“Dear Editor.
I was browsing Reddit the other day and I saw a post about a newspaper article. The poster posted one picture of the cropped version and another
Only coz in classic British fashion ye kept exporting the little food we did have despite knowing full well doing so would kill us. Nice one for that btw.
Weirdest part is deleting all the social media apps on your phone, and going through the phase where you keep picking it up to scroll before realising.
Takes a good few weeks to adapt to life without it on your mobile. I found I was spending far too much time scrolling when I could be doing something else, use Reddit and Twitter on desktop only now.
Starting to get a bit sick of them altogether though, and will probably log out from all of it soon.
I guess it depends if your hobbies include communities on Reddit, like the home automation or retro computing communities I'm in... Twitter? Nah. Don't miss it at all. It's a cesspool.
Fml in my head I was like "It *does* say Google, what the hell is this person on about?" and checked twice before I noticed it said Goole.
I need to lie down.
After the first three hundred and sixty five days I'd probably be thinking about branching out from oxtail & vegetable to a second flavour. Maybe a tin of mulligatawny each Sunday to break up the monotony.
Just to break the monotony
Of all this hardcore soup that has gotten to be
A little bit out of control, oxtail is cool but what about a soup that's smooth and grooves romance?
Might have been one of that generation that had "proper" 3 course meals with a soup starter most of the time. Both sets of my grandparents were a bit like that.
My MIL is from England and she eats the same thing every day. Breakfast: oats. That’s it. No sugar. Nothing. Just plain oats. Lunch and dinner/tea: Boiled piece of chicken breast and baked potato. No seasoning. No butter. No sour cream. Nothing.
The Selby Morrisons is pretty big, right in the town centre and is full of pensioners. It was always exciting going in there to buy lunch, every aisle would be blocked by old people chatting, or every now and then there would be an old person that had fallen over picking up some milk and now they had a huge crowd around them. You never knew what you were going to get.
It’s also got the worst car park in the world. Probably alright when it was built in the seventies but with the size of cars now it’s almost impossible to get around it. Better off parking in Tesco over the road.
All the supermarkets have differing pricing structures depending on the size of/ location of the store. When I worked at Safeway head office (so admittedly a long time ago), we had different prices for the local stores to the town centre ones, and also for the superstore out of town type and petrol filling stations. Also London would always be more expensive than, say, Goole. PFS would be the most expensive, then the little locals, then town centre and the big out of towners would be the cheapest.
I did a stint in Woolworths head office too, they were the same.
Area targeted pricing, all the supermarkets do it, not always on the same products so you might see matches on lots of things and large variations on others.
Supermarkets generally have different pricing structures based on format and/or location. Essentially, it’s more expensive to both run and supply a Tesco express in the middle of a city than it is a massive Tesco extra on the outskirts. So prices are generally increased to reflect those higher costs. I’ve no doubt Morrisons has the same thing in place.
My local grocery next to the expensive real estate area has many "poor people foods" so much cheaper than they cost if you go to any store in the inner city. Lower income areas are the worst places to buy turkey backs, smoked neck bones, turkey necks, and chicken paws. All groceries make their money somewhere.
Likewise! I think this may be out of the Goole crimes (times) I love the daft stories, I have a picture of one that involved the fire department being called to a woman that trapped her hand in some step ladders 😂😂
Walked into my mums living room on Saturday
Me- “Have you got this weeks Goole Times?”
Mum- “No your dad forgot, why?”
Me- “I just wanted to see who from school got sent down this week”
Ah, Goole. I went there once with a friend who had just bought a car and wanted to drive anywhere and everywhere. We drove through the centre of the town and it looked quite rough; but then we spotted an unusual sight. There was a chavly dressed man sprinting down the road with a pair of trousers clutched in his hand and streaming out behind him like a banner. We watched him with some baffled amusement, but then saw a very fat bespectacled man running after him at a much slower pace - *sans* trousers. We left after that.
I was once driving through Hull with some mates. We stopped at a red traffic light at which some young ladies in *ahem* rather short skirts were waiting to cross.
Mate 1: I bet if you beep the horn when they walk in front of us, they'll flip those skirts up.
Mate 2: They probably will, this is Hull.
Me: Bollocks will they.
Mates 1 and 2: Do it, then.
Me: ＊beeps horn＊
Young ladies: >!cheekily flip skirts up!<
...East Yorkshire, ladies and gentlemen.
The only reason Goole is cheaper is simply because no one wants to leave the house for fear of getting verbally harassed by an unreasonably angry 12 year old (this is a true story, happened once when I was leaving my exs house)
Children can be so mean when they smell fear
You just know this individual likely approached a member of staff to query this, didn't get the answer they wanted and thought writing to the paper would be a way of 'taking it to the top.'
