Trade identifies a B2B transaction not an item. There is no reason why DIY shouldn't use the same or better than professional. Professionals are usually working to a price while DIY work to whatever standard they want to work to.
B2B is covered by whatever contract you agree to.
Retail is covered by the SoGA and contracts the SoGA overrides contracts unless its in favour of the customer.
A pro might also want something that lasts *just* long enough, so they get return business. For DIY you might be prepared to pay more for a maximum life.
I agree so I don't see how screwfix is classed as trade and I'd expect barret homes to have a bulk deal with say MK electrics rather than screwfix. screwfix do do trade rated which is something else.
Yes so I dontl see how any of the sheds are trade all the sheds are DIY. So what are these trade counters for ?
So in this situation they'll never recieve any stock so how do they do their jobs ? although I'd refer to them more as the service sector than builders.
Would be interesting to know officaily, my dad always got trade despite never being in the trade. He used to go to a shop in leytonstone highroad callled lesneys, he went in there said trade and he got the trade price whatever that meant.
Maybe they are more strict now but I really don't think so. The only differnce seems to be whether yuo are asked if you want a VAT receipt as you should only get one of those from a trade outlet.
The small amount I buy I can put it all in an empty box I've pulled off a shelf. I can then shuffle it forward on the floor with my feet if there's a queue.
But it's a bit of an imposition on some of the old dears you can get in Lidl expecting them to bend down that far.
It does make you wonder if they've done any real research at all.
I'm surprised there's larger stores without proper trolleys though.
michael adams
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I haven't so purhaps you can explain what they mean by trade rated for this plug.
pretty much same again.
but can you explain why some products are trade rated while others aren't.
ca you explain what trade means in this context or in any other.
Here;s tow products prettyy much the same.
and here at CPC.
what would be the trade price for this product ?
Well if you can find someone with a trade account to look up the price then you will know. As it stands you don't know and those links probably don't tell you.
Um. To start, the bottom of the basket is at ground level. It needs only to be raised 30 inches to be level with, and put on, the belt.
As a universitiy we have a trade account with RS but I;m not sure it;s called that anymore.
With rapid electronics, RS and onecall we are part of the London univercities consortuim.
Which means we get free P&P even if we only order a product for 1p and we get end colum pricing so when we order 1 transistor we get that one transitor for the same price as we would if we order 5,000 or whatever the lowest price break is. This in no way means we get the cheapeast price as most are cheaper via ebay.
Some don't have the 'normal' handles - I managed to get one and didn't realise. The lass on the till was surprised by that. The drag baskets are a bloody nuisance as half the shoppers just stop with basket trailing out and in the way.
I'm 6' 3" (shrunk a bit of late) and it's a bit of a stretch if the basket is on the conveyor and a long way down if it's on the floor.
A few years ago the local Aldidls didn't allow baskets to be taken through; now they do. The only time that I've used a trolley is when I wanted just a few items but one of them was an SDS drill.
Most of the time it was a bsket and load the items into rucksack/bags but now I can take the basket to shelf so it's quicker.
Fair enough. A lift "to" five feet.
It will need to be raised 30 inches, to a height of five feet.
michael adams
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How is refilling your basket quicker especaily if the SDS drill was the last thin out of the basket it must be the first thing you put back in the basket.
Do you get an assistant to put your shopping on the conveyor belt?
Dunno, never been in.
Maybe you get a little card or something?
When we were at school, I worked on plays and revues, would be sent up to the local ironmomgers to buy things on the school's account, no questions asked, or to the gun shop to get .22 blanks for the starting pistol.
So you put all the soft crushable stuff at the bottom of the basket and sling the heavy SDS drill on top ?
Banana sandwiches at your house must be a lot of fun.
It is actually possible to rearrange the order of your items on the belt while you're waiting. It helps pass the time. Just as its possible to have your card or money ready for when it's time to pay. Despite around 90% of the population being apparently unaware of this time saving ploy.
If I had my way I'd have an assistant with a megaphone matching up and down the queues and checking whether everybody had their cards or money ready.
michael adams
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That seems to happen in a few places.
At Sainsburys, the machines now ask whether you want a receipt or not (but only at the self-service tills) - I always take one on the grounds that it will be quicker and easier than them retrieving the payment details from their system if something beeps on the way out and the security guard wants to check it out.
Just wait 'til someone challenges them on that one - the most common physical health problem causing people pain and/or restricted movement is back trouble. Someone will be sure to call them out them for discrimination!
SteveW
They all have mute buttons ...
Too f****g right! Why do so many people in supermarkets not realise that they may have to pay for the goods that have just placed on the conveyor belt? Why do so many women not realise that they should remove their purse from the bottom of their shopping bag before loading it with the goods that expect to purchase?
Even worse are the card terminals designed with an overhang at the top (to prevent others viewing your input) and where the card reader cannot be moved. OK for those with a pin number that only uses the bottom third of the keypad but if your pin uses the top third you have to have super thin fingers to use the keys and get down on you knees to see them.
Some stores have really bought into some really crap point of sales technology.
B&Q - now put those two 25Kg bags of sand on the scales which are not ergonomically designed for safe lifting of the same from them. Back injuries waiting to happen!
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