Results tagged “Sainsbury's” from Birmingham Mail - Is It Just Me

Winner of this week's couldn't orgainise the proverbial in a brewery award is Sainbury's.

Their Mere Green store has no currants of any description and has had none for some days, which with just over a month to go to Christmas takes a special sort of management skill.

If your Sainsbury's is equally as inept with its stocking don't blame the store though - a menber of staff apologised and explained that the ordering was nothing to do with them, it was all done, or to be more accurate, not done, centrally.

There is a new recordholder at Sainsbury's Mere Green for the 10 items or fewer aisle - a woman with 27 items who also got bonus points for telling the woman waiting stone faced with her two items next in the queue that she only had a couple of things over.

I really should get out more.

I cannot believe that we let our insurance companies get away with the sleight of hand trickery to up our premiums.

I am about to renew my motor insurance and as my current insurer, the one for the old and wrinkled, seems to think I am good for boosting profits with a quote more than double that from anyone else I was having a search around for a new, considerably lower quote.

Sainsbury's came up with a decent quote but then checking through the details as there was a section on any accidents whether there was a claim or not I decided I perhaps ought to mention an incident a couple of years ago when a woman ran in the back of me as I waited to turn right.

There was no damage to my car, she admitted full responsibility and as I made no claim and she made no claim off me or my insurers, my insurance company were informed merely as a courtesy in case the other driver's insurers contacted them for any reason.

The result of adding this to my supermarket quote was a hike in premiums. When I phoned up to explain and ask why the premium had gone up when there had been no claim and the report of the accident had been merely for information I was told that statistically I was more likely to have an accident so had to pay a higher premium. Personally I call it being fined for something you did not do.

Statistically, or in this case, a certainty, I will not be insuring with Sainsbury's and statistically the chances of me ever informing an insurance company again of an accident where I am not going to be making a claim falls somewhere between zero and nil.

So Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King reckons food price inflation is running at two per cent in his stores. He must shop in a different set of aisles to the rest of us then. Mind you Government figures are predicting the consumer price index could hit as high as, steady yourself for this one, 3.7 per cent this year. If only. Whatever planet our captains of industry and politicians are on they obviously never do any shopping on it.