Click & Collect forced opt in.

[go-tazz]

Just received a message on both accounts:

Click & Collect from 26 April

From:eBay

Sent:18-Apr-16 08:00

From 26 April, Click & Collect will be enabled on your account. Click & Collect is a great way to boost your sales by offering an additional level of service. Rather than sending an item to a person's home, simply post it to the Woolworths or Big W address they choose.

So it looks like anyone that has opted out in the past will now be opted in.

I can't opt out via preferences as I haven't got it listed in there,(so I presume I opted out at some time),

As long as they don't put it back in as I wont be using it.

[englishrosegardens]

I don't know whether it's still the same but for many years Woolies/Safeway ALWAYS bought the best beasts and paid the top price in the weekly cattle sales.  I've seen it myself and farmers from other areas and other states said the same thing.  If Woolies bought your animals then you knew they were really good. 

[amber-eyed-girl]

It is probably still true. Woolies beef is excellent. Used to do a once a week or so roast which was delicious.

Recently though they put less roast cuts out and started selling the same, cooked, from the deli. So I had to swap to the butcher most weeks. No change in quality just more likely to get one. Coles beef was nowhere near as nice.

[*tippy*toes*]

The only beef I used to like from Coles was the rolled briskets that they'd put a glaze over. They were yummo! They stopped selling them way before we stopped going there.

Our local IGA does cooked roasts. Lamb and pork (with of course the BBQ chooks). More often than not it's cheaper to buy the precooked lamb leg than it is to buy it and cook it yourself! They're nice, but I still prefer to cook them myself. I'll occasionally buy one if I can't be bothered going to too much effort for dinner.

[amber-eyed-girl]

At Woolies the cooked roast is about twice the price of an uncooked one. So it's twicely annoying that they seem to ration it uncooked!

Cooked a lamb leg roast the once when there wasn't a beef. Was flying blind but it turned out well. Fiddly trying to carve it as I didn't know how to be neat round the bone. 

[audio-spot]

Sorry, but my conscience made me give up eating baby sheep sometime ago, even though I liked the taste.

I just stick to beef (no veal) and free range chicken now.

[amber-eyed-girl]

I often go for drives through an area with sheep, cows, being farmed. Out, grassfed, free roaming. They are all cute. I agree with you on the young...haven't done another lamb roast even though it was good. Don't eat veal either. As soon as I learned where veal came from when I was little it was a no. There is a difference in how it feels. Even though beef was a living creature too.

[*tippy*toes*]

The baby sheep are usually around a year old. Around the same age as beef when it's sent to market. I also refuse to eat veal, but mostly because of how it was originally obtained. I actually don't eat a lot of meat. I don't eat it every day. There are some weeks I don't have it at all. I could easily be vegetarian. I wouldn't miss it. Mr Tippy on the other hand, he would implode if he couldn't eat it any more.

[audio-spot]

I realise my judgement is flawed (I kill insects all the time) but I figure the cows only have a life because we are breeding them to eat, but at least it's a longish life.