ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 7th October, 2025

Episode Date: October 6, 2025

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Vaughan and Fletch have an old mate rant about the supermarket!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the Zedium Podcast Network, it's Fletchpawn and Haley's Little Bit of Pod. Hello, welcome to A Little Bit of Pod, and the Christmas Cocktail Special is recording in November. So you have until Halloween, the end of the month, to get your requests in, your shoutouts. I do know that there has been a little issue with people in the Uck, I believe it said, the UK. I saw this on our international podcast family page. Look, we've had a word to the people in charge of the form, the web form. They're going to sort it out. If you want to submit a podcast shout out, you can do that.

The link is in our Instagram, Bio, FVH, ZM, on Instagram. But you get those in now because we need to sort them out, collate them. And we're going to do the recording in November, which will play out over the summer break, which we're very excited about. I went to the supermarket to do the weekly shop. with my, and I don't usually take my daughters I do it when they're at school. Oh yeah, because we, we'd always go as kids,

my parents would always do it on a Thursday night. Really? Yeah, when we were little kids, because I'm guessing maybe it was a payday. I'm a Sunday Monday guy. Yeah, right. For the week. Yeah.

And usually I'll just do it when they, or I do a click and collect. Oh, yeah, okay. Which is lovely, except for produce. Yeah. I don't need them pick my produce. Yeah, and I don't do, what are they substitutes? Yeah.

I want to pick my substitute I'm picking the product I want Don't substitute If it's not there I don't want it Yeah Or I'll pick my substitute

You just don't whack me A cheap rip off Yeah Mind you I'm also taught them On this trip I was like This is how you get the best deal You also buy the cheap ripoff

Price per 100 grams And we scan through Toilipaper is price per Sheet Which is fucking wild When you think about it But then they're fucking cheeky bastards

Oh Supermarkets A oh he's crashing out A cheeky fucking bar Because some stuff will be per 100 grams. Yeah. And then other products that might be slightly bigger will be per KG. Yeah, or per each.

Or per each. And then you're like, but wait, I need a comparison per hundred grand. Also, I said per each. We didn't need the per and each. Each kind of covers per. Yeah. I apologize. That was a grammatical era.

They break it up, don't they? She confuse you. Oh, that cheeky fuckers? They're cheeky motherfuckers. Sorry, the language is spiraling. Pull ourselves back in. The supermarkets, you know, they trigger us here in New Zealand. So I was running a supermarket shop,

them teaching them how to find the best deals and the specials and sometimes the specials aren't even special sometimes it says special and then you pull up the thing and it's the same price as usual they're just think they get you they're paying to have a special tag you know why fucking cheek cheeky fucking cheeky bassers is what they are fucking cheeky okay FCB you're a bunch of FCBs so then the girls I left them in charge of pushing the trolley yeah there was some dawdling going on and I turned around and there was a Tokyo drift which I was very proud to see You got a Tokyo drifted around the end of the aisles, but then a loss of control

because they're not at Paul Walker-slash-Vindiesel levels of Tokyo Drift, even though I know they weren't in that Fast and the Furious, okay, it was that other guy that looked way too old to be playing a teenager, but he was playing a teenager living in Japan. So they Tokyo Drift, but lose control and, like, almost take out a display. And it reminded me of taking out a display as a child with my brother and I. Did you do that? We were fighting over who was in control of the trolley,

like pulling it side to side, And then I think he let go of it And I pulled it and it just crashed And then of course I looked like the person that's crashed And taken down the tins God my bag there I had my big gym bag on the other day

Brushed past some wine And whan Where you turn in the wad Yeah and I was like Oh we nearly lost a wine bottle And that would have been embarrassing But I remember as kids You would run a muck

Because yeah the parents would do the shopping And you'd just like It was the days of like free buns Yeah You'd always get a free bun Free buns and a big fresh And there'd always be free samples So you'd just be hunting out those free samples

And I do remember a couple of times getting told off in a supermarket. I remember once I, I don't know why, I just found out amusing to rip the yoghats, the six-packs. I know, that was naughty. What, break them apart or rip the lid off? Yeah, yeah, break them apart. Not for individual resale. I know, not for, yeah, I know. Not for individual resale.

There was a guy the other day that was held up at the supermarket because he had bought like one pottle of yogurt or sour cream and it had scanned as like a six-pack or a four-pack. And he was just like, looked so confused. and they had to be like you've actually so somebody obviously broke up a pack but there was another time I don't know if my brother did this

or just me do you remember they had like loaves of bread and they would have like cards in the middle of the loaves yes like it was it was a way of doing collectible cards

all black cards were in tip top bread at one stage I think there may have been some fingering open of the loaves of bread packets and some theft of the cards they had to be fingered in there in the first place

do you reckon that's why they stopped doing them them. I think that's why they stopped doing them because... Collectible cards in bread loaves. I'm pretty sure my brother and I would just put our fingers through the plastic and grap. You'd find the card because you could see it and then you'd just finger it and get it and then obviously they couldn't sell that because it'd have been... That's brattie, eh? Very brattie. But you know what? Now they're cheeky fuckers. They're cheek, so... Fucking cheeky buggers. They're cheeky buggers. They're cheeky buggers.

FCBs. I don't feel bad about it in hindsight. So the most well-known marketing tactic involving shoving collectible cards and bread was the 1997 Wonder Bread Star Wars cards, which are apparently now worth of fortune. Really? Yeah. Why did they stop putting collectible cards in breadloves? It'll be because it's a plastic bag and kids would just easily penetrate. Whereas if there's a card in a wheat bicks, you can't just open up the wheat bics in the supermarket.

You know what I mean? Steal the card. Okay. So they think it's due to a shift in bread popularity? Excuse me? Carbs. Bread's still falling out of fashion. Very popular.

And marketing trends went away from it. The cost and logistical challenges of having someone stop every loaf of bread on a production line and inserting a card. It's too much. Would have been a lot. But surely they could make a machine now. Bread, slice, slice, slice. Open. Card and shuts up again into the bag.

Please don't make that noise. It's not. Open. Maybe that's also why they stopped doing it. The bread noises that were coming from the factory. Could be.