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Tinyshoes

fairclaire wrote: »

I don't think I have OCD in the true sense. I do have foibles though and your knicker drawer sounds very similar to mine :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
6 piles, none higher than the other. Worn in order of washing and if fancy knickers (non-cotton) are first in the queue to wear on a day where I don't need to be wearing fancy knickers they get relegated to pile 6 at the back.......to live in hope :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

ETA ChrisV has just made me feel better

If you had OCD you would not be mixing fancy knickers with everyday ones. :rotfl:

Tinyshoes

fairclaire wrote: »

I think I will join you in that big knicker drawer in the sky :rotfl:

I've had a proper off day today. Very breathless, despite doing very little. I hope just a down day and not helped by losing Bossy Betty. The kids want a new chicken to replace her......she will be called Victoria Peckam :rotfl::rotfl:

Goodnight :wave:

I hope you have not been overdoing it. I am sure as you say stressful day will not have helped.

I hope tomorrow is a better one. :A

fairclaire

Tinyshoes wrote: »

If you had OCD you would not be mixing fancy knickers with everyday ones. :rotfl:

Well you are the expert

*goes to bed in shame for mixing my knickers* :rotfl:

Tinyshoes

fairclaire wrote: »

Well you are the expert

*goes to bed in shame for mixing my knickers* :rotfl:

I should think so too.

Even Mr TS has 2 piles.

One is a lot smaller than the other. :rotfl:

Tinyshoes

DM and zag have gone a bit quiet with all this woman's talk.

Right definitely going to bed now, I am stash moving tomorrow. :j Which was why I was meant to have an early night.

Goodnight Elite. :A

Savvybuyer

Munqui wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29454970

Under the scheme, Morrisons' prices will be checked electronically against a database of thousands of prices, as compiled by independent pricing experts Profitero

Their logo looks familiar, can't quite place it though. no idea if there behind MSL, S's BM or T's PP.

This is the price collection business for you:D. As far as I know, they're nothing to do with Msl, they're Profitero Inc. whereas Msl, strangely enough, is MySupermarket Ltd. Brand View do the Sains BM, not Profitero. I don't think anyone knows who does T PP collection? Possibly in-house for the online collection from a.com and sains.co.uk, but T may use an agency for the M instore price collections.

Well, hello!:) Decided to appear in the night when no-one notices (don't know where I've been all day - on other things obviously).

I've just heard about the M price match from BBC News:rotfl:. As far as I can see, this is designed for the normal consumer rather than for us.

I've just seen somewhere where it says that if, for example, a branded product is 60p cheaper elsewhere, M will give you 600 points. Well, not quite!:D:D It is of course the entire comparable shopping basket. So, same rules apply - you need to put nothing more expensive in the same shopping! Of course, most customers will do precisely that and, if they are lucky, end up with a few pence (points).

It works out at 1p worth of points for a 1p difference. Seems no benefit at all therefore, may as well have shopped at the cheaper store. It is to compare items up to 20% weight difference (and reserve the right to go above that) - it would have good if a product at M compared to the straight lower price of a competitor product of 20% lower weight, sadly however it is to adjust pro rata, so no benefit there.

You have to spend £15 in a transaction. Perhaps only benefit is if you have cond.spends for M or if you use M's staff discount card (as apparently discount cards aren't accounted for - unlike on the APG where a discount card use ensures any APG loses).

You only get a voucher when you've got 5,000 points - so if you have odd numbers that go beyond £5 amounts, you don't get the excess until you get the next £5 and may lose it if you don't use the card for a year, although you can also collect on fuel at M (but, then again, all this is trying to tie you into spending at M and giving them money as usual). Of course, as a loyalty card, where there is no instant PP or (nearly instant, okay 3 hour wait) APG, you wait until next time you go to the till and find you have got 5,000 points - in the meantime (maybe a few days if you are doing it regularly and getting big differences) it is an interest-free loan from you to them (but, then again, so can an APG be treated that way until spent).

It's in effect a maximum difference of £10 on a shop and £100 maximum in points per month.

M even have a "priority table" in the T&Cs:D:D. Quite a complex scheme - I'm warming to it and beginning to like it therefore!:D:rotfl::rotfl: I like the nice complicated schemes.

To disappoint though, I will not be getting Aldi and Lidl prices. The M scheme seems to be very limited, in offering only a price match. So, unless you have cond.spends, it doesn't seem to make much sense unless you have no Aldi/Lidl whatsoever anywhere near you and only have M.

