At the moment I DO love Focus!

Would you have bought it all if you hadn't had the card? Have you *really* saved money?

Given that the web suppliers are frequently multiple 10's of percent cheaper than the sheds, even 10% isn't really worth having unless you absolutely *must* go there (it's Sunday afternoon, you've run out of {stuff} and you must have some now.)

b and q used to have a discount card and I used to buy lots of stuff, after they stopped it I scarcely bought anything, very short sighted of them, I think.

mrcheerful

I would have bought it from somewhere.

Yep. 10%.

MM

I rarely use them myself, but don't they still have an "Over 60" 10% discount card on Wednesdays? I was always amused by watching all the blokes going round on Wednesdays with trolleys full of diy hardware, pushing Granny along in her wheelchair to validate the 10% card at the checkout!

David

If you buy enough stuff, B&Q will haggle a bit on price, especially if you have an add of it being a bit cheeper somewhere else.....

This is how I got my 6 lorries full of bricks cheep, I got a quote from elsewhere, and asked B&Q to beet it......

Rick

I'm not surprised, knowing what they charge for their goods. We have a builders yard quite close by to our local buy and spew and it is up to 150% cheaper.

Dave

I found B&Q cheepest place arround for cement/blocks & especially sand in 1 tonne bags. Sand was competative with loose lorry loads.

But then I was filling the delivery lorry every time, and my place is at least 15 miles from anywhere ......

Rick

So if the B&Q price is a tenner the BM will pay you a fiver to take it away?

The problem is that much of what focus sells is twice the price of B&Q and

Christian.

"Christian McArdle" wrote in news:41ebb5a3$0$19165$ snipped-for-privacy@reading.news.pipex.net:

Very often, more expensive than Wickes. Hmmm.

A new Wickes branch opened here recently, unfortunately focus is significantly closer than any other shed.