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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Rob Knapman on December 28, 2012, 11:46:01 am

Title: Greggs again sorry!!!
Post by: Rob Knapman on December 28, 2012, 11:46:01 am
Just had a call off a company asking me to do local my local Greggs.....I thought Mr Nolan had all these sewn up????
Title: Re: Greggs again sorry!!!
Post by: Gav Camm lammy 283 on December 28, 2012, 11:53:17 am
Me Nolan as 75% another company
Do the rest
Title: Re: Greggs again sorry!!!
Post by: Rob Knapman on December 28, 2012, 11:55:15 am
Thistle.....more money too ;D
Title: Re: Greggs again sorry!!!
Post by: Gav Camm lammy 283 on December 28, 2012, 12:01:21 pm
Must be an area john struggled
To cover a gud few in South Wales
Approved don't clean
Title: Re: Greggs again sorry!!!
Post by: colin purewater on December 28, 2012, 12:02:44 pm
Av you got a contact for thistle ?
I want the one on my door step but John
Doesn't have that greggs

How much does he pay any how's?
Title: Re: Greggs again sorry!!!
Post by: Rob Knapman on December 28, 2012, 12:06:42 pm
http://www.thistlewindowcleaning.com/ (http://www.thistlewindowcleaning.com/)
Title: Re: Greggs again sorry!!!
Post by: Rob Knapman on December 28, 2012, 12:12:44 pm
Must be an area john struggled
To cover a gud few in South Wales
Approved don't clean
Yep, i was doing my local one for John last year and it all came to an end in the summer. Your going to struggle doing them all in these valley towns, some can be remote and difficult to get to and with only a short 10min time window to get the insides done ::).......
Title: Re: Greggs again sorry!!!
Post by: poles apart on December 28, 2012, 12:26:44 pm
Gregg's have just opened one in my town, Pontardawe. Looks busy too!
Title: Re: Greggs again sorry!!!
Post by: CLEANCARE WC on December 28, 2012, 01:53:57 pm
"From our Head office in Glasgow we are able to offer national coverage and only use our own highly trained personnel to carry out a quality service"

WELL THATS LIE NUMBER 1 FROM HOME PAGE
Title: Re: Greggs again sorry!!!
Post by: Spruce on December 28, 2012, 05:02:44 pm
"From our Head office in Glasgow we are able to offer national coverage and only use our own highly trained personnel  to carry out a quality service"

WELL THATS LIE NUMBER 1 FROM HOME PAGE

Hi Dan

If that's what you are referring to, yes I agree, but from a marketing and sales perspective they wouldn't agree. Its the way you read it and understand it. To them, even a subcontractor working for them is employed by them to do the job. They would assume that they would only sub contract the work to a 'highly trained' person (personnel sounds more professional.)

Of course the expression "quality service" is a whole different "can of worms".

I'm pretty sure the window cleaner who cleans Greggs in Saltburn is the same person who cleans most of the other shop windows in the street. I can't imagine he would sub contract to anyone.
Title: Re: Greggs again sorry!!!
Post by: CLEANCARE WC on December 28, 2012, 05:13:48 pm
 Hi Spruce

 they say "our own highly trained personel" which denotes that the window cleaner is either

A:employed by them
B:trained by them
C:both of the above

Sub contractors are not part of their company and nor are they trained by them i very much doubt for the sake of a tenner a month....  :-\
Title: Re: Greggs again sorry!!!
Post by: Spruce on December 28, 2012, 06:13:45 pm
Gregg's have just opened one in my town, Pontardawe. Looks busy too!

The best packet of white babs for a £1 by far. Their apple pastries are good to, although they seem to be economising on the filling recently.
Title: Re: Greggs again sorry!!!
Post by: SB Cleaning on December 28, 2012, 06:27:42 pm
Gregg's have just opened one in my town, Pontardawe. Looks busy too!

The best packet of white babs for a £1 by far. Their apple pastries are good to, although they seem to be economising on the filling recently.
Everything in Greggs is tasty if you ask me ;D
Title: Re: Greggs again sorry!!!
Post by: CLEANCARE WC on December 28, 2012, 06:28:05 pm
Gregg's have just opened one in my town, Pontardawe. Looks busy too!

The best packet of white babs for a £1 by far. Their apple pastries are good to, although they seem to be economising on the filling recently.

aaye they do a mighty good packet of poppy seeded rolls too
Title: Re: Greggs again sorry!!!
Post by: CLEANCARE WC on December 28, 2012, 06:29:20 pm
only our government could think of a pastie tax...ridiculous  ::)
Title: Re: Greggs again sorry!!!
Post by: Spruce on December 28, 2012, 09:06:18 pm
only our government could think of a pastie tax...ridiculous  ::)

Well, it looks like they squeezed the bedroom tax though.  ;) and of course there was the window tax many years ago we learnt in history classes.
Title: Re: Greggs again sorry!!!
Post by: stuart mc on December 28, 2012, 09:34:02 pm
only our government could think of a pastie tax...ridiculous  ::)

Well, it looks like they squeezed the bedroom tax though.  ;) and of course there was the window tax many years ago we learnt in history classes.

ah the window tax, that is why there are so many bricked up windows on old georgian buildings in this country ;) funnily enough after the Bosnian wars they did the same, there was some cracking rebuilt houses after the shelling had stopped but certain windows are just covered in plastic to avoid paying tax ;)
Title: Re: Greggs again sorry!!!
Post by: CLEANCARE WC on December 28, 2012, 09:35:20 pm
only our government could think of a pastie tax...ridiculous  ::)

Well, it looks like they squeezed the bedroom tax though.  ;) and of course there was the window tax many years ago we learnt in history classes.

well thank goodness they got rid of that one or we would all need 10 times more customers  :o