What cheeses me off

[bussyboy]

Coles "Dropped and Locked". Bollocks.
I like my Sakata rice crackers. Last year I was buying them for $1.50 - $1.80 a pkt. Occasionally even $1.00 on special.
Coles brand were normally $1.20
Coles proudly announce that they have dropped and locked the price of Sakata at $2.50.
Meanwhile their own brand rice crackers are now 90c.

I reckon there's a case for this behavour to go to ACCC, after seeing butter go up at WOW for about a month from $7 to $8, then drop down as "price dropped" $7.50

 

[JessicaTam]

When I am stuck at a remote gate at LHR and a bus takes 35 minutes to turn up … and then drives off again!

 

[JohnK]

Pepsi Max has gone from $2.10->$2.40->$3.00->3.20 in the space of 18 months.

No thanks. LA Ice cola zero sugar is $2.00 and sometimes $1.75 and sometimes even $1.50 and you get used to it quite quickly.

 

[JessicaTam]

Pepsi Max has gone from $2.10->$2.40->$3.00->3.20 in the space of 18 months.

No thanks. LA Ice cola zero sugar is $2.00 and sometimes $1.75 and sometimes even $1.50 and you get used to it quite quickly.

I didn’t know LA cola was still around.

 

[JohnK]

I didn’t know LA cola was still around.

Yes still around although I've noticed some Woolworths stores have stopped stocking them.

 

[tdimdad]

When you buy a large packet of chips at the supermarket and you open it and its 50% sealed air. I know its all about marketing etc etc but why don't they make the bag 10% larger than the contents and save a couple of $0.01 on every packet.

Chips may need some extra space but most other items would not at all. Besides the packaging materials, there would be savings (per unit) in transport volume, warehouse & storage room space and shelf space. Why stores insist on paying extra on those is a mystery to me. And you, respectively, would need less space to take the goodies home & less materials to recycle or discard. Wouldn't it be a win overall to everyone to optimise the package sizes to the contents?

 

[Lynda2475]

Wouldn't it be a win overall to everyone to optimise the package sizes to the contents?

It would. Also means less waste to dispose of/recycle; so bins wouldn't fill up so quickly. mean i could fit more packest in a shopping bag etc.

I know many manufacturers have reduced their serving size so as not to be flagged as unhealthy. but hoping you dont notice by keeping packaging the same size.

 

[DejaBrew]

inconsiderate man-child who borrowed his parents car without permission then wrote it off on the morning

Hope the inconsiderate man-child is otherwise ok and is being suitably conciliatory in light of their actions. Not cool at all.

I know many manufacturers have reduced their serving size so as not to be flagged as unhealthy. but hoping you dont notice by keeping packaging the same size.

“Enhancing” their products

 

[Lynda2475]

Hope the inconsiderate man-child is otherwise ok and is being suitably conciliatory in light of their actions. Not cool at all.

He was rattled but otherwise no physical injuries. Has not offered to help out with the insurance gap despite having a casual job and living rent free. Told his Mum he should at least reimburse the 3 of us for the un-used concert tickets.

 

[Ade]

I didn’t know LA cola was still around.

Yes still around although I've noticed some Woolworths stores have stopped stocking them.

Coles at CBR Civic stocks this. To be honest I haven’t heard of LA Cola until today. So I went looking …

 

[Quickstatus]

Is L*A a brand of LA?

 

[Forg]

I Googled … not only is it the real deal LA Ice, it’s actually an Australian brand.
Prolly should’ve been buying that instead of Pepsi or Coke for decades.

 

[Pushka]

When checkout is 12 noon and that was reinforced at check in, and 10.45 am housekeeping starts banging on the door and badgering you. MrP sorted it.

 

[Seat0B]

He was rattled but otherwise no physical injuries. Has not offered to help out with the insurance gap despite having a casual job and living rent free. Told his Mum he should at least reimburse the 3 of us for the un-used concert tickets.

Seat Family rule was always you prang, you pay.

 

[bussyboy]

Place online grocery order at 1230 for 5-6pm delivery.
Tracking days they started picking the order at 6.55pm
2 hours later, still not a sign of it coming

 

[John in Melbourne]

It would. Also means less waste to dispose of/recycle; so bins wouldn't fill up so quickly. mean i could fit more packest in a shopping bag etc.

I know many manufacturers have reduced their serving size so as not to be flagged as unhealthy. but hoping you dont notice by keeping packaging the same size.

A sneaky way of raising the price!

 

[Guvner]

Car insurance claim.

Car was parked out the front of my house. Got swiped by a bus. I didn't even know it had happened until I saw a note on my car.
A witness left the note with the bus rego, the route number and the time. Bus just took off. I researched and found out the name of the bus company which I supplied as part of the claim.

Call insurance company. They state that because I didn't get the driver's details, it could take 10-12 weeks to get the claim processed. I have to pay $800 excess in the meantime and my rating will go from 1 to 3 if they can't identify the at-fault party.
I also have to provide my last 5 years of my driving history with a VicRoads report (at my expense) and the details of a claim my partner made in 2018 for an entirely different vehicle not even registered or insured by me. I was listed as an additional driver.

So they have the bus rego, the bus route number, the time, the bus company and the contact details of a witness but somehow I am required to provide records of my driving history and provide details of a 5 year old claim that had nothing to do with me just to get the ball rolling.

I just don't get it.

 

[Austman]

More on Coles:

OK, they have removed (or are removing) their 15c reusable plastic shopping bags. They were apparently recyclable. But in the end apparently not.

The replacement is a 25c paper shopping bag. About the same size (a bit smaller). Maybe not quite as reusable. By more recyclable. And more expensive.

BUT if you now place a Coles online order, Coles will charge a $1.50 flat charge for the paper bags (= to 6 bags), no matter how many you need. Before they charged 15c per "reusable" plastic bag for the number of bags actually needed.

I've rarely needed more than 2 bags. So it used to be a 30c charge for me. Maybe 45c for three at times.

Now, it's $1.50 even if only 2 x 25c paper bags are needed.

Coles. Why not charge for the actual number of bags needed?

 

[Forg]

Place online grocery order at 1230 for 5-6pm delivery.
Tracking days they started picking the order at 6.55pm
2 hours later, still not a sign of it coming

Hmm, better-half has been ordering from Woollies.
Regardless of when the delivery’s scheduled, it seems like picking was about 5am.
When the delivery was in the arvo, stuff like milk was a tad sketchy by the Use By date …

 

[Pushka]

Car insurance claim.

Car was parked out the front of my house. Got swiped by a bus. I didn't even know it had happened until I saw a note on my car.
A witness left the note with the bus rego, the route number and the time. Bus just took off. I researched and found out the name of the bus company which I supplied as part of the claim.

Call insurance company. They state that because I didn't get the driver's details, it could take 10-12 weeks to get the claim processed. I have to pay $800 excess in the meantime and my rating will go from 1 to 3 if they can't identify the at-fault party.
I also have to provide my last 5 years of my driving history with a VicRoads report (at my expense) and the details of a claim my partner made in 2018 for an entirely different vehicle not even registered or insured by me. I was listed as an additional driver.

So they have the bus rego, the bus route number, the time, the bus company and the contact details of a witness but somehow I am required to provide records of my driving history and provide details of a 5 year old claim that had nothing to do with me just to get the ball rolling.

I just don't get it.

Sounds like a delay tactic. There is an independent witness. Ombudsman?