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

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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?

No, I am not a special brand of dense. I can manage to read a whole boradsheet where you can obviously only manage the Daily Mail.

Toodles !

Well, not everyone has a car. Some people walk or bus into town, and go from shop to shop. Or they visit, whether it be car, bus, or legging it, one supermarket each week, and buy the cheaper items from that one, and go to another one next week, for that place's stuff.

Well, why don't you come back and quote me from posts where I have said that I am a fan of the welfare state and that I simply object to players of the system? I'll tell you why; because it doesn't fit in with your agenda of painting me up how you want to paint me up. It's called quoting out of context. You should get a job as a journo for a red top. You'd nail it.

Saying you are a fan of the welfare state and actually being one are two very different things!bv

How is someone who is legitimately and legally receiving benefits a "Player of the system"?

What is your criteria for "Player of the system"?

It seems to be anyone who has managed their money better than you have managed yours.

haha, no Imarriedafrog, dont mean it to make anyone feel guilty, just pointing out that more isnt always the best! BTW my DS has smart price apples at school as well so no attacks there...

Colditz, So, that's why! I've been vaguely wondering for so long why their stuff lasts so well.

yes, that's why! they are nightmarishly fussy (because their customers are, I suppose!)

Colditz; the 3 supermarkets in my area are five miles apart. You really think I am going to drive from one to the other, trying to save a few pence here and there? I compare my shop online and I go to Asda, which is invariably the cheapest.

The Smart Price bananas are fine. They keep for days, don't bruise easily and taste nice. I don't buy Smart price bread/tinned stuff because they're full of rubbish. But I honestly believe that some things are much the same regardless of whether they are budget or luxury range.

Try a local greengrocers if you can find one - much cheaper and far better but as rare as rocking horse shit

Colditz, please read my posts. Makes you look less of a div when replying.

smartprice bananas do not taste the same as better quality ones, but I am verry fussy about taste in my food

Well, just let your kids eat the grapes on the way round the supermarket no need for vouchers then

Well, the Co-op will need to get a bit more fussy if they want my money back. Grapes should not be mouldy the day after purchase.

Yes, I'm still harping on about that.

I didn't say they tasted the same, I said they taste nice. I refuse to pay fpr expensive bananas because bananas seem to go off pretty fast. I will pay more for stuff like peppers/apples/tomatoes. Budget range apples are like biting into wool.

But cupcakes - you seem to expect people on benefits to walk or taxi what might be the same distance, just for the sake of some fruit for lunch boxes. the walk with young children isn't feasible and the taxi negates any saving you might make - a taxi for 5 miles is about £10. If your children suddenly eat more fruit than you budgeted for, do you make them go without fruit until next week when you have an asda delivery booked, or do you spend a couple of quid and get some fruit from somewhere you can get to?

M&S might be the only place selling fruit within a five mile radius. You're allowing your fury at being working poor (and it's hard, and I know it is) to prevent you from thinking outside the box. Cheapest is not always cheapest.

Bloody hell!
What a nasty, bullying thread.
Cupcakesandbunting (whilst I don't necessarily agree with her sentiment)really said very little to warrant this.

She clearly started off by saying she had no issue with people legitimately claiming benefits. She is perfectly entitled to say how she feels and TBH,I think she just took exception to the OP's sense of outrage with was definitely unreasonable.

As I said, I don't agree that the OP should spend her voucher in any particular place but she is BU to say 'it's a disgrace'. But I certainly don't think it warrants what is effectively tag team bullying.

I suggest, cupcakes, that you try reading mine (and anyone else's). You may feel less temptation to come across as a bad tempered, intolerant, ignorant frothing fascist with issues around food.

I really cannot think of there being a case where M&S might be the only place selling fruit within a 5 mile radius but I am willing to accept your point...

can i just say.....the voucher is for the dc....the ones at home who dont get the free school meals their older siblings will be getting....its not for the op/adult

Cupcakes, you're right about the bananas. Bought a bunch from Tesco last week. Went from green to black. I swear there was no in between stage. Dh claims there was- I say he's making it up.

Colditz, you have misquoted me as saying that the OP is playing her benefits when in actual fact I made the playing the benefits comment when the conversation had moved on slightly.

You deliberately misquoted me or did not read me properly. A few posters have done this.