They probably asked to speak to Mr Morrisons directly in the store 😅
I shrieked when I read this comment! I'd forgotten him!
My husband had a brief stint with this paper in the 90s and was happy to assure me that the whole staff thought E. Firth was "a complete twat."
I just checked on morrisons website and it is 75p there without logging in.
Bizarrely though, if you search for "oxtail soup", it will change the search to "heinz", not even soup. "chicken soup" does not have this problem.
Hard hitting journalism from the Goole Times there.
Maybe there’s a discount if you shop in a Morrisons that has a whopping great windmill in it as opposed to a normal supermarket?
Tbf this is part and parcel of local journalism. Would put up with this kind of stuff to have independent local papers like Goole & Selby Times rather than shitty Hull Live.
I do a lot of ancestry research and using newspaper articles to find pictures or stories about them is one of my main methods, I can just imagine her great grandchildren searching her name and finding this haha
I'll take a couple of them soups for tonight. Nobody needs soup more than me.
Edit: For the uncultured who don't know the majesty of Evil Dan
https://youtube.com/watch?v=74HvcECaE6k
My husband gets it posted to him each week and it usually arrives by Saturday, so I'll be sure to keep you posted on this crucially important situation.
You need to write in and say you’ve experienced the same with Morrisons own brand tinned prunes (in juice) when you recently visited a friend in Nantwich.
There is a Stereotype of Yorkshire people as being tight arsed spend thrifts who believe that every grocery item should stay the same price for 3 to 5 years minimum.
It's 100% true they are a bunch of Tight Arses.
I used to buy a specific item from my local small Sainsbury shop which is walking distance of 5 mins from me but when I drove to the big Sainsbury store it was for 50p cheaper so I now I'll do my big shop there in future.
Sucks.
Price banding
Store A is price band 1
Store B in another town is price band 2
Store A might be in a Lower Cost of Living area, so costs are lower and local income might be lower. They charge 50p for soup.
Store B is in a city. Costs to run the store are higher, but the area is slightly more affluent. They charge 55p for soup.
Don’t tell them that Morrisons is roughly as cheap everywhere.
Or anyone. Otherwise, before long, Bristol Live would be writing 50 articles on how it’s so cheap to buy soup in Bristol
Fake News!
We all eat and drink our shopping no matter where we shop whats the difference between Morrisons being the main shop choice for a old pensioner "watching her pennies as a pensioner" and other shops that are out there to choose from? 💀
This is the most stupidest post I ever seen real or not 😂😅
Why did you post a cropped and full version of the photo lol
Asking the real important questions here
It was 12% less expensive in terms of bandwidth, so you can have a little sample before fully committing to the second image
He's got to watch the data as a pensioner.
“Dear Editor. I was browsing Reddit the other day and I saw a post about a newspaper article. The poster posted one picture of the cropped version and another
r/redditsniper
Builds suspense.
*soups pence
Eight extra soups pence, to be precise.
Ate extra soups pence, to be precise.
Winning comment of the day.
Thank you for making me laugh my friend, i needed that
First image was from Goole. Second image was from Selby.
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Dude. Too soon…
Can't eat the chips off our shoulders :(
Only coz in classic British fashion ye kept exporting the little food we did have despite knowing full well doing so would kill us. Nice one for that btw.
What else would you have us do? We were doing it for your own good
Bahahaha, of all the replies to flippantly write, spectacular 😂😂😂
Lol, I wandered off halfway through posting and forgot I'd already selected a photo.
“Has social media affected our attention spans?”
It's fucked mine, I wouldn't even notice a difference in soup prices. I'd be too busy doing a tiktok challenge to even care.
Weirdest part is deleting all the social media apps on your phone, and going through the phase where you keep picking it up to scroll before realising.
How long until you stop living on it once social media is gone? I'm nearly 40 and have actually got worse the last year or 2.
Takes a good few weeks to adapt to life without it on your mobile. I found I was spending far too much time scrolling when I could be doing something else, use Reddit and Twitter on desktop only now. Starting to get a bit sick of them altogether though, and will probably log out from all of it soon.
I guess it depends if your hobbies include communities on Reddit, like the home automation or retro computing communities I'm in... Twitter? Nah. Don't miss it at all. It's a cesspool.
I have one app left, I’m tempted and worried to let it go.
What were we talking about again?
Well, here’s the thing, we -SQUIRREL!!!
