Everyone Lobbing Ice-cream (into) Trolleys (with) Excitement

Savvybuyer

Chrisv wrote: »

Thanks Savvy :beer: No rush, shops shut now :rotfl:

SP Tomato Ketchup was moved onto my vs W list as a filler (when it became much cheaper in A). So there you are, Chrisv - there's one for you. Assuming the prices at the various stores haven't changed again.:)

Chrisv

Hi Yoghurt Queen. Unlikely I know, but when you're checking your wombles would you mind looking at the Waities comparison, l'm looking for fillers to go with our pizzas.

Shortfatscotsbloke

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Which is why that SP Ketchup has been missing from my M list for a number of weeks:rotfl:. 'Fraid I have "M Savers Tomato Ketchup 550g 40p".

["Savage Savvy" - I rather like that!:D]

Sorry Savvy, despite you spending 100 hours each week preparing your wonderful lists, I am a man, and as we all know men know best and are great at blaggin' rather than preparing properly. :p Yeah, right!!:)

Next time I will look at and follow your lists to the letter!!:p

Sunshinemummy

David Morton has a lot to answer for! He made me think I was horrible not doing housework, so I thought ooh I'll wipe the kitchen surfaces down. I could not stop, I cleaned the fridge, cooked a meal and did some washing.

The result .....................my other half is sulking!

Chrisv

Savvybuyer wrote: »

SP Tomato Ketchup was moved onto my vs W list as a filler (when it became much cheaper in A). So there you are, Chrisv - there's one for you. Assuming the prices at the various stores haven't changed again.:)

Can't see it on MSM v W's Savvy, but it compares well to T's.

Savvybuyer

Savvybuyer wrote: »

SP Tomato Ketchup was moved onto my vs W list as a filler (when it became much cheaper in A). So there you are, Chrisv - there's one for you. Assuming the prices at the various stores haven't changed again.:)

It all happens by magic you see! No human input involved:rotfl::rotfl:.

(Just like that M list that mysteriously changes each week.)

I'm looking at msm and a new thing called a "Comparison Lever". Hmm.. it offers "Best Match" (exact or closest match elsewhere) and "Boost Savings" (looks for switches to special offer items at another store).

I think, for us, 'best match' looks like the better starter. Msm's system did show us, several years ago, the exact items when we put things into the basket and then switched stores. This was excellent for comparison purposes, where you wanted the exact item to go into your basket elsewhere even if it was much more expensive (I'd be adding to the basket in the 'cheaper store' as that's where you'd see the offers). When the website was changed, and starting including Waities, November 2011???, it changed items at the competitors into products that were better value when bought straight in those stores (ignoring comparison opportunities) - this was great for people who wanted to find what was cheaper in the store they were to switch to and then shop in that store. But for our purposes...

I now (since Nov 11 to date) have to switch to the 'more expensive' store, delete the cheaper alternative and then find, from memory and without seeing it in the basket at that store, the item that they have more expensively than the competitor where I'd added it into the basket originally. It is a bit of a pain, as you then have to find and add the exact, expensive item into the basket just to confirm, yes, that's what I really want (for my own purposes perhaps!;):D).

I suspect the 'best match' thing will continue to work this way - although offering cheaper items 'elsewhere' than the store we started (i.e. cheaper items in the store we are going to shop at), which is all well and good to draw normal shopper's attention to them, but for our purposes we really want the competitor's cheaper items.

The 'boost savings' (which, from the way it's described, I'd be inclined to use second) seems to be about finding the cheaper alternatives at the other store. Not great if you are starting from the 'other store' - namely the competitor - in order to find their cheaper items and then switching and buying all of that in the place you're really shopping at. But maybe, when shopping/devising a basket, it';s useful from our points of view in that we can see what's cheaper elsewhere (which may be where we are actually shopping) in order then to use when we visit the competitor later. Or perhaps we can now start where we are actually shopping rather than starting at the competitor (to find the competitor's offers to then buy where we are buying them). I'm not sure. I'd still prefer to be on the competitor's side, to search through their offers and check I'm getting the best deal to compare to at them.

Shortfatscotsbloke

Chrisv wrote: »

Can't see it on MSM v W's Savvy, but it compares well to T's.

My thoughts exactly Chrisv. Morries is defo one of the cheaper supermarkets so how can they possibly charge 40p for cheapo ketchup when all the others are so much cheaper??

ellie14

gocat wrote: »

~I did the same mistake with the chicken the other day . Did yours have 1.7kg on the label but shows as 1.6kg on receipt?

That's right it did ,just shows ,how strange.

Savvybuyer

Chrisv wrote: »

Can't see it on MSM v W's Savvy, but it compares well to T's.

Yes, Avs T now that A's price has gone up (T's gone down).
The point was that, when A was cheaper, and you were shopping in A, it would then be a filler for Avs W. W does not stock any equivalent to the SP range.

But... we need to check weights. Value Tom Ketch is 560g now, according to msm, A's SP is 550g so it's 26p vs actually it still works out at 18p rounded up (maybe we should round down, to 17p at T, as A offers to be "at least" 10% cheaper?).

Okay... back to RL now after suggesting I wasn't being drawn into here in future. Must do that. Back in not too distant future!

Yoghurt_Queen

Ok ChrisV, Just for you: By the way, I've done a mammoth session of wombles today - managed to get about £12 something worth of vouchers! Just checked all of them against Waities, here are the results:

A -v- Waities from the last two days' wombles - I'll post only the same price or lower:

1 x Kingsmill 50/50 Medium Sliced Bread (800g) £1.00 £1.00

1 x ASDA Chosen by You Orange Squash Double Strength w... £1.00 £1.00

1 x Roberts Bakery Thick Sliced White Loaf (800g) £1.35 £1.35

0.29 x ASDA Carrots per kg £0.26 £0.26

1 x Volvic Still Natural Mineral Water (6x500ml) £2.00 £2.00

1 x Birds Eye Field Fresh Garden Peas (800g) £2.00 £2.00

1 x Silver Spoon Half Spoon Granulated Sugar (500g) £1.20 £1.00

1 x McCain Home Chips Straight Cut (1.8Kg) £3.30 £2.47

1 x ASDA Chosen by You Breaded Onion Rings (550g) £1.00 £0.99



Oh dear, the above, is the extent of checking about 10 receipts. This is all i've found. Will continue to check against waities in the next few days.