Hey cyp lol, you describe my local click perfectly!
But you missed the toilet!, After all that tea,they crowd into the back room, stepping over piles of discarded wrapping paper, cut off bits of pole tips and elastics etc, to the never any paper,cracked seat toilet and in demonstarting just how hard the strike was,
manage to swing their Pole all over the floor lol!
However, on discounts, youre Joking!
Can see the last time you went shopping!
Yes Sainsbutys etc. all offer discounts, Tescos (loyalty cards) Boots and Wh Smiths (purchase cards) even the local Garage gives Argos Points!!!
I'm not talking about 3p off 1/2 pint o maggots, Simply the way I was always treated in the old Marks and Marlow shopping days, when invariably a bill fo bait,accessories and like yesterday a 2nd Pole cup kit,'cos my new damn pole doesnt take the old 1, for 65.37. Charged in full!
'call it 65.00 mate', woulda been a gesture worth a lot more trade for that guy, Hell I took my sons in there at Xmas, and They've had over 500 in the last 2 months from me, but thats been half what I would have spent, if they were interested, 'cos I've just started back re-equipping.
Like Dave said, I voted with my feet and used the mail order guys,that I reported on in Awards.
Unfortunately the tackle trade is not noted for their professionalism and the internet,switched on mail order Companies, like AA or the one in Suffolk jel refers to elsewhere,Bennets, pushing their EMAP best award and the foreign giants like Askari are gonna see them off or reduce them to bait suppliers!
Twas ever thus,
Trev