if we don't bring out own. So, at the beginning we are asked to put our bags on the packing up belt and press 'done' when we've done so. One supermarket's system cannot cope with more than one bag in that area and you have to wait for an assistant, in effect, to confirm you haven't sneaked unpaid for goods onto it. Patricia in Wales A lot of our supermarkets have introduced self-service checkouts, so you take the goods off the shelf, put them in your trolley, take them out of the trolley and scan them, then put them in your bags which you've put in your trolley. You pay by cash, credit card or debit card through a slot. If cash and you need change, that's spewed out of a slot and a receipt emerges from another.You push the trolley to your car and move the bags from the trolley to your car boot. One supermarket uses the first of the above or they have handsets which you use if you've registered a credit or debit card. With that, you put your bags in the trolley, take the goods off the shelves, scan them with the handset, put the goods in your bags in an organised way and finalise at a separate checkout. You push the trolley to your car and move the bags from the trolley to your car boot. We used to be served - now we serve ourselves. We always had the goods checked out - now they want us to do it ourselves. How long before they start expecting us the fill the shelves as well? Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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Mostly in our supermarkets, you take the goods off the shelves, put them in your trolley, take them out of your trolley and put them on the conveyor belt, the checkout staff scan them and put them back on the second part of the belt then you put them in your bags (or plastic bags supplied by the supermarket) which you've put in your trolley. You pay by handing cash to the checkout assistant, or use a credit card or debit card by inserting in a handset and entering your PIN. You're given change if you used cash and you're handed a receipt. You push the trolley to your car and move the bags from the trolley to your car boot. You can ask to have someone pack for you if you want eggs at the bottom of your bag underneath the potatoes. A lot of our supermarkets have introduced self-service checkouts, so you take the goods off the shelf, put them in your trolley, take them out of the trolley and scan them, then put them in your bags which you've put in your trolley. You pay by cash, credit card or debit card through a slot. If cash and you need change, that's spewed out of a slot and a receipt emerges from another.You push the trolley to your car and move the bags from the trolley to your car boot. One supermarket uses the first of the above or they have handsets which you use if you've registered a credit or debit card. With that, you put your bags in the trolley, take the goods off the shelves, scan them with the handset, put the goods in your bags in an organised way and finalise at a separate checkout. You push the trolley to your car and move the bags from the trolley to your car boot. We used to be served - now we serve ourselves. We always had the goods checked out - now they want us to do it ourselves. How long before they start expecting us the fill the shelves as well? Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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Locally here, they will give you a plastic shopping bag, but at 5 cents each. Generally a reusable bag from them is about a dollar. But even better we've found is that they also offer these plastic bins.. about the same size as one of those baskets you can carry around the shop in lieu of a trolley. Those are /brilliant/. They have straps to make carrying easier, and hold so much more and don't fall over in the back of the car. You just have to be careful not to fill one with all the tins and one with all the bread (or at least manage to have someone else carry the one with the tins in from the car ;) In my small often rather hippie Canadian town, bringing your own bags to the grocery store has become commonplace across all ages, which is nice. It's only when I go other places that they look at me funny for not wanting a bag, bringing my own coffee mug and water bottle. Heather -- we've gotten back to cool temps, but no snow in SW Ontario http://jazminknits.blogspot.com Twitter: jazmincat and #laceknitting On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Jean Nathan wrote: > David wrote: > > > > Didn't you used to wrap a hankie or something else around the handle to stop > that happening? > > I notice nowadays it's the older shopper who take their own bags to the > supermarket and the younger ones who take more plastic bags than they need. > I even refuse extra small plastic bags for goods which are already more than > adequately wrapped. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
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David wrote: Didn't you used to wrap a hankie or something else around the handle to stop that happening? I notice nowadays it's the older shopper who take their own bags to the supermarket and the younger ones who take more plastic bags than they need. I even refuse extra small plastic bags for goods which are already more than adequately wrapped. Most supermarkets did try hiding plastic bags under the checkout desk to encourage people to take their own, but it didn't work - shoppers were demanding them. It needs legislation like they have in Wales to stop shoppers using them. The supermarket where I go doesn't give out plastic bags, they'll sell you a bag-for-life for 10p. If it wears out, they replace it free of charge. I noticed a person new to the shop complaining bitterly that that wasn't right. I changed to that supermarket from another when the former extended to be the size of a hangar for a jumbo jet, but cut the number of lines and ended up with empty spaces on the shelves because they no longer had sufficient storage space. The manager of the store I changed to heard me mention I'd abandoned the other store after 50 years of loyalty to one of the staff and he promptly put two if the stores best large canvas bags in my trolley with his compliments. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
