Rod coughed up some electrons that declared:

I have just got home after buying a few odds and ends at Axminster, High
Wycombe. Spent just over ten quid. And I am struggling to remember the
last time I was treated so well in any shop, anywhere. Friendly.
Helpful. Efficient.

The shop is clean, smart, sensibly arranged, well stocked. Good parking.

All the staff were ready to help but knew how to keep in the background.

I just wish I had a few thousand to go on a proper spending spree there.
:-)

(Absolutely no connection other than as a customer.)


Same experience in Sittingbourne - I only spent 30 quid.

On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:46:53 -0700, Rod wrote:

I have just got home after buying a few odds and ends at Axminster, High
Wycombe.

Axminster have shops!

Wanders off to the website, awww, only three shops and all in the
deep south, even the 4th due to open mid Oct in Nuneaton is still in
the deep south. B-(

--
Cheers
Dave.

Best shopping experience I had was in a diy, gardening
store 'Trago Mills'. I was in the housewares section,
mentioned to a passing salesman that an 8mm plastic
washer, which formed a seal between the glass lid and
the lids' handle had cracked - did he carry a spare.
"Sorry no" was the polite reply. Not a problem says I,
I'm bound to have one in the shed. I'd bought the stock
pot about 2 months earlier
He then went to the desk, phoned the importer. He asked
me if I'd prefer a toughened glass lid or s/s. Wow 3
days later, not only did I get a new lid, but also a
new stock pot, all foc.!!

..

Shame it is almost impossible for me to get
there before they close.

according to my computer you sent this message tomorrow morning
so maybe you get there before they open?

[g]

I have just got home after buying a few odds and ends at Axminster, High
Wycombe. Spent just over ten quid. And I am struggling to remember the
last time I was treated so well in any shop, anywhere. Friendly.
Helpful. Efficient.

The shop is clean, smart, sensibly arranged, well stocked. Good parking.

All the staff were ready to help but knew how to keep in the background.

I just wish I had a few thousand to go on a proper spending spree there. :-)

(Absolutely no connection other than as a customer.)

--
Rod

george (dicegeorge) wrote:
Shame it is almost impossible for me to get
there before they close.

according to my computer you sent this message tomorrow morning
so maybe you get there before they open?

[g]


He's using that time machine I built for him next week.


--
Phil L
RSRL Tipster Of The Year 2008

Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:46:53 -0700, Rod wrote:

I have just got home after buying a few odds and ends at Axminster, High
Wycombe.

Axminster have shops!

Wanders off to the website, awww, only three shops and all in the
deep south, even the 4th due to open mid Oct in Nuneaton is still in
the deep south. B-(

Know what you mean. I was always envious of those who live in Devon and
Kent - then, suddenly, found one opening just up the road. In fact, I
drive almost past them every day on my way to and from work.
(Conveniently they are just round the corner from Screwfix. Waiting for
Toolstation to find a location... But I do worry about the long term
viability of Isaac Lord.) Shame it is almost impossible for me to get
there before they close.

--
Rod

Rod wrote:

george (dicegeorge) wrote:

I am just about to post this one at 06/09/09 07:38.

The headers show:

From: Rod
Newsgroups: uk.d-i-y
Subject: Pleasant Shopping Experience
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 07:39:02 -0700

Your timezone is set to somewhere 7 hours behind the UK, i.e. on the west
side of the USA, that's the default for Windoze "out of the box" unless you
change it. My newreader software assumes that you posted it at 07:39 in
America but displays the time which would be displayed on the clock here in
the UK (14:39 GMT or 15:39 BST) at the time you posted it.

It makes sense for the news reader to convert to local time. If you really
had posted it in the USA at 07:39 and I was reading it at 14:00 in the UK
then it's more meaningful for me to know it was posted about 20 minutes
before instead of telling me what time the clock on a wall at tho other
side of the world said.

--
Mike Clarke

Mike Clarke wrote:
Rod wrote:

george (dicegeorge) wrote:

I am just about to post this one at 06/09/09 07:38.

The headers show:

From: Rod
Newsgroups: uk.d-i-y
Subject: Pleasant Shopping Experience
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 07:39:02 -0700

Your timezone is set to somewhere 7 hours behind the UK, i.e. on the west
side of the USA, that's the default for Windoze "out of the box" unless you
change it. My newreader software assumes that you posted it at 07:39 in
America but displays the time which would be displayed on the clock here in
the UK (14:39 GMT or 15:39 BST) at the time you posted it.

It makes sense for the news reader to convert to local time. If you really
had posted it in the USA at 07:39 and I was reading it at 14:00 in the UK
then it's more meaningful for me to know it was posted about 20 minutes
before instead of telling me what time the clock on a wall at tho other
side of the world said.

Thank you Vista. I *know* I chose UK, London, etc. as this machine set
itself up. And my displayed time is fine - and most other things are
fine. But indeed my regional setting was for Redmond.

--
Rod

"Rod" wrote in message
...

Thank you Vista. I *know* I chose UK, London, etc. as this machine set
itself up. And my displayed time is fine - and most other things are fine.
But indeed my regional setting was for Redmond.

Vista didn't do that.

george (dicegeorge) wrote:
Shame it is almost impossible for me to get there before they close.

according to my computer you sent this message tomorrow morning
so maybe you get there before they open?

[g]

According to my computer, your post is date/timed 05/09/09 15:32 - about
7 hours before mine!

(I am just about to post this one at 06/09/09 07:38.)

--
Rod