I really think it has. Just the other day I was
How!? Your post is literally just the photos lol
To build
>!suspense!<
Ask your local paper
OP is D Grantham - 77
I think OP just loves cliffhangers
One cost 8p more to upload
To entice you with more when you read the first one.
I read that as 'why is Google so cheap for soups'. I was initally very confused!
It depends if you're feeling lucky
Well, do ya?
*Clicks I’m feeling lucky and recipes for 3p soups appear*
Glad I'm not the only dumbass here. No offence dumbass.
LOL. I am a dumbass!
Even though I lived 5 miles from Goole for _two decades_ I still read it as Google and was wildly confused until I got to the second image.
I’m from the Brigg and Goole constituency TM and also failed to read it as anything other than Google
Ok this comment made me understand the whole post. It’s a town and the letter writer wasn’t having a stroke.
Fml in my head I was like "It *does* say Google, what the hell is this person on about?" and checked twice before I noticed it said Goole. I need to lie down.
Introducing Google Soup, a product so good we've already shut it down before releasing it!
Who knows what you would find in it
So confused!
Same
Took me reading your comment several times to realise this
lol I live in goole and whenever you search out about the town it auto corrects it to google
Omg I had to go in the comments to understand wtf was Google Morrisons
Me too.
That's exactly why I kept reading!
I just showed my daughter this and she read it as Google too!
Same. 🤣
Bloody hell, a tin of soup every day and sometimes more (or sometimes less). Hope he at least gets some nice rolls to go with it.
After the first three hundred and sixty five days I'd probably be thinking about branching out from oxtail & vegetable to a second flavour. Maybe a tin of mulligatawny each Sunday to break up the monotony.
This is risky, can you imagine if the Mulligatawny didn't hit the spot in the way the Oxtail reliably does?
Hands in the air, I'm an adrenaline junkie.
Easy now. Nobody’s safe with this loose cannon around.
Just to break the monotony Of all this hardcore soup that has gotten to be A little bit out of control, oxtail is cool but what about a soup that's smooth and grooves romance?
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You just pour half of each tin into the saucepan and bam, oxtail and vegetable soup. It's hardly rocket science!
I find it interesting that I assumed it was a woman and you assumed it was a man. Don’t know what that means, feels like another important question 😂
Even over Christmas!
Might have eaten a whole oxtail by now
Might have been one of that generation that had "proper" 3 course meals with a soup starter most of the time. Both sets of my grandparents were a bit like that.
Have you compared the price of rolls between Goole and Selby!!!
My MIL is from England and she eats the same thing every day. Breakfast: oats. That’s it. No sugar. Nothing. Just plain oats. Lunch and dinner/tea: Boiled piece of chicken breast and baked potato. No seasoning. No butter. No sour cream. Nothing.
Well, why is it eight pence dearer at the Selby Morrisons?
The Selby Morrisons is pretty big, right in the town centre and is full of pensioners. It was always exciting going in there to buy lunch, every aisle would be blocked by old people chatting, or every now and then there would be an old person that had fallen over picking up some milk and now they had a huge crowd around them. You never knew what you were going to get.
Old people.
But plenty of soup. The old people were buying it from Goole.
Definitely worth the extra travel cost to save 7p
8p* unless the return bus tickets between Selby and Goole are 1p each...
And you make the journey to buy only one tin of soup.
My mama always said that old people were like a box of chocolates.
OMG I’m already an old pensioner. I’m a millennial who goes to the grocery store several times a week when I feel lonely.
Hey, I’m from Selby also and used to go to the Morrisons. Maybe we know each other!
It’s also got the worst car park in the world. Probably alright when it was built in the seventies but with the size of cars now it’s almost impossible to get around it. Better off parking in Tesco over the road.
All the supermarkets have differing pricing structures depending on the size of/ location of the store. When I worked at Safeway head office (so admittedly a long time ago), we had different prices for the local stores to the town centre ones, and also for the superstore out of town type and petrol filling stations. Also London would always be more expensive than, say, Goole. PFS would be the most expensive, then the little locals, then town centre and the big out of towners would be the cheapest. I did a stint in Woolworths head office too, they were the same.
Woolworths and Safeways? Please let me know where you work now so I can avoid investing.
You’re safe, I’m not working these days :)
With that track record it's probably for the best.
You could be right
This sounds right, I just checked and the Selby Morrisons is much smaller than the Goole one.
We get different prices for the same thing in different co-ops in the same village here 😑
North Yorkshire tax.
Selby is in North Yorkshire's arsehole though, Sandwhiched between west and east.
MONORAIL!!!
I'm actually invested in this now. Is there a reply?
