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  • Savvybuyer
    Savvybuyer Posts: 22,332 Forumite
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    edited 3 March 2015 at 11:28PM
    savvy_sal wrote: »
    1 x Quorn Chicken Style Pieces (300g) £1.66 £1.99
    1 x Quorn Mince (300g) £1.67 £1.99
    1 x Quorn Chicken Fillets (6 per pack - 312g) £1.67 £0.99

    Well I did nip out for a womble.

    A v M

    3 FOR £5 .They are all £1.96 each but the chicken fillets are 99p morries.

    Quorn Mince 500g is £1.40 in M. Allegedly. Glad the Chicken-style Fillets have picked up the 99p price for now. Let's hope that continues.

    I think that £1.96 does have a far greater effect on people buying them, far beyond the 3p difference in price. They only have to go from a round price and it does alter people's price perceptions totally. (I was reading yesterday, somewhere.) Even though £1.99 isn't 'round', I do think that 3p lower does have a very strong psychological effect on people generally and whether, in the blink of a moment they generally have in store, they buy them - and irregardless of whether they actually get an mbuy price on them or not. The effect and influence this £1.96 tactic in pricing has is far greater than the 3p difference and much, much greater that you would believe (or maybe it isn't). And all for the Chicken-style Fillets still to be overpriced compared to Morries' current price even when bought on the A mbuy! It really really works and many people have no idea the Fillets are nearly £1 cheaper elsewhere:rotfl:.

    Right, I'm looking at the current Lidl brochure as I've nothing better to do tonight. It seems Lidl is very expensive to me. Along with Aldi presumably:rotfl:, but, no, there is a general perception that they are discounters and therefore are cheap, or at least cheaper, and people therefore assume (wholly wrongly as usual) that that must mean everything in the store is just as cheap. I'm pretty sure that, on these prices, I could even get equivalents from upmarket Waitrose cheaper than this. Obviously not what people generally would expect - and, therefore, almost undoubtedly the case!

    It seems Lidl can play on their 'discounter' image and create a whole range of products with very expensive prices. "Spoil Mum rotten on Mother's Day, as well as she deserves..." the brochure says "and treat the family to many Deluxe delicacies over Easter". I think not! They have a "Deluxe" range - have you seen the prices?:eek: I suspect that word "Deluxe" is being used to its maximum effect to create the image that they are top-range products and therefore justify a mark-up. It's clearly playing on the emotional impact of people feeling that they have to "treat" others and using a religious holiday turned into a commercial festival to justify spending of money purely because of the season. You'd be going "baa-humbug" if this were Christmas, but it is not, so there! I'm having none of it - we have our two Easter eggs (one each, for two people) and they are "deluxe" enough for my liking! They are Cadbury's - how much more Deluxe can you get for 2 for £1.50?:cool:

    So, that's all we will be needing specific for this commercial creation. 1Kg of Deluxe Roast Potatoes (which they more charmingly call "Roasting" Potatoes) with Goose Fat (why the need for Goose Fat?) for over £1!:eek: Bottles of wine at over £5, that really should be kept to £3 or below and £1 is too much as that's the cost to make! Some 500ml handwash or bath/shower gel at 99p, alright.

    As for the general "offers", they are hardly any good IMO. 350g Pilgrims Choice at bog-standard £1.99 price and even that works out at quite a bit in excess of my £5/kg price limit. Another "limited" offer - I hope it is limited as I hope it is quickly over with these expensive offer prices - this is not what they want me to be thinking btw:rotfl::D:T - I Can't Believe 500g spread at 89p:eek:. That's way too dear - it's £1.78/kg - there were some 1Kg in Morrisons back at £1.37 some time ago, so that gives some idea as to how expensive the 89p price is - and even then it's worse the usual T offer of 82p, itself an expensive £1.64/kg!

