Elite 11+ - Fleecing a supermarket near you!

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fairclaire wrote: »

are you in the field Anon? :eek:........over......*Fuzzy click* from the MSE walkie talkie

:rotfl::rotfl:

Oh stop it . OH is wondering why I have tears of laughter running down my face :rotfl::rotfl:

Anon

fairclaire wrote: »

are you in the field Anon? :eek:........over......*Fuzzy click* from the MSE walkie talkie

:rotfl::rotfl:

Roger FC ... I was - no LG tomato and basil ... So have abandoned my mission and come home rather than going to the next A along :A.

Over and out.

Anon

fairclaire

mhoc wrote: »

I am very nervous about what wine is coming tomorrow.

The van driver who came in August was an interesting chap, wonder if it will be the same chap

Oh Mhoc.....Im sure you will let us know LOVE your posts and miss you when you 'disappear'
I have a couple who live accross the road from me and I swear they are you an your OH alter egos :rotfl::rotfl: The woman is very vigorous and energetic and the man just has a 'resigned' look on his face. At around 9am every morning they leave the house with a shopping trolley in tow. She is positively sprightly.....he lags behind, pulling the trolley ........she also makes him mow the lawn with a push mower :eek: poor bloke

davemorton

Right, need an early night, so its good night from me.

Savvybuyer

What I was just saying about the general public being clueless as to good price on all but a very very very few items indeed (a regular theme and obsession interest of my posts in the last few days:rotfl:) - I had a womble earlier today.

It looked, potentially, a very good one. Possibly my best ever?:think:

Air Wick at £6.98!:eek:
Some 1L wine at £19!:rotfl:
Chocolate pouch at £2.09!:rotfl::rotfl: - I mean, whoever buys them (who isn't doing a targetted comparison shop) at £2.09 when they are very regularly at £1 all over the place? Just proves, yet again, people generally are totally clueless about what prices to buy at. Either - they are walking round in a complete daze and totally unaware of the prices on anything that they are buying, or that they are picking up the items as impulse items without even considering the pricing, which seems quite very likely, or they are under a complete delusion that £2.09 is a good price worth paying for this sort of item - or maybe they are just tempted and desperately need a chocolate fix regardless of how much it costs them:eek:. Or ... some other reason that I haven't thought of:rotfl:.

It's quite possible that they may not even be really paying that much attention to the price of much of what they are buying, other than maybe the bread, milk and butter (or whatever few items people generally have an idea of good pricing on, and just assume everything in the store is the same) - indeed, if they are moving along in the store in a crowd, the vast majority of people are subconsciously drawn towards the faces of all the other people around them and filter out other information around them as being 'irrelevant', including maybe the prices on the shelves of the products they are picking up. Your concentration on 'relevance' and 'context', and the 'bigger picture', of the crowd, and I am speaking to the vast majority of my readership here, ignores the detail of namely the price indications on all the products on the shelving. I, perhaps, have the opposite 'problem' - of seeing too much (and, potentially, being overwhelmed by it, although in practice this does not often arise for me:D:j - besides, I can store a lot more information that the average person!:rotfl::cool:).

In the end, the womble, that looked excellent, was cut to just 96p:(:(:(.

The £19 wine did not compare vs anywhere. 1L of wine at £19?!?:eek::eek: I'd have been looking, on £19 wine, for a comparison vs £12 elsewhere:rotfl: - yes, that exact!:p (Explanation: the point I'm making here is that all stores generally go to the very same offer prices on products, just oh so coincidental. In fact, nothing coincidental about it - it is very scientific, based on research, on price perception of the public generally, of tactically-set prices and competitors that watch very very closely the prices of each other.)

And - I mean Air Wick at £6.98!:eek::eek: I was looking for £3.19 or something like that, elsewhere. Sadly the Air Wick at best compared to quite expensive £5.

Yet again, just shows people have no idea as to good pricing. Who on here would be seeking to buy Air Wick at anything more than £3 or to a comparison to a price of a competitor of much more than £3? No-one would buy at £6.98:eek: here, unless of course we were doing so tactically as part of an mbuy glitch that compared much more favourably to elsewhere. Otherwise, it's £3!

But no... the general public have no clue and do not think the way we on here do. They do not know that £3 is a baseline price and, for them, who see everything at five, six or seven times the price we pay as being a good price, and are on a completely different world of "price perception", £6.98 is price that they might pay. (I suspect especially if the product is juxtapositioned on the shelves next to one of similar price, and subtly small increases in price from left to right along the entire aisle, masking the very very big price jump from one end compared to the other.):rotfl:

They're idiots to the manipulation and location of products in the stores:rotfl:, that play on people generally psychologically. Such a good thing, interesting thing (for me!:D:rotfl::(:rotfl:) being aware of these things, that people generally aren't and never assume would affect them! It's very very interesting how the general population is so susceptible to manipulation by emotion and through positioning of products and their various "offers" (in inverted commas, as not all offers are in fact good offers to take up! In my view it's not an offer at all if it works out as a rip-off, and therefore the use of quotes. I know - another complex concept that I suspect is lost on most people reading:rotfl:).

