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Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-06-04 14:57:34
June 04 2008 14:42 GMT
#1
Around where I live and where I work (my department), there are 3 places where you can buy food items.

The first is Sainsbury's a rather poche (sp) place in central city, where shit is genreally a bit marked up.

The second is Aldi, which is properly shit so I never go there.

The third is the Cooperative, which showed up in a previous blog entry of mine - a small'ish place that is half convenience store and half market.

How is it that out of all these options, the fucking vending machine in my department offers the cheapest price for a snickers bar?

vending machine - 32p
sainsbury's - 36p
coop - 42p
aldi - who the fuck knows.

It's a mystery. I've never ran across this situation before in my life.

On June 04 2008 23:56 vGl-CoW wrote:
post in this blog if the spice girls taught you how to spell posh


EvoChamber
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
France2505 Posts
June 04 2008 14:46 GMT
#2
That's really odd. Maybe the prices on your vending machine haven't been marked up lately? It's always nice to find machines that still sell snickers or a 12 oz. of soda for 50 cents.
That's not awful writing, DAMMIT. It's perfectly sensical english construction.
alffla
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Hong Kong20321 Posts
June 04 2008 14:47 GMT
#3
cuz....they think that lots of people will go to sainsbury's and coop and stuff so when they pass by the vending machine they'll go like oh wow that's convenient let me get a snickers bar!

no wait that doesnt make sense because your department should be like an obscure place so giving this service should be rippofffffff

wtf w/e
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vGl-CoW
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
Belgium8305 Posts
June 04 2008 14:48 GMT
#4
this is pretty much always the case, universities don't care about making cash off that shit
though aldi should still be cheaper than any vending machine

properly shit innit mate
bit of a wollop on the ole trolly
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QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32129 Posts
June 04 2008 14:49 GMT
#5
On June 04 2008 23:48 vGl-CoW wrote:
this is pretty much always the case, universities don't care about making cash off that shit
though aldi should still be cheaper than any vending machine

properly shit innit mate
bit of a wollop on the ole trolly


Maybe by you. My uni will stop at nothing to suck every last penny from me. Bastards.
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thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
June 04 2008 14:50 GMT
#6
you know british better than I cow, better than I...

jolly good show!
Kennigit *
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Canada19447 Posts
June 04 2008 14:52 GMT
#7
posh
vGl-CoW
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
Belgium8305 Posts
June 04 2008 14:56 GMT
#8
post in this blog if the spice girls taught you how to spell posh

and well that's the way it is around here at least in HS and universities.. cheaper vending machines than pretty much anywhere else
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RaGe
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Belgium9950 Posts
June 04 2008 15:01 GMT
#9
On June 04 2008 23:56 vGl-CoW wrote:
post in this blog if the spice girls taught you how to spell posh

and well that's the way it is around here at least in HS and universities.. cheaper vending machines than pretty much anywhere else

In my university its 80 cents for a can of sprite and 1euro for a bottle. It's pretty cheap, but aint nowhere close to beating Aldi
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jello_biafra
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United Kingdom6640 Posts
June 04 2008 15:03 GMT
#10
Coop isn't that cheap in general but you would think Sainsbury's would have been cheaper.Strange :o
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thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
June 04 2008 15:03 GMT
#11
god Aldi is so fucking ghetto man they dont even have proper aisles for their shit they just pile up tehir crap randomly and pple pick it up do they even have shopping carts? i forget.
Bub
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States3518 Posts
June 04 2008 15:04 GMT
#12
bloody barmy!
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thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
June 04 2008 15:05 GMT
#13
On June 05 2008 00:03 jello_biafra wrote:
Coop isn't that cheap in general but you would think Sainsbury's would have been cheaper.Strange :o


its' very possible that this sainsbury's is ripping us off b/c it's really smack in the middle of the univserity town area.
EvoChamber
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
France2505 Posts
June 04 2008 15:07 GMT
#14
It's definitely true that university stores have jacked-up prices, forgot about that possibility.
That's not awful writing, DAMMIT. It's perfectly sensical english construction.
jello_biafra
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United Kingdom6640 Posts
June 04 2008 15:11 GMT
#15
Yeah Aldi and Lidl are very cheap and they have stuff that other store's don't but their stores are just like a large room with stuff piled up in it lol. And no they don't have have shopping carts.
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Storchen
Profile Joined September 2006
Sweden4385 Posts
June 04 2008 15:17 GMT
#16
spice girls taught me to spell it so I have to post.

you should eat bananas instead of snickers, you little monkey.
thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
June 04 2008 15:18 GMT
#17
I DO EAT BANANAS
thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
June 04 2008 15:18 GMT
#18
BUT BANANAS ARE DYING MAN!!

