Yesterday I went to a village store, in an area that I don't normally
shop, to buy some cleaning products for my parents kitchen.

I was looking for something along the lines of Viakal, which they didn't
stock, to remove grease and lime scale etc. The very helpful assistant
produced a can of Jeyes Fluid.

Is there any hope for our future?
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Bill

On 02/09/14 10:42, Bill wrote:
Yesterday I went to a village store, in an area that I don't normally
shop, to buy some cleaning products for my parents kitchen.

I was looking for something along the lines of Viakal, which they didn't
stock, to remove grease and lime scale etc. The very helpful assistant
produced a can of Jeyes Fluid.

Is there any hope for our future?

When ye walk into the shop, the assistant could hold a microphone in ya
face - and a bank of computers a thousand miles away would examine your
voice utterances, your social standing, check out wikihow (god help us),
cross-index that with the store stock index, and finally instruct the
shop assistant (applied electric shock) to extract the package from the
third bay of the second shelf. A video camera will then detect from your
frown whether the item was a successful choice.

Meanwhile, in the pub next door.... ;-)

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Adrian C

On 02/09/2014 10:42, Bill wrote:
Yesterday I went to a village store, in an area that I don't normally
shop, to buy some cleaning products for my parents kitchen.

I was looking for something along the lines of Viakal, which they didn't
stock, to remove grease and lime scale etc. The very helpful assistant
produced a can of Jeyes Fluid.

Is there any hope for our future?

Yup, I met him in B&Q last week ;-)

There I was standing in the plumbing isle - looking at all the kits for
fixing this and fixing that, thinking "there must be a basin fixing kit
here somewhere". In the end admitted defeat, and asked a nearby older
gent in orange and black corporate colours. He leads me straight to the
Fischer fixings two aisles over, and hands me what I want. A couple of
days later, I am back in the same isle looking at pots of plumber mait
and other assorted pots of goo thinking, "ok where have they hidden the
LS-X". Spied the same chap, and said "ok I have a challenge for you,
Fernox LS-X", he said, "that's no challenge" - took me two aisles the
other way to a Fernox water treatment products display hidden among all
the rads, and handed me a tube.

So credit where it is due ;-)



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Cheers,

John.

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On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 10:42:28 +0100, Bill
wrote:

Yesterday I went to a village store, in an area that I don't normally
shop, to buy some cleaning products for my parents kitchen.

I was looking for something along the lines of Viakal, which they didn't
stock, to remove grease and lime scale etc. The very helpful assistant
produced a can of Jeyes Fluid.

Is there any hope for our future?

Yes, certainly. One can only hope that assistant's sibling, who works
in the pharmacy and who shares the same family characteristics, will
be handing Viagra out instead of Asprin.

In article ,
John Rumm writes:
Yup, I met him in B&Q last week ;-)

There I was standing in the plumbing isle - looking at all the kits for
fixing this and fixing that, thinking "there must be a basin fixing kit
here somewhere". In the end admitted defeat, and asked a nearby older
gent in orange and black corporate colours. He leads me straight to the
Fischer fixings two aisles over, and hands me what I want. A couple of
days later, I am back in the same isle looking at pots of plumber mait
and other assorted pots of goo thinking, "ok where have they hidden the
LS-X". Spied the same chap, and said "ok I have a challenge for you,
Fernox LS-X", he said, "that's no challenge" - took me two aisles the
other way to a Fernox water treatment products display hidden among all
the rads, and handed me a tube.

So credit where it is due ;-)

Same experience here when I asked where shower traps were.
Turned out there were some in the plumbing section and some more
in the shower section, and he took me to both.

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Andrew Gabriel
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On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 11:24:32 PM UTC+1, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
Same experience here when I asked where shower traps were.
Turned out there were some in the plumbing section and some more
in the shower section,

A bit like the B&Q website

and he took me to both.

Not like the B&Q search engine which would probably take you to guttering or pest control.

Owain

On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 15:51:56 -0700, spuorgelgoog wrote:

On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 11:24:32 PM UTC+1, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
Same experience here when I asked where shower traps were. Turned out
there were some in the plumbing section and some more in the shower
section,

A bit like the B&Q website

and he took me to both.

Not like the B&Q search engine which would probably take you to
guttering or pest control.

Or raincoats or unbrellas.

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In message , Bob Eager
writes
On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 15:51:56 -0700, spuorgelgoog wrote:

On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 11:24:32 PM UTC+1, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
Same experience here when I asked where shower traps were. Turned out
there were some in the plumbing section and some more in the shower
section,

A bit like the B&Q website

and he took me to both.

Not like the B&Q search engine which would probably take you to
guttering or pest control.

Or raincoats or unbrellas.

I'm glad it's not only me who finds the B&Q website totally unworkable.
It seems even worse than it used to be. Surely they must lose a fair
amount of sales because of it?
--
Ian

On 17/09/2014 20:37, Ian Jackson wrote:
I'm glad it's not only me who finds the B&Q website totally unworkable.
It seems even worse than it used to be. Surely they must lose a fair
amount of sales because of it?

The other day I actually found what I was looking for on their site
quite quickly, for the first time in years. (Not that I look very
often.) Unfortunately they did not have quite what we wanted, but a
close call.

--
Rod

On 17/09/2014 20:37, Ian Jackson wrote:
In message , Bob Eager
writes
On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 15:51:56 -0700, spuorgelgoog wrote:

On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 11:24:32 PM UTC+1, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
Same experience here when I asked where shower traps were. Turned out
there were some in the plumbing section and some more in the shower
section,

A bit like the B&Q website

and he took me to both.

Not like the B&Q search engine which would probably take you to
guttering or pest control.

Or raincoats or unbrellas.

I'm glad it's not only me who finds the B&Q website totally unworkable.
It seems even worse than it used to be. Surely they must lose a fair
amount of sales because of it?

Its always worth remembering the Google advanced search facilities for
sites with poor layout/search engines. In this case something like

shower trap site:diy.com

in the Google search bar will often get better hits than the site's own
search facilities.

--
Chris