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to think its a disgrace that marks n spencers do not accept healthy start vouchers?

354 replies

superv1xen · 05/05/2010 19:22

i think its disgusting.

as if they are saying, we are marks and spencers and are posh, therefore don't want you single parents shopping here with your "poor people's vouchers", piss off to asda, you are lowering the tone.

the look on the cashier's face when i tried to use my vouchers in there, snobby bitch.

aibu?

OP posts:
GypsyMoth · 05/05/2010 21:54

i have just looked at the m and s food online,
the prices arent inflated?? so whats the problem? theres not alot in it price wise

and its not exactly a high brow shop anymore....not specialist or anything....its just a normal high st chain

Fibilou · 05/05/2010 21:54

FFS - M+S isn't Harrods you know. I recently bought some grapes in there - and it was considerably cheaper than Tesco.

Take me, for instance. I live in town, near an M+S. I can walk to M+S. The local Sainsburys, Tesco, Lidl, Asda etc are all at least an 8 mile round trip. So after I have spent the petrol money on getting there the 10p I have saved on my items has gone up the shoot - and I have a car. if I had to get a bus or a taxi it would cost a lot more to get there, negating the saving.

smallishsheep · 05/05/2010 21:55

Then I'll sqay it again.
M & S, as far as I know, have no 'No poor people' policy.
It is perfectly reasonable to be able to budget properly and be able to shop in M and S if you so wish. It's no bloody crime. I wouldn't do my whole food shop ther, because it is overpriced, but I am in there most weeks for washing powder and their fishcakes and sausages. none of which cost any more than ones from Tesco, which is right next door.
So shoot me.
Btw, work on your attitude. If you met me, you'd have no damn idea I was on benefits. They don't brand us at the job centre fgs.

cupcakesandbunting · 05/05/2010 21:55

Of course I can't dictate where my tax money is spent but I sure as hell can get huffy about it on a discussion boaard if I so choose...

jessiealbright · 05/05/2010 21:56

Imarriedafrog Eh, so do I. I write down every single purchase we make, and review it to see where we can switch shops for individual products.

And woebetide dh if he buys something from Sainsbury's or Tesco without getting green points...

colditz · 05/05/2010 21:57

I work and am significantly better off than I was on benefits. I think perhaps you need to examine your spending, cupcakes.

usualsuspect · 05/05/2010 21:57

And I can disagree with you if I choose without resorting to calling people scumbags

Cloudbase · 05/05/2010 21:57

I am going to highlight again the fact that the OP doesn't usually shop in M&S! So what if she makes a one off purchase in a 'posh shop' with her 'free money'?

And actually Rustybucket, yes, as the recipient of some benefits (even though I also work 30 hours a week as a single parent and pay taxes)I damn well should be able to choose where I spend my money.

I completely understand that it is infuriating when people play the system, but to be told which supermarkets are 'suitable' for me to spend my 'free' money in, is both infantalising of me as a woman and deeply patronising. Poor doesn't equal thick and irresponsible!

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cupcakesandbunting · 05/05/2010 21:57

Oh there goes SmallishSheep again, putting slurs into my mouth. Where have I said that poor people are branded or obviously on benefits?

Get over yourself. You've obviously got a complex about being on benefits. That's your problem, not mine.

Fibilou · 05/05/2010 21:57

cupcakes, let's hope you never have to rely on benefits through no fault of your own. Plenty of people are having to survive on th dole because of the recession and frankly your "all benefits recipients are scum" attitude (a) stinks and (b) is ignorant.

cupcakesandbunting · 05/05/2010 21:59

Who have I called a scumbag, Usualsuspect? No-one on here, that's a certain.

smallishsheep · 05/05/2010 21:59

I have no complex at all. You are the one with the superiority complex. By all accounts I should be proud of my obviously excellent budgeting skills

lauraly · 05/05/2010 21:59

Ok, I do think Cupcakes is getting a tough time when nobody seems to be putting RustyBucket in her place...

LittleMrsHappy · 05/05/2010 22:00

Your being green eyed over value! that someone on benefits (is the OP even on benefits ) is maybe trying to shop to get better ingredients for her family!

How on earth you cannot see this is beyond me!

Your making sweeping generalisation statements about people on benefits and tbh if you think this is the corrected way of thinking and a normal way oft thinking through your own bitterness, then to be quite frank your deluded and deluding yourself even further in trying to justify that this sort of attude to benefit claimant is normal!

LittleMrsHappy · 05/05/2010 22:00

Your being green eyed over value! that someone on benefits (is the OP even on benefits ) is maybe trying to shop to get better ingredients for her family!

How on earth you cannot see this is beyond me!

Your making sweeping generalisation statements about people on benefits and tbh if you think this is the corrected way of thinking and a normal way oft thinking through your own bitterness, then to be quite frank your deluded and deluding yourself even further in trying to justify that this sort of attude to benefit claimant is normal!

cupcakesandbunting · 05/05/2010 22:01

FOR FUCKS SAKE.

Will some of you READ my posts? I said that I am FOR the benefits system. I did not call anyone scum simply for claiming benefits. My mum claimed benefits until I went to school. READ MY FUCKING POSTS.

And if I do ever claim benefits, which I may do in the future, I will NOT be shopping in M&S.

usualsuspect · 05/05/2010 22:01

cupcakes can take it tho rustybucket aint even worth my typing

Sassybeast · 05/05/2010 22:02

Cupcakesandbunting - if this is you being 'huffy' I'd hate to see a thread when you are being offensive and inflammatory. I hear Waitrose do a nice soothing camomile tea. Or so my rich friends what have never been on benefits and never will need to be tell me.

HoorahHilda · 05/05/2010 22:02

Mermaidspam I laughed out loud at that one .Keep running ! ...

colditz · 05/05/2010 22:03

And the people I know who claim benefits are NOt, in the main, spongers - they are mainly single parents who feed their children as well as they can with the money they are provided with to do so, and I don't think for a second that Bevan would object to anyone using any shop, socialist as he was.

cupcakesandbunting · 05/05/2010 22:04

LittleMissHappy, an apple is an apple. A granny smiths from Asda is the same as a granny smith from M&S. You're paying more for the service, the shopping environment and the general niceness of M&S. Don't delude yourself that OP was shopping in M&S because of the quality of fertiliser that M&S spray their god damn apples with.

And for the record, I'm not jealous of anyone. I do OK, I buy what I can afford and cook healthy meals from scratch most days. I don't need to pay over the odds to do this.

colditz · 05/05/2010 22:05

Have you ever BEEN in M&S, OP?

They quite often have half price chicken, making their fresh chickens cheaper than Iceland.

Should people on benefits not be allowed to buy their chicken, do they have to go to Iceland because that's where you go when you're feeling skint?

lauraly · 05/05/2010 22:06

PS why is it in this country we are so obsessed with quantity over quality, surely it is better for OP to get 1 quality apple for her DC rather than feeding them 3 poor quality less nutritious ones!!

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