On Mon, 10 Apr 2023 17:24:11 +1000, Ian Jackson
<ianREMOVETHISjackson@g3ohx.co.uk> wrote:

> In message <ce74adee-45ab-eeca-a1d8-15ade00ad1f2@outlook.com>, Robin
> <rbw@outlook.com> writes
>> On 10/04/2023 05:22, Roland Perry wrote:
>>> In message <20230409201437.0c10f9d1@Mars>, at 20:14:37 on Sun, 9 Apr
>>> 2023, Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com> remarked:
>>>> On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 09:48:20 +0100
>>>> Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Lower values are again hard to get, but I do have a few plugs fitted
>>>>> with 2A and 5A.
>>>>
>>>> Eh? Wilko sells 3A 5A 10A in same-value 4 packs for £1.00-1.50, and
>>>> Tesco does a pack of 3 each 3, 5 and 13 Amp, 2 packs for £2.00 with
>>>> clubcard discount.
>>> Wilko saying they have something, and it not being an empty shelf,
>>> are two separate things these days. But I will look in Tesco -
>>> although not sure my branch is big enough to have that kind of item..
>>> And again stock can be an issue, last time I went I couldn't get
>>> photocopier paper, there was just a big empty shelf.
>>
>> The Tesco app allows you to check stock in stores.
>>
> Maybe having partially empty shelves is the way we should be running the
> economy? Do we really need to always have the choice of a vast variety
> of essentially similar products? Does this not lead to over-stocking,
> and consequential unnecessary wastage?

Yeah, that worked brilliantly in the old USSR.

> [Just a thought!]

Steaming turd, actually.

On 10/04/2023 13:01, Roland Perry wrote:

> Screwfix seem to have changed their workflow management and now often
> claim [by SMS] something is "ready for collection" impossibly quickly.
> Like about an hour before the store opened the other day. And then when
> I arrived later, the chap spent at least five minute wandering around
> with a puzzled look peering at some kind of handheld device, before he
> located it.

The only time I've had that happen at SF when the person couldn't find
my item was when he admitted that he thought a T square (for use with
plasterboard) was small item and not something packed in a 5 foot long
box. He hadn't been checking the large items in the pile waiting for
people to pick up.

SF usually send me a text at store opening time if ordered out-of-hours
or within 10 minutes telling me that I can pick up the item if ordered
with opening hours. Their new(ish) system is working a lot better than
it was a few years ago.

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In message <k9n1c7Fah2rU2@mid.individual.net>, at 07:28:23 on Wed, 12
Apr 2023, alan_m <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk> remarked:
>On 10/04/2023 13:01, Roland Perry wrote:
>
>> Screwfix seem to have changed their workflow management and now often
>>claim [by SMS] something is "ready for collection" impossibly quickly.
>>Like about an hour before the store opened the other day. And then
>>when I arrived later, the chap spent at least five minute wandering
>>around with a puzzled look peering at some kind of handheld device,
>>before he located it.
>
>The only time I've had that happen at SF when the person couldn't find
>my item was when he admitted that he thought a T square (for use with
>plasterboard) was small item and not something packed in a 5 foot long
>box. He hadn't been checking the large items in the pile waiting for
>people to pick up.
>
>SF usually send me a text at store opening time if ordered out-of-hours
>or within 10 minutes telling me that I can pick up the item if ordered
>with opening hours. Their new(ish) system is working a lot better than
>it was a few years ago.

The impression I get is that some items are flagged on their database
as "we've got loads of those, and they are easy to find", so they say
immediately [most recently over a hour before their 7am opening]
"ready for pickup".

But when you get to the store they do the same as for a walk-in customer
and go rummaging around backstage.

Fewer items are actually pre-picked, and left in a little bag on the
"collections" shelf.

I've never yet had an item they had over-sold, leaving me empty-handed,
but I seem to quite frequently buy the only one they [sometimes having
to try three nearby stores] have in stock, so it's helpful if they
reserve that for me until I can get here.

Having said that, the hard-to-pick item I mentioned above was an example
of "last one in stock".
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Roland Perry

Jack Harry Teesdale <noreply492000-medic@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> On 05/04/2023 03:31, wrights...@f2s.com wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 4 April 2023 at 14:30:15 UTC+1, charles wrote:
> >
> > > when I was at university (c 1960) there were 50v tungsten light bulbs
> > > available. One of the colleges used 50v AC.
> >
> > At one time some prisons had 50VAC lighting in the cells.
> >
> > Bill
> We'll take your word for that Bill, not having had any direct experience
> of the same. LOL
>
>
>
A trick at school was to nick the 24 volt lamps from teh buses and replace
teh classroom bulbs with them.

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braind

On 17/04/2023 01:08, me9 wrote:
> Jack Harry Teesdale <noreply492000-medic@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 05/04/2023 03:31, wrights...@f2s.com wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 4 April 2023 at 14:30:15 UTC+1, charles wrote:
>>>
>>>> when I was at university (c 1960) there were 50v tungsten light bulbs
>>>> available. One of the colleges used 50v AC.
>>>
>>> At one time some prisons had 50VAC lighting in the cells.
>>>
>>> Bill
>> We'll take your word for that Bill, not having had any direct experience
>> of the same. LOL
>>
>>
>>
> A trick at school was to nick the 24 volt lamps from teh buses and replace
> teh classroom bulbs with them.

A friend who had a key to a mutual friend's house, to check up on it
while he was working abroad, suggested changing every lightbulb for the
next lower rating; waiting until the mutual friend had been back a
couple of times and doing it again; repeat until noticed. I don't know
if he ever did it.

"SteveW" <steve@walker-family.me.uk> wrote in message
news:u1j274$2vhsq$6@dont-email.me...
> On 17/04/2023 01:08, me9 wrote:
>> Jack Harry Teesdale <noreply492000-medic@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/04/2023 03:31, wrights...@f2s.com wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday, 4 April 2023 at 14:30:15 UTC+1, charles wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> when I was at university (c 1960) there were 50v tungsten light bulbs
>>>>> available. One of the colleges used 50v AC.
>>>>
>>>> At one time some prisons had 50VAC lighting in the cells.
>>>>
>>>> Bill
>>> We'll take your word for that Bill, not having had any direct experience
>>> of the same. LOL
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> A trick at school was to nick the 24 volt lamps from teh buses and
>> replace
>> teh classroom bulbs with them.
>
> A friend who had a key to a mutual friend's house, to check up on it while
> he was working abroad, suggested changing every lightbulb for the next
> lower rating; waiting until the mutual friend had been back a couple of
> times and doing it again; repeat until noticed. I don't know if he ever
> did it.

That is the electrical equivalent of "gaslighting" - in the original sense
of gradually reducing the brightness of lights.

On Mon, 10 Apr 2023 08:11:46 +0100
alan_m <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

> So do the apps and web sites from other retailers but that doesn't
> mean that the "in-stock" items are actually on the shelves or even
> physically in the stores.
>
I had that problem at City Plumbing the other week - I bought a CH
circulating pump online, went in to pick it up and they couldn't find
it. They managed to get one in the next morning.

On 05/04/2023 03:31, wrights...@f2s.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, 4 April 2023 at 14:30:15 UTC+1, charles wrote:
>
>> when I was at university (c 1960) there were 50v tungsten light bulbs
>> available. One of the colleges used 50v AC.
>
> At one time some prisons had 50VAC lighting in the cells.
>
> Bill
We'll take your word for that Bill, not having had any direct experience
of the same. LOL