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When I worked in a shop many years ago as a student, cashing up was the most laborious and time consuming task, as well as reconciling and floating your till draw. With card payments you just needed to submit the banking on the card machine at the end of the trading day and record the total, and...

I don't ever recall prices for bags on the continent being so expensive compared to the UK. Yes, for the properly reusable ones (like tote bags, jute ones etc) fair enough. For example I was in Spain last year in a Mercadona, a standard carrier bag was 10/15 cents and very strong, whereas in...

You can see why people would do it though. There was a whole hoo-hah to cut down on plastic waste with the plastic bag charges and supermarkets see it as an opportunity to squeeze more cash out of shoppers. Charging 50p for a paper bag in M&S for example, it certainly doesn't cost them that much...

I would second the option to get an refurbished/former corporate laptop. Cosmetically it maybe a bit worn, but you'll get more bang for the buck. It would enable you to get a better spec machine, 8GB maybe fine for the occasional single-tasking web browsing, but these days 16GB should be the...

Councils up and down the land are saying that social care is costing them an arm and a leg and unfortunately council tax payers are having to fund the costs. A large proportion of the largest childrens' homes (no doubt prerviously owned and run by the state, as a not for...

I guess it's the not my job theory, as in it's not my job to talk to IT/Ops to fix the technical problem, don't get paid enough to care, problem doesn't get sorted. I do notice this in quite a few places, the thermal printers of all sorts (labels, receipts etc) produce crap quality print because...

How so? The child when using the bike should be aware of the environment and react appropriately to the conditions and situation. It unrealistic to have an empty main road with just bikes on and few cars, irrespective of how we try and dissuade people from using cars, there will always be a need...

To buck the trend of the recent posts, I was in my local Morrisons at c09:00 this morning and the entire refrigerated fresh food section looked pristine and full, including all of the counters. I don't think I've ever seen it like that (or have visited a Morrisons so early!).

Unfortunately large numbers of people do not seem to know what they're doing - I was in Waterloo the other day, me, straight through with an orange credit card ticket, at the gate next to me, faff, faff from someone trying to scan her ticket and presumably find it on the app/phone etc. Luckily...

Probably because the label printer is always knackered - I have rarely seen one working properly that hasn't been broke by shoppers or staff and is jammed. It also does beg the question of how hard is it for people to just WAIT for the label to come out and once it has stopped printing, remove...

I saw for the first time in what must be a good few years a cover mounted CD on a music magazine in Sainsbury's. Some of them were total rubbish but others were great.

Is there a specific configuration for the help points, in terms of the numbers they dial (as in will they dial X first and then try Y if no response) and the connectivity? Are they hard wired or do they rely on the mobile phone network? I ask as once upon a time I tried to use one and pressing...

I've never understood the appeal of Five Guys, I've had it once but to be pushing £20 for a burger, fries and drink and having it delivered to me at the end of the counter in a paper bag. You can get somewhere with table service cheaper! Re. spoons like any large chain they will always evaluate...

I don't understand how antisocial people are these days, I was on a bus and there was one person talking on the phone to someone in their family, on speakerphone, and another catching up on the latest Eastenders, on loudspeaker. Complete cacophony as a result, and the other person on the end of...

Maybe the fad for having cuisine in a faux-American environment is dying, I mean, Frankies & Benny's are in retreat, Planet Hollywood is gone, TGI's is in trouble etc.

It's probably not the way you wanted me to interpret your answer, but looking at it from another view one area where there appears to be a lot of success is the market hall type concept whereby food vendors set up in a shared building with a common food court seating area. So yes, in a way, it...

I agree with WestCoast as well, the booking culture for venues is just excessive since covid, in some places it's hard to just roll up and be seated. Kills the spontaneity and I hate all the rigidity - sorry you can't come in because you've not booked weeks/months/days in advance.

How is it that TFL can do one-way fares at £1.75 apiece, with a 1hr hopper transfer and £5.25 for an all day bus pass?

Far too much verbal diarrhoea - SWR is especially guilty of this. Endless crap about 61016, looking at the safety posters in the carriage, being fined if you don't have the correct ticket, repeating the stops for each station along the journey and at the station. No wonder everyone tunes out or...

Stan, by Eminem. Talks of pages, home phones, writing letters and tapes. I noticed this the other day, all of the payphones have been removed in my local town centre. What happens if your mobile phone is broken/stolen/malfunctions and you need to call someone these days?