So, therefore, I'm keeping with the priorities of the Avs M list. I have no knowledge of what is comparable between M and Aldi or between M and Lidl and would have to built that from scratch, with little to go by. Might be interesting though if M goes up in price on items T had just put down to match M's previous price and therefore now from Tvs M and onto Mvs T. I do mention items on which M's price has increased, and being moved off the M list, these may be ones to watch for potential Mvs comparisons. So, you may pick up some items from my usual update from M, being the ones which have been crossed out as price increased in M! So, if I start mentioning "M's price has shot up..." - , maybe an item to look at if you are shopping in M and watching "Match & More" points back. Or... if an item has M extra points, might want to check if it's cheaper at one of the competitors and what else is also cheaper at the same competitor. I don't currently look for 'extra points' items in M - this might change, I don't know.

Of course the matching isn't in yet - it's four stores initially then the rest before Christmas.

Two problems though - they check Aldi and Lidl twice per week (once in holiday periods e.g. Christmas), but it doesn't appear to be known which days of the week they are checking. Do Aldi change prices on Thursdays? In which case, how do we know which day is being used - in other words which week's pricing we are looking at on the day you buy in M.

Secondly - "10.4.3. A Competitor’s product must be actually available for sale when we run our checks to be included in our Price Match Guarantee." As it is impossible to know when they are running their checks or in which stores, I won't be able to tell if an item is available for sale or not. It may be in my store, on possibly a different day, but, unlike the APG where OOS items with SELs available are still included (on the basis that they may well be available in other M stores), here, Aldi or Lidl could in theory have a stockout (at the stores checked for M) on absolutely any or every item I see in my Aldi/Lidl at all, with no way to tell - and even my psychicness on the APG, which is a little more successful and a bit more stable, cannot be called on there.

Note that "10.4.6. If we are unable to obtain a Competitor’s price through our normal means we will use the last price we obtained for a maximum of 7 days." This could mean favourable comparisons for up to a week on M "match and, according to them, more" (comes to something when the name of the scheme is itself more promotional:p) but how would anyone know or find them?

I doubt I'll be regularly checking prices in Aldi and/or Lidl. It may be that, if a particular good offer is found in either of those two stores, it may be worth using that for M vs, and that's where people might find what to buy in M. I've no idea what dates are the relevant check dates, and I don't really trust msm on Aldi pricing. Nonetheless, I might go and try and find Mvs Aldi items from msm if anyone wants to keep watch on them. Best of luck!:)

I can only suggest that if anyone really wants to do Mvs Aldi or Mvs Lidl, that they go to Aldi and find what they want to buy and then go to M and buy it. Or go to Lidl and find what they want and then go onto M to buy it. A bit like I did with M-A before I started checking the whole store:rotfl: - I just looked for the items I needed in M then bought the ones on offer in M in A. But why would you for a nothing more than a price match?

Don't forget - this is simply about M losing sales and people shopping at Aldi and Lidl, and M's attempt to attract some of the Aldi/Lidl shoppers back to M, with the promise of a price match, for ordinary consumers rather than for us. Of course once ordinary consumers are back in M, if they go back, or if they think 'there's no point keeping going to Aldi/Lidl, M will match anyway so I'll still get that low discount price', once they are in M they will almost inevitably pick up items that are on offer in M, with a good chance of offsetting any price difference they would otherwise get. You have to shop in M as if you were in Aldi (or Lidl, but not a mixture!) - it is impossible to shop blind, as most people in M would do, you would have to go to Aldi (or Lidl) first or know the prices of all their comparable items so that you did not pick up an item in M that was cheaper and thus lost the points.

davemorton

Right bed for me, night all

davemorton

Friday :j

Savvybuyer

Wonder if M would match on the 350g Cherry Tomatoes vs Aldi, even though they have gone up in price (300g) in Aldi? Would be first Mvs Aldi item, if the matching were to be on now. Sadly with price adjustment on weight it would be 85p vs 80p, doubtless that 5p would be lost elsewhere and still got £14.15:eek: to go to get to the £15 spend!!

Savvybuyer

The trouble is Aldi is so flamin' expensive!:rotfl::rotfl:

(Trying to find current M vs Aldi items that would in any way be 'worth' the Aldi price.)
Of course, this is not on yet, just trying to see what's in both M and Aldi.