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    News Littlewoods Pools fire. Do you still do the pools

    The fire just got me thinking do people still do the Pools?

    https://www.footballpools.com/pool-g...sition-journey



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    football pools

    Quote Originally Posted by roving-eye View Post
    The fire just got me thinking do people still do the Pools?

    https://www.footballpools.com/pool-g...sition-journey
    i did yhe pools for close on twenty five years once got eight draws but that week there was seventeen so i ended up with £120 i finished three years ago when they stopped my collector from calling along with them all doing away with many jobs for people wanting you to go direct debit i think they lost a lot of business now i do the postcode lottery

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    Didn't know they still existed to be honest. Along with Spot The Ball seems such a throwback to the 70s.

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    Pools

    I remember in the 90's doing it for about 3 years, one week I got 10 draws, I phoned up and they said I hadn't won because the ones I had didn't match up with their tables. I eventually did some homework and found that it was a massive fix.

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    The pools were decimated by the lottery and that building was already out of use by the Pools when i worked for littlewoods 20 years ago. Should keep the insurance investigators busy....

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    What a shame to a lovely building.Hope the structure is ok.
    BTW does anyone remember Green Shield stamps?
    Devil in disguise,

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    Green Shield Stamps

    Quote Originally Posted by whiplash View Post
    What a shame to a lovely building.Hope the structure is ok.
    BTW does anyone remember Green Shield stamps?
    I remember Green Shield Stamps, the Tesco down the road from me where my mum used to work had them....

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    Quote Originally Posted by whiplash View Post
    What a shame to a lovely building.Hope the structure is ok.
    BTW does anyone remember Green Shield stamps?

    When I was a student I had to work to make ends meet. I worked in a petrol station that gave Green Shield Stamps, and lots of customers gave me their stamps as a tip. I got quite a few useful household items that way!


    I may be wrong, but I think Green Shield Stamps morphed into Argos.

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    Morphed

    Quote Originally Posted by Lamparilla View Post
    When I was a student I had to work to make ends meet. I worked in a petrol station that gave Green Shield Stamps, and lots of customers gave me their stamps as a tip. I got quite a few useful household items that way!


    I may be wrong, but I think Green Shield Stamps morphed into Argos.
    The ones available at Mobil Stations and Argos were Premier Points, they had little silver cards with a magnetic strip, a bit like a Nectar Card or a Morrison's More Card.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Saxon View Post
    I remember in the 90's doing it for about 3 years, one week I got 10 draws, I phoned up and they said I hadn't won because the ones I had didn't match up with their tables. I eventually did some homework and found that it was a massive fix.
    And you think the lottery isn't a fix?

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    Quote Originally Posted by roving-eye View Post
    The fire just got me thinking do people still do the Pools?

    https://www.footballpools.com/pool-g...sition-journey
    As for the fire - is it a coincidence that the site has been proposed for re-development for a film studios just recently? Just as the Grenfell site was planned for redevelopment. (The Grenfell Tower contract is part of a £57m neighbourhood regeneration in the area with Kensington & Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation)

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    Lottery

    Quote Originally Posted by said View Post
    And you think the lottery isn't a fix?
    Stopped doing the lottery years ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Saxon View Post
    The ones available at Mobil Stations and Argos were Premier Points, they had little silver cards with a magnetic strip, a bit like a Nectar Card or a Morrison's More Card.

    I think I'm going back a bit further.


    I worked at an independent petrol station, not part of a chain, and we used to give paper Green Shield stamps - you had to lick the back and paste them into a book.


    About Argos - it was the Green Shield Stamps owner who changed the outlets into Argos stores: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argos_(retailer)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Saxon View Post
    Stopped doing the lottery years ago.
    I haven't - never started.

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