On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:08:22 +0100, Hugh Jampton wrote:

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:34:25 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Other thing is how so much packaged stuff has been opened and bits
pinched. Usually when there's only a couple remaining and you're desperate
for one there and then.

Going back a few years I bought a cat flap from B&Q. Got it home, opened
the box and half of it was missing :-( Took it back and got it replaced.

Wandering round B&Q a few weeks later and was just passing the cat flaps -
one looked familiar - opened the box - it was the one I'd returned with
half of it missing !! They'd just put it back on the shelf :-( I pointed it
out but nobody seemed interested ...

The local B&Q had a pair of 4 x 10mm x 22mm manifolds on the shelf for well
over 18 months - the computer wouldn't order any as it thought that it had
some in stock, but no-one would buy them as the nuts and olives were
missing! Manual stock checks were obviously cursory at best.

I even pointed it out to them a few times.

SteveW