LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME - 2022

We get some of those films, we should get a rebate when the BBC show them.

 

£159!

 

There are apparently legal ways to avoid the TV licence completely while still watching TV. I'm not 100% up on this because we just pay ours, but I think you just have to declare that you don't watch TV as it's broadcast, and don't use BBC iPlayer at all. So if I understand correctly, you can watch all the none BBC channels on demand, as long as you watch it after it was broadcast, so with the on demand options, watch after the program has finished.

Don't take my word for it though because I might not have got the specifics right, but it's something to look into if you're interested.

Personally, for me, the BBC license fee is fair because we watch too much telly, and then there's BBC radio when I'm in the car, and the BBC website for news. I think it's unfair though for the likes of my mam, who hardly uses any of the other services but still has to pay for them all. I think the flat fee should be replaced with something that depends on how many of their services you take.

 

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/b...=You only need a licence,don't need a licence.

See section 6.

 

I've been using Morrisons online shopping for about a year now.
I also downloaded their app where you get offers each week, personalised to you.

Rubbish, I get store offers and online offers, the store offers are stuff I usually buy and the online offers are stuff I never buy.
Now they know I shop online so why the store offers on stuff I do actually buy.

I've also noticed that if I buy cheap stuff online it suddenly becomes unavailable and I get told of more expensive alternatives, but I'm sure if I went to the store there would be loads of it available.

I will be uninstalling their App, and cutting up their loyalty card, they stopped giving out loyalty points on fuel a long time ago.
The App and card only works for them, and they can poke it where the sun dont shine.

 

I got a voucher for petrol the last two times I went to my local Morrisons. The only trouble is they don't have a filling station. There is one at another Morrisons, not much further from my home.

 

That's the whole point. Supermarket chains are masters of manipulation for profit. They have it down to a fine art. They study how people move through the shop or navigate their website. They have fancy computer algorithms that price things such that they can charge as much as possible while still pretending to be cheap. They're cheap compared to independents because they can afford the best legal experts and professional buyers to screw their suppliers, and they use game theory to spark the release of endorphins through their reward schemes, triggering the same hormonal response as you'd get if you won something, or in more primal terms, as if we'd just found the most heavily laden apple tree that the other animals haven't found yet.

On this point, seeing as this is the moan thread, it bugs me when people get really defensive of their favourite supermarket and if you don't shop there, they think you're a peasant/snob/fool. You see it on Facebook all the time. Aldi is the best, and anyone who says otherwise is pure evil. Unless it's a Sainsbury's post in which case Sainsbury's is best etc. Tell someone the beans are one pence cheaper at a supermarket other than their favourite one and they'll tell you that's because the quality is lower, or their beans might be cheaper but everything else is more expensive, or their beans are hand picked by child labourers working 25 hours a day in what used to be a rainforest.

 

We used to collect points on loyalty cards at Morrisons when you reached something like 500 points you got a £5 voucher.
But they said people didn't like that and preferred to just get money off certain items, yeah I'm sure they did.
Same time as they stopped giving anything f or fuel payments.
Since then I've had nothing worthwhile from the place.

 

The App and card are now toast.
As they say.
I mean I wont be spreading jam on them, just defunct.

 

Can they tell if you have uninstalled their app.
Received an e mail this morning with a code to get £15 off of an online shop.
Never had one of those before.

 

Wouldn't be at all surprised It all sounds a far cry from the days of the Tesco Clubcard. That used to pay for our ferry or tunnel trips or even short breaks over to France several times a year. Then, in 2003 it paid for us to take our French friends and their children here, there and everywhere in UK for a week. A very different story to the paltry 'rewards' offered by French loyalty cards.

 

They will do but it runs through the holes in the crate.