I just discovered you can actually put the can or bottle in any orientation and it will scan. I had been placing the cans and bottles with the barcode facing up to allow the infra red scanner to capture the bar code. I found yesterday that throwing them in at any orientation bar code lieing down on belt, scans also. How does it scan the barcode if its lieing down and hidden by the conveyor belt, (Just curious)😵 certainly speeds up the process anyhoo!
you're mixing up two entities there.
"retailers" meaning people higher up in offices who haven't worked on the front lines of supermarkets in years if ever and "retailers" meaning the underpaid, overworked staff who already often have barely enough time to get everything done in the day.
By now Id say most people who use logic* and understand data have figured out what Re-Turn is.
*Logic with at least some basis in reality.
Just gone quiet maybe.
Has Vanilla struck or stuck again?
I suppose that's slightly less **** than the current situation.
I've seen a couple of people doing it too.
It's not hygienic or safe to be rooting through litter bins.
It was said before in thread that something like these will be piloted. I think in Dublin.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5036222
More of a failure really, the end user is not arsed walking a few miles with a fully intact can to find a working machine to get back 15c.
I'm seeing more and more people picking through bins in DCC these days. A grim success for the scheme, I suppose. Yay for Re-Turn.
If they paid the deposit they can give them away.
Vodafone could have paid the deposit for those if they'd wanted to
Those that make the rules can bend the rules
During the week I saw a promotions crew for a 'rather large' drinks company giving out free cans of their drinks at a train station, no deposit return fee was required, not sure if the cans had the logo on them or not, is this allowed? Reason I ask is a couple of weeks back Vodafone were giving away free cans of Coke Zero that could be redeemed in SuperValu but when you went to collect you had to give over the 15cent.
Definitely 30 minutes. 30 seconds wouldnt pose a problem.
Well then, as I said in my post they were
wrong.
It's not relevant to DRS trucks anyway because they only contain recyclables.
I didn't say I know where it came from.
I just know that there is nothing in an RVM that could produce the smell of landfill gas.
They'll definitely do nothing if nobody complains.
Re-turn also won't do anything if nobody complains to them.
Customer Charter is a good idea worth exploring.
Not to worry, if it does happen to come to hand please stick it up.
There have been four threads altogether and I think I posted in all. I find it hard to recall all the docs posted.
Just one small quibble, I don't blindly admire DRS.
How do you know where the smell came from, you weren't even there
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It wasn't separate chambers. Everything was thrown in together
Maybe you misread the sign. Did it say 30 minutes or 30 seconds?
I hate this scheme but it doesn't suit the retailer for their machines to be out of order, so that part is not a "con".
The whole reason retailers pushed for this scheme was it provided them a way to tie up customer cash in vouchers that could only be spent in their stores, and also increase customer football as people are forced to make additional trips to their stores in order to bring their empties back (and these additional trips will often involve additional purchases).
Retailers want their machines to be working since that's the thing that makes them more money.
What do you think the shop will do?
What are re-turn doing about out of order machines?
This con is really designed for the big players Dunnes, Lidl, SuperValu etc.
There should be a customer charter. If a machine is routinely out of service or there are always big queues we should be getting compo.
Same as if airlines have flight delays.
The report from the environmental company that was hired to shoe horn this scam on top of us.
You have been on the thread from the start and are one of the more active members of, the report has been linked to numerous times.
I'm surprised you haven't read it.
But no, we are not interested in getting the same information, you only want the information that justifies your blind admiration for the scam.
That's up to you.
Which report was that ?
By the way it seems we are both interested in getting the same information.
Can you prove you were at that music festival?
It's in the report that was commissioned to shoe horn this scam into existence.
The exact figures no one outside the waste managements companies will, but this Ireland so it be multiply by 2 and carry the 1.
But they would be under no obligation to itemise this amount. Which is handy.
They operate in different areas of the same industry.
My problem is not with the companies per se but with the fact that we can't establish -
1 Have they increased prices due to DRS ?
2 If they have, by how much ?
That's not allowed.
You should be able to cash it or exchange it for goods immediately.
Complain to the shop.
Well they are both waste management companies.
One provides a service that you pay for, the other makes you provide the service that you pay for and they earn money from this.
Genius really.
But for some reason your problem is with the original waste management company.
Yes I do think that any company I have a contract with should be able to justify price increases.
