Tesco/Asda Pricechecker Thread - part 4

celebrate

evening guys WILL TAKE ME SEV HRS TO TRAWL THROUGH THE DAYS POSTS I'M SURE, ANYTHING INTERESTING HAPPEN???

another crazy day at work with a few shops squeezed intomy lunch hr, thank goodness we are away in manchester at the weekend, feeling a bit paranoid about my local stores now

hope the bikini quatro razor was confirmed , i bought one but am nervous about trying anything new until i have it confirmed for my self!

anyone tried this?

Mens Wilkinson Sword Quattro Precision Trimmer Razor(UNCONFIRMED)

T£8.60
A£4.00
IGNORE ME IS THAT THE ONE ON THE SPREADSHEET ALREADY? DUH!

Colgate Max Fresh Mouthwash Beads Tingling Mint Toothpaste Tube (100ml)


T £2.40
A £1.00
(ITS THE TINGLING MINT FLAVOUR NOT THE OTHER TYPES)

nat21luv

colwyn wrote: »

Interesting piece about wine doing the papers today. Here's one of them:


Wine test proves quality is all in the mind



IT’S bad news for wine connoisseurs and party time for cheapskates: new research has shown that £4-a-bottle plonk tastes just as good as the top vintages.
Confirming something many drinkers have long suspected, the study shows that quality is all in the mind.
Professor Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at Hertfordshire University, tested eight different paired wines on 578 volunteers at the Edinburgh Science Festival.
Despite huge gulfs between price tags on competing bottles, tasters had no more luck differentiating them than they would have by guessing at random.
“I think it’s quite amazing,” Mr Wiseman said. “People are drinking wine for taste, so they’re wasting their money if they can’t tell them apart.”
To make sure his test was scientifically sound, all 500 tastings were carried out blind with labels removed. Neither the drinkers nor the people running the tests were told which wines were which to avoid any chance of subliminal suggestion.
Tasters were faced with eight different pairs, for example a £3.49 claret was put against a £15.99 bottle of the red.
Competing wines were selected from the same countries for consistency, and all the tasters had to do was identify whether the wine they tasted was the cheap one or the expensive one.
Bottles were sourced from a supermarket and bought without any special offers after being picked “pretty much at random”.
In each case, one bottle cost less than £5 and the other, from the same country and grape variety, cost more than £9. The exception was champagne, where the prices were £17.61 and £29.99.
Faced with eight separate taste tests, someone just guessing could expect to get around 50% right, and any perceptible differences should raise the figure above this.
Exactly 50% of tasters were right, suggesting either that tasting gives no clue to a wine’s price tag – or that many of the subjects were lying.
Some wines came out with negative scores overall, meaning that regardless of which they preferred, the majority of drinkers could not tell which should cost more.
The study appears to confirm that a wine’s price tag has little bearing on how it will taste, a fact that will no doubt shock the many consumers who use price as a gauge of quality.
“These are remarkable results,” Professor Wiseman said. “People were unable to tell expensive from inexpensive wines, and so in these times of financial hardship the message is clear – the inexpensive wines we tested taste the same as their expensive counterparts”.
Like any other product, the price of wine is determined by supply and demand. Even if it is no nicer than a mass-produced competitor, a wine’s rarity or any other interesting feature could push the price up.
Branding and labels can also increase the price of a wine by making it look more appealing than it tastes.
The biggest failure was seen with red wines, which confused more than half of all tasters into picking the wrong bottle. Just 39% of people were able to tell which claret was the more expensive from a pair costing £3.49 and £15.99 respectively.
For rioja 54% got it wrong, while 51% were thrown by shiraz. White wines fared slightly better, with 53% of drinkers getting it right. Nearly six in 10 people picked out the expensive one from two bottles of pinot grigio, one costing £4.29 and the other £9.49.
However, anyone thinking about splashing out on champagne should be wary of the power of advertising and a well-known label. Only 51% of people could correctly identify the expensive version when confronted with two bottles, one of them retailing at £17.61 and the other at £29.99.



See article here:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/wine-test-proves-quality-is-all-in-the-mind-1.1096275

I didnt know the Scottish drank wine... :rotfl:

dmtam

from above post about the wine
it is cheap if go to tescos :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

bigm64

brindles01 wrote: »

I am very happy that mine scanned at £12.00 this morning

Will see what the voucher says tomorrow?

think its the extra hygene one that scans at 3.00 and the other at full 12.00 both are 1.5kg

tod123

colwyn wrote: »

Interesting piece about wine doing the papers today. Here's one of them:


