LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME - 2021

I get sceptical of Wickes online stock checker when it show an item 'out of stock' in my local store, but some virus infested town 25 miles away has 2, 517 in stock.

 

Maybe they do actually have 2,517 items "out the back" and have nothing on their shelves for weeks on end, and when they're asked why there's nothing displayed the reason they tell me that it's because "their online system is a load of rubbish" is wrong and actually because they're just too idle to go and get some.

Or it could be because they have a different stock control system instore to the one online and there's nearly always a mismatch between the two, so when they tell me they're OOS looking at their instore system, if it's stuff kept outdoors I can have a look around and tell them where up on their racking there's hundreds of them.

 

Agree, last year we had a number of pallets of fertiliser which were not available to the general public, we politely told them that we also supply trade customers and those fertilisers were already spoken for.

We used to offer "pre-order" online for certain lines, like bare rooted fruit and ornamental trees. We stopped doing it due to how many people could not understand what pre-order means. We make it very clear on pre-order items that goods will not be despatched until a specific month. As you know, ground grown will not be lifted till the back end but some people think they should get them when placing an order in August, they even have the nerve to put the blame entirely on us and send rude and obnoxious messages, calling us "con artists". A lot of companies offer pre-order, especially when there is limited supply, but unfortunately, some people only see what they want to see.

 

Nah. I thought, 52 in stock - B&Q can't be so wrong that there are in fact none. How wrong was I. Managed to get it from a local DIY shop and only a quid more than B&Q's 'once in a lifetime - can't be repeated special offer price'.

 

Unless it's an amazing bargain and when you turn up to collect the staff nervously attempt to explain it was a stock level error, and they've snaffled the lot there's none in stock, but all the full price stuff is available. Happens far too often.

 

Well, after watching some of these T&T's going past the house into a blind bend i've noticed that some of the drivers are not connecting the oil pipe for the brakes on the trailor so the trailor has no working brakes

 

What has the world come to:

Greece erects fence at Turkey border amid warnings of Afghan migrant surge

 

They have seen it all before, you cant really blame them, they are the gateway to Europe.

 

And I thought that there was light at the end of the tunnel:

Warnings have been issued a turkey shortage could hit Christmas dinner tables across the country this year.

 

I'll be alright, still got last years "fresh" turkey in the freezer.

 

Lets just cancel Christmas I say

Now waiting for the abuse

 

Why? Have the turkey's stopped reproducing?

It's decades since I cooked a turkey. In fact it's decades since I last celebrated Christmas.