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Post by angela on Oct 24, 2014 0:09:31 GMT -5
I have three bras now, all stretchy nylon types that you just put on over your head. I got them at work. All the underwires and such are gone. These new bras are cheap, only $21 before employee discount, and I can throw them in the washer with no ill effects. I don't suppose they make me look very good really but I don't care too much about such things anymore. And they're comfortable.
Today I took back groceries to the store that S and I went to all summer. I had two bags worth of things that we didn't use. Got $80 back. Bought some of my own needed groceries plus little cans of cat food, a birthday card for my brother, and a box of all-occasion note cards, some of which I will use for thank you cards.
I stopped at a local store where I usually get shoes, ready to buy a new pair but saw nothing I particularly liked or that felt good on my feet. My feet REALLY HURT right now. I have plantar fasciitis in the right foot pretty bad right now. So much so that I can barely walk in the morning when I get up. The left foot isn't so good either. I don't know what's wrong.
At any rate, I need to buy new shoes. I have two pair, a brown and a black, and both are years and years old. Maybe as much as 5? As I wear them constantly for work.
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Post by papermoon on Oct 24, 2014 0:17:13 GMT -5
Yesterday at Target I bought $15 worth of personal care items (toothpaste, bandaids, razors, deod) and got back a $5 gift card reward. Went back in the store today and used the card for tights in a fine black&white herringbone pattern to wear tomorrow night with my new LBD and my new uplifting bra.
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Post by lostchild on Oct 24, 2014 1:08:09 GMT -5
Acquired four rolls of duct tape. I am taking two rolls back to the store. Made a duct tape dress!...Halloween costume stiff but looks like leather!
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Post by puppybox on Oct 24, 2014 1:15:00 GMT -5
angela buy some shoes for your poor feet! and get some treatment for the planters! ouch!
i find it impossible to understand taking food back weeks later. hunh? explain.
I'd better explain that because it could be taken the wrong way.
1)isn't it too late by a long time??? 2)does this mean i might be buying food that's been sitting in someone's hot car for weeks that they took back? 3)do you have to say something is wrong with it or is it ok to just say you didn't want it after all??? (mind boggling) 4)isn't it just a lot easier to eat it than to return it? sometimes i have dinner of such random things that i haven't eaten all of just to put off going to the store again. can of corn plus rice with thai seasoning anyone? plus frozen Italian meatballs.
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Post by lucie on Oct 24, 2014 1:50:36 GMT -5
I bought a shampoo and two bags of fruit infusion as a Christmas present for my sister.
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Post by misssue on Oct 24, 2014 10:28:25 GMT -5
Puppybox.. Here is what I know about food returns. I worked as a vendor, a rep and learned a few things about the food business. Walmart and Target, and I believe most food stores, do take returns. They take them at the customer service desk, but they toss it all out in the garbage. It does not go back on the shelves. If something food or consumable left the store, they can not take the risk of someone tampering with it. It is a liability issue. I did not know that, and a lot of other things about stores, until I was there every day!
So they take it as a loss, at their cost..and the markup on food is not that much, the margin is small, their profit. They do not get a big write off like some people think on returns.
That also goes for some toiletries, anything that can be opened, not sealed, like a shampoo or a toothpaste. Or aspirin etc. Even the sealed in bottle stuff. Not worth the risk.. I said shampoo? Some sicko could put something in it they said, or pee in it. Pee in it I said.. you would be surprised they said.
Walmart and Sams club have a no questions asked return policy, for the most part with a full refund. I think many stores do. I do know that they now require you to have a receipt, which they did not for a long time. I heard stories of people bring back shoes or a bra they wore for 5 years, claimed they were not happy with it, and wanted a full refund! Which they at that time got. Now, not so much, they have changed their policies on some of that. All the associates knew regulars that did this often. I got a new lesson in human behavior on the retail level. The scams people pulled or the shoplifting ploys they engaged in. Trust me, we all were on camera 24/7 in Walmart or Target, most stores now have cameras you will never ever see. I lost something once in the store. Security said lets roll the tape.. and in a huge room with 25 screens, they found me, and I found my belonging.
This is not to make anyone feel bad. If I bought something I thought was not what it should be, or taste right, I would return it. I just did at independent grocery, I was sold chicken legs that were 69 cents a lb, and I paid 1.39 a lb for wings price. I wanted wings, the package was mismarked. It was 5 dollar difference. Too late to make them for the football game, and I wanted a refund. The prices there are great, I just did not want to make or eat legs. I brought the whole package in. AND they charged me for something we did not buy. She said I will go check for that day.. and I know even in this two store business, she went and pulled the recording for Friday, watched the items on the belt, and this was Sunday. She said you are right, no tortilla chips at 2.99.. homemade tortillas at .49. They make their own there, and I joked, probably very few people buy only a dozen, so someone hit the 2.99 key. That was 7.50 credit. I usually can memorize the prices of everything and watch the cashier. I did not, I was with the BF.. and he certainly does not!
So good or bad, you are not in any danger of getting something that someone else had brought home. They can not donate it either.. and in Walmarts defense, they donate a lot of food. It may be different at your Walmart, but in my area, all the store managers did. They started composting when I was there. They froze all the meat too for the Food America to pick up. I asked if after the holidays, we could leave the food pantry barrels out.. and the manager said corporate says no, I say yes. He was a good guy.
