les Davey de France

In 2005 Alan, Pat, Gwilym & Catrin Davey moved from North East Wales to Bordeaux. Alan is a pastor and Pat was a nurse. Now we work with UFM worldwide. Read on! (If you'd like to know what took us to Bordeaux, then start with the archives from September 2004)

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

A couple of random shop-related reflections

Buying breakfast cereal you have to read the label. Catrin's favourite cereal was suddenly available in a huge box and not quite twice the price. Must be better value ! Ah no - the big box contained 650 grams versus the 500 grams in the smaller box.

They must think we can't read. Hmm. No. They think we don't read, and often they're right.

Buying mobile phones get them from the operator's shop if possible, but not from the supermarket. We bought a mobile phone from a supermarket and it's just gone wrong for the second time just as its year-long guarantee runs out. The first time we took it back with the till receipt and they sent it away for repair. It took four weeks to come back. Could we borrow a phone in the meantime ? No, we don't have any loan phones ! So we used an old phone from the bottom of a drawer.

No loan phone ? Of course not ! The supermarket doesn't care whether you make calls or not. They got their money when they sold you the phone. The operator, on the other hand, wants you to call, to text, to surf, so they'll lend you a phone or do whatever they can to keep you online. So when I can I need to call on the nice people at the SFR shop.

1 comments:

Larry said...

Yes I found out about this cereal malarkey in Martinique and was most exceedingly UNimpressed...