Toolstation - well done

I've asked to compare two items before purchasing and they have been and grabbed both for me ... then I purchased whichever one I selected

Agree I prefer their system, BTW does anyone know who makes the brightly coloured eInk tablets they use?

I caught a glimpse of one last week ... looks like a customised B&N Nook to me.

J^n

Yup, I've had a look at things as well in Screwfix, probably depends on the store/staff attitude.

I find it all a bit swings and rounabouts with them really. Sure the new toolstation in wickes is quicker, but then they aren't usually very busy. Screwfix over the road from them is more established and a lot busier. I reckon when it's busy, the screwfix/argos approach should be more efficient.

I like Screwfix's click and collect service though, which Toolstation don't do (well collect in 2 days or something not much use to me)

Surely not colour eInk, just some tablet or other.

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not colour eInk (though colour is available) but it is eInk, the tablets are in bright lime/lilac/pink etc cases presumably each staff member gets a colour ...

In article , snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com writes > > Yes I have to agree I get some of my locks from Toolstation and yes > totally agree.

Hey Tony, is this you:

or

"At just after 6.15pm, on Friday, September 16, police were called to the Bay Horse Inn, on Coldwell Lane, following reports a man had been displaying threatening behaviour towards customers.

Anthony Richardson, . . . has been charged with disorderly conduct."

Doesn't sound like the sort of guy I'd want changing my locks.

Would anyone knowingly employ a plonker like this? I think not.

Nook Simple Touch I would guess - they appeared at about the time the NST was reduced to 29 quid, suspect someone in IT made a canny bulk purchase.

Theo

Rick Hughes grunted in news: snipped-for-privacy@bt.com:

Actually my experience is that as people are cottoning on to this service, the queues are getting longer at TS. I go there all the time, but it's got to the extend that if I'm really in a hurry, I've started to think, do I have time to risk TS, or shall I pay the extra and go to Wickes up the road? I'd rather they were like Screwfix in that respect.

Yes that's brilliant, I have to say - they do that even for sub-10 items too. I had a widget delivered the other day whose value must have been far less than the shipping cost.

Just back from a trip to the UK where I was interested to see that there is now a TS inside Wickes Twickenham.

Yup, there is a fewof them. The new Wickes in Huntingdon has a TS inside (Wickes and TS are both owned by Travis Perkins)