MSE News: Morrisons launches online price-checker – but is it any good?

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Morrisons' new price checker tool allows users to see which products the firm has cut prices on...

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Morrisons launches online price-checker – but is it any good?



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ic

Seriously, who falls for this nonsense? For every item cut in price, they've hiked the price of another 10 items a little to compensate and offset. As you say, they only list the items that have had their price cut. Prices will constantly increase, its what drives inflation.

Aquamania

I think Morrisons have some cracking, everyday, permanently reduced prices currently.

Here's one of their adverts I spotted recently...



If you can't quite make out the scale of the savings possible, here's a couple of close ups to demonstrate.

KTF

If they were serious about this (and had nothing to hide) then they would just plug in to the mysupermarket tool rather than writing some crippled in-house application.

geordie_joe

KTF wrote: »

If they were serious about this (and had nothing to hide) then they would just plug in to the mysupermarket tool

It's not quite as easy as that, you can't just say "let's plug in to the mysupermarket tool" and have it happen over night.

KTF wrote: »

rather than writing some crippled in-house application.

It's not crippled, it does exactly what it was written to do. It's 100% fully functional.

DublinMacTester26

haven't tried those supermarket comparison tools, but here in the Ireland we only have the Grocery Kayak app on the play store.