Threshers

[Brendan]

I blame the big pub companies and pub owning breweries. Firstly because it is the most obvious conclusion and secondly because evil, corporate juggernauts forcing out the little man and exploiting the consumer polarise the issue nicely and give me somewhere to focus my resentment.

[*Bob*]

Brendan,

If you wanted to come round my house every Friday night, play music loudly, shout a lot, miss the toilet, smash a glass or two, refuse to leave until you were bundled out by hired hands and leave me to wash-up all the glasses and the vom of the doorstep.. I can assure you I'd be looking for more than ?3.50 a pint.

[Brendan]

That sounds familiar. You aren't really my wife in disguise are you *Bob*?

[AcedOut]

Budget airlines is another example. You can be on the same flight as a hundred others, but the chap next you may have paid 1p, whilst you've paid ?100. Companies are getting much smarter at extracting every last penny they can out of their customers - quite literally. In most cases, the same product can be found much cheaper. The same is true of the 79p(?) burger at MacDonalds.

I booked a hotel a couple of weeks ago at the very last minute (10pm the night before). I was told that I'd taken the last room. When I turned up, I was given the presidential suite! The rate I paid? The same as everyone else - the standard double room rate. Why? Well it's better to get money off a paying customer than nothing at all and an empty room - so as long as they are not going to make a loss, then it makes every sense to.

[Brendan]

How much was the beer in this presidential suite?

[AcedOut]

The mini-bar was sadly lacking wife-beater by the six-pack, so I opted for the Jacuzzi with a good amount of mood-lighting instead!

[Keef]

Just feel I have to jump in here and say I've always found the "chavs" (as several of you call them) in Threshers to be really really nice and friendly. Some of you feckin people, I swear to God!

Anyway, I'm with ????, wine is for dinner, beer and whiskey and Zombies are for proper drinking!

[She'llsurvive]

completely agree with keef - the wine may have a nose of disinfectant with a cheeky hint of urine but the service has always been good for me

[Louisa]

Threshers was great, I drink wine by the bottle but it hardly ever gets me slaughtered. I prefer some real ale or a lager (if need be) to get me properly sozzled.

Louisa.

[????]

Burger 79p, 6 pack of Stella ?5...where's that living off benefits for a week thread gone?

[mattham]

Second that Keef. I don't know a great deal about wine, but I've always found the service in Threshers to be very friendly. Seem like decent people; not deserving of the sh1t dished out by some posters here.

[Cassius]

Whether or not the service in Threshers was friendly enough (and actually I thought it was) surely a member of staff in a shop - whatever the shop is, should have a certain amount of knowledge about the stock - so staff in an off-licence should really know about wine. The staff in Oddbins and (most) Majestics can recommend wines to go with certain meals and make suggestions - the most recent members of staff in Threshers couldn't.

[Jeremy]

I get your point Cassius, but I don't necessarily agree. Threshers is was it is, somewhere to go and get a few cans of Stella or a bottle of Jacob's Creek. They sell established brand names to the less adventurous customer, and I think there's a market for that. If you want to go somewhere and get wine advice, and maybe come out with something a bit more interesting, then there are other options locally.

[Cassius]

Isn't there Scummerfield for that?

[djfitz]

All this talk of jar is making me thirsty. And it's only 09:30. Anyone know what time majestic is open? I could do some damage to a dozen bottles of red!

[albert]

I'll miss Threshers (the three for two deals were worth having for some bottles) and I'll especially miss the people who run it. They were friendly, helpful and nice to have around Lordship lane.

Some of the snotty comments on this site remind me of what's wrong with living here and it seems what is increasingly wrong with this forum. Decent people, such as those in Threshers who find themselves moving on, can at least celebrate the fact they are being relieved of the company of such bores.

[jasmine]

Hy new on here, but not to East Dulwich, I registered simply because of this thread. I have found the staff in Threshers helpful, polite and knowlegable. At Christmas I bought wine for friends and because I do not drink the ladies helped with my choices. So I salute the ladies of threshers and thanks from me.

[Tegid]

Agree entirely with the two previous comments.

Always found the service in Threshers impeccable and am sad to hear the branch is closing.

[hibbs]

I feel really saddened by this thread after I visited Threshers this week. I asked the lovely lady in the shop if the shop was closing and if so when and she asked me if I was a member of the ED Forum and if so did I also think she was a Chav. She was really upset, I tried to reassure her that no I certainly didn't think she was a chav and that I was sure most of the EDF folk would agree with me, but she wasn't really listening, she was very upset that people could write such things when they know nothing whatsoever about her, I left there feeling embarrassed and a little upset myself to see how things written on this site can really affect some people.

[snorky]

So is everyone happy now ?

Youve got your precious G&B & Nicholas

And youve insulted the staff of a perfectly reasonable shop, who will likely be on the dole soon

Win win as they say.

anyway , Its about time for another simpering post in praise of G&B is it not ?

[karter]

Fellow forumites, Threshers will not close if everybody supports them and helps them to hit better sales targets i reckon. It's a good store and the staff are great. They need to sort out a few price issues that are not competitive with Somerfields though.

[jasmine]

CHAV= council house and aggressive. I doubt very much any of the posters who used that expression on this thread know what a Chav is. I spoke too the lady today about this thread and they are upset, Administrator can you please lock this thread, its unbelievable what I have read on here, if you have issues go and tell them, do not hide behind here and insult, as you always do.

[*Bob*]

There are only two posters out of many on this thread who've been rude about the staff, and a majority of people who've been nice. You can't lock every thread because of a small minority. We'd have no threads left.

The staff were nice.. the shop was crap. That's about it, really.

[jasmine]

I agree Bob, However the threads on here are nasty and Insulting. Initially I decided not to register, but I have been reading the threads over the last few months and I have been appalled. My Neighbours refuse to register and Post on here because of the Negative comments. I decided to post because of the Threshers thread. I understand people are voicing an opinion, however there is no need for nasty insulting comments

[SeanMacGabhann]

Jasmine

Such is the spectrum of human life unfortunately. It is not unique to this forum. You can surely select positive examples of conversation on this forum as well - just as you would in any walk of life?

If it were entirely negative, why would you keep reading for the "last few months"?

For my money I think there HAS been a trend to more negativity* on here which I hope is "a phase". Maybe you can be persuaded to hang around and turn the tide?

* by negativity I don't mean "unable to report bad service in a shop/bar/restaurant" - if these are bad then it's better for all concerned to know about them? But as several people pointed out about the staff on this thread for example, using chav as an insult without anything else to add doesn't help a great deal.