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Cressers
Cressers Posts: 1,329
edited September 2010 in The bottom bracket
I've noticed the little *****s have been nibbling at the product sizes and quantites you get for you £, again. I doubt if the £ inner tubes or puncture kits will be seen again.

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  • gmb
    gmb Posts: 456
    The staff don't like it when you ask how much things are. I'd have thought it would never get old.
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  • Cressers
    Cressers Posts: 1,329
    99p stores are trialing a 'Family Value' format that would allow them to break away from the one price format. The end is commming...
  • Rouge Penguin
    Rouge Penguin Posts: 347
    Dont get me started on the Aholes at Burtons and their shrinking Wagon Wheels.....were being robbed by greedy bosses everywhere.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Just wait till the new VAT comes in.
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  • Cressers
    Cressers Posts: 1,329
    We know... we dread...
  • Skeltron
    Skeltron Posts: 72
    £1 inner tubes? Really? 700c?
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    Cressers wrote:
    I've noticed the little *****s have been nibbling at the product sizes and quantites you get for you £, again. I doubt if the £ inner tubes or puncture kits will be seen again.

    wilkinsons do 78p puncture repair kits.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    The Wagon Wheel gripe up thread (one which I share btw! :-)) reminds me of the bloke who saved an American confectionery giant a shed load of cash with a very simple proposal... reduce the number of sweets in a packet from 12 to 11 and keep the price the same. That's an 8% increase in margin per packet.
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  • tebbit
    tebbit Posts: 604
    The worst version of the cost benefit analysis was GM with the moving of the petrol tank in a particular type of car, they calculated 29 cars and their passengers would get incinerated, the payouts would be substantially less than the cost saving. In the end 22 cars and the passengers got incinerated, but thankfully somebody blew the whistle on it.
  • chunkytfg
    chunkytfg Posts: 358
    Tebbit - Thats just a simple case of 'bean counting' or what could be classed as the ALARP principle. As low as is reasonably practicable.

    Not really sure why the need to 'blow the whistle' on it either as it is a widely known idea that has been around al long as lawyers seeking compensation claims!
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  • Bunneh
    Bunneh Posts: 1,329
    I love Poundland but mostly for washing powder and cleaning products. That said I did buy the puncture kit once and one of their LED front lights; the kit was crap and the light was actually really good for the cash.
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  • Ollieda
    Ollieda Posts: 1,010
    Ben6899 wrote:
    The Wagon Wheel gripe up thread (one which I share btw! :-)) reminds me of the bloke who saved an American confectionery giant a shed load of cash with a very simple proposal... reduce the number of sweets in a packet from 12 to 11 and keep the price the same. That's an 8% increase in margin per packet.

    Probably did happen but sounds like one of those stories that just get thrown around the world with different names and everyone claims is true, i think the more famous version is the reduction of 1 pickle per pickle jar. It's like the supposed law that a scot can shot a welshman with a crossbow after midnight on the scottish border, change the combinantion of shooter, victim, time and location to any British nationality or place and people will claim it is true.

    As for wagon wheels.......you should see the size of the ones in australia! Huge!!!!! Makes ours look pathetic
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Ollieda wrote:
    Probably did happen but sounds like one of those stories that just get thrown around the world with different names and everyone claims is true, i think the more famous version is the reduction of 1 pickle per pickle jar.

    It really happened. I think it was Reese's Pieces. But I totally understand your cynicism. :)
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Ben6899 wrote:
    The Wagon Wheel gripe up thread (one which I share btw! :-)) reminds me of the bloke who saved an American confectionery giant a shed load of cash with a very simple proposal... reduce the number of sweets in a packet from 12 to 11 and keep the price the same. That's an 8% increase in margin per packet.

    As a part of the relative cost of the pack would be in the packaging I doubt the cost savings would have been that much (sorry, I'm in pedant mode!).
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Pross wrote:
    Ben6899 wrote:
    The Wagon Wheel gripe up thread (one which I share btw! :-)) reminds me of the bloke who saved an American confectionery giant a shed load of cash with a very simple proposal... reduce the number of sweets in a packet from 12 to 11 and keep the price the same. That's an 8% increase in margin per packet.

    As a part of the relative cost of the pack would be in the packaging I doubt the cost savings would have been that much (sorry, I'm in pedant mode!).

    No it's a fair comment. I was at work so not in top gear!
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  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    Ollieda wrote:
    Ben6899 wrote:
    The Wagon Wheel gripe up thread (one which I share btw! :-)) reminds me of the bloke who saved an American confectionery giant a shed load of cash with a very simple proposal... reduce the number of sweets in a packet from 12 to 11 and keep the price the same. That's an 8% increase in margin per packet.

    Probably did happen but sounds like one of those stories that just get thrown around the world with different names and everyone claims is true, i think the more famous version is the reduction of 1 pickle per pickle jar.

    Or the narrower mouth on a toothpaste tube.....

    edit - I meant wider, so toothpaste runs out quicker....
  • SLX01
    SLX01 Posts: 338
    tebbit wrote:
    The worst version of the cost benefit analysis was GM with the moving of the petrol tank in a particular type of car, they calculated 29 cars and their passengers would get incinerated, the payouts would be substantially less than the cost saving. In the end 22 cars and the passengers got incinerated, but thankfully somebody blew the whistle on it.

    I think you mean the Ford Pinto or did they all blow up?

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  • crumbschief
    crumbschief Posts: 3,399
    Is this where George Michael is going?
  • ynyswen24
    ynyswen24 Posts: 703
    chunkytfg wrote:
    Tebbit - Thats just a simple case of 'bean counting' or what could be classed as the ALARP principle. As low as is reasonably practicable.

    Not really sure why the need to 'blow the whistle' on it either as it is a widely known idea that has been around al long as lawyers seeking compensation claims!

    that case with the lethal petrol, tanks dates back to the early 70's if I remember right, the whistleblower was Ralph Nader and it was one of the first instances of big corporations being held to account. A very important story.

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