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rinks wrote:

Tomous wrote:

rinks wrote:

Tomous wrote:

rinks wrote:

Tomous wrote:

rinks wrote:Pret a Manger is raising the price of its coffee subscription service to £25 a month (from £20). OK, it's quite a price-hike, but it's still outrageously good value if you're in a position to make good use of it - five drinks a day! (It's no use to me, but if I lived or worked close to a store I'd make great use of the offer.)

But I had to laugh at the naive entitlement of one berk who commented (unsurprisingly, his twitter account now deleted).

@Pret This isn’t acceptable. You can’t put prices up without consultation, especially when the quality of produce is deteriorating. I’ll be cancelling my subscription. Disappointing. pic.twitter.com/gnHiNX0I6T — Sam Anton (@samsonleonanton) February 2, 2022

"You can’t put prices up without consultation". Bless.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60223226

What the strawberry float, 5 per day?

So you could have 150 coffees a month for £25?!

Yep, it's nuts. I guess they're banking on people only using it once or twice on week days, on their way to/from work (still a bargain), but if there's one nearby, it's a crazy good deal.

Can you order 5 drinks at the same time? Because could office teams not just do an order every day for everyone?

Don't know. I would assume not.

Yeah it's 30 mins between drinks

Good excuse to say you're going on a coffee run, then taking two hours.

jiggles wrote:

rinks wrote:

Tomous wrote:

rinks wrote:

Tomous wrote:

rinks wrote:

Tomous wrote:

rinks wrote:Pret a Manger is raising the price of its coffee subscription service to £25 a month (from £20). OK, it's quite a price-hike, but it's still outrageously good value if you're in a position to make good use of it - five drinks a day! (It's no use to me, but if I lived or worked close to a store I'd make great use of the offer.)

But I had to laugh at the naive entitlement of one berk who commented (unsurprisingly, his twitter account now deleted).

@Pret This isn’t acceptable. You can’t put prices up without consultation, especially when the quality of produce is deteriorating. I’ll be cancelling my subscription. Disappointing. pic.twitter.com/gnHiNX0I6T — Sam Anton (@samsonleonanton) February 2, 2022

"You can’t put prices up without consultation". Bless.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60223226

What the strawberry float, 5 per day?

So you could have 150 coffees a month for £25?!

Yep, it's nuts. I guess they're banking on people only using it once or twice on week days, on their way to/from work (still a bargain), but if there's one nearby, it's a crazy good deal.

Can you order 5 drinks at the same time? Because could office teams not just do an order every day for everyone?

Don't know. I would assume not.

Yeah it's 30 mins between drinks

Good excuse to say you're going on a coffee run, then taking two hours.

“Ok, who had the cold one?”
“And the really cold one?”
“Is this one yours with the skin on top?”

jiggles wrote:How much exactly were you pissing away each month on green font?

Using the adage of time = money... a significant amount. Especially once forums moved to the colour chart so I had to manually type it in to stick with my standard colour of green.

I have to admit though, this does feel good. I give it a day before somebody quotes this and buggers it up.

Stugene wrote:a great gut-punch for all this is that it's now nearly impossible to import things from abroad without getting hit with huge tax bills - and so many businesses have got hit with bad customer responses when selling to the UK that a lot of them are just refusing to let you buy.

jiggles wrote:How much exactly were you pissing away each month on green font?

Prototype wrote:
Always been a believer in live for the now as opposed to saving for a rainy day.

Dual wrote:

Prototype wrote:
Always been a believer in live for the now as opposed to saving for a rainy day.

Sorry for picking on this but you do have some savings yeah? Because that's a terrible attitude to have towards money.

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:I don't understand how people are going to cope with this. I'm thinking of those who are either already in poverty or have been in that sort of 5-10% of households just above it.

Energy bills, NI increase, UC uplift removal, inflation to exceed 7% and the real-terms percentage increase of household basics actually even much higher than that.

Is this the Tories undertaking Operation Early Sabotage, or something? They know they're strawberry floated at the next GE – they're creating as much long-term damage as possible, that they know will plague the nation for maybe a decade to come, so they're already preparing their "See what happens under a Labour government!" campaign?!

I'm not usually one for conspiracy theories .

Rocsteady wrote:

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:I don't understand how people are going to cope with this. I'm thinking of those who are either already in poverty or have been in that sort of 5-10% of households just above it.

Energy bills, NI increase, UC uplift removal, inflation to exceed 7% and the real-terms percentage increase of household basics actually even much higher than that.

Is this the Tories undertaking Operation Early Sabotage, or something? They know they're strawberry floated at the next GE – they're creating as much long-term damage as possible, that they know will plague the nation for maybe a decade to come, so they're already preparing their "See what happens under a Labour government!" campaign?!

I'm not usually one for conspiracy theories .

I suspect many Tories don't realise how badly it will hit the poorest. It's difficult to empathise when you've always been rich (and don't take the steps to better yourself by focusing on others).

It is a problem that's happening across Europe (and probably the world), but at least more competent governments are taking some steps to try and alleviate the pain.

Knoyleo wrote:

Rocsteady wrote:

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:I don't understand how people are going to cope with this. I'm thinking of those who are either already in poverty or have been in that sort of 5-10% of households just above it.

Energy bills, NI increase, UC uplift removal, inflation to exceed 7% and the real-terms percentage increase of household basics actually even much higher than that.

Is this the Tories undertaking Operation Early Sabotage, or something? They know they're strawberry floated at the next GE – they're creating as much long-term damage as possible, that they know will plague the nation for maybe a decade to come, so they're already preparing their "See what happens under a Labour government!" campaign?!

I'm not usually one for conspiracy theories .

I suspect many Tories don't realise how badly it will hit the poorest. It's difficult to empathise when you've always been rich (and don't take the steps to better yourself by focusing on others).

It is a problem that's happening across Europe (and probably the world), but at least more competent governments are taking some steps to try and alleviate the pain.

They realise it will hit the poor, they just believe that the poor deserve it.

Buffalo wrote:Me and my partner were hoping to move into a larger home where the gas & electric bill would rise a fair bit to begin with, the extra on top is going to be a real shock to the system. Ditto the council tax as we’re moving into a new build.
They say ‘work harder’ as a joke, but we’ll have to - partner will have to take on more evening and weekend work, we’ll have to think twice about holidays and maybe consider using Lidl a little bit.