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altojack

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

I thought nerfy had gone quiet :eek:

Not for long enough though :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

strewth71

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

My son didn't mind starting school, but a week or two after he had started he decided he had had enough and wasn't going anymore, he had been to school and that was that. I ended up literally dragging him in kicking and screaming, the teacher had to pry him off me. Luckily the school is only 10 minutes walk away, took me 20 minutes that day though :eek:

that must have been tough to handle. I think OH would have had to deal with anything like that because i would have crumbled and took him home. I am known to be a soft touch lol

Dizzy_Ditzy

rebeccalb wrote: »

Evening all. Finally back from bristol. Very long drive . No idea if I've missed anything as ipad was very low on charge. To be honest unless it's an epic glitch I'm not moving.

On another note I am very angry at all the people who encouraged me to go to ikea. I now have £94 less plus I'm in love with the meatballs. Shame on all of you.
It was only because dad was driving and refused to go to the Birmingham one, that the bill was not larger. However I may be treated to the Warrington store on Sunday. Have to rely on dad to drive as eye sight still not back in the one eye.
I can see ikea becoming a favourite hunting ground along with the supermarkets

I never used to be able to leave idea with change from £200

strewth71

please excuse my typos and bad grammar on my last few posts. Trying to post using my phone but being blind as a bat and having fingers like sausages is something of a hindrance

Westvleteren

emerald21 wrote: »

It's a damn nuisance I m sick of going tbh. It could be a number of things but he d probably put it down to my age

Have a read of this:

http://whole30.com/whole30-program-rules/

It is very restrictive but it's only for 30 days - what have you got to lose?

Bajjo wrote: »

Had a nice run this morning before my C&C

I'm running a marathon in 3 & 1/2 weeks in Berlin, can't wait it'll be my first. Today I did 10 miles - jog 1mile, sprint 1mile x5 - was quite exhausting.

Anyone here like to run or done any marathons?

Don't do running, best I can do is a steady jog for a mile - never tried any further. But I can walk for miles and miles and miles

savingbabs

Evening all. Thanks for the new thread, let's make it a good one

mhoc

tweets wrote: »

Me neither

Shall we start a list

Good idea - we could have a list of people who have never been to Ikea
And another list of all the Ikeas with their devoted fans

My fav is Southampton - you can go to the car park on the top floor, which is really a viewing platform, about 4 in the afternoon and wave to the cruise ships as they set off down the Solent - magic

(Warrington is Good as well - en route or on the way back from Yorkshire )

EMMAP

Our nearest Ikea is the one that someone got stabbed in when it opened

rhosynbach

strewth71 wrote: »

please excuse my typos and bad grammar on my last few posts. Trying to post using my phone but being blind as a bat and having fingers like sausages is something of a hindrance

your excused but only if you excuse mine, no excuse just rubish at it :rotfl:

Savvybuyer

Hello again!

Amid all the furore of yesterday (I sounded fairly calm didn't I? - but busy day sorting out the Morries collection - hope you're enjoying the new pricing btw and that it doesn't work against you), I didn't quite get to mentioning petrol prices.

I noticed that my Mr M had put their price up by 1p/litre:mad:. Then I discovered that it was Mr A:( that had done it - the 'floor' had gone from 124.7p (that didn't last long did it?!?:(:(:() to 125.7p. There wasn't any fanfare announcing this one was there?:( But my ire tonight is about Sains.

Sains. were still at 124.9p for me (of course not my nearest store, but the one a mile away and the other one, due to both of those two being nearer to Messrs A and M, whilst the one that is farther away can be more expensive:mad:). So I filled up yesterday at Sainsbury's "could not possibly be cheaper for more than a day" Supermarkets.

Indeed they cannot!:mad::mad: We'd had a day out today, although fortunately the petrol gauge hasn't gone down that much at all (I think keeping to the 'A' roads and not having a motorway route so not having to drive faster helped;)). Well, I will not be topping up with them or anywhere else today! I was fuming:mad::mad: when I saw the price had indeed, just precisely as I predicted, risen by 1p/litre today. It is just cynical and they are just opportunistic. Anything they possibly can to make more money.

This is not in fact a criticism. The sole aim of a private company is to make profit, and to take every opportunity they can to do so. So, yes, they are indeed opportunistic and that's precisely what meets that aim. Just like we have to take and grasp every possible opportunity to save money!

So I'm not buying any fuel today and will be travelling as little as possible from now on in until the price drops, with fanfare, hopefully in another couple of weeks. Watch the opportunists increase the prices even more:(:(.

They could not possibly remain cheaper than elsewhere. If they increase the price to match, customers can shop around and go elsewhere, but will now find the same price so they either may as well not bother and can buy at S or they are 'reassured' (I'm not:() that they aren't paying significantly more for their fuel at Sains. Meanwhile, if they had been cheaper, they'd simply be losing money and/or not making as much as they possibly could. And they just have to do the latter:(. Profit-making, money-making supermarkets:(:( (which is the very reason for their own existence).

In fact they were at that price (the one they've just come off) before - and, back then, they were at the price when A was more expensive. However, the Mr M up the road was also cheaper than A then and, therefore, for that sole reason, they (Mr M) were keeping S lower than A. I think I mentioned before how I'd contacted S abot their fuel prices - and how the one nearby is always a penny more than their other stores - I suspect it too has now increased its price today (I would be amazed if it hadn't) to be a penny more than the competition that are a few miles away - and therefore most people in the local area won't notice, so it's alright and besides that Sainsbobs store and its car park are huge and packed - so more people buy there and pay the higher fuel price. It's absolute sense from Sainsbobs point of view to charge more there. The response I had off S was to the effect that they check the prices of their rivals to ensure they "remain competitive".

That is absolutely right, and what their response said was complete truth. They do, indeed, notice the prices of their competitors and, as soon as they dare increase, they cynically increase theirs as soon as they can.

I don't think it has anything to do with the wholesale price that they may or may not be getting the fuel at. It is purely and simply the prices elsewhere and, if they increase, put yours up. I think, in retrospect, the Mr A reduction was a temporary thing promoted for the Bank Holiday. That was all that made S put its prices down and only to an extent where it had to. So, there's your fanfare folks - petrol prices have now INCREASED! That's Sains doing its job properly today:(:(:(:(.

I was going to say earlier though, that with petrol generally having come a bit down, even the BP garage near me was then only a penny higher than the supermarkets were. I don't think this has anything to do with quality though - as Sains. petrol is supplied by BP. So, it's nothing much to do with wholesale pricing - more pricing at whatever you can to maximise the amount of profit you make. Sadly everyone doesn't behave like me, because, if they did, not a drop of fuel would have been sold anywhere today and they would all be forced to bring the price straight back down. So, instead of the profit coming down a little (but still very profitable) and more being with customers, it's now money taken off 'us' (the general public).

And all for the sake of one penny a litre!:rotfl:
However, think how many litres in total across all their stations in the country are sold every day? And how even at 1p more for each of those, that's a tidy sum! Added to all the 7ps and 14ps they make on their Sains. Basics products being, on the whole, significantly more expensive than 'Value'/'Savers' products elsewhere. Of course, I watch petrol prices as much as they do. Your average member of the public though would not be aware at all about the timing.

Righto...I've caught up and now got several posts to reply to!:rotfl::rotfl:

:rotfl:Probably because I wouldn't be replying at all if I had just missed them entirely and hadn't been able to catch up!

Briefly though:rotfl::rotfl:, back to near the outset of this post - "I filled up yesterday" - opportunistic Savvy there again!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::laugh: