Elite 11+ - Fleecing a supermarket near you!

purpledonkey

A tune for the jukebox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pib8eYDSFEI

fairclaire

Watching QT? Very good tonight. Alex Salmond suitably bitter but in his defence, very eloquent with it.
Caroline Flint :eek:scary woman, if I was a labour hovverer she'd actually put me off! I get the feeling shed feel better if she cut someone's willy off

.......I do love QT

Savvybuyer

Gaw, they are absolute nightmares, who just don't seem to realise the consequences of their purchasing decisions. Even when you have explained them to them on several previous occasions (:o:o). They weren't listening - I didn't see that.

Yes, I was in the fresh desserts area, doing the price collection last Wednesday?, yesterday?, yes, yesterday [well it was when I started to write this post], seems ages away now, and a man and woman shopping together. Hi there, hello btw, if you are reading, though I suspect they're probably not!:rotfl: She picked up some "Pots of Joy". The man, not too long afterwards, picked up a Savers Chocolate Mousse. "27p" he said! 27p?:eek: I originally thought - and thought obviously he has no idea of what a good price on choc.mousse is - 18p in A, 18p in T - but then, I thought, maybe he has the right idea!:) :idea:Yes, Savers Choc Mousse 27p vs A at 18p or maybe T with weight adjustment at 17p.

I noticed, in the rest of the trolley, they had a 6 pint milk - good again - Morrisons £1.99 vs A and T at £1.48! And some own brand soft drink bottles (clearly 2L size) - well, I thought, that might be good as some are 42p in A (cheaper than Morries' 2 for 90p) and may be good vs T, but watch which flavours you are getting and make sure they are comparable - also I notice the number now on msm - would need 3, but they had 4 and had fallen for the Morries mbuy:wall: - should have either put one back and made sure there were three comparable or bought an extra two and made sure as to comparables ones again:D. But - hey - they could have been good items to buy (in the right number!).

I note Aldi 39p on some of the drinks:think: - although they didn't have just Cola and Lemonade in their shopping (ones in Aldi at 39p are just Cola and Lemonades).

So, but, so... potentially would have been a good shop Mvs T. So, lady, it's your Dairy Milk Pots of Joy that may lose out (64p vs £1.29 T?)!:rotfl::rotfl:

She had put two in the shopping trolley - may have wiped out any points due back!

So, there we are, we have the one shopper, who thought she was being savvy, actually putting into the trolley what looked good and what may have lost any points they had accumulated without those Pots and the other shopper, who didn't appear to be savvy as was picking up some Choc Mousse at 27p (quite an expensive price compared to equivalents elsewhere) - she did actually get him to put it back on the shelf:(, actually his purchase would have helped in the context of Morries' more pricey 6 pint milk.

I bet their shopping got no Match points at all:rotfl::rotfl:. Overpaying on milk and potentially on soft drinks and much else and...nothing! Really bad purchase those cheap Pots of Joy. (Besides - 64p:eek: for 2x70g? My guide on 4x70g is £1 (and hopefully ten per cent off, though I see that may not come to fruition) and therefore anything above 45p or 50p at a push is too dear! For me:rotfl: .) They obviously know the price of milk though, like nearly all shoppers do, as one of the few items that people generally know the price of - I'm sure this leads to a quiz for our members of Parliament somewhere;) - and presumably they think £1.99 on 6 pint milk is worth paying!

(£1.48 elsewhere.)

To be fair, before I started doing APG shopping, after T's ill-fated double-difference price check that was refunding your entire bill (sometimes more:D), I shudder to think now - we were picking up milk on mbuy offer in A regularly, and actually it was more expensive than the normal price, non-offer versions. Just didn't think about it then. I discovered an old bottle of milk - probably at the back of the shed or something - obviously been used to carry water or liquids or something - years later, it's pricing was a more expensive offer than we would ever pay later on (something like 2 for £4.50:eek::eek: on 6 pint milk - £2.25 each!:eek: - and yet we paid that each week without thinking, back in the days of our weekly shop). Now I pay attention to every price, it was cheaper in the interim years and, these days, our bill has now gone down even more. I think I probably pay less on milk now than what I did twenty years ago:rotfl::rotfl:. But, yeah, certainly a lot savvier (for I am 'Savvy':D) - this was when we paid £1.20 on Frijj shakes as well:rotfl: - but the people in Morries - the 'savvy' one wasn't, and the one who didn't seem to know good pricing, actually was picking up something that would have been 'good' in the context of what else they were buying! The "savvy" shopper who got him to put that back:(:rotfl::rotfl:.

Savvybuyer

Second story - and now I'm here it's quick now - about the Ambrosia Rice Pots. In that area of the store, there's only two stories btw this time so this is now the last one;):cool:, I saw a woman customer (again with someone who was probably her partner or husband) go up to the product, initially apparently attracted by an "extra points" offer on them.

Then she said, weren't these the ones we saw cheaper in Home Bargains?

So...

:idea: Perhaps they are even cheaper at a store which they do not match!