    Some Leeks at 89p - "Great Offer, Great Price" it says. Allegedly! I disagree - even with the Leeks at 750g, it's still £1.19/kg - which works out at... 59.5p for 500g, in other words about the same price as the A r'back price on 500g Leeks. It's hardly "Great" or to write home about in my view. Just another standard offer price for a bunch of leeks.

    Advocado at 69p, but four pack of advocados remain at 99p in M,so notionally less than 25p each compared to 69p - although is this one advocado in Lidl somewhat larger? Is it equivalent to four? And, anyway, still seems a bit expensive. The 99p advocados pack price in M was once ruined by a cheaper mbuy offer price - ever since which the straight 99p (even though T doubtless £1.75) has been too expensive ever to make it onto my list again. I'm waiting for that cheaper 66p each offer (for 4 pack). And, even if 69p is for a large advocado, I notice they have the Pineapples at 50p at the moment although they aren't in the brochure! 50p for a good-size pineapple must surely be a quite good - cheaper than getting a smaller amount in a tin, and of course cheaper than those expensive ready-to-eat packs of the supermarkets:rotfl:.

    Moving on - Kipling 6 Viennese Whirls at "limited offer" of 99p. Quite a lot more expensive than M's 65p offer pricing. And Cherry Bakewells at 99p:eek: - 89p elsewhere and even that is bettered by general 75p pricing on eday versions, which I say are either indistinguishable or equally acceptable to me. Even then whoopsies could be much cheaper!

    Mint Magnum at £1.25, a few pence more expensive than cheapest offer prices of elsewhere!! Lenor Fabric Conditioner at £1.75 and save £1.25 allegedly. But they are just 44 washes, which means they are about £3.38:eek: for my normal 85 washes guide price, which is £3 (and then 10% off hopefully!). In short, £1.75 is too high and could be cheaper unit prices on offer elsewhere before, or could trade-down to the S/P conditioners and save even more than the £1.25 offered here!

    A very expensive offer on toilet rolls, some branded ice cream tub at £2.49:eek: (others elsewhere £2.24 price, Morrisons £2 price and even down to 50p on other versions). I suspect the brands are generally more unhealthy and have more sugar or fat in them than the S/P / Value versions:D.

    Robinsons NAS 1L squashes at 79p. Same squashes in Morrisons at the moment are 74p* (so don't put on an M vs Lidl shop:rotfl:). "Save 21p" it says! However, I would rather Save 26p than merely 21p, or even save an extra 5p and then 10% off = about 12p. It's pence but it's more than half as much again saved elsewhere. I'd rather save more by buying them somewhere else where I would be anyway and as long as not making a special journey.

    Fairy washing up liquids at expensive 99p for 530ml!:eek: To show how expensive that is, it's equating to over £1.62 for 870ml! That is more expensive than even the 2 for £3 offer pricing in M on the 870ml that has ended and even that was more expensive than the low offer of £1.33. So, again, "save 40p" - I do not think so, it would be a much better saving on unit price of other sizes elsewhere at the right times to buy - and even those better savings (than their "save 40p" here) are based on normal straight offer pricing and are even without glitches better than the Lidl offer on the 530ml. You always do much better than me on washing up liquids anyway - my £1.33 for 870ml prices are unrealistically high!
    Maybe try some RTC stock or something else somewhere, that you will find (as you always better me on here!).

    Smoothies at £1.49!:eek::eek: They're 1Kg which means... over £1.11:eek: for 750g. It's too dear. I had 750g for £1 earlier, so not having something that now works out more expensive. You can "limit" the offer all you wish: good cos I'm not having any of it!:D:cool::rotfl: Avoid! Expensive Houmous too - and expensive Yogurt drink! Are all the offer prices really expensive?!? A 10p "saving" on that - big deal - most things go onto half price at some stage, so a mere 10p (off 99p = now 89p) is not anything that saves us anything - indeed, it costs us more compared to much better offers at other times elsewhere. :(Really expensive price on 500ml Cider as well, also presented as a "Limited offer" - I'm sure much bigger Savers bottles available cheaper and my guide, to try to glitch against since itself is still way too dear, is £1.25 for 500ml, which sometimes is the straight price on other Ciders elsewhere, not expensive £1.39.

