The McD near me ran out of large fries containers when I was there earlier this week. They explained everyone would get a medium and a small fries, and for some reason this combo would be put through as a pineapple stick, to much confusion from customers and exasperation from staff. I'm guessing it ...

M&S launched a "buy 6 sandwiches, get your 7th free" offer trial in Scotland yesterday, due to run for three months. https://up.metropol247.co.uk/scottishtv/240718_sparks_app.jpg The coffee stamps card has now disappeared from my Sparks app (not that I used it). According to the blurb,...

Still to receive my postal ballot paper here in Edinburgh, and I'm going away for a week from tomorrow. The council vaguely saying that the papers will be sent out "by the weekend". Have you got someone you could appoint as your emergency proxy? https://www.gov.uk/how-to-vote/voting-by-pr...

Still to receive my postal ballot paper here in Edinburgh, and I'm going away for a week from tomorrow. The council vaguely saying that the papers will be sent out "by the weekend". It turns out that if you'd applied for a postal vote here between the 8th and 19th June (the only deadline p...

Was asked about potential new 'Nectar Price' SEL designs in a survey:

Amazing

I doubt any of it is about dropping Monopoly. Seems it's all about getting the app on people's phones. There will be millions of the "Have another go on the app" peels out there. It'll increase the downloads and most people won't win on the app but have a silly virtual sticker added to the...

I see the local milk cartels are becoming ever more blatant. "I did a deal with Kerr’s and we’ve agreed on boundaries. "Kerr’s has given us their Inverness business and we’ve given Kerr’s the business [..] in Aberdeen. "Myself and Kelvin are happy, because he’s got Aberdeen solely to ...

Obviously bugs in the drinking water is a very serious issue and not trying to downplay that. However, the BBC did manage to capture a classic of the 'Angry People in Local Newspapers' genre here: https://up.metropol247.co.uk/scottishtv/2405_JBoyle_AngryPeopleinLocalNewspapers.jpg Now I'm trying to ...

Nothing could beat a quarter pounder with cheese that had been stuck in the production bin for way over the 10 minute maximum holding time. Hot all the way through and the cheese just oozing. Seems they're admitting there's a problem. Just heard an ad for "small improvements to our classic bur...

Urgh: Ads during podcasts read out unconvincingly by the hosts of other podcasts you've never heard of, advertising products you're not interested in. Usually along the lines of: "Hi, it's Milly and Tilly here from the 'Mummy Drinks Wine' podcast, and we wanted to let you know about a special o...