Why just take a bite?

Efour said:
I thought op had money and class. This thread ruined my perception.
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Went Waitrose in the city centre once. Not only were the parking spaces tiny and all taken, the place was horrifically expensive :eek:

Oh the Asda I went to is one of those mini ones with the self checkouts and bakery at the back, it's not a proper store.
 
Spacedeck said:
Complain to ASDA, don't they usually give something back for your troubles?
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Recently I've had to return two items to ASDA. A piece of plastic resembling the cross section of a hosepipe about a centimetre in length and breadth in a third party Haggis which I only discovered when it was in my mouth,and a piece of grit, more like quartz in their own Muesli.

In both instances I was given an immediate refund (against the receipt) at the customer services desk.

I then received letters from Head Office stating they would investigate and I should receive a reply within 28 days (might have been 30).


In the case of the Haggis I didn't hear anything from ASDA within the specified time frame. I phoned them (free phone number), they said they were still waiting for a reply from the third party. I then had to remind ASDA that they had said they would reply within a time frame and that surely they should have already chased the company for a reply. Surprise, Surprise a week latter I received a letter from ASDA stating that the company and (conveniently?) received but lost the object before they could investigate what it was. ASDA sent me a cheque for a tenner with a letter saying "Go out and treat yourself......." with a tenner? Where was I going to go, The Salvation Army Canteen and blow a whole tenner? I phoned them, they sent me a further tenner but I still wasn't happy that ASDA had not kept photographic evidence of the item before they sent it on to the supplier.

The second time with the grit/quarts I took a photograph of it, made two copies of my letter of complaint and took it to customer services, I was given a refund but when I asked the person to sign my second copy of the letter she refused saying "It's more than my job's worth to sign that letter...." I told her I was writing on my copy that she was refusing to sign and I wanted to see the manager. He appeared and I pointed out to him that he had a self confessed JOBs WORTH working for him. He sensibly stated that the woman should NOT have had any concerns about signing for the letter and item.

I told ASDA that if I had any issues in future I'd consider going direct to the food standards agency.

In the case of the quartz/grit I was sent a cheque for about a tenner with an apologetic letter.
 
Reeve said:
If you want some decent cookies, try the bakery section in M&S, their cookies may be twice as expensive for a pack of 5 but they're nearly twice the weight and they taste a lot nicer. Double chocolate are my favourite but the rest of my family seems to prefer white chocolate. Just pray the staff at your local store actually knows how to bake cookies, some staff always seem to mess them up and turn them into biscuits instead.
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Too many Syns in them cookies.
 
Maybe when the bite was taken there was no way to tell it was a crappy cookie?
It have put it back!
 
What would have been better is if the guy ate all of this and replaced it with a note, telling him they was tasty and he was sorry about the crumbs :D
 
Diagro said:
Too many Syns in them cookies.
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I assume by syns, you mean artificial ingredients? I wasn't aware people who bought cookies wanted to eat a healthy snack. If you're going to pig out, do it properly :p

Actually I just looked it up and it appears to be some kind of point system assigned to food based on its calorie content. I agree, they probably will have a higher calorie content than pretty much all cookies but you could always just have half which should even it out. That being said weight watching may not be one of the OPs concerns, he did just buy a 5 pack of cookies.
 
I bought a bag of Sainsbury's five double choc chip cookies once. There were seven inside! That was a good day.
 
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