    Finally, the 1Kg Onions at 29p half price (merely a "half price" offer?:eek:) - we could do with far better than just half price - as a weekend snap offer. Seems to me to be the only thing worth buying in the entire brochure:rotfl:. Ha! They are Oaklands Onions. M does not sell any Oaklands Onions:rotfl:.:D Given that I'd start to seek to compare against prices of 50p for a kilogram of onions and then expect 10% off, the price of 29p is very good indeed.

    In short, other than the Onions, it seems Lidl is a very expensive place to shop judging by this. I might get a 50p Pineapple as well.

    So - there's my critique of the Lidl "offers leaflet" this week:rotfl::rotfl:. I trust that, having read this, no-one will now fall for thinking that the prices, apart from the Onions and Pineapple, are quite cheap as somewhat cheaper prices:money: have been available recently elsewhere, as has been stated. Quite few seem to have been M - sorry, N.I. - maybe will have to get 'ripped-off' by Lidl's prices:rotfl::rotfl:. Or - :idea: could just buy a pack of onions! (No need to buy anything else;):rotfl:.) In fact, even if my wink encourages you(:(:rotfl:), I'm not even buying the onions:eek: as no-one likes them here:money::rotfl:.

    *There is one, non-NAS at 69p in M.
  • simone10
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    Thank you. Half a mile, so don't think thats too bad for my first swim!

    If you can do a half mile swim maybe you could do this event taking place near me this summer....
    https://www.isomantri.com/ISO/#F0=WISO01_StartPage

    I have a code sent to me by email to get 10% off any event registered before 15 Mar 2015. Can't put code link here but happy to let you know if you are interested in the event (or anyone else for that matter)
    The end is nigh
  • Jelly_Biactol
    Jelly_Biactol Posts: 3,636 Forumite
    Dippydoo wrote: »
    I tried adding a full stop in a few different places but it came up this is not a valid email
    Does this help? (Cribbed off tinterweb:))

    Periods
    The trick is to use periods in your Gmail address. Gmail doesn't differentiate between a valid Gmail address and the same address with periods inserted in it. For example, if your email address is myemail@gmail.com, messages sent to my.email@gmail.com and mye.mail@gmail.com will both end up in your inbox. You can also add multiple periods eg, m.y.e.m.a.i.l@gmail.com

    @
    The trick is to use a plus sign next to the @ sign in your gmail or googlemail address. Say, for example, your email address was myemail@gmail.com. Add a + sign within your email just after the name of the email account and put anything you wish after it. So you could use myemail+1@gmail.com or myemail+sue@gmail.com or myemail+asmanyvariationsasIwish@gmail.com. All these addresses will work and you’ll receive the email into your mailbox for myemail@gmail.com
    'It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.'
    Groucho Marx

  • aau1
    aau1 Posts: 19,401 Forumite
    Also wondering...out loud:p If you are shopping online... You agree to the guide price say your shop is £40 you agree to pay this the transaction is made with the bank however is the store then allowed to actually take more than the agreed price?

    Piecing together my own experiences and what I've read I think that what happens is:

    1

    when you order they check the details of your account are valid by running a very small charge (i.e they are just checking that the postcode/house number matches what's on file with card issuer)

    2

    they check you have enough funds in your account just before they go and pick the order in the store (you are not actually charged at this point, they just want to save themselves the bother of picking an order for someone who can't afford it)

    3

    they tally up the actual value of your shopping and charge that to your card


    I've had a few shops fail because each stage mentioned above ring-fences money in your account for a few days and is then made available again. So if you only have £10 in your bank account because you know you are ordering RTC items that will come to exactly £10 you will not get your order because they will check you can pay the full guide price first
    Apparently, everybody knows that the bird is [strike]the word[/strike] a moorhen
  • aau1
    aau1 Posts: 19,401 Forumite
    strewth71 wrote: »
    She posted on her fb page earlier tonight that the pizzas were free not 50p each as stated on the show :o

    Even still. Why get for free what you can get for a profit :money: :cool:
    Apparently, everybody knows that the bird is [strike]the word[/strike] a moorhen
  • savvy_sal
    savvy_sal Posts: 5,015 Forumite
    Savvybuyer wrote: »
    Quorn Mince 500g is £1.40 in M. Allegedly. Glad the Chicken-style Fillets have picked up the 99p price for now. Let's hope that continues.

