Monday at Lidl

Self service is from the shelves. This doesn't preclude the store from packing the goods.

If one considers the amount of revenue and margin that goes through a supermarket till per hour, minimum wage is a small proportion.

I am not convinced that cutting down on staff does give customers better value for money anyway.

As do quality goods.

For some things that's what I do.

Hardly, but there are limits.....

That's a good solution. Now all that they need is somebody to pack the goods and they would have one element of service.

Doesn't preclude it, but if you don't like all that goes with self service why use it?

Mony a mickle maks a muckle...

Do you remember food prices from before the days of supermarkets?

That awful smell of new baked bread piped to the entrance exceed those limits

Some sellers on Ebay have them

However, they come in at least 3 sizes and it's the smaller two sizes that are ideal for shopping. The smallest size is about the same size as a carrier bag but holds around 2x/3x as much because it opens into a rectangular box shape. The Ebay prices seem high when you include postage. I've never paid more than £1 for these bags and the smaller size is cheaper.

It's the kind of item you find at discount stores or pound shops and someone always seems to be selling them at the larger boot fairs/sales.

There has always been self service. Even today, at specialist retailers, the customer chooses and often tastes what he is intending to buy before doing so. That is self service in that the customer rather than the retailer makes the decision, as should be.

The other parts consist of packaging the goods and collecting the money, but are only part of the service.

Hmm....

Not particularly, but I don't buy food on price. Product quality and service are far more important to me.

Comes in cans....

... and then posts ... something like 30 messages in the self-same thread.

J^n

High postage is relative and is making the assumption that discount stores/pound shops or larger boot fairs/sales are less than 20 miles away... I do have to go to near Kendal this week so could stop in Penrit= h and see what they have in the discount store there, I don't think there = is a Pound Shop or Pound Stretcher in Penrith, there is in Hexham but that'= s

I do like a puzzle,got the stand today and its bored the hell outta me putting it together. So why didn't it come assembled?

Your labour doesn't cost the manufacturer ...

What do you expect for £7.99?

It would quadruple the cost

Round we go again.

First the story of what great value something must be because the price tag is so low.

Then the complaint about the lack of service - i.e. it wasn't a stand, but a set of parts to make a stand.

Presumably they sell cauliflowers in complete versions, or do you have to stick the florets together?

To fit a smaller box?

I bought the angle grinder. That now makes three - but the other two are 4"