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#2737106 1-Jul-2021 06:57

Our crappy product range and ancient stock offerings for things like TVs. Australia gets a broader range and better prices. We're getting old stuff (just how old is the TCL P715 by now, anyway?) that is still priced as aggressively as it was years ago.

What's aimed a the mid range there incurs a premium price here. And we don't even get a large number of the lower-end brands like Hisense, or the Roku-powered TCL sets they get in the States - just the entry level lines with massive price tags.

Island syndrome, I know, but it's still hugely demoralising given our other living costs. I can't even afford the bread and the circus costs too much to watch on TV.

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#2737108 1-Jul-2021 07:20

Rikkitic:

This is really, really, small, but it really really annoys me.

Neanderthal supermarket deciders who insist on putting vegetarian items next to meat ones in the freezer and refrigerator sections. It is confusing and revolting. Veggie sausage roll (or whatever) has nothing whatsoever to do with the one dripping in blood. Can you not get that through your primitive meat-eating pea brain?

If you feel that strongly about it why do you even shop there?

Does it not feel wrong to be supporting the business of a "neanderthal, primitive, meat eating, pea brain"

Thanks for explaining "plethora".

It means a lot.

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#2737110 1-Jul-2021 07:25

Looking for an aluminium pedestrian gate to fit in gap along a wooden fence. Look around Bunnings, Mitre10 and Placemakers and see a style I like. Premanufactured stock sized gate is marginally too wide by 15mm. Look up manufacturer online and they state they can make custom sized gates and looks like they are made here in NZ.

Cost of stock sized gate is approx $140.

Get a quote done from store for a gate 15mm narrower and it came back at just over $600. Was expecting maybe close to double price of a stock sized gate but almost 5x the price floored me.

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#2737114 1-Jul-2021 07:44

MadEngineer:

I'm no vegetarian but I quite like those vege rolls things. There's actually quite a range of meat alternatives available that we buy from time to time, Samosas and a pack of patty things my wife gets for example

Yep, looking at something I want and then seeing a more interesting/different option for the same thing is how I've ended up trying most vegetarian foods.

Whereas if they're all clumped together, it's something I'd likely by-pass (see: the crap in the healthy foods section which is usually just as you walk into the supermarket).

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#2737133 1-Jul-2021 08:34

Two things here: First, I was speaking figuratively about the sausage rolls dripping in blood. Don't take everything so literally.

Second, as a committed vegetarian, I find meat repulsive and don't like seeing it stacked next to the vegetarian food. But my real complaint is that it is easy to confuse the two when they are all jumbled together. This gets worse because people pick things up and put them back. Some packaging makes it clear what is inside, other does not. I have to carefully read each one to be sure of what I am getting.

Vegetarian food is now a recognised category. There is no good reason to mix it in with the meat. The whole point about it is it is not meat. The supermarkets don't put cat food next to the human consumption meat products. Why do it with vegetarian food?

Every supermarket I have been in does this. It is not a matter of going somewhere else.

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#2737135 1-Jul-2021 08:41

Garage door prices.

Looked up online and most websites state that a single sectional garage door will set me back around $2200 fitted and an extra $150 to "decommission and remove" the old tilt door.

Fabulous.

I get the guy in for a measure and quote. He does what's needed and proudly states it's an easy job and he'll be back to us "this afternoon" with a written quote by email. Chase him up for a few days and eventually get the quote through. $3500.00.

Garage door on its own is $2300.00. How is the door more expensive than the full cost estimate online (including fitting)? From their website? It's a standard sized single garage door. Nothing fancy.

Needless to say, we'll be sticking with the ill-fitting tilt-door for another winter.

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#2737136 1-Jul-2021 08:43

Rikkitic:

Two things here: First, I was speaking figuratively about the sausage rolls dripping in blood. Don't take everything so literally.

Second, as a committed vegetarian, I find meat repulsive and don't like seeing it stacked next to the vegetarian food. But my real complaint is that it is easy to confuse the two when they are all jumbled together. This gets worse because people pick things up and put them back. Some packaging makes it clear what is inside, other does not. I have to carefully read each one to be sure of what I am getting.

Vegetarian food is now a recognised category. There is no good reason to mix it in with the meat. The whole point about it is it is not meat. The supermarkets don't put cat food next to the human consumption meat products. Why do it with vegetarian food?

Every supermarket I have been in does this. It is not a matter of going somewhere else.

I'm actually with you on this one. I'm not a vegetarian, or a Rastafarian or any other fringe lunatic, but I agree that you don't mix your meats and your vegetables.

You don't see beef burgers in with the mixed veges in the freezer. Same thinking should be applied to these categories.

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#2737138 1-Jul-2021 08:46

@Rikkitic Actually you will frequently find pet-food grade meet in the same freezer as pre-packaged human meat - I agree, it's pretty messed-up though, can't believe that would last long in somewhere like America.

As far as I know, if you want all the vegetarian food somewhere, then you're going to be stripping it out of categories and putting it in its own sections - which means separate freezers etc. It's probably easier to keep the vegetarian sausages with the sausages in the same way the chicken sausages are in with the pork/beef sausages, etc.

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#2737139 1-Jul-2021 08:47

Also how good are the Macro Organic chickpea burger patties, highly recommended. They were affected by stock issues at one point so I hope they're back in stock. Might add them to the list next week.

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#2737158 1-Jul-2021 08:54

kiwiharry:
Looking for an aluminium pedestrian gate to fit in gap along a wooden fence. Look around Bunnings, Mitre10 and Placemakers and see a style I like. Premanufactured stock sized gate is marginally too wide by 15mm. Look up manufacturer online and they state they can make custom sized gates and looks like they are made here in NZ.

Cost of stock sized gate is approx $140.

Get a quote done from store for a gate 15mm narrower and it came back at just over $600. Was expecting maybe close to double price of a stock sized gate but almost 5x the price floored me.

Does the gate have to fit inside the gap? With kitchen cabinets it's common to have inset or overlay doors. If it is between a house and a fence you'd lose the extra 15mm by having the gate at a slight angle past square.

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#2737174 1-Jul-2021 09:13

Handsomedan:

Garage door prices.

Prices of nearly everything going up visibly, but advice from central banks and economists : 'Don't believe what you can see with your eyes because inflation has been permanently eliminated by "New Monetary Theory"' or "the inflation is real, but it's entirely the result of supply chain disruption".