Boots pay £1.50 to collect instore

jpaul · 18 Oct 2020 at 23:30

Oh dear that doesn't look like my so's perfume, I ordered the wrong thing , can I return it ?

Roadrunner_668 · 19 Oct 2020 at 00:17

is it a normal thing or a covid thing to stop you going ?

Psycho Sonny · 19 Oct 2020 at 12:51

chaparral said:
Many Women no seem to think about the car fuel costs & wear/tear when it comes to things like this or they just don't care

How many times have i heard where someone has driven an extra 5 to 10 miles to buy something because it on offer and there saving £1

Bit like some people will waste hours bidding on an item on ebay to save a few quid

Not just women seen plenty of guys do it too.

I have traveled far for a bargain on a couple of occasions but I was literally saving hundreds of pounds for an hour's drive or 90 mins drive one way. I got over £1k worth of speakers for £220 and £1800 alloys on two occasions for £300-£400. £5k worth of dumbells for £500. Needed a van for that too.

But you see a lot of idiots these days are like oh Tesco 5 miles away has this deal on which is £3 cheaper than Asda on your doorstep and I need one.

We need to stop the deal mentality. It's marketing BS most of the time. Where it's got to the point people aren't willing to pay for anything extra like click and collect even though it costs the business more to administer and offer.

englishpremier · 19 Oct 2020 at 17:06

robj20 said:
That's nothing I scrapped a car last week, £176 if they collect it, £130 if I take it to the yard myself.

I thought they pay you when you scrap the car. After-all, it has scrap value

TheVoice · 19 Oct 2020 at 17:13

chaparral said:
I maybe wrong but my local Boots seems to keep stock of most things they sell

So there would be no extra delivery costs to them as they could just take the item or item's off the shelf or from the store room..

Many retailers don't tend to do that, the stock gets picked from a warehouse and sent to store regardless of whether the store stocks the same item or not.

robj20 · 19 Oct 2020 at 18:15

englishpremier said:
I thought they pay you when you scrap the car. After-all, it has scrap value

Yes. I didn't think that needed saying.

Roadrunner_668 · 20 Oct 2020 at 12:10

not always some of them even want you to pay THEM to take it !

A2Z · 20 Oct 2020 at 15:00

Sports Direct do the same, charge £5 to pick it up from their own store, which is simply ridiculous. They do give you a £5 voucher to use in store, at least makes it up a little bit.

It's like these companies that charge for collection don't want more business. I certainly never ordered online from SD again.

413x · 20 Oct 2020 at 15:39

chaparral said:
Many Women no seem to think about the car fuel costs & wear/tear when it comes to things like this or they just don't care

How many times have i heard where someone has driven an extra 5 to 10 miles to buy something because it on offer and there saving £1

Bit like some people will waste hours bidding on an item on ebay to save a few quid

This this this.

At some point it gets silly.

If you're an occasional seller on eBay.. You sell something for 5 pounds pay postage (minimum 1 pound, go to the post office, (might even have to drive) and then pay the PayPal and ebay fees, may as well just give it away.

Id bin it if I didnt like waste myself.

If there's one thing fb is good for, it's giving away free stuff

Semple · 20 Oct 2020 at 16:01

If it's a generic item that they sell frequently, then i think it's pretty poor to be charging customers a collection fee.

If it's something they don't get a lot of stock of, or infrequent stock, then it's probably fair as they may have to pick up from another store to deliver.

Resident · 20 Oct 2020 at 16:45

thenewoc said:
A few retailers do this now, I try to avoid them and go elsewhere.

Halfords 'tried' to introduce a collection fee of £4.00 right at the start of lockdown & when people complained/cancelled orders they backtracked and claimed it to be a system error before removing it.

Although their system came directly from in-store stock rather than centrally distributed stock.

Feek said:
When I book a click and collect from Tesco, it's £4 charge if I spend less than £25 and £1.50 if I spend more than £25.

I'm really not sure what your point is

I wonder if I could charge Tesco a fee for using self-scan, tip the tables on them, I mean I'm doing exactly what they pay their cashiers to do.

Roadrunner_668 · 20 Oct 2020 at 17:59

wow this is a more widespread thing ? how ridiculous

I honestly thought that when I pre order something I am making someones life easier not harder

they can go and get it and put it under the front desk in their own time without me standing there asking them to get it.

thenewoc · 20 Oct 2020 at 19:27

Resident said:
Halfords 'tried' to introduce a collection fee of £4.00 right at the start of lockdown & when people complained/cancelled orders they backtracked and claimed it to be a system error before removing it.

Although their system came directly from in-store stock rather than centrally distributed stock.

I wonder if I could charge Tesco a fee for using self-scan, tip the tables on them, I mean I'm doing exactly what they pay their cashiers to do.

That doesn't surprise me, they used to be part of Boots and all about the grab grab grab. Have found Superdrug to be pretty fair as you can choose to order from in-store stock and pay nothing for the picking & packing. Have also recently taken to setting up a subscribe and save order on Amazon that you can choose to repeat every month, 3 months etc and put a few essentials on there. With the Amazon option I know then I have an order due each quarter at the moment and if I need anything else I can add it to that and it will be free delivery as my base order is over the £20 threshold for free delivery.

Roadrunner_668 · 20 Oct 2020 at 20:22

halfords were part of boots ?

huh ? lol

thenewoc · 20 Oct 2020 at 20:55

Roadrunner_668 said:
halfords were part of boots ?

huh ? lol

Yep and part of 'Do it All' jointly with WH Smiths

Roadrunner_668 · 20 Oct 2020 at 20:55

oh i didnt know that learn something every day