Route for new socket?

Oh yes it is.

You multiply 37 by 10 = 370
Halve the answer = 185
and add them together = £5.55

Or multiply 37 by 3 = 111
Add a zero = 1110
and divide by 2 = £5.55

I was a been stacker for 36 years and learnt to multiply case sizes of up to 48 in my head for stocktaking.

Sorry, I'm rambling now.

Dave

(was posting exaclty the same method as above - I'd missed it)

The problem is that (most) younger people today have no instinctive feeling for numbers in this way. To me that method is obvious - for example it's also an easy way to calculate VAT at 17.5% in your head

davelx said:

for example it's also an easy way to calculate VAT at 17.5% in your head

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What about VAT at 15%?

That's even easier, almost the same as in my previous post.

Multiply by three, divide by two and move the decimal point one place to the left.

or

Divide by 10, halve it and add the two answers together.
(15% £4500, 450 + 225 = £675)

Dave

ban-all-sheds said:

I don't like them - they have destroyed the traditional hardware stores, electrical stores, decorating stores etc where you used to be able to find people who knew what they were selling, understood their products, and could give good advice etc, in just the same way that Sainsbury, Tesco, Asda etc have destroyed the traditional butchers, greengrocers, bakers, fishmongers etc.

They are staffed by people who don't have a clue, and shouldn't (but sadly do) give advice, and their buyers scour the world for the cheapest and most profitable tat they can put on their shelves.

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I'm with BAS on this, I miss proper hardware stores - I did saturdays in one as a lad, proper shop stuffed to the rafters with just about everything known to man and run by an old chap who could have been the inspiration for Arkwright in Open All Hours - first job of the day was sweeping the pavement and setting up all the outside displays and the till was a proper mechanical one that was incapable of addition. The shop catered for everyone from local tradesmen on account to little old ladies, if we didn't have it (unusual) we could get it and the advice was actually of quite a high standard.

Just why use the horrible Americanism 'shed'!

"Just why use the horrible Americanism 'shed'!"

Might be an acronym Second Hand Educated Department etc..

No seriously , I think it`s adouble edged sword.

On the one hand Ban is absolutely correct, on the other hand B& Q etc have made things cheaper than they were years ago.

Like a lot of things there are bad bits, good bits and different bits.

I have two problems with the large diy stores.

Firstly, when they open, they often carry a tremendously impressive and comprehensive range. Then after a while they start dropping items which sell below a certain turnover. Their computer seems unable to realise that these parts may be a critical item in a set of parts needed for a project.

Like, they may stock the cement board for using on stud walls in showers, but stop stocking the special screws for fixing it.

The second, connected, problem is when the actual stock stops matching what is on the shelf. I wanted to put up some shelves to match what I already had, but though they had the wall bars, they didn't have the shelf support brackets. I asked at information and they said that they had two in stock according to the computer (but agreed that there were none on the shelf). So I asked when they would get some more and they told me that until the computer saw the two in stock being sold, that they would not receive any more.