    I think that £1.96 does have a far greater effect on people buying them, far beyond the 3p difference in price. They only have to go from a round price and it does alter people's price perceptions totally. (I was reading yesterday, somewhere.) Even though £1.99 isn't 'round', I do think that 3p lower does have a very strong psychological effect on people generally and whether, in the blink of a moment they generally have in store, they buy them - and irregardless of whether they actually get an mbuy price on them or not. The effect and influence this £1.96 tactic in pricing has is far greater than the 3p difference and much, much greater that you would believe (or maybe it isn't). And all for the Chicken-style Fillets still to be overpriced compared to Morries' current price even when bought on the A mbuy! It really really works and many people have no idea the Fillets are nearly £1 cheaper elsewhere:rotfl:.

    Right, I'm looking at the current Lidl brochure as I've nothing better to do tonight. It seems Lidl is very expensive to me. Along with Aldi presumably:rotfl:, but, no, there is a general perception that they are discounters and therefore are cheap, or at least cheaper, and people therefore assume (wholly wrongly as usual) that that must mean everything in the store is just as cheap. I'm pretty sure that, on these prices, I could even get equivalents from upmarket Waitrose cheaper than this. Obviously not what people generally would expect - and, therefore, almost undoubtedly the case!

    It seems Lidl can play on their 'discounter' image and create a whole range of products with very expensive prices. "Spoil Mum rotten on Mother's Day, as well as she deserves..." the brochure says "and treat the family to many Deluxe delicacies over Easter". I think not! They have a "Deluxe" range - have you seen the prices?:eek: I suspect that word "Deluxe" is being used to its maximum effect to create the image that they are top-range products and therefore justify a mark-up. It's clearly playing on the emotional impact of people feeling that they have to "treat" others and using a religious holiday turned into a commercial festival to justify spending of money purely because of the season. You'd be going "baa-humbug" if this were Christmas, but it is not, so there! I'm having none of it - we have our two Easter eggs (one each, for two people) and they are "deluxe" enough for my liking! They are Cadbury's - how much more Deluxe can you get for 2 for £1.50?:cool:

    So, that's all we will be needing specific for this commercial creation. 1Kg of Deluxe Roast Potatoes (which they more charmingly call "Roasting" Potatoes) with Goose Fat (why the need for Goose Fat?) for over £1!:eek: Bottles of wine at over £5, that really should be kept to £3 or below and £1 is too much as that's the cost to make! Some 500ml handwash or bath/shower gel at 99p, alright.

    As for the general "offers", they are hardly any good IMO. 350g Pilgrims Choice at bog-standard £1.99 price and even that works out at quite a bit in excess of my £5/kg price limit. Another "limited" offer - I hope it is limited as I hope it is quickly over with these expensive offer prices - this is not what they want me to be thinking btw:rotfl::D:T - I Can't Believe 500g spread at 89p:eek:. That's way too dear - it's £1.78/kg - there were some 1Kg in Morrisons back at £1.37 some time ago, so that gives some idea as to how expensive the 89p price is - and even then it's worse the usual T offer of 82p, itself an expensive £1.64/kg!

    Some Leeks at 89p - "Great Offer, Great Price" it says. Allegedly! I disagree - even with the Leeks at 750g, it's still £1.19/kg - which works out at... 59.5p for 500g, in other words about the same price as the A r'back price on 500g Leeks. It's hardly "Great" or to write home about in my view. Just another standard offer price for a bunch of leeks.

