Pay for a plastic bag?

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

Supermarkets no longer just tell you what’s in the packet – expect oodles of flavour, slathers of olive oil and dollops of pretentious bollocks.

Here’s how they reel in their poncey customers.


Funly-worded packaging

Ingredients come as a sprinkle, a dab or a splash. These ridiculous nouns are HIGHLIGHTED in big LETTERS. Hey presto – idiots cream themselves over overpriced store cupboard ingredients. Crumbs of dry cheese suddenly become ‘a scatter of Parmesan’ and a packet of salt somehow seems worth a fiver when it’s ‘a generous jolt of the sea’.

Chatty packaging

Is this a box of granola or your new best friend? The more wordy and pally the chit-chat on the packet, the less you’ll care about the hefty price. Enjoy the honesty and openness of a pack of sesame bagels, or the crazy life story of some mass-produced hazelnut shortbread.

Overly descriptive packaging

This packaging relies on sumptuous detail: the succulence of hand-reared lamb, the floral tang of homegrown rosemary… you’ll forget they can’t possibly deliver all that in a packet of bloody crisps. After parting with £6.50, under no circumstances admit they taste like beef Wotsits.

Posh-looking packaging

This isn’t about words, just looks. Sophisticated fonts and colours can dress up salted peanuts as haute cuisine, particular with a posh but possibly made-up name, eg. Sandringbourne Estates. Tragically, a talented artist has probably wasted their skills turning bits of dead fish into an elegant artwork that could hold its own in the Louvre.

‘Witty’ packaging

From silly food puns to cheap gags, crap humour shifts food. Chortle at a pack of smoked mackerel that proclaims ‘I’m a good catch’ or ‘Bee’s Knees’ brand honey. Then realise you’re a f-ucking idiot and you’ve just paid far too much for some nasty oat milk called ‘Get Your Oats’.

via ~ Daily FoolAndHisMoney

When you don’t want to pay for a plastic bag​

 

[SamBally]

I despise Tesco with a psychopathic hatred.

During the first Covid lockdown they had a one-way system in place. I was literally the only person in the place and took a detour back to the only available till. This spotty jobsworth told me off for taking a shortcut told me I had to join the queue and made me walk back up a long aisle and back down the next long aisle to wait patiently in the EMPTY 'queue' in an EMPTY supermarket.


Doctorrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

Tesco run a kind of duel pricing policy. One price for Tesco club card holders and a higher price for everyone else. If you don't have a club card I
wouldn't even dream of shopping there if I were you.

 

[hell2bwith76]

I despise Tesco with a psychopathic hatred.

During the first Covid lockdown they had a one-way system in place. I was literally the only person in the place and took a detour back to the only available till. This spotty jobsworth told me off for taking a shortcut told me I had to join the queue and made me walk back up a long aisle and back down the next long aisle to wait patiently in the EMPTY 'queue' in an EMPTY supermarket.


Doctorrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

Did you wear a mask though ?
Rules are rules ,ask Boris !

 

[hell2bwith76]

Tesco run a kind of duel pricing policy. One price for Tesco club card holders and a higher price for everyone else. If you don't have a club card I
wouldn't even dream of shopping there if I were you.

The best supermarket in Town with friendly delivery drivers ,corteous staff in shop and vile customers who take their frustrations out on the poor till assistant.

 

[Saphire]

Supermarkets no longer just tell you what’s in the packet – expect oodles of flavour, slathers of olive oil and dollops of pretentious bollocks.

Here’s how they reel in their poncey customers.


Funly-worded packaging

Ingredients come as a sprinkle, a dab or a splash. These ridiculous nouns are HIGHLIGHTED in big LETTERS. Hey presto – idiots cream themselves over overpriced store cupboard ingredients. Crumbs of dry cheese suddenly become ‘a scatter of Parmesan’ and a packet of salt somehow seems worth a fiver when it’s ‘a generous jolt of the sea’.

Chatty packaging

Is this a box of granola or your new best friend? The more wordy and pally the chit-chat on the packet, the less you’ll care about the hefty price. Enjoy the honesty and openness of a pack of sesame bagels, or the crazy life story of some mass-produced hazelnut shortbread.

Overly descriptive packaging

This packaging relies on sumptuous detail: the succulence of hand-reared lamb, the floral tang of homegrown rosemary… you’ll forget they can’t possibly deliver all that in a packet of bloody crisps. After parting with £6.50, under no circumstances admit they taste like beef Wotsits.

Posh-looking packaging

This isn’t about words, just looks. Sophisticated fonts and colours can dress up salted peanuts as haute cuisine, particular with a posh but possibly made-up name, eg. Sandringbourne Estates. Tragically, a talented artist has probably wasted their skills turning bits of dead fish into an elegant artwork that could hold its own in the Louvre.

‘Witty’ packaging

From silly food puns to cheap gags, crap humour shifts food. Chortle at a pack of smoked mackerel that proclaims ‘I’m a good catch’ or ‘Bee’s Knees’ brand honey. Then realise you’re a f-ucking idiot and you’ve just paid far too much for some nasty oat milk called ‘Get Your Oats’.

via ~ Daily FoolAndHisMoney

When you don’t want to pay for a plastic bag​

Lol at the video, I'm sure she works at my local supermarket.

 

[breakwake_]

Good description of party leaflets sent around to each household every election time too.