Kevin Milne: Perplexors at the supermarket

Supermarket collectable schemes are a dime a dozen these days, with most franchises running a collectable promotion every year. Most buy into the scheme, collecting the stickers or cards and trading them in for a free product, but there are some out there who pass on them. 

To Kevin Milne it feels like these people are just throwing away money, and wonders why people would pass on a free container or two. 

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
That'd be good morning, Jack. I enjoyed your opening comments
this morning. So long as you are making it part
of your routine, you're always making progress. It doesn't matter
how slow you might be compared to others. Yeah, I guess, thanks, Jack,
totally agree. Regarding New Zealanders and their monolingualism, all you
need to do is travel through most of Europe and

(00:33):
you realize just how far off we are compared to
the rest of the world. It is a humbling thing.
And it's not just Europe. I mean, obviously, you know,
if you got someone like Scannina, they speak better English
than we do. But even when you travel through you know,
you travel through parts of South Asia or something, you know,
you go. I just I can recall being in Pakistan
and being like, man, these you know, kids who don't

(00:57):
have anything like the opportunities that we have, and yet
they are you know, they have more language skills than
we do. It's yeah, it can be a humbling thing.
Ninety two ninety two. If you want to send us
a message this morning, you can email me as well.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Of course.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Kevin Milne is whether us Kevin, you strike me as
a bit of a polygue, like a man of the world,
someone who could speak a few languages.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
I actually answered the phone this morning from Zeb of course,
from our producer to By saying she replied, to which
he replied, so we're all sort of we're all getting
multi lingual this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yes, slowly, albit slowly, but yeah, y slowly.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah. I've just had a text, funny enough from my
son in London and he's he's at the O two,
you know, the big stand and who's playing but crowded out?

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Ah, how good.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
It's funny really because I was just looking the other
night to see what sets were available in Parmerstan North.
I mean, it must be weird to be a kind
of a group like them where you can go one
day you're playing you're playing O two in London, which
and the pictures that Alex said, so it's a huge crowd. Yeah,

(02:09):
and then and then next month you're you're at the Region.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
It's pretty cool actually that they, you know, like, it
says a lot about the group. Don't you think that
they still play the Region in Paveston North?

Speaker 3 (02:23):
I think so absolutely? Yeah, absolutely, And also what I'm
thinking is although there were no decent seats left. Yeah,
I thought probably any of the seats in the region.
Again to be like being upfront at thet Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, it's so good.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
I was.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
The thing I love about Credit House is that they
are so successful that I kind of take them for granted.
I was watching The Beer the other day, which is
this amazing TV show we're going to talk about about
up to ten o'clock this morning, and just as part
of the soundtrack, Crowdit House was playing and it was
something so wrong, and it was right at the very
end of the song. I was like, hang on a second,

(03:00):
there's Credit House, you know, like it just feels like
you're like, oh, I keept just another.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, it's kind of a different, a different like stratosphere
of success. Yeah, it's quite remarkable. So yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Anyway, Kevin, you you have been perplexed this week about
something at the supermarket.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah. I do most of our household supermarket shopping. Jack. Weirdly,
I enjoy it. So I'm in the supermarket for the
often and this one thing I don't get. I happen
to shop at a New World. As you know, they
frequently offer your stickers based on how much you've bought,
and you can trade them in on various stuff. I
think it's it's kitchen containers a man. When you go

(03:41):
through check out, you're asked if you want your stickers.
What I don't understand is why people say no. It's
not like if they don't take the stickers they get
a cash reduction on what they're bought, So saying no
to the stickers seems to me like just throwing away money.
I'm not obsessed with these stickers. I accept it's stupid

(04:05):
just to bend more in the supermarket just to get
more stickers. I also accept that possibly the supermarket puts
up the price of its goods to cover the cost
of giving away free goods. I don't know that, but
maybe it's people suggest it. But if that's so, all
customers are paying more for their goods, including the people

(04:25):
who say no. I don't want the stickers, So why
would you say no to the stickers? All I can
think of is that if you very rarely go to
the supermarket, might think it's not worth taking the stickers
because you'll never get enough to trade them in on anything.
What I'm wondering is that in all the worthwhile discussion
about whether you'd rather your supermarket lowered prices than give

(04:49):
out kitchen containers, etc. Some people have got the wrong
end of the stick somehow. Maybe they think that they
shouldn't accept their stickers. I always accept the stickers. We've
already got every We've got every container available and the
current new will probation. But what I'm proud of is

(05:10):
that I've resisted the temptation of asking people in front
of me who don't want the figures, can I have them?
In my view, that would be overdoing it.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
I am with you for the supermarket, but I will
challenge you when it comes to the coffee cards. And
I've got a couple of like I got a couple
of other places that offer loyalty cards. The thing that
annoys me is when you have to carry a physical item.
So if it means that I've got to put another

(05:41):
card in my wallet, then I don't want to do
it because I want to have the I want to
I'm an absolute minimalist. I want my wallet to have
the fewest cards possible. And so where's my wife? On
the other hand, we sh'll be running about thirty loyalty
cards at any one time, you know.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Mind.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, And I was thinking, oh, this is this is
so frustrating, you know. But she's like, what do you
mean You've got to get the free stuff. You've got
to get the free stuff. Maybe it depends on how
much the door, aren't you?

Speaker 3 (06:07):
Jack? And suddenly your wife says, wait a minute, gentlemen,
I just got my card. I yeah, you know you're
now in there for another five minutes. Yeah, yeah, totally
as you go through all the cards.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
And I'm no, I'm no eclonist, Kevin, but I'm I'm
fairly confident that the supermarkets, and not just the New
World and it's containers, the supermarkets, for their respective promotions
will have allowed for those in the pricing of their goods.
I don't think they're doing it out of the goodness
of their heart, only a hunch.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
I totally agree with you on that. But yeah, that
being the case, why wouldn't you want to take the
goods to sort of even that up a bit?

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, totally totally. Hey, Thanksgivin. Appreciate your time this morning, Kevin, Melanie,
thank you for your text.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Jack.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
So true. When I travel overseas, I always feel so inferior.
My Turkish uncle married to my key. We aren't spoke
about eight languages, all self taught on the streets, hardly
any schooling. It just amazed me. He would jump from
language to language before my very eyes. Is so Jack,
I lived in Russia for a period of time, so
it was sink or swim when it came to speaking
the language. I had a language teacher who taught me

(07:16):
the grammatically correct Russian, and the boys in the office
taught me the street Russian, how to swear and that
kind of thing. It was very important not to confuse
the two so as not to offend people like the
old Babushka's working in small Russian products towards Thanks John. Yeah,
context is everything. A context is everything, Jack. I think
you meant the song something so strong, not something so wrong.

(07:39):
Did I say something so wrong? Well, it was something
so wrong with me. Thank you ninety two ninety two.
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