    Advocado at 69p, but four pack of advocados remain at 99p in M,so notionally less than 25p each compared to 69p - although is this one advocado in Lidl somewhat larger? Is it equivalent to four? And, anyway, still seems a bit expensive. The 99p advocados pack price in M was once ruined by a cheaper mbuy offer price - ever since which the straight 99p (even though T doubtless £1.75) has been too expensive ever to make it onto my list again. I'm waiting for that cheaper 66p each offer (for 4 pack). And, even if 69p is for a large advocado, I notice they have the Pineapples at 50p at the moment although they aren't in the brochure! 50p for a good-size pineapple must surely be a quite good - cheaper than getting a smaller amount in a tin, and of course cheaper than those expensive ready-to-eat packs of the supermarkets:rotfl:.

    Moving on - Kipling 6 Viennese Whirls at "limited offer" of 99p. Quite a lot more expensive than M's 65p offer pricing. And Cherry Bakewells at 99p:eek: - 89p elsewhere and even that is bettered by general 75p pricing on eday versions, which I say are either indistinguishable or equally acceptable to me. Even then whoopsies could be much cheaper!

    Mint Magnum at £1.25, a few pence more expensive than cheapest offer prices of elsewhere!! Lenor Fabric Conditioner at £1.75 and save £1.25 allegedly. But they are just 44 washes, which means they are about £3.38:eek: for my normal 85 washes guide price, which is £3 (and then 10% off hopefully!). In short, £1.75 is too high and could be cheaper unit prices on offer elsewhere before, or could trade-down to the S/P conditioners and save even more than the £1.25 offered here!

    A very expensive offer on toilet rolls, some branded ice cream tub at £2.49:eek: (others elsewhere £2.24 price, Morrisons £2 price and even down to 50p on other versions). I suspect the brands are generally more unhealthy and have more sugar or fat in them than the S/P / Value versions:D.

    Robinsons NAS 1L squashes at 79p. Same squashes in Morrisons at the moment are 74p* (so don't put on an M vs Lidl shop:rotfl:). "Save 21p" it says! However, I would rather Save 26p than merely 21p, or even save an extra 5p and then 10% off = about 12p. It's pence but it's more than half as much again saved elsewhere. I'd rather save more by buying them somewhere else where I would be anyway and as long as not making a special journey.

    Fairy washing up liquids at expensive 99p for 530ml!:eek: To show how expensive that is, it's equating to over £1.62 for 870ml! That is more expensive than even the 2 for £3 offer pricing in M on the 870ml that has ended and even that was more expensive than the low offer of £1.33. So, again, "save 40p" - I do not think so, it would be a much better saving on unit price of other sizes elsewhere at the right times to buy - and even those better savings (than their "save 40p" here) are based on normal straight offer pricing and are even without glitches better than the Lidl offer on the 530ml. You always do much better than me on washing up liquids anyway - my £1.33 for 870ml prices are unrealistically high!
    Maybe try some RTC stock or something else somewhere, that you will find (as you always better me on here!).

    Smoothies at £1.49!:eek::eek: They're 1Kg which means... over £1.11:eek: for 750g. It's too dear. I had 750g for £1 earlier, so not having something that now works out more expensive. You can "limit" the offer all you wish: good cos I'm not having any of it!:D:cool::rotfl: Avoid! Expensive Houmous too - and expensive Yogurt drink! Are all the offer prices really expensive?!? A 10p "saving" on that - big deal - most things go onto half price at some stage, so a mere 10p (off 99p = now 89p) is not anything that saves us anything - indeed, it costs us more compared to much better offers at other times elsewhere. :(Really expensive price on 500ml Cider as well, also presented as a "Limited offer" - I'm sure much bigger Savers bottles available cheaper and my guide, to try to glitch against since itself is still way too dear, is £1.25 for 500ml, which sometimes is the straight price on other Ciders elsewhere, not expensive £1.39.

