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TrulyMadly wrote: »

Did we all get some of the 24p rice from lidl.......i was lost without the internet...it was like the old days ....actually visiting stores to find out the deals and prices:rotfl:

Went to the library for the first time in ages.....read 2 books since yesterday. Now working my may through Lucy Lethbridge's Servants.....a downstairs view of 20th century Britain......great book:T

Actually managed to get some this weekend, still sitting in a carrier bag in the gloryhole though, no time to put it away and no energy now, long day

David.

mimi1234 wrote: »

Indeed you do. You have a positive effect and you save us shed loads of money with all your fabulous bargains.

How's it going Mr David? Have you had a good weekend?

Yes thanks trying to sort a holiday for next year Mexico in august or Maldives in April :cool:

9_inch

David. wrote: »

Tart

I like tarts

mimi1234

David. wrote: »

That was for you you muppet
A new sig

Oh my bad. My brain has frozen through and it's not working properly. Ooooops.

Thank you though kind young man.

aau1

David. wrote: »

Back row

Of course

It makes it easier to womble for extra sweet sunday codes if you are sitting at the back/last one out :money:

ni-mum

Tinyshoes wrote: »

:T:T:T

I can't understand why when it is so obvious what help is needed people just drive by, makes me :mad:

Maybe they're scared something like this might happen:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-28919500

David.

mimi1234 wrote: »

Oh my bad. My brain has frozen through and it's not working properly. Ooooops.

Thank you thought kind young man.

Star jumps that will warm you up :j:j:j:j

Savvybuyer

Right. My epic post about fish fingers is now complete. In which I've concluded, on price alone (you may have other considerations), I'd still stick with S/P (vs T/M), and not be taken in by Birds Eye "Value", anything else, or by 40p COS on anything else as they still work out more expensive based on weight.

It's amazing what "brands" can do. There seems to be this automatic perception, in many people, that they are better (and worth paying more money for). (Alright if we can get a glitch that makes some 'posh' brand cheaper than even the own-label "value"/"Smart" price range (all their words of course).) I recall when the beef/horsemeat 'scare'/scandal was on, when several Birds Eye products were involved. I had a colleague at work amazed that Birds Eye products could be involved in such a thing. I wasn't. I totally expected that any product, no matter who made it, could be involved in such a thing - it transpired, from what my colleague was telling me, that they thought that Birds Eye products were, for that reason, just because they were Birds Eye, therefore "better quality" and that she had that perception in her mind. I have no such preconception or favourable or unfavourable opinion (that may, loosely, be called "biased" or "prejudiced") either way - I suspect I am completely unlike most people. Therefore as, contrary to the public generally's view, I perceived Birds Eye as neither better nor worse quality than anything else, it didn't surprise me one bit when a "brand like Birds Eye" could be caught up in such a thing. You'd expect Birds Eye, of course, to be protecting their brand image - and of course that was exactly what they did - or tried to - in response (and indeed, throughout, before and after) and brand images are very lucrative indeed as it's the peception of quality that allows a "premium" price to be charged which people will be - and are - willing to pay.

That said, I do feel I buy far too many S/P fish fingers:eek::eek::eek:.

And, they're not quite as good quality are they really?:think:

:eek:I think I may have a different preconception - or, even, an unfavourable opinion itself: one of absolute cynicism and not being taken in by anything at all and alive to all the 'tricks' that supermarkets etc. play!:rotfl: Prices ramped up one week then down the next, said to be on "half" price. (A) I want quarter price or less:rotfl:, so, unlike most of the general public, I'm not going to be taken by such an expensive "half price" offer; (B) I'd behave in exactly the same way as the supermarkets do if I were them and trying to sell people stuff! I would - it's logical - you can see why the supermarkets do it - those advertisements and promotions of half price special offers DO work and there is a psychology about it and about reference pricing etc. and all other facets of the business. It's very scientific and based on how consumers generally behave, research that the supermarkets both conduct and exploit in order to appeal to consumers and to get them to purchase more or to purchase more than they intended and to make profits (which is their sole aim). I'd do exactly what T's do: stick the prices up, then later have a special offer, which attracts attention to them on the shelves, big lettering, big signs, bright yellow labels, ... all of the rest! Why would you just keep the original price (the one they can now call "half price") on all the time and not sell anything, because you can't then promote it as a special offer? Need to stick it up for a short while, then back down again - and that's exactly what they do and exactly what I would do.

Or... you can go the other way and promote "everyday low price" (whether or not the price is actually "low"; e.g. it can still, at that "everyday 'low' price" (my quotations within the quotations), be cheaper elsewhere or not 10% cheaper). Either way, they are winners: they can promote and advertise it, to sell!

Snap-ant

:eek::eek::eek:

we would all be locked away

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David. wrote: »

Yes thanks trying to sort a holiday for next year Mexico in august or Maldives in April :cool:

We had a fantastic time in Mexico, including swimming with dolphins A few years ago now.