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  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 14,016 Forumite
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    If Santander weren't such an incompetent bank taking days to do basic transfers, Id be buying more shares around now.

    Make that a lesson for future - have as little to do with Santander as possible :p

    We have a First Home Saver with them, but I only opened that as it was offering 5% and can only be operated from our local branch, where the friendly local staff are as bemused by Santander's general cackness as the customers are :D
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    edinburgher wrote: »
    Thanks Generali - although I was thinking a little closer to home :)

    No problemo!

    Supermarkets are looking cheap. Sainsburys especially although they also strike me as a piece of poo.

    LSE:SBRY
    P/E = 8.50
    Yield = 5.25

    Seriously though. Coca Cola, awesome buy if it gets any cheaper.
  • edinburgher
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    Sainsburys especially although they also strike me as a piece of poo.

    As a supermarket, or as an investment? :D
  • StevieJ
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    edited 5 August 2011 at 9:25AM
    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    Today is the reason I didn't hold your optimism!

    Down another 3.3% as I type.

    I said anything can happen, up 1.2% since you posted :)
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    StevieJ wrote: »
    I said anything can happen, up 1.2% since yoiu posted :)

    Nice use of the word "up" there!

    You mean its recovered some losses and sits as just 2.10% down now?
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    edinburgher wrote: »
    As a supermarket, or as an investment? :D

    As an investment.

    I found it quite pleasant to shop in on my brief return to the UK. I suspect it is going to be squeezed between the twin rocks of Tesco and Waitrose.

    Shame you can't buy shares in Waitrose really.
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    Nice use of the word "up" there!

    You mean its recovered some losses and sits as just 2.10% down now?

    Well yes, 0.6% now and my buy for the day is up 15% :) should have been 35%icon9.gif
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • System
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    Another "armageddon" passes me by.
    This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    Joeskeppi wrote: »
    Another "armageddon" passes me by.

    You and 99% of the population.

    Ah well, maybe the media will find something else to focus their hyperbole on now the weekend is here. :)
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    You and 99% of the population.

    Ah well, maybe the media will find something else to focus their hyperbole on now the weekend is here. :)

    Seems to Be Rowan Atkinson now.
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