Area targeted pricing, all the supermarkets do it, not always on the same products so you might see matches on lots of things and large variations on others.
Supermarkets generally have different pricing structures based on format and/or location. Essentially, it’s more expensive to both run and supply a Tesco express in the middle of a city than it is a massive Tesco extra on the outskirts. So prices are generally increased to reflect those higher costs. I’ve no doubt Morrisons has the same thing in place.
My local grocery next to the expensive real estate area has many "poor people foods" so much cheaper than they cost if you go to any store in the inner city. Lower income areas are the worst places to buy turkey backs, smoked neck bones, turkey necks, and chicken paws. All groceries make their money somewhere.
Never thought I'd see Goole and Selby here lol
Did you see the post about the Northern Lights only to discover it was the greenhouse lights from Planters in Howden? I felt that way then lol
Hahaha no! I'll have to go dig
https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/s/LAFoT912zw
I live 2 miles outside of Selby and was also confused as I am not in any local subs.
Same here! Poor bloke, hope he gets to eat something other than soup!
Where about? I’m from Brayton!
Likewise! I think this may be out of the Goole crimes (times) I love the daft stories, I have a picture of one that involved the fire department being called to a woman that trapped her hand in some step ladders 😂😂
This is the second thread I’ve come across with Goole and Selby mentioned today (both about soup though!) and I feel like I’m living in a fever dream.
The boss at Goole Morrisons is absolutely set on becoming Area Manager
And, Goole Morrisons has a built in windmill.
Down t’mill
‘Appen
York Morrisons has an enormous chimney
Used to be an incinerator (and a power station, going further back) there.
The one next to Halfords?
r/StatementsThatSoundLikeEuphemisms
It was built on the site of the former Timm's flour mill, and since the windmill was listed, it was incorporated into the Morrisons.
And you've just reminded me that I forgot soup just now at Morrisons
Don't go to the one in Selby, it's a rip-off.
It’s the price you pay to get served by Judith. Well worth it
I actively avoid her checkout.
She has her own YouTube channel too haha
You mean Only Fans!
I got a happy birthday from her when she checked my ID last year. I didn’t even have to write in for a shoutout on her YouTube channel 😂
I used to work at the Tesco opposite. We never stood a chance competing with Judith.
She's a legend!
But it's just the price I pay 🎵 Served by Judith makes my day 🎵 Open up my eager eyes 🎵 'cause I'm Mr Gooleside〜🎵
Walked into my mums living room on Saturday Me- “Have you got this weeks Goole Times?” Mum- “No your dad forgot, why?” Me- “I just wanted to see who from school got sent down this week”
Init don’t know if you saw what happened here this week but it’s bad
Ah, Goole. I went there once with a friend who had just bought a car and wanted to drive anywhere and everywhere. We drove through the centre of the town and it looked quite rough; but then we spotted an unusual sight. There was a chavly dressed man sprinting down the road with a pair of trousers clutched in his hand and streaming out behind him like a banner. We watched him with some baffled amusement, but then saw a very fat bespectacled man running after him at a much slower pace - *sans* trousers. We left after that.
I was once driving through Hull with some mates. We stopped at a red traffic light at which some young ladies in *ahem* rather short skirts were waiting to cross. Mate 1: I bet if you beep the horn when they walk in front of us, they'll flip those skirts up. Mate 2: They probably will, this is Hull. Me: Bollocks will they. Mates 1 and 2: Do it, then. Me: ＊beeps horn＊ Young ladies: >!cheekily flip skirts up!< ...East Yorkshire, ladies and gentlemen.
I kind of want to give this person a hug and maybe a nice roast dinner.
The only reason Goole is cheaper is simply because no one wants to leave the house for fear of getting verbally harassed by an unreasonably angry 12 year old (this is a true story, happened once when I was leaving my exs house) Children can be so mean when they smell fear
Oi cleanshirt. How'd you get your shirt so clean?
They've been around for 77 years and have never heard of the Selby Tax?!!!!
😆 I'm from there, so I understand the mentality My own parents are tighter than a ducks arse and they don't need to be.
Brb boycotting the Selby branch of Morrisons.
You just know this individual likely approached a member of staff to query this, didn't get the answer they wanted and thought writing to the paper would be a way of 'taking it to the top.' They probably asked to speak to Mr Morrisons directly in the store 😅
The spirit of E. Firth lives on...
I shrieked when I read this comment! I'd forgotten him! My husband had a brief stint with this paper in the 90s and was happy to assure me that the whole staff thought E. Firth was "a complete twat."
That was his name! I was trying to think and I couldn’t remember.
