Asda Milk Rip-off

uktim29

uganda wrote: »

Cheaper meat and bacon, both of a magnificent standard, come from a local farm.

Yeah, I know what you mean Farm Shops. None of them are cheaper either as another poster has confirmed.

uganda

Well, if you don't believe me, then don't believe me. I'm not lying, I'm not getting it wrong, I just happen to know.

And the milk isn't from a farm shop. And not all farm shops are bourgeois boutiques.

Your 'argument' is like the one in Monty Python, not an argument at all, just the automatic gainsay of everything the other person says. I told you the meat and bacon is cheaper at my local farm than at my local Asda, you say it isn't. Next time I say something, why not just flap your open palm up at my face and say 'whatever', it would be a better debating technique than the one you're currently using.

deanos

The butchers in our town are cheaper than the supermarkets, not on everything but the vast majority.

Sausages are home made and not full of chemicals like the supermarket products and meat is locally produced too.

Freddie_Snowbits

Local Supermarket for NitroVeg and Eggs No Chance.

Eggs Sains 1.35 for 6 eh. Butcher 1.15 for JUMBO Eggs

Milk 0.84 Local FaV 0.80

Do not shop at the Cathedrals of Rip Off.

Oh no just re read OP. Seems to buy Muppet Food anyway

stamford

uganda wrote: »

Well, if you don't believe me, then don't believe me. I'm not lying, I'm not getting it wrong, I just happen to know.

And the milk isn't from a farm shop. And not all farm shops are bourgeois boutiques.

Your 'argument' is like the one in Monty Python, not an argument at all, just the automatic gainsay of everything the other person says. I told you the meat and bacon is cheaper at my local farm than at my local Asda, you say it isn't. Next time I say something, why not just flap your open palm up at my face and say 'whatever', it would be a better debating technique than the one you're currently using.

Have a look here for a laugh

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1241089

uktim29 believes he's "the person who probably manages to save more money and make more informed choices than the lot of you " So speaks someone whose posts on this entire forum appear to solely consist of hairsplitting, yah-boos and snipes on the Vent and Rip Offs boards !

uganda

Yes, I imagined he'd do it everywhere, many thanks for bringing my attention to it. I think we play into these people's hands though when we use the word 'rip-off' when we mean 'high prices'. I don't object to Asda charging more for their milk, I just know I can get it cheaper elsewhere, so I do. And I use this forum to suggest other people - who are presumably keen on a bargain - look elsewhere for lower prices.

If uktim doesn't want to believe that, it's up to him, I just find his discussion technique puerile.

I think we should avoid using the term 'rip-off' unless we are referring to a known monopoly, quasi-monopoly or cartel, in other words in cases where there is no other choice but to pay high prices. What you, stamford, and I have done is merely to try to advise against paying prices that are too high at, in these cases, Halfords and Asda respectively. If we use the word 'rip-off', pillocks who don't understand the distinction will just exhort us to go elsewhere, when that is exactly what we were suggesting in the first place!

Also I can't take someone seriously who presents irrelevant and baseless argument as fact, as in 'none of them [farm shops] are cheaper either as another poster has confirmed'. Firstly, I wasn't talking about farm shops, I was talking about farms and local corner shops, secondly no other poster has confirmed that farm shops are dearer as they haven't been mentioned by anyone else, thirdly even if someone had, why would you accept their confirmation as fact when you don't accept what I say? It makes no sense. And finally (I think) when you say 'none of them' I hope you have checked the prices at all of them, otherwise you are simply not qualified to comment.

But it is not against the law to be asinine, so I'm afraid we will just have to put up with them. It is the price we pay for living in a free country (but don't get me started on that!).

uktim29

It's like watching two Victor Meldrews having a chat with each other!

muggleian

I work for ASDA at one of the warehouses :rolleyes: and like all supermarkets they are only there to make a lot of profit for the share holders.
I get 10% discount at ASDA stores but only shop there occassionally,
On our table talkers in the warehouse canteen we are being told that ASDA is trying to support local farmers
Its not just the supermarkets the small farmers are being forced out by the bigger diaries (well one to be precise)

uganda

Describing us as Victor Meldrews (which personally I do not take as an insult) does not require any intelligence and says nothing about the actual points we are making. If you must write on these forums, why can't you add something to the debate? It doesn't have to be something I agree with, just something intelligent that can get us thinking. You have not answered anyone's points in this thread, just asserted stuff that you know little or nothing about.

I sympathise with you muggleian, I can't imagine how soul-detroying it must be to have employers who tell you what to think to such a degree.

honeyD

I buy my milk from asda and 6pts have gone up 13p last week