Did I make the "RFC Book of Records"?

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Bobina

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Went to do a serious "food restock" today at a local supermarket (after a
plethora of public holidays here in RSA) and I came home with a "till
slip" (or "cashiers receipt") that was 1.31 meters long (or 4.3 feet) -
Jack actually measured it . Out of 116 items I only bought three
non-food items i.e a roll of alumnium foil, a pack of fire-lighters for
the "braai" and a bottle of dish washing liquid (which IMHO are still food
related). The list did include both dog and cat food.

Heh, don't think I've ever bought as many items at one time in one
food store before.

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Cheers
Chatty Cathy
 
On Tue, 03 May 2011 18:27:43 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote:


A 20 item receipt from Restaurant Depot would be just as long,
especially if you pay with plastic.

-sw
 
On Tue, 03 May 2011 11:41:20 -0500, Sqwertz wrote:

For 20 items? Good grief. I'm trying to figure out how (or why) they'd
manage it. FWIW, cashier receipts I generally get here are the same length
whether one pays cash or uses plastic, in fact I used plastic today and
there is nothing on the receipt to indicate that I did so. However, I did
get a separate (+/- 4 inch long) receipt from the "card machine" the
cashier used.

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Cheers
Chatty Cathy
 
On Tue, 03 May 2011 18:56:30 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote:


I just looked at a recipe that had 7 items and it's 23" long. The
credit card authorization info is printed right on the receipt so that
extends it by about 4-5". If you pay with cash that doesn't exist.

Then there's the survey information, and advertisements and promos,
and your purchases are itemized into several extra category subtotals
since this is a wholesale receipt and some items are taxable. Then
there's all my membership/account information and my bra size (free
woody for Sheldon)

-sw

-sw
 
On Tue, 03 May 2011 12:15:25 -0500, Sqwertz wrote:



Ah.

Ahhh. So far (where I shop), I've been spared the
advertising/promos/surveys on the receipts themselves and the non-taxable
items are just denoted by an [*] on the same line as the relevant item(s)'
purchase price. There are sometimes "specials" pamphlets stacked up by the
cashiers desks, which (if there is a packer on duty) will occasionally get
packed into one of my grocery bags, but not enough to become irritating -
yet.

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Cheers
Chatty Cathy
 
On 5/3/2011 6:27 AM, ChattyCathy wrote:

Congrats on this. My guess is that there's families that routinely match
this but they cheat by having a ridiculous number of kids. I'm guessing
the bill came out to be around $375. Hopefully, I'll never come close to
beating your record. $30 and short lists are more my style. :-)
 
On Tue, 03 May 2011 07:50:06 -1000, dsi1 wrote:


At the current exchange rate it came to US$237.14c (including Value Added
Tax) - and I only have one husband, two children, two cats and a dog. In
mitigation I did say in my OP that it was a "serious" food re-stock ;-)

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Cheers
Chatty Cathy
 
Sqwertz wrote:

The place is beyond belief. I felt like I was buying a computer from HP
and the quote was going to come in a binder.
 
Did I make the "RFC Book of Records"?

On May 3, 12:27?pm, ChattyCathy wrote:

If it's anything like MY market, each item is listed separately - e.g.
ten cans of the same cat food ring up as ten separate lines. However,
it DOES separate the stuff into categories, i.e. produce, grocery,
deli etc., no matter what order you plunk em on the conveyor belt.
So, why won't it group like items? Hmmmm......
 
Did I make the "RFC Book of Records"?

On May 3, 1:15?pm, Sqwertz wrote:

I don't even look at those survyey invitations anymore. I"d be online
all day long or on the phone. Altho, Home Depot had a 5 thousand
dollar winner in my area. The winner lived in an apartment and maybe
let his friends eat it up. Quien sabe?
 
On Tue, 03 May 2011 15:08:21 -0400, blake murphy wrote:



Saves having to make a decision about which husband will accompany me to
Important International Functions.

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Cheers
Chatty Cathy
 
"jmcquown" wrote in message
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Has anybody watched that "extreme couponing" show where they go in and buy
like $800 worth of items and pay $2.34? Of course they all end up having to
stock large amounts of food in their homes and own like 247 tubes of
toothpaste etc. I love the concept but it takes like 6 hours just to
organize a shopping trip.

-Kody
 
ChattyCathy wrote:

I've never bought that much at a food store at one time, probably I've
hit $125 at some point. That's a lot. The hardest part is now you
have all that stuff home and you have to lug it in from the car and
put it away. Whew!

nancy
 
On Tue, 3 May 2011 16:24:19 -0400, "Nancy Young"
wrote:


Nowadays you really don't get much for $125. This morning I spent $40
and carried in three little plastic bags of groceries in one trip;
just the fixings for a salad, a loaf of bread, a gallon of milk, and
one pound of ham and one pound of salami. This was only a fill-in
shopping, was it my regular weekly shopping I would have spent in
excess of $200, with cat stuff $300 easily. I can't remember the last
time a weekly shopping cost $125... now it costs me $50 for a half
tank of gas.
 
"Brooklyn1" wrote in message
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John Tesh said on the radio the other day that the average family of four
spends $100 a week on food. I found this very hard to believe. Yes, I live
in the Seattle area and the cost of living is high. But my daughter and I
can easily spend that and more and we aren't big eaters! A meal out at most
restaurants (not expensive ones) is at least $30. Likely a bit more with
tip.

It is hard for me to figure what I spend weekly though because I never buy
just enough for one week. I do buy cases of things at Costco and other
large quantities of things like cheese which will last 2 or 3 weeks.

Of course there are always little trips in between for things like produce
and bread or other things we run out of before we are doing the main grocery
shopping. But really because I do shop at so many different places, I
rarely ever have to do one big shopping trip. It's buy a little here...
Buy a little there...

I don't usually buy cat food at the grocery store. I have been feeding them
Fancy Feast Appetizers for breakfast but I may have to rethink that. At
$1.49 per package and one package per cat that's almost $3.00 for a meal.
That works out to more than their regular moist food which is the Wellness
brand. I just started feeding it to them because I had some leftover from
my old cat. And they seemed to like it!

We do buy magazines and sometimes get cleaning supplies and paper goods at
the grocery store. But often I get those things at Target. And I do get
small amounts of some groceries at Target. But our Target doesn't have a
proper grocery section.
 
On Tue, 03 May 2011 20:10:30 +0200, ChattyCathy
wrote:


Is your oldest home now?

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I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.
 
On Tue, 3 May 2011 18:50:39 +0000 (UTC), Doug Freyburger
wrote:


Restaurant Depot is the one where you need a resale license to get in?

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I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.
 
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