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Wednesday 5th 69-75F! Warm, bright and breezy. With a milky sky and high cloud. Despite a restless night I seem to have completely missed the overnight thunder and torrential rain. The promised, maximum temperature has been reigned back to only 25C or 77F for today.The news is that Danish road deaths and serious injuries are not heading the right way. The warning is to ditch the mobile phone and concentrate on the task in hand.
Walked down the road then along the main track to the woods in T-shirt and my lightweight walking trousers. Then circumnavigated the prairie and returned along the overgrown edge of the marsh. Which meant wading through waist-high grass, nettles, docks and thistles. My trousers were soon wet up to the knees.
The birds accompanied me everywhere I went. Darting about and singing. Or just waiting to see what I'd do in the case of a very tame wagtail. It was pleasantly warm in veiled sunshine as I took 41 snaps of the gorgeous countryside.
Thursday 6th 72-
Shopped in the car. The supermarkets had no stock of everyday items again. It must be a license to print money to be able to fail so often and still survive. Or are they just money laundering and these failing branches just a perfect cover? The staff get worse and worse. Or younger and younger. Or both! "Don't get in the way of the staff!" It's the total lack of consumer protection, in Denmark, I suppose. That, and a monopoly in every type of retail outlet and its monopoly "named" stock.
It's the same online. Identical websites whatever the virtual business name at the top. They all use the same central wholesaler so really can't guarantee anything at all. They're all box shifters who don't give a shit about taking your money on the flimsiest of virtual promises.
The same information on stock levels on every website. The same empty promises of stock and 1-2 days delivery from ordering if you get in before 4.30pm, or whatever. That is, until you have confirmed and paid for your order and then they get to play monopoly money with your card purchase for a whole week. With delivery now over a fortnight away from these same, online crooks. Let's just call it plain, damned lies! Why should they behave any differently when the bricks and mortar businesses are also lying through their teeth?
The morality of many Danish, household, retail names is far too near the borderline to deliberate fraud. They would almost certainly be making the headlines for another prosecution and a massive fine in the UK.Advertising stock and special offers which literally do not exist? Check! "Upgraded" stock which costs far more than the advertised product? [Just extra product insurance!] Check! Advertised special offers which turn out to be customer returns and ex-demo models? Check!!
Weekly lies, advertised as special offers, which never arrive at the supermarket outlets? It is now so commonplace that the staff no longer even blink. "We never had it in," trips off their forked tongues without even needing to engage their shelf-filling brains. That is when you can even get their attention. Or reach them within shouting distance behind their barricades of loaded pallets. Which are illegally blocking the shop's aisles in the event of a fire or other emergency.
Well, it is is certainly illegal elsewhere. I worked briefly in big shed retail in the UK years ago and the managers were red hot on keeping the aisles clear even back then. With a minimum height of island display [or shelf filling pallet load] to avoid any risk of tripping. Denmark? It's total, retail [and online] anarchy! Shop at your own peril! Bring your own knee pads. Expect to have to wait ages for a skeleton staff to get around to your turn.
Outside temperatures reached 80F before dropping back to 72F and then on down over the afternoon after an overcast rolled over.
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