:rotfl:I'm glad that she was savvy enough to realise that they were not a good purchase! £1.49:eek:_pale_. For small Ambrosia pot things like these: http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/Shopping/FindProducts.aspx?Query=ambrosia%20mini%20rice

My guide on Ambrosia pots has been 50p - I've seen some that were similar to that before in A at 50p.

Fwiw, I did take a note of the offer and points though - in case anywhere should be 50p on these 'new' pots.

No such luck... £1.49 elsewhere, and 'best' (of the places showing on msm) is 2 for £2.50:eek: - £1.25 each of something that, at an overpaid push, I would nowadays think was 'worth' 50p. And, to be honest, even that is too dear as these are always low weighted pots that, in total, add up to not as much as you'd get in a different format of purchase so, really, about 20p maximum is the price I'd need! Then again, I am on my totally different planet:rotfl:(:D:j:money:).

Rice pots? Surely some S/P stuff would be cheaper?:think:

That said, the "Smart" Price stuff is not always that smart at all it seems to me. Two examples... SP Pears at 89p:eek:. Just 500g now (another weight reduction from previous 600g, having been 650g before that:(:(:mad: - add that now to the list!:(:rotfl:). Sweet Pears 650g at 64p. I saw SA in my A store today putting some SP Pears packs out. I wasn't having any of them!:rotfl::rotfl: And... so-called "Smart" price Kiwis - 8 pack at £1.20:eek:. Works out even more expensive per kiwi than the 'ordinary' 6 pack at expensive locked 75p price. (Someone will tell me they are smaller kiwis in there?) 6 pack Kiwis in Morries were on 99p bogo'f' that finished a few weeks ago, so were better priced than the 75p for 6, although having to get two packs to get that. I recall they weren't on that Morries offer for very long? Perhaps a better sign that they were a loss-leader and definitely therefore a very good offer!:)

That's it - stories over (and more:D:rotfl:) - goodbye and see you again some time!:):):wave:

Savvybuyer

fairclaire wrote: »

Watching QT? Very good tonight. Alex Salmond suitably bitter but in his defence, very eloquent with it.
Caroline Flint :eek:scary woman, if I was a labour hovverer she'd actually put me off! I get the feeling shed feel better if she cut someone's willy off

.......I do love QT

Oh I missed that - but then how would I know?:D:rotfl:
No...they never put people off, just like advertising always works and persuades people to buy (that is, oh, according to the advertising agencies:(:rotfl:) and never actually has the opposite effect - perhaps, particularly radio advertising by being too interruptive and being repeated literally ad nauseum? - and ends up with people determined not to buy the product because of it.

Erm, actually, I don't like QT these days - I find it quite boring but then probably not one of my current special interests - and I used to be quite interested in politics many more years than I now care to know ago. I think, although it affects people obviously, and quite significantly, politics doesn't really turn many people on and is a minority thing. I suppose though just like Elite shopping:rotfl:. I think it's the fact that people, in order to get political support or votes, are forced not to be honest and yet we can all see through that. (Especially when Norman Smith explains it, he is very good.):)

What on earth is it for though if people know what you really mean? I suppose that's yet another bizarre operation of the normal world. But sort of gets people to distrust politics and politicians and, in a way, the TV reporters adding to that as they always give the other (devil's advocate) side which basically puts holes in every politician's side. If you believe the opposite approach, then every politician's approach always has an opposite argument to it, and you end up not believing anything or trusting anyone.

Anyway... on that thought, I'm out of here!!:D:D:wave:

Munqui

Savvy Oh how I do love your stories, mixing the serious business of the cost of pears and pies with observations of the muggle world

Good night anyone still out there!

Savvybuyer

Munqui wrote: »

Savvy Oh how I do love your stories, mixing the serious business of the cost of pears and pies with observations of the muggle world

Good night anyone still out there!

Thanks, I'm (just about) still here, and just thinking about how some people very likely like my stories and then see you've posted saying exactly that!:T Might have some more next time... hopefully not too long-winded;):rotfl::rotfl:.

("Serious business" of the cost of pears?:rotfl::rotfl:) Pears and kiwis today - where were the pies? Probably earlier. Anyway.

Byeeeeeee!:wave::rotfl:

Savvybuyer

I did feel (yes, I've haven't gone totally yet:rotfl::rotfl:) like going up and separating out that man and woman's shopping for them! Pots of Joy elsewhere:rotfl:, preferably back on the shelf:rotfl::rotfl:! Needs a thorough reorganisation. As usual, however, I just remained schtum...

Maybe silenced now... as, this time, maybe:rotfl:, I am calling it a night!

Goodbye:).

Anon

Free 500ml Carling British Cider has appeared on CoS ... and also on MSL cashback :eek: (are they coming back into the game)?.

£1 in A - £1.99/£2 elsewhere or 3 for £5.

HTH

Anon

fairclaire

Im off to bed hopefully......DS2 is up and mithering about the clock change already
It's very frustrating that I can do absolutely NOTHING to put his mind at rest it's going to happen and he is so very distressed about it
He has even asked if I would sleep in his bed like I did in his younger days, on Saturday night :eek::o
I don't personally feel that sleeping in a 13 year old boys bed is good :eek: but he is seriously distressed
That thought of an hour missing or gaining in time just does him in