The unusual site banners are to bring attention to the fact that Labour activists in Bexley are manipulating Facebook Groups with fictional posters. They deny it, threaten police action for ‘harassing’ a fictitious character and then demonstrate their willingness to impersonate by creating a false Administrator account in my name. The banner on display is chosen randomly from a selection of three, with a fourth bearing the familiar Bexley Council is Bonkers logo.
27 July (Part 1) - It was Sainsbury’s choice
I should probably get myself a personal Twitter account because yesterday I used the Bonkers account to send a complaint to Sainsbury’s - confusing many of you I suspect.
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ice-cream comes in nice plastic tubs which make very useful tool boxes. I have
dozens carefully labelled and stuffed with screws, rawlplugs, curtain fittings, small tools
and network plugs - which I seem to go through in hundreds. While out a couple of
weeks ago I saw a family using theirs as lunch boxes.
They are £2 in Asda but I pass Sainsbury’s much more often so pay the extra 20 pence.
A month ago they were down to £1·50 so I bought two. It soon became clear why the price was reduced.
Someone had allowed them to partially melt and then refrozen them. You probably
know that what passes for ice-cream in this country is pumped full of air so when
it melts it collapses to a much smaller size. If it has been melted and refrozen
the gap around the edge and the tub not being full to the top is an obvious give away.
I bought another tub in Abbey Wood Sainsbury’s yesterday and it was back to
£2·20 so I assumed they had flogged off all of their bad batch. Not a bit of it. I
drove it home and within three or four minutes it was in my freezer. The
picture shows how much it had shrunk.
I sent a Twitter complaint to Sainsbury’s thinking they might ask the management
in Abbey Wood what they were playing at. Instead they said they would issue a
refund and a bonus to my Nectar card.
When I told them that I had used my aunt’s Nectar card they did not like that at
all. Their attitude changed completely. Apparently I shouldn’t shove my cash
into their self-service machine and scan someone else’s Nectar card. Against the
rules and because I had broken the rules I couldn’t have a refund.
If I sent them my address they would send a voucher but for a miserable couple
of quid why should I? If I wanted Sainsbury’s to have my address on file I’d
probably have my own Nectar card.
And I haven’t really lost anything. It’s no longer a two litre tub of
ice-cream
but it will still weigh the same.
I told Sainsbury’s it was a choice of refund to my aunt’s Nectar card or ‘go public’. They made their choice.
For good measure a Sainsbury’s advert has been placed alongside the site banner to serve as a longer lasting reminder. (Not
in mobile viewing mode.)