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I've also heard stories from friends about the period poverty scheme being abused by folk who can well afford sanitary products but just regard it as a free for all rather than for those who need it most. It's a question of conscience I think...

It might be handy for someone here

I wonder how folk would feel if they owned a shop and and wanted to reward their loyal customers at the end of the year with a free Christmas gift, only to find afterwards that half the county visited their shop solely to claim the Christmas gift despite never having given them business before or intending to again afterwards. It's not the best analogy I know, but the Parkrun codes are essentially a reward for Parkrun participants.

To put it more simply, do folk really think it would be right for anyone to be able to get a free medal for completing say the Dublin city marathon without ever having done so? And even if some of those who did so were not well off and intended to sell on the medal for well-needed cash, does that really make it right?!!

How about a business which offers its 'loyal' customers free products through its app but the stock mysteriously disappears from the shelf coincidental to the offer, restocked with products not in the offer (that confuse many people into thinking they are) and magically comes back into stock the next week...

You make some excellent points to be fair

any 'free' items offered on the app or through partnership has one purpose : to bring you to their shop and reduce your trips to other chain shops [the more people talk about it, the better : you wouldn't care about a commercial on the tv, but if someone of fb or tiki tok said what a great deal they've done...the fomo kicks in ..]

from a business perspective, Parkrun project supposed to bring in the shop folks willing to spend extra on bio/organic products, get good social coverage points on ESG &Co.

every company has his own smart marketing team ( like offer 10 off 50 for years and reduce to 5 off 25 when customer gets into a routine, etc )

@ontopic : air freshener - might be some issue with the 'winter spice' flavour - a lady was holding up the Q- she was set on that item and was a bit vocal, to put some pressure on the person at the till

I find the arguments made here in support of continuing to distribute the Parkrun codes so strange. The Parkrun organisers have specifically asked people not to distribute the codes. Yet the general attitude seems to be, as the Cranberries put it, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? I would bet that if we were having this discussion as part of the infamous Facebook group, the same argument would be made by the same people, i.e. those people over on Boards are doing it, so why should we stop? Anyway, I'll stop spelling out the obvious at this stage.

I thought the sucralose beans were awful. Do you eat beans for your desert?

I'll post next week's Lidl park run code.

It's not against the forum rules.

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If a few Karen's on my street decided that X should be illegal.. that doesn't make it illegal.

Let's keep Bargain Alerts, Bargains Again

BABA ,.. caps and flags coming soon

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Porridge Pots or Dark Chocolate on third scratch card

You're being very presumptuous there. It's the same thing and comes down to morals. While it appears to have been technically possible to use codes intended only for customers of certain stores that were closed for renovations, believe it or not, some people chose not abuse the situation. But it seems that understanding why they did so might be lost on others here.

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jesus H christ that post had me in howls of laughter. Not in a million years would I have expected a thread on Bargain Alerts about Parkrun codes to include a reference to the 15th century moral philosopher St.Thomas Aquinas. And by a poster called The Phantom Jipper, this post is Boards gold right here.

Got the blueberries in Nutgrove yesterday - they had loads. They had all

My shopping went from €48 to €31 with the Lidl plus discounts / freebies, parkrun and €5 off from my Fruit & Veg spend - not bad