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drug_vict1m
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
844 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-06-04 15:43:47
June 04 2008 15:43 GMT
#19
http://www.bananas.org/

posz bananaz
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pyrogenetix
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
China5098 Posts
June 04 2008 15:43 GMT
#20
lol cool buy a load of snickers then =D
Yea that looks just like Kang Min... amazing game sense... and uses mind games well, but has the micro of a washed up progamer.
Kennigit *
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Canada19447 Posts
June 04 2008 15:48 GMT
#21
dude i totally remembered posh from the spicegirls. i was stiting there and knew haji had it wrong and then 5 dancing girls popped into my head.
Pwntrucci[sR]
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada1519 Posts
June 04 2008 16:03 GMT
#22
wtf is posh. Is it like "poche" in french which means Lame?
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Daigomi
Profile Blog Joined May 2006
South Africa4316 Posts
June 04 2008 16:06 GMT
#23
It's a mixture between upper-class and pompous.
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zatic
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Zurich15362 Posts
June 04 2008 16:30 GMT
#24
On June 05 2008 00:03 thedeadhaji wrote:
god Aldi is so fucking ghetto man they dont even have proper aisles for their shit they just pile up tehir crap randomly and pple pick it up do they even have shopping carts? i forget.

Is it really like that? In Germany they massively improved and is considered on of the better places (Aldi Sued, that is (compared to other discounters, that is)).

Vending machines in my company are usually also the cheapest way to buy snacks but I think they just buy in bulk and don't mean to make profit.
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ThatGuy
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada695 Posts
June 04 2008 17:41 GMT
#25
On June 05 2008 01:06 Daigomi wrote:
It's a mixture between upper-class and pompous.


Happy Dethday!
nofAcedAgent
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States952 Posts
June 04 2008 18:58 GMT
#26
ahahaha The only reason I know how to spell posh is cause of the SG, I saw your edit and had to post, haha.........*cry*



vending machines are usually rape from my experience *shrug* - Oh, and your pretty much right on about Aldi, we have those here... ahem *ghettoooooo*
paper
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
13196 Posts
June 04 2008 20:29 GMT
#27
~post~
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Harem
Profile Joined November 2007
United States11393 Posts
June 04 2008 20:59 GMT
#28
this blog is bananas

b a n a n a s
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LosingID8
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
CA10829 Posts
June 04 2008 21:01 GMT
#29
man USC tries to kill us with their prices. vending machines aren't TOO horrible but if you go to the marketplace/convenience store in the middle of campus a 20oz bottle of water costs $1.70? wtf T_T
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Elric
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom1327 Posts
June 04 2008 22:00 GMT
#30
Ahh.. Sainsbury's, the real hub of Cambridge. Is that Big Issue guy still outside it? He had some cracking sale lines.

Sainsbury's isn't that posh (or poche...!) is it?! :S M&S probably has a better claim to that title, followed by all those ridiculously upmarket, stupid little art galleries you walk past but never fully notice. You know what I mean!
thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
June 04 2008 22:06 GMT
#31
OH GOD DO NOT TALK ABOUT BIG ISSUE PLEASE

I know exactly what you mean man ;(
Elric
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom1327 Posts
June 04 2008 22:36 GMT
#32
lol. have you also encountered the great cambridge institution that is the "tramp on the bike with a shopping bag and a crackly radio"?!

OH I don't know how you just reminded me but have you tried the ostrich burgers yet? Whenever I start missing Cam, I start thinking of these...... I think it's every Sunday morning there's a stand in market square.

/fatface
thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
June 04 2008 22:44 GMT
#33
haha keep listing these, i'll make sure to check them out with a few friends before I have to leave.

I haven't even punted yet b/c it doesn't have much novelty since I'm rowing harhar

we did stop by that hole in a wall burger joint after a night out, it's on the same street as the McDonalds.

Girton's so fucking far away wtf.
thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
June 04 2008 22:56 GMT
#34
On June 05 2008 07:36 Elric_ wrote:
lol. have you also encountered the great cambridge institution that is the "tramp on the bike with a shopping bag and a crackly radio"?!


plz explain!
Hypnosis
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States2061 Posts
June 04 2008 23:37 GMT
#35
On June 04 2008 23:56 vGl-CoW wrote:
post in this blog if the spice girls taught you how to spell posh

and well that's the way it is around here at least in HS and universities.. cheaper vending machines than pretty much anywhere else



fuck that at my HS they sell these small ass vitamin fucking waters (8 oz?) for 1.25!!! what is that shit. I just drink water fuck you sellouts./

They try to make the schools "healthy" but then everyone just takes there polluting automobiles and goes across the street to w/e and gets a free student soda and some fattening chipotle for like 5$. rofl.
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