This is not to be judgmental or critical of anyone here.. just the facts! BUT do not worry something sat in someone's car. I do though, wash off the tops of cans when I open them for food.. but I always have!
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Post by dayeanu on Oct 24, 2014 10:56:05 GMT -5
This is what happens at our wal-mart, too. The only returns they donate are the pet foods which they give to the local shekter.
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Post by dayeanu on Oct 24, 2014 10:59:28 GMT -5
Catching up with acquisitions. I don't think I listed the 74 bales of hay I bought. We have round bales, but the square ones sure come in handy, sometimes I bought an aquarium ornament and parrot food. If I have already mentioned this, please ignore.
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Post by angela on Oct 24, 2014 13:32:52 GMT -5
puppybox these were packaged food things like coffee, Jello, canned soups, canned sardines...we had bought these within the last two months. Some things I don't use ever, like the coffee, other things I can't eat that S could, like the soup with MSG. I told the customer service clerk that S had died and these were things I wouldn't eat and that we had just bought. Because I used the store rewards card, all these things were on record as having been bought recently. I don't know what will happen to the goods at the store level, I guess I had naively assumed they would be resold, either on the shelf or in their half price bins. I hope they don't get thrown out but I can't worry about that. $80 is $80 to me.
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Post by puppybox on Oct 24, 2014 15:09:03 GMT -5
Angela I am sorry, I did not mean to criticise. I didn't even mean it's wrong to return food. I just couldn't conceive of being allowed to do it. I couldn't think of how it might work, it seemed dangerous for stores to then sell that food, but I wasn't worried about it, I just was kind of mind boggled at the whole concept that it was possible. And stupidly, I wasn't thinking that you were paying for his food, and that It might be food you couldn't eat. I'm usually happy to have an excuse to eat things I shouldn't eat, but other people have more serious reactions/care more about not getting reactions than I do. And obviously you would have been buying anything he liked even if you never never ate it. I'm dumb.
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Post by misssue on Oct 24, 2014 15:57:42 GMT -5
No self recriminations here dear Puppybox.. and Angela I know why your returned it, because you need the money. I do not believe that most people on a regular basis, stock up and then return the food when they need cash. You can not worry about it now,is correct, and that was not my intention. It was more to make people aware that what they buy is safe. No one is getting food that sat in someone's pantry or car for months. It is good to not make it a regular practice to over buy anything, and then when you need cash, to return it all. Most people think, oh they just put it back. I did not want to make anyone feel bad, but aware!
I would never return something that spoiled because I did not get to it or cook it. I have no issues returning something that substandard, or even I did not care for it, like some crap guacamole I bought at Sams. That is really why they have a no questions asked, no problem for some things. They want to keep you as customer. AND they know every time you come in a store, you spend more!
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Post by angela on Oct 24, 2014 22:25:30 GMT -5
puppybox! No criticism taken whatsoever! Never even crossed my mind! So now I'M sorry that there was something in my reply that contributed to your thinking that, even for a moment!!
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Post by puppybox on Oct 25, 2014 0:37:21 GMT -5
no worries I didn't feel bad! i am quite forgiving of my own occasional denseness. I just didn't want to hurt your feelings.
plus the vet just took all my money. so if the discount grocery sells me something that goes bad prematurely will try to make myself take it back. it all adds up. and it happens regularly. i should do it.
i had to buy a pair of new gloves as i cant find any pairs of gloves, only singles that really can't go together.
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Post by lostchild on Oct 25, 2014 0:52:59 GMT -5
Bought gas for car and two energy drinks for today and tomorrow. Paid sitter money to take child to Halloween carnival. Bought a jumbo taco and soda.
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Post by lostchild on Oct 25, 2014 16:54:37 GMT -5
Got paid today so mortgage and had a little extra left so got groceries...
bagels on sale 1.99
loaf of white bread 1.99
Mayo 1.99 on sale,
2 lemon bar mixes,2.99 each, bread crumbs, Italian and plain 2 for 5 bucks on sale
,parchment paper and wax paper for baking 2.59 and 2.49
, spray cheese for daughter 3.99,
ammonia for cleaning 2 for 5 bucks
,2 waters for emergency kit, 79 cents each,
One dozen eggs 2.99
Milk 3.89
Peppermints 1.50 per pkg.
Pork ribs country style 2.02 with 2 dollar off coupon
Itaian sausage 2 lbs 7.99
Shrimp 5.91 for 3/4 lbs for jambalaya
Thin sliced turkey 12 oz. 3.99
Thin sliced ham 3.99
Hillshire sausage 5.49
24 pkg hot dogs 5.19
1 off coupon for thin sliced turkey.
Total 77.35
Bought 40 bucks of gas plus donated 1 dollar for juvenile diabetes and 35 cents extra for paying on card.
Owed exhubby 40 for paying for gas when I didn't have any paid for fruit bowl , chili and chipolte wings 18.47 total
Chili 2.49 Wings 8.99 Fruit bowl 6.99
Turned out he bought fruit for kids so now owe him 21.63 for when he bought gas.
While he was waiting for me he bought Starbucks for daughter so I bought one for son and self 8.20
Excursion got gas for week or there about, house note paid, groceries for week and a treat.
Not bad for bargain shopping as this is Albertsons which is brand name and expensive. I normally shop warehouse like Costco,Sams or Walmart Superstore.
Almost all items on sale or coupons.
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