Dusk I hate the end cabinets in the chilled aisles, you walk along the entire dairy section, milk, cheese, yoghurt etc but cream is nowhere to be seen. Ahhh, its hiding around the corner. Most other ends of aisles are for special offers!
DavecUK Dusk I hate the end cabinets in the chilled aisles, you walk along the entire dairy section, milk, cheese, yoghurt etc but cream is nowhere to be seen. Ahhh, its hiding around the corner. Most other ends of aisles are for special offers! Also, so often the end cabinets have no relevance to what’s in the aisle, attracting you to where you think related products are, but it’s just to make you walk further.
HarveyMushman I stopped physically doing the shop years ago and opt for online / home delivery now. It’s actually cheaper to get it delivered for us than to drive and do it manually. Waitrose have a handy ‘don’t allow any substitutions’ button on the app and 99% of the time we get everything we ordered. Also they save all your regularly bought items as a list so the weekly shop takes about 3 minutes.
Adrianmsmith £300 off a pair of speakers i purchased 20 days ago from a store thar has a 14 day price promise was extremely annoying. Never thought speakers would be the subject of if bank holiday deals . 🤬😭
Doram “Unless you cancel at least 31 days before the end of your subscription term, it will renew automatically and you will be charged the renewal price in effect at the time of your renewal.” How on earth is this legally allowed (and is such a prevailing practice)?
DavecUK Doram “Unless you cancel at least 31 days before the end of your subscription term, it will renew automatically and you will be charged the renewal price in effect at the time of your renewal.” How on earth is this legally allowed (and is such a prevailing practice)? Even though you could probably legally ask for a refund and cancellation before the new term starts. However I agree, successive governments have never looked after key areas of the law as it affects the unimportant 99.9% e.g. parking on or across driveways, leylandii hedges, contract law, lemon laws…………
Doram DavecUK Even though you could probably legally ask for a refund and cancellation before the new term starts. Yes, you can cancel, but the default is that companies are allowed to set auto renewal at a price they can (and do) hike at their will. They can then also make it difficult to opt-out of (which many do, of course). It’s the mindset and tactics of crooks and it’s perfectly legal, which is outrageous in my opinion.
DavecUK Doram Yes, you can cancel, but the default is that companies are allowed to set auto renewal at a price they can (and do) hike at their will. I think auto renewal should be illegal the way it’s currently done, the same for “free” trials auto renewal should have 2 options, remind me with a renew link and, auto renew without asking. Then you can choose how it operates. “Free” trials should by law have to send you a renew link at the end of the trial period and never just auto renew. How hard would it be for politicians to change the law to not detriment the consumer. If they won’t do it because almost no one would choose to auto renew anything…and if businesses fight against it…that should tell us all we need to know.
Doram DavecUK I think auto renewal should be illegal the way it’s currently done, the same for “free” trials If anyone cared there would be many ways to improve on this. For example: not allow auto renewal as a default; not allowing no opt-out option at registration; not allowing easy (do nothing) opt-in and difficult (must call in and speak to an agent) opt-out; not allowing price hike on auto- renewed contract (e.g. by auto-cancelling auto-renewal if the company chooses to hike the price) - if there was a will there would be many easy ways to make it fairer for normal people. But if the only will is to make it as easy as possible for companies to rip off the weakest people then the reality is what we have now.
Pompeyexile Got to admit Auto renewal is my biggest bug bare, which is why I never take up the Amazon Prime offers because I know I would chuffin forget to cancel it.
Teaboy Pompeyexile best practice is to set for redelivery every 6 months when you order then remember to cancel before then.
SteveBRS DavecUK I’ve had success with some companies to contact ‘customer service ’ via their Facebook page. Good luck!