Sadly, as I say, the expensive items compared to nearly as expensive elsewhere. The £2.09 chocolate pouch was also £2 or thereabouts everywhere else. Why ever compare to that vs full prices?!?:think::rotfl:. And then... they put a Maynard's pouch at £1 into their shopping, it went vs £2 everywhere else and lost out!

So... potential £15 womble reduced to 96p:(:rotfl::rotfl:.

fairclaire

off to bed....goodnight

vanilla_twist

Evening all

I love cos at the moment.
Rain needs to hold off tomorrow as need a £50 plus Womble and a HHS would be nice.
I did find a £4 off Tesco finest Irish cream on Friday so hoping price is reduced before 2 nov.

Found a small glitch yesterday whilst scanning in A with N.
Kinder Bueno 2 for £3 multi buy not showing. Nothing much to compare against so only about 60p return but one to watch if reduced somewhere else.
We also found quite a few item not found on the N spa multi buys but again only showing as sold in A nowhere else. Couldn't find anything to go with it.

Emmap you are most welcome.

Sister went to see dad and he was his normal grumpy self again which is a shame after the great weekend. We think he just needs to settle into a new routine as he hates change. He was looking for things to complain about but all he could come up with was toilet door has no lock. Well it is in his room so no great problem. Oh and be more exciting watching the carpark:eek:
The other problem is local newsagent no longer deliver newspapers and they do not release staff to collect. Sister is going to see if she can find someone local at work with a teenager keen for a few quid or try and get a member of the care team to bring one in.
Dad hates not having his paper first thing but too far out to drop one off before she goes to work and no one we knows goes that way to work.
Sure will get sorted but if dad is not putting telly on news will still be fresh when she takes paper in around 4pm.

Paper sounds such a small complaint but a big deal to dad who refuses to read it online.

Art class tomorrow and I have been sorting out raffle prizes for art sale. 6 bottles of naked wine (whites did not get drunk) 2 toy dogs controlled by an I phone that I got sent too many of last year, several small prizes I won plus 3 assorted bags of glitchy things including reed defusers, nip and fab kit ect.
I have 3 pieces of art as well to go in sale all for help the heros.

V x

Savvybuyer

davemorton wrote: »

Right, need an early night, so its good night from me.

Right, oh, very good - I suspect you will need an early night with all my deep, complex analyses (AKA wafflings:rotfl:):D. Goodnight!:)

And...goodnight all, actually, as I've left my 'latest thoughts':D and I'm off now (...maybe for bed).

See you later!:wave: After the [Strike]dreadful[/Strike] Morries collection tomorrow alright?!?

Oh, actually yes, that's a thing perhaps I should mention. A lot of the offers in M are going to be expiring on 2nd November. There's so much that has that date, that a week on Monday is going to be a horrible price collection for me to do (so watch for glitches thereafter:D:laugh:) - so much is going off, the Tildas, Sharwoods Poppadums, Fudco Jeeras, I might as well cross them off the list now if I could, Fray Bentoses, Kenco 8 pack Cappios, Air Wicks, loads of stuff has the end date 2nd November. So - maybe just this week and next is last chance for many of the 'non-everyday' items vs M, unless, as may well be the case, they go on offer elsewhere and thus from Avs M onto Avs the new competitor.

I maybe should mention the I Can't Believe spreads... the 500g now at £1 in M. They have gone up to £1.65 in A (I so wish people would more buy at that higher price). Not my pricing at all - 10% off £1 in other words 90p is way too dear for me on 500g spreads, of course most A shoppers have bought at even dearer £1:rotfl: for many weeks beforehand, but I should mention these items (£1 on 500g is rubbish as £1.37 was on 1Kg ones some while ago) - but I should mention them even if not any good for me (90p in Sains some time ago so £1 is rubbish IMO, trying my best to dissuade you but nonetheless). It's both the Light and the Regular at £1 each.

And, goodnight!:):rotfl::D:wave::wave:

Savvybuyer

fairclaire wrote: »

Hope this isn't considered medical advice but for years in my 20s/30s I was prescribed mefenamic acid for the problems you are suffering from. Worth asking your GP about?
Enjoy that walk in the park because it gets worse in your 40s :eek: :rotfl:

Then you're covered there, because, even if it was a medical issue, you've advised people to seek the advice of their GP.:T:rotfl::A:wave:

Get's worse in your 40s?!?:eek::eek: Gosh, not too long for me...!:eek: You're right though, sadly, even at the age of 30...er...30-something (+a bit of VAT), I'm not as spring chicken in the physical as I used to be when much younger. Sadly:rotfl:.

Savvybuyer

Valid until 26/10 (according to msm) in M includes: Kipling Mini Battenbergs and Bakewell Tart, Linda McCartneys, Young's Basas, BE Chicken Nuggets 18, fresh Pukka Chicken & Gravy Pie 550g, Giovannis.

Perhaps useful to get those in my mind as to what I'll be crossing off next week.:)

Bye again btw!:D:rotfl::wave::wave::cool::wave: