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Spar :-(
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My local coop has recently been taken over by Spar. I bought a prick and ping chicken jalfrezi a couple of weeks ago. On opening I discovered that it contained only 2 pieces of chicken. Emails were sent and I was compensated.
The curry cost me £2-79.
What compensation did I receive?
The curry cost me £2-79.
What compensation did I receive?
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To be pedantic, your local Co-op shop hasn't been taken over by Spar because Spar don't directly operate any shops. It will be an independent retailer that's taken on the business and who has chosen to sign up to selling under the 'Spar' brand name, thus committing to buying stock from Spar and honouring their promotions. (i.e. Spar is a so-called 'symbol group', operating in the same way that Budgens, Londis, Mace and Nisa do. They don't own any stores).
So your contract was with the owner of the shop, not with Spar, and its that store owner that you should have complained to (and sought redress from).
I doubt that you'd have had much better luck getting any form of compensation from the your Co-op anyway. My experience of moaning to my local Co-op (e.g. about sending out discount vouchers so that they arrive on or after their expiry date) has never got me anything more than a very half-hearted apology.
So your contract was with the owner of the shop, not with Spar, and its that store owner that you should have complained to (and sought redress from).
I doubt that you'd have had much better luck getting any form of compensation from the your Co-op anyway. My experience of moaning to my local Co-op (e.g. about sending out discount vouchers so that they arrive on or after their expiry date) has never got me anything more than a very half-hearted apology.
The standard meat content of almost every ready meal (from almost every retailer) appears to be 80g (= 2.8 oz), which is what's meant to be in Spar brand Chicken Jalfrezi
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So perhaps you'd no right to complain anyway?
(I started taking note of the meat content of ready meals quite a few years ago, when I decided to try to save some money by cooking for myself and I wanted a guideline as to how little meat I could get away with in a meal that was supposed to be meat-based. It was then that I came to realise that almost every manufacturer puts 80g of meat into almost every ready meal; it seems to be accepted as the standard meat content. When I was really hard up, I learned to cut that down to 50g of, say, 'value' mince but these days I usually put around 120g of meat into each meal I make, which is 50% more than I'd get in a ready meal).
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So perhaps you'd no right to complain anyway?
(I started taking note of the meat content of ready meals quite a few years ago, when I decided to try to save some money by cooking for myself and I wanted a guideline as to how little meat I could get away with in a meal that was supposed to be meat-based. It was then that I came to realise that almost every manufacturer puts 80g of meat into almost every ready meal; it seems to be accepted as the standard meat content. When I was really hard up, I learned to cut that down to 50g of, say, 'value' mince but these days I usually put around 120g of meat into each meal I make, which is 50% more than I'd get in a ready meal).
