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I always said I never wanted to turn into my mother and moan about 'youngsters today are useless, cant do arithmetic etc. BUT

In Sainsbury's this morning, there was some easy peel satsumas reduced from £1 to 75p, always loving a bargain (and satsumas) I bought some, when I went through the checkout I was charged the full £1 for them so off I went to customer services, where the young girl behind the counter insisted on giving me the 75p back, even though I had only been overcharged by 25p.[:0][:o)]
So the satsumas were an even better bargain and only cost me 25p, what is more worrying is she was saying so many people she had given refunds to for the same thing this morning, so if you hear of Sainsbury's in financial trouble you will know why.

She will (possibly) have been going by what her computer was telling her .... the satsumas might have been entered in the system as discounted TO 25p as opposed to BY 25p.

That said -- many youngsters are incapable of basic arithmetic without electronic aids.

That includes me though so not always just youngsters, my arithmetic is atrocious as is my spelling most of the time I have to admit!

Daughter works in Sainsbury I'll have to ask her as I know she does code checking to reduce items I'll see if it works it out for you or whether you do it manually.

She's been home this Christmas and anything we've purchased from Sainsbury I do know she's got her staff discount and at the minute it's 15% off so I've saved a fair bit.

Yes, I admit I have an increasing dependence upon the calculator through lack of use of my brain! When I took my O and A levels we weren't allowed to use anything other than tables and a slide rule!

My increasingly erroneous spelling is down to creeping dyslexia (with the M.E., the more frazzled I get, the worse the spelling becomes) speech goes south too !!!

However ... I digress

Buy something for 55p then give the youth £1.05p watch in amazement as their head explodes trying to work out the change!

Just in case anyone gets overcharged again at Sainsbury, their policy is that they refund you the amount you have been overcharged, and then give you that amount again doubled as compensation.

This happened to me where I was overcharged £1.50. They gave me the £1.50 back and then another £3.00 on top to say sorry. I think the amount must be capped however

I have not heard of that policy before, handy to know Thanks SuperGert

It's not a Sainsburys policy as such but Store Managers have discrepancy to award compensation for mistakes. If the mistake is on a larger item, electrical for example, the compensation would not be doubled.

We already have some presents for next Christmas courtesy of Sainsburys and hubby's discount.

To be fair, mental arithmetic seems a thing of the past now - so can't really blame the youngsters.

I agree Julie it is a thing of the past.

I've been taking advantage of daughter's discount and already been shopping for next week before she goes home tomorrow to work in Sainsbury!

My first job was on the checkouts and epos had just been brought in...no need to think, the machine did it all.

My grandchildren are learning their times tables and thankfully the tune is still the same!

My granddaughter who is 9 was giving me grammar lessons today, talking about subordinate clauses within my Facebook status I agreed and pressed post!

Ha ha that made me laugh Lesley!! They put us to shame at times.

My girls are in a Welsh school and amaze me with their grasp on Welsh and English language.

Julie, my cousins speak Welsh and used it to run rings around their parents when they were girls.

I think it's amazing when children are bi or even tri lingual. Where I live has a lot of Easter Europeans and they come into the college where I work and translate for their parents all the times, I find it not only fascinating but also admirable that they have this ability.

My girls do the same Foggy! I am very rusty with my Welsh, so they have great fun!

It is fantastic to hear them speak it though.