"It sucks to buy anything in 2023" - Kotaku

Zilent Night wrote:Tipping culture really needs to strawberry float off as well. Takeaway apps seem to ask you to tip both the restaurant and drivers now so I've just stopped tipping altogether. In fact, I'm trying to stop having takeaways at all as the prices have now risen to the point where I genuinely regret the spend as soon as I've finished eating.

My wife donated to a local charity on Just Giving tonight and even that asked for a tip for just using the website. strawberry floating ridiculous.

To be fair, just giving relies on those "tips" to cover running costs so they don't have to charge the charities or individuals that are using their site to raise money, so I think that gets a pass.

Fairytale of Knoy York wrote:

Zilent Night wrote:Tipping culture really needs to strawberry float off as well. Takeaway apps seem to ask you to tip both the restaurant and drivers now so I've just stopped tipping altogether. In fact, I'm trying to stop having takeaways at all as the prices have now risen to the point where I genuinely regret the spend as soon as I've finished eating.

My wife donated to a local charity on Just Giving tonight and even that asked for a tip for just using the website. strawberry floating ridiculous.

To be fair, just giving relies on those "tips" to cover running costs so they don't have to charge the charities or individuals that are using their site to raise money, so I think that gets a pass.

Didn't know that, thanks.

Zilent Night wrote:Tipping culture really needs to strawberry float off as well.

Mr Pink doesn't tip, and neither do I.

I'm willing to tip a takeaway if the service is excellent, such as Domino's or yesterday with Deliveroo HOP Morrisons (I had a £10 voucher & free sub to Deliveroo Plus, so gave the driver 3 quid), but never with Just Eat or Uber because the service is often complete crap. Food is always stone cold (and I'm not talking 'well it's McDonald's fries, of course they're going to be cold in Winter'), drivers now deliver multiple orders, items usually missing, non-existent customer service when things do go wrong...all I see is nothing but complaints on chain restaurant reviews on Just Eat, I'm amazed people keep using them. Even if the service was great, to be fair, some food products just weren't designed to be on the back of a dude's shoulders when it's 1 degree outside.

KK wrote:...but never with Just Eat or Uber because the service is often complete crap. Food is always stone cold (and I'm not talking 'well it's McDonald's fries, of course they're going to be cold in Winter'), drivers now deliver multiple orders, items usually missing, non-existent customer service when things do go wrong...all I see is nothing but complaints on chain restaurant reviews on Just Eat, I'm amazed people keep using them. Even if the service was great, to be fair, some food products just weren't designed to be on the back of a dude's shoulders when it's 1 degree outside.

At my flats a few people seem to get takeaways delivered every day whilst others (such as myself!) never do.

I have a pal who I go over his place to watch football now and again and we sometimes used to get Chinese food delivered but we've stopped because (a) the delivery was taking ages to arrive and (b) the quality was going down whilst the price was really ramping up. We now have cheap, supermarket-bought pizza instead!

jawa_ wrote:

KK wrote:...but never with Just Eat or Uber because the service is often complete crap. Food is always stone cold (and I'm not talking 'well it's McDonald's fries, of course they're going to be cold in Winter'), drivers now deliver multiple orders, items usually missing, non-existent customer service when things do go wrong...all I see is nothing but complaints on chain restaurant reviews on Just Eat, I'm amazed people keep using them. Even if the service was great, to be fair, some food products just weren't designed to be on the back of a dude's shoulders when it's 1 degree outside.

At my flats a few people seem to get takeaways delivered every day whilst others (such as myself!) never do.

I have a pal who I go over his place to watch football now and again and we sometimes used to get Chinese food delivered but we've stopped because (a) the delivery was taking ages to arrive and (b) the quality was going down whilst the price was really ramping up. We now have cheap, supermarket-bought pizza instead!

Coffee delivery is the one that really gets me.

'Coffee had spilt and was cold. 1/5.' You don't say! They've got Tassimo and Nespresso machines in Currys for about 40 quid, what you doing spending a tenner on a lukewarm coffee from Starbucks for.

'But it's got the squirty cream on top. '

Best 1 star review I saw was for a full English breakfast at I think it was toby's carvery. 'Toast was brittle and cold'. Faaaaaark off.

Use Just Eat far too much cos all the drivers round here are super quick.

Moggy wrote:

jawa_ wrote:...We now have cheap, supermarket-bought pizza instead!

I like to live it up now and again .

OldSoulCyborg wrote:Speaking of self service checkout, and very much going against what this thread's about... does anyone else find that long (5+ minute) grocery store checkout lines are completely a thing of the past now?

Not really. When I used to live in Sheffield, on the way back from uni I'd pop into the supermarket to do a food shop and I'd be waiting just as long in the self-service queue as I would at the staffed tills. The odd time that I go to any of my local shops in the day I'll be waiting in line for the self-service because they rarely open the staffed tills slowing everything down. And that's on a good day, assuming all the self-service points are working and the poor member of staff isn't having to run between multiple machines troubleshooting.

I do think they have their place but in my experience they've done little to alleviate queues, just shifted them from one form of checkout to another, while causing additional headaches for some people.

I don't really find that many problems with shopping - self-scan, where you walk round the supermarket zapping your own barcodes and packing as you go is great, and I do all my big shops at about 11pm because the supermarket is open until midnight, so there's no-one else around. Shopping online is great, the less human interaction the better. Returns are easy enough with printable labels and locker returns etc. If you do shop on a weekend, you have to expect a certain amount of hell. I kind of feel like shopping has never been easier.

I've never really had a problem with shopping/self scan etc. However I was just doing some Christmas shopping in Liverpool and had items from multiple shops in one big John Lewis bag. I went to the last shop and the bag was really heavy so I put it down between my feet as I got to the till to pay for my items. The young lady on the till asked if I needed a bag, my response to this was to point downwards and say "I'm alright, I've got a biggun!"

I never want to set foot in any shop ever again

Dowbocop wrote:"I'm alright, I've got a biggun!"

I've yet to go anywhere with barriers that requires a receipt to leave, that sounds genuinely horrible. My experience of self-checkout and home delivery is generally very positive, so I feel pretty lucky reading some of the posts in here.

I agree completely though on the trend for member prices being awful and that they should probably be legislated against. Both losing access to deals that used to be for everyone and having the price hiked on staple items to make the member price look better is yet another significant financial hit and really quite unfair.

The think that really annoys me about Amazon is they've started to change the delivery dates on a whim. I ordered some stuff the other day and it said it would arrive the next day. I got one thing delivered and checked when the other two items would be delivered and they had changed the delivery date by between one and two weeks. It just feels that I'm being lied to.