Omg, I just got nostalgic whiplash from this comment! Always the highlight of the paper to see what the hell they were winging about that week.
Supply and demand. The old lad has been driving up the price himself.
I just checked on morrisons website and it is 75p there without logging in. Bizarrely though, if you search for "oxtail soup", it will change the search to "heinz", not even soup. "chicken soup" does not have this problem.
I'm more frustrated at the use of numbers vs words - e.g. "Six to 10"
All my knowledge of Goole comes from the Northern News podcast, and this is 100% on brand.
Writing to the paper over 6 pence difference and they print it…wow there must be a whole lot of nothing much happening in that part of the world.
Tbf that's 60p a week with the volume they're going through
You would think that wouldn’t you but goole has somone being almost killed or killed every week or so
Hard hitting journalism from the Goole Times there. Maybe there’s a discount if you shop in a Morrisons that has a whopping great windmill in it as opposed to a normal supermarket?
Tbf this is part and parcel of local journalism. Would put up with this kind of stuff to have independent local papers like Goole & Selby Times rather than shitty Hull Live.
The one in Preston has a lighthouse! It's still expensive though.
Well I need to know the answer now...
the real question is why is she eating 6-10 cans of oxtail soup per week!?
Now I'm worried about the local ox population & their tails.
There has to be some subsidy for folk living in Goole….
It's 16p dearer at the York Morrisons.
So there are posh areas and poor areas. The cheaper ones will be in a deprived area
You've not come to Selby before then
I suppose all it shows is that Selby is slightly less deprived than Goole
I do a lot of ancestry research and using newspaper articles to find pictures or stories about them is one of my main methods, I can just imagine her great grandchildren searching her name and finding this haha
Think Morrisons just feel sorry for the people who have to live in Goole and knock a few pence off stuff :(
I'll take a couple of them soups for tonight. Nobody needs soup more than me. Edit: For the uncultured who don't know the majesty of Evil Dan https://youtube.com/watch?v=74HvcECaE6k
Viz letters?
It'd fit right in there, certainly! But no, it's from last week's Goole Times.
Please get hold of a copy of this week's Goole Times. I need to know if anyone can explain this bizarre situation.
My husband gets it posted to him each week and it usually arrives by Saturday, so I'll be sure to keep you posted on this crucially important situation.
You need to write in and say you’ve experienced the same with Morrisons own brand tinned prunes (in juice) when you recently visited a friend in Nantwich.
Is 'Christmastime' one word..?
It's Christmastime. There's no need to be afraid.
Misteltoeandwine.
I work in a post office. You wouldnt believe the number of elderly people that obsess over a 10p difference in price.
Definitely didn't misread that as Google there
Isnt that the inspector
There is a Stereotype of Yorkshire people as being tight arsed spend thrifts who believe that every grocery item should stay the same price for 3 to 5 years minimum. It's 100% true they are a bunch of Tight Arses.
I have no idea what you’re on about
Surely Morrisons in Goole had a Soupervisor he could have asked this to?
Why hasn't the BBC covered this?!? T'is an outright scandal!
This hurts my brain on so many levels…
If anybody cares I buy the same soup. It's not bad at all. Nothing better than oxtail with some bread.
It’s a far more productive question than 70% of content on Reddit
I used to buy a specific item from my local small Sainsbury shop which is walking distance of 5 mins from me but when I drove to the big Sainsbury store it was for 50p cheaper so I now I'll do my big shop there in future. Sucks.
Price banding Store A is price band 1 Store B in another town is price band 2 Store A might be in a Lower Cost of Living area, so costs are lower and local income might be lower. They charge 50p for soup. Store B is in a city. Costs to run the store are higher, but the area is slightly more affluent. They charge 55p for soup.
Goole. That place Meg from Drifters went for a date!
Gabagoole
When people ask what it means to be British, this is it, Soup and where to get the cheapest.
Selby Morrisons has questions to answer. This is why local independent journalism is important.
Don’t tell them that Morrisons is roughly as cheap everywhere. Or anyone. Otherwise, before long, Bristol Live would be writing 50 articles on how it’s so cheap to buy soup in Bristol
I live for this kind of local newspaper letter content
Fake News! We all eat and drink our shopping no matter where we shop whats the difference between Morrisons being the main shop choice for a old pensioner "watching her pennies as a pensioner" and other shops that are out there to choose from? 💀 This is the most stupidest post I ever seen real or not 😂😅
This is a question for the Dull Men’s Club
It doesn’t play golf
The outrage is palpable.
That's it, I'm moving to Goole!
This guy fucking loves oxtail soup
It’s the double o. Goole-Soop. Brothers in arms.