Same Old Mega Store

[Man Friday]

Just when I thought things (i.e. staff) had improved in the mega store...On Saturday before the match a friend of mine went in with his son to take advantage of the half-price shirt printing. His son was wearing the shirt and was going to change into a T-shirt only to be told that "we can't print the shirt off your back...health and safety...needs to be washed and brought in". After the match, my friend went back in with the shirt, having exchanged it, and got the shirt printed. Please...no more silly "rules" - it just disappoints the punters, especially the younger ones, and especially not rules that cannot be policed. Who are we supposed to be? New Labour? If you're going to make up silly rules, at least advertise them on the website, not make them up on the spot. Oh, "and we can only print players' names on match day" (even after the match when there's no one else in the queue? Ah, but a rule's a rule!!).

[Royalshow]

That rules been in place for some time now,and its not that outrageous.

[Scrappy]

That rules been in place for some time now,and its not that outrageous.

Lets say a bloke comes in to take that further, and has worn the shirt all the way to the game, and a few days previously, and then someone has to print something on it, it's unhygenic for a start.

[Man Friday]

What are you? H&S Inspectors? Anyway, you're missing the point - it's no good having a rule (no matter how ridiculous or apparently sensible) unless it can be policed. This one can't be. You simply change the shirt before you go in the club shop. Also, who's to say that a shirt brought in has been washed, etc, etc? Now do you get it?

[Coppelled Streets]

What are you? H&S Inspectors? Anyway, you're missing the point - it's no good having a rule (no matter how ridiculous or apparently sensible) unless it can be policed. This one can't be. You simply change the shirt before you go in the club shop. Also, who's to say that a shirt brought in has been washed, etc, etc? Now do you get it?

Fine, but if they know for a fact that the shirt has quite literally come off your back, they are then entitled to refuse to print on it. That doesn't seem all that unreasonable.
Next time do as you say and change shirt outside.
What they don't know and all that.

[Man Friday]

The person did.

And anybody with half a brain would do the same. SO WHY HAVE THE RULE??

[fridays child]

The person did.

And anybody with half a brain would do the same. SO WHY HAVE THE RULE??

This is a wind up isn't it? (I mean your complaining)

[Man Friday]

My point for the intellectually challenged is that what's the point of having the rule when fans can get round it without anybody being any the wiser i.e. they can wear the shirt all the way to the megastore, change outside the store (or in the toilets in the hotel if they're a tad self-conscious) and the staff will not be any the wiser that the shirt has not "come off the back of the fan". Much more honest to walk into the store and change in the changing room there. I agree there's an issue about consideration for others, etc, but the inconsiderate fan (like my friend) will simply change outside the stadium...so I ask again what the point is of having a rule that cannot be policed? Next they'll be saying "No farting inside the stadium". Laudable aim perhaps but one that cannot be policed.

[readingbedding]

Is the mega-store open during the week?
Or just some days.

[TFF]

My point for the intellectually challenged is that what's the point of having the rule when fans can get round it without anybody being any the wiser

Because if they didn't have the rule then the machines would be used to press dirty shirts more often.

Then they would start leaving dirty marks/smells on other people's nice new shirts as they were pressed or perhaps the transfers wouldn't take properly.

Customers will complain and the megastore will lose money.

This is really not that difficult to understand is it?

[RoyalBlue]

My point for the intellectually challenged is that what's the point of having the rule when fans can get round it without anybody being any the wiser

Because if they didn't have the rule then the machines would be used to press dirty shirts more often.

Then they would start leaving dirty marks/smells on other people's nice new shirts as they were pressed or perhaps the transfers wouldn't take properly.

Customers will complain and the megastore will lose money.

This is really not that difficult to understand is it?

Maybe not difficult to understand but possibly incorrect. I'm sure there are ways of protecting machines/shirts in the printing process!

Do the staff make sure they wash their hands before handling the shirts?!

As for the transfer not taking properly - you mean like the Kyocera logo that was printed onto thousands of brand new shirts?!

If the risk is there then the customer could be warned and proceed at their own risk.

Whether or not the rule is sensible, it certainly isn't easily enforced - or do the Megastore employ sniffer dogs?!!!

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[Gloria Gooner]

Did you fall asleep?

[Behindu]

It's a bit daft to say that you can't have a rule if it's not enforceable, or that a rule can;t be self enforced.


If there is a sign by the railway saying 'do not cross' but no one there to enforce it is it a pointless rule ? Or is it a rule that you just ought to obey becasue it is for your own good ?

I don;t know why the 'clean shirt' rule exists, but i suspect it may be becasue if you apply heat to a shirt that is dirty you probably fix the dirt into the material and ruin the shirt. The club can try and protect you by telling you that they need a clean shirt to print on but if you chose to try and be smart and 'get round it' then it's your fault if the shirt is ruined.

[Ian Royal]

The person did.

And anybody with half a brain would do the same. SO WHY HAVE THE RULE??

so the staff can refuse skanky shirts you pratt.

[Barry the bird boggler]

The person did.

And anybody with half a brain would do the same. SO WHY HAVE THE RULE??

so the staff can refuse skanky shirts you pratt.

Isn't that being skankist?

[Man Friday]

Ian "Royal" - a person has lost an argument when he resorts to personal abuse.

In America, the "rule" is that people who are suffering mental health problems are supposed to record this on their application form when acquiring a gun. This rule is also going to work isn't it?

[Man Friday]

I can see, up to a point the logic of the rule, but as it's not enforceable (you simply remove your skanky shirt before you go in the store - unless they're going to employ sniffer dogs) it's not worth having - and it's certainly not to protect the customer, it's there supposedly for the staff.

[Dirk Gently]

Why is it not to protect the customer?

If I were to buy a shirt and get a number on it, I'd not want the last shirt to have been used on that machine to be a skanky one.

I think the numbering machine has to go inside the shirt, so it is relevant to health and safety.

It's not really any that different to the rules in shops that say you can't return earrings or underwear.

And, as with all other such rules, they do their best, but when some smartarse finds a way around it it just means they'll have to tighten the rule up in future to close the loophole. Probably by not numbering any shirts that aren't bought there and then.

[weybridgewanderer]

In America, the "rule" is that people who are suffering mental health problems are supposed to record this on their application form when acquiring a gun. This rule is also going to work isn't it?

Bit like the box on the visa waiver form to get into the US that asks if you are a terrorist or not.

[Man Friday]

"And, as with all other such rules, they do their best, but when some smartarse finds a way around it it just means they'll have to tighten the rule up in future to close the loophole."

But they won't know that people are finding their way around it!!!! (People will simply exchange their shirt outside the store before going in. The staff won't be any the wiser) I'm not getting through am I?