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  #3275055 25-Aug-2024 01:17
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Price for Uniball Signo gel ink pens almost anywhere but NZ: $1.50-$2.

 

Price for Uniball Signo gel ink pens in NZ: $5-7.


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  #3275085 25-Aug-2024 10:04
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@Eva888 Re ^^. This is excellent - I thought it was coming but wasn’t sure when. It’s something I use a lot but it’s hit and miss and I get very anti when it’s not shown.

 

Our local Woolworths historically hasn’t shown unit pricing on its ‘bulk bin’ products and I have frequently complained about it. Then last week the unit prices showed up. I wasn’t silly enough to think they had listened to me - now realise it was simply because the deadline is coming up.

 

I thought bulk bin stuff tended towards $/100gm pricing to make it look cheaper? Isn't that what the unit price of prepacked stuff is?

 

From what I have seen there appears to be no standard or requirement for the units used. Sometimes it’s $/100gm, sometimes $/kg. For me that’s not important - just want to see a unit price.





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  #3275159 25-Aug-2024 12:50
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Just looking at a breakfast dish on the menu of a local suburban cafe. It says:

 

Triple Roasted Potatoes, Field Mushrooms, Farm Cut Bacon, Local Black Pudding, House Baked Beans, Eggs your way, Toast.

 

I’m calling BS on the descriptions - who do they think will believe this crap?

 

     

  • triple roasted spuds - really?
  • mushrooms picked this morning off some grass and not from a large dark growing shed?
  • bacon cut at the farm and not machine-sliced at an abattoir?
  • who knows where the black pudding comes from and whether they make their own baked beans? Maybe.
  • only the eggs and toast sound realistic - perhaps they couldn’t think of something exotic for those.

 





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  #3275203 25-Aug-2024 17:07
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eracode:

 

     

  • only the eggs and toast sound realistic - perhaps they couldn’t think of something exotic for those.

 

  • Organic eggs prepared to order from free-range, happy hens and exquisite toast made from sun-ripened golden wheat.




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  #3275205 25-Aug-2024 17:18
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eracode: Just looking at a breakfast dish on the menu of a local suburban cafe. It says:

 

Triple Roasted Potatoes, Field Mushrooms, Farm Cut Bacon, Local Black Pudding, House Baked Beans, Eggs your way, Toast.

 

I’m calling BS on the descriptions - who do they think will believe this crap? 

 

Like laugh tracks, research shows it's extremely effective even if everyone is annoyed by it.  In the case of food, people take cues from colour, form, and description, so they'll rate a sea food filet as less good than a succulent Italian seafood filet, both of which are fish fingers and rate even worse under that name.  Wine labelling is an extreme case of this.

 

It works in reverse as well, remove branding from things like Coke and people can't tell the difference between that and supermarket generics.


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  #3275207 25-Aug-2024 17:26
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eracode: From what I have seen there appears to be no standard or requirement for the units used. Sometimes it’s $/100gm, sometimes $/kg. For me that’s not important - just want to see a unit price.

 

Here you go.

 


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  #3275211 25-Aug-2024 17:56
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eracode:

Just looking at a breakfast dish on the menu of a local suburban cafe. It says:

 

Triple Roasted Potatoes, Field Mushrooms, Farm Cut Bacon, Local Black Pudding, House Baked Beans, Eggs your way, Toast.

 

I’m calling BS on the descriptions - who do they think will believe this crap?

 

     

  • triple roasted spuds - really?
  • mushrooms picked this morning off some grass and not from a large dark growing shed?
  • bacon cut at the farm and not machine-sliced at an abattoir?
  • who knows where the black pudding comes from and whether they make their own baked beans? Maybe.
  • only the eggs and toast sound realistic - perhaps they couldn’t think of something exotic for those.

 

 

 

Triple cooked roast potatoes are a thing. 1 boiled, 2 roasted & 3 reheated. Possibly a bag of frozen wedges could satisfy this description. Farm cut refers to a decent thickness not how it's cut. Let the Italians slice prosciutto wafer thin.

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  #3275221 25-Aug-2024 21:41
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neb:

 

eracode: From what I have seen there appears to be no standard or requirement for the units used. Sometimes it’s $/100gm, sometimes $/kg. For me that’s not important - just want to see a unit price.

 

Here you go.

 

 

 

You’d think it would be cheaper if you buy it in bulk. ๐Ÿ˜€

 

 





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  #3275222 25-Aug-2024 22:37
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Going on a slight tangent from the food weight,
have noticed quite a few small goods manufacturers
are not putting net weight on the front of their packaging. Nor on the back...

Have to hunt thru the information panel to get the overall
weight. Ie 4 serves, 70gm per serve.
Noticed on Huttons, and a couple of others.
Seems to be packets of multiple sane items. Biersticks.
Thought net weight was mandatory?

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I am is L.A with the family ( 9 of us including a toddler and a baby), so planning is required.

 

Worked out that on Friday, based on where we are I could take a 1 hour "time out" and visit "The little machine shop" to browse and buy an AXA QCTP to bring home.

 

But they were resealing their car park, so were closed, they are not open weekends and we head out on a cruise before the store opens on Monday.

 

When we get back we are the other side of LA...


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  #3275496 26-Aug-2024 16:04
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Miss 12 has dropped her laptop twice in two days. Somehow the screen is still working but itโ€™s delaminated a bit. Itโ€™s so infuriating.

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  #3275499 26-Aug-2024 16:15
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Handle9: Miss 12 has dropped her laptop twice in two days. Somehow the screen is still working but it’s delaminated a bit. It’s so infuriating.

 

Have you considered getting her one of these tablet PCs?  They're pretty drop-resistant.


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  #3275502 26-Aug-2024 16:21
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Airline delays. I get they aren't always avoidable, but they are still annoying. 

 

Also, it annoys me when they ask for more rows of people to board, when all it does is mean that even more people join a long, slow moving line. Add more people to the line when the existing line looks like it might be close to finishing in the next 2-3 minutes or so.

 

Took 30 minutes to board, with a guy running around harrasing people to join the queue, 5 minutes in!

 

 


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  #3275503 26-Aug-2024 16:22
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neb:

 

Have you considered getting her one of these tablet PCs?  They're pretty drop-resistant.

 

 

Are you kidding? Drop one of those and it'll delete all your files! ๐Ÿ˜


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Handle9: Miss 12 has dropped her laptop twice in two days. Somehow the screen is still working but it’s delaminated a bit. It’s so infuriating.
What brand/model?

 

We got a Lenovo branded Chromebook which is a Macbook look-alike for our lad when he was at intermediate. It's taken and handled a beating, especially the way his school backpacks got wrecked and with frequent sharing around the classroom, still going strong as ever a few years later.





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