Non-coupon related Drivel Thread 6

Dr.Who-Who

[QUOTE=quoia;49874331 I'm sending off copies of both receipts (and the one from 2/11/11) and they are chasing up mysupermarket.com to explain the failure of APG to function correctly.[/QUOTE]

Just admit it you got dodgy receipts:D:D:D me never have a problem with apg receipts. Yours probably made in china:p:p:p

quoia

Dr.Who-Who wrote: »

Just admit it you got dodgy receipts:D:D:D me never have a problem with apg receipts. Yours probably made in china:p:p:p

Nah, printed 'em myself in the back bedroom

I found an old Asda till in a skip a few months ago :rotfl:

chattmum

Hope you all got your free clover moc today spesh with all the baking you lot did over Xmas

unhappy_shopper

quoia wrote: »

So, the "feeling" is that there is possibly just a single an item on the problem receipt that it wants to genuinely price check against (it's NOT a N/A item at Morrisons that would be disregarded) and it IS on file but the price is marked "out of date" and for some reason it invalidates the entire receipt comparison for Morrisons.

I do not think it is a single item that is causing this problem. I have had this problem of Morrison's not comparing from mid-December onwards. I think it is something to do with the Morrisons prices not being updated twice a week in the mysupermarket database.

APG T&C states the following:

2.2 Morrisons prices are collected instore (by an independent agency) twice a week (Monday and Wednesday), and therefore unlike Tesco, Sainsbury's and Waitrose, are only updated twice per week. Morrisons prices are collected in stores each week around Great Britain;
2.2.1 Prices are taken from the shelf price label for each product in Morrisons; If any product is sold out, then we'll still use the shelf price label. If however a product has a price marked on it, then the lowest price will be used for the comparison.
2.2.2 mySupermarket have audited the Morrisons collection process, and will only include comparisons that they are confident are accurate.
2.3 Where prices are found to be different across stores (in the case of Morrisons) or across website postcodes sampled (in the case of Tesco, Sainsbury's and Waitrose), the most commonly occurring price is used.

May be the independent agency is still on Christmas holidays. :eek:

quoia

unhappy_shopper wrote: »

I do not think it is a single item that is causing this problem. I have had this problem of Morrison's not comparing from mid-December onwards. I think it is something to do with the Morrisons prices not being updated twice a week in the mysupermarket database.

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May be the independent agency is still on Christmas holidays. :eek:

I'm aware of the APG T&Cs and how the Morrisons data is collected but as I previously posted, I have checked 2 receipts for the SAME DATE (29/12) from the SAME STORE, the one I checked on 30/12 came up Morrisons N/A* .... so I left the other one a few days, did it on 2/1/12 and it is OK

And as pointed out by 2 of the ASDA techies I spoke to at HQ, this is something they are/were not aware of as being a problem and given that literally tens of thousands of receipts are checked everyday and that in the two 5 minute periods either side of the moment I checked mine (that came up N/A*) on 30th Dec, if it was the database potentially hundreds and hundreds of others would have done exactly the same causing a "flood" of calls to CS which just never happened.

So the idea that the Morrisons comparison doesn't happen because the entire database is out of date doesn't make sense given the relative infrequency that it occurs, and it's far more likely to be caused by an individual item (or 2) on the specific receipts that it can't process successfully.

Perhaps your comment "I have had this problem of Morrison's not comparing from mid-December onwards" might actually prove this .... are these "your shops" ? (Or wombles?)

If "yours" then maybe you've bought the same something on each occasion that's scuppered the APG check but sometimes you didn't - do you still have them ? Can you find an item that's on all the failed ones but never on a successful one ?

x_Bunny_x

fungaltendancy wrote: »

Morning all

I'm a bit torn about the womble thread too now.maybe we could split out drivel to hide it.:think: Im sure we have enough caps in us

Today im supposed to be doing my tax return.So far i have printed a few coupons,chatted on FB,posted on here,done my spuds,done uni VIP surveys.
You would think i was procrastinating or something :D

Ta, reminded me i haven't done my vip facebook thing

As soon as i said that, the catchup on channel 5, of neighbours i was watching was on it's ad break and mccain chip ad came on:D

kerri_gt

Got my free Clover coupon today :j (btw, how long does Clover keep in the freezer?)

also signed up for the free coffee sample - Aesop, you want it ?

Cravendale announcing their big new year news tomorrow (I think) free milk please

Did my Unilever surveys today and got my 50p MOC, chose PG tips as the 280 box is 1/2 price in Mr T atm so this will be a decent deal with the MOC (and I can use up a JTD )

Aesop

kerri_gt wrote: »

Got my free Clover coupon today :j (btw, how long does Clover keep in the freezer?)

also signed up for the free coffee sample - Aesop, you want it ?

Cravendale announcing their big new year news tomorrow (I think) free milk please

Did my Unilever surveys today and got my 50p MOC, chose PG tips as the 280 box is 1/2 price in Mr T atm so this will be a decent deal with the MOC (and I can use up a JTD )

please hun, nice to have decent coffee xx

kerri_gt

Aesop wrote: »

please hun, nice to have decent coffee xx

well I can't promise it's decent as I have never drunk it :rotfl:I'm strictly a tea gal in the house, the odd latte once in a blue moon if I'm in costa-lot (and yes barister, that is with the full fat squirty cream please )

Aesop

is it time to sew some seeds? Everyone having early night?