Wine test proves quality is all in the mind



IT’S bad news for wine connoisseurs and party time for cheapskates: new research has shown that £4-a-bottle plonk tastes just as good as the top vintages.
Confirming something many drinkers have long suspected, the study shows that quality is all in the mind.
Professor Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at Hertfordshire University, tested eight different paired wines on 578 volunteers at the Edinburgh Science Festival.
Despite huge gulfs between price tags on competing bottles, tasters had no more luck differentiating them than they would have by guessing at random.
“I think it’s quite amazing,” Mr Wiseman said. “People are drinking wine for taste, so they’re wasting their money if they can’t tell them apart.”
To make sure his test was scientifically sound, all 500 tastings were carried out blind with labels removed. Neither the drinkers nor the people running the tests were told which wines were which to avoid any chance of subliminal suggestion.
Tasters were faced with eight different pairs, for example a £3.49 claret was put against a £15.99 bottle of the red.
Competing wines were selected from the same countries for consistency, and all the tasters had to do was identify whether the wine they tasted was the cheap one or the expensive one.
Bottles were sourced from a supermarket and bought without any special offers after being picked “pretty much at random”.
In each case, one bottle cost less than £5 and the other, from the same country and grape variety, cost more than £9. The exception was champagne, where the prices were £17.61 and £29.99.
Faced with eight separate taste tests, someone just guessing could expect to get around 50% right, and any perceptible differences should raise the figure above this.
Exactly 50% of tasters were right, suggesting either that tasting gives no clue to a wine’s price tag – or that many of the subjects were lying.
Some wines came out with negative scores overall, meaning that regardless of which they preferred, the majority of drinkers could not tell which should cost more.
The study appears to confirm that a wine’s price tag has little bearing on how it will taste, a fact that will no doubt shock the many consumers who use price as a gauge of quality.
“These are remarkable results,” Professor Wiseman said. “People were unable to tell expensive from inexpensive wines, and so in these times of financial hardship the message is clear – the inexpensive wines we tested taste the same as their expensive counterparts”.
Like any other product, the price of wine is determined by supply and demand. Even if it is no nicer than a mass-produced competitor, a wine’s rarity or any other interesting feature could push the price up.
Branding and labels can also increase the price of a wine by making it look more appealing than it tastes.
The biggest failure was seen with red wines, which confused more than half of all tasters into picking the wrong bottle. Just 39% of people were able to tell which claret was the more expensive from a pair costing £3.49 and £15.99 respectively.
For rioja 54% got it wrong, while 51% were thrown by shiraz. White wines fared slightly better, with 53% of drinkers getting it right. Nearly six in 10 people picked out the expensive one from two bottles of pinot grigio, one costing £4.29 and the other £9.49.
However, anyone thinking about splashing out on champagne should be wary of the power of advertising and a well-known label. Only 51% of people could correctly identify the expensive version when confronted with two bottles, one of them retailing at £17.61 and the other at £29.99.



See article here:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/wine-test-proves-quality-is-all-in-the-mind-1.1096275

No doubt, but even thickos like me can tell the difference between dry and sweet

Hebdendave

Got these confirmed today

TOTAL T£16.22 A£ 9.67
1 x NESTLE CHEERIOS 600G £ 2.00 £ 2.67
1 x YOUNGS 4 COD STEAKS IN BUTTERSAUCE 560G £ 3.00 £ 2.00
1 x MR. BRAIN'S 6 PORK FAGGOTS 714G £ 2.15 £ 1.00
1 x ARM & HAMMER ADVANCED WHITE TOOTHPASTE 75ML £ 2.48 £ 1.00
1 x HUGGIES BABY WIPES NATURAL CARE 64 £ 2.59 £ 1.00
2 x AUNT BESSIE'S CHUNKY CROQUETTES 550G £ 4.00 £ 2.00

Enjoy!

tillycat123

Back at the start of all this Rump Steak was being found, has anyone tried any Steak lately to compare? It was £11.48 or something a kg.

I only got 1 pack as I was a newbie back then, had it for tea and it was not bad, could definitely do with another Steak being found.

Dogface_2

just had my first experience VERY VERY BAD! CS stated that cannot accept due to no scissors or the T+Cs not being numbered on my voucher.....

can anyone explain why the scissors or numbers on T+Cs didnt print out? she kept my voucher too saying that there is a lot of fruad going on and basically stated that mine was a fruad

gunsandbanjos

Sami_Bee wrote: »

eep! I almost pooped myself in tesco today, I bought 3 dettol handwashes and 4 packs of immodium using a voucher, the SA noticed the original receipt had hand wash and immodium on it and asked me if I was buying them again to get another voucher I said "pardon? no!" but could feel myself going bright red so obv I was lying She wrote down on a bit of till roll what I'd got and the price but not how many but put it through ok I'm praying I'm not in some kind of trouble now!

You should have said in a mock offended voice, ' actually no i have serious bowel issues and use a lot of both of these!':rotfl:

PoppyHoppy

Just planning on what I'm getting with tomorrow's voucher - had food focus today, so having a booze focus tomorrow.

Stella 4% x 4 is no longer cheaper at Mr A, so needs taking off S/S please. It's now 3.99 at Mr T's v's £4.08 at Mr A's

This is a fairly good one - little bottles though...
Tuborg (4x275ml)
Description: 4.6% alc.
£3.49 - Mr T
£2.52 - Mr A
Might try this one too...
Thatcher's Katy Single Varietal Cider (500ml)
Mr T - £1.89
Mr A - £1.73 any 2 FOR £3.00