    Finally, the 1Kg Onions at 29p half price (merely a "half price" offer?:eek:) - we could do with far better than just half price - as a weekend snap offer. Seems to me to be the only thing worth buying in the entire brochure:rotfl:. Ha! They are Oaklands Onions. M does not sell any Oaklands Onions:rotfl:.:D Given that I'd start to seek to compare against prices of 50p for a kilogram of onions and then expect 10% off, the price of 29p is very good indeed.

    In short, other than the Onions, it seems Lidl is a very expensive place to shop judging by this. I might get a 50p Pineapple as well.

    So - there's my critique of the Lidl "offers leaflet" this week:rotfl::rotfl:. I trust that, having read this, no-one will now fall for thinking that the prices, apart from the Onions and Pineapple, are quite cheap as somewhat cheaper prices:money: have been available recently elsewhere, as has been stated. Quite few seem to have been M - sorry, N.I. - maybe will have to get 'ripped-off' by Lidl's prices:rotfl::rotfl:. Or - :idea: could just buy a pack of onions! (No need to buy anything else;):rotfl:.) In fact, even if my wink encourages you(:(:rotfl:), I'm not even buying the onions:eek: as no-one likes them here:money::rotfl:.

    *There is one, non-NAS at 69p in M.

    Thanks savvy.
    We won't bother shopping in lidl or aldi then.:rotfl:
  • aau1
    aau1 Posts: 19,401 Forumite
    Thanks to Orchard for sending me some brilliantly timed MOCs for flowers. :T :money:

    I'm going to leave the date/price sticker on whatever I buy so that its obvious they are not whoopsies :cool:

    Mrs aau1 will either think I love her very much.....or that I've hit my head! :rotfl:
    Apparently, everybody knows that the bird is [strike]the word[/strike] a moorhen
  • Savvybuyer
    Savvybuyer Posts: 22,332 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    To be fair, I could have picked up something like Mr A's Price News instead, and done more or less the same - and, indeed, I did exactly that about a week ago, when I "ripped their offers to shreds" in my mind when I saw it although didn't post about it. It's sometimes useful to help me decide what to get in Sains.(:rotfl:). As is usual though, again last week - it was "this isn't 10% cheaper than X, this isn't 10% cheaper than Y, that's same price not 10% cheaper than...etc., that's cheaper elsewhere in different pack size on...etc.". I think every A Price News is like that:rotfl:.

    They do seem (all the supermarkets) to promote somewhat expensive offers in these leaflets.
  • Dippydoo
    Dippydoo Posts: 2,036 Forumite
    Picasso7 wrote: »
    Sorry, Dippydoo. It worked for me. You need to add it anywhere before the @ -- did you do that? (eg [EMAIL="dippy.doo@gmail.com"]dippy.doo@gmail.com[/EMAIL])
    lol not before i did it wrong but i just tried again and it worked
    thankyou:)
  • Savvybuyer
    Savvybuyer Posts: 22,332 Forumite
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    edited 3 March 2015 at 11:54PM
    savvy_sal wrote: »
    Thanks savvy.
    We won't bother shopping in lidl or aldi then.:rotfl:

    You can still get the packs of 1Kg Oakland Onions, if available, this weekend.

    I'm sure there's also some stuff in Aldi worth getting, that they haven't necessarily advertised. Can't think what it is though:rotfl:.

    On most things, though, despite the perception that they are discounters, it seems to me, generally (there are some exceptions) they are same price as the big supermarkets. Whether it's 1Kg pack of bananas or loose - 68p per kilogram everywhere:rotfl:. They trade (not literally but I mean "work") on the perception that they are cheaper than elsewhere. I find generally they're about the same - although that's saying little of the even more expensive prices for example on some "fresh" fruit in Mr A, and S and probably elsewhere - perhaps some of us (wombleless maybe:rotfl:) would be best buying that stuff on the markets. I'm not sure about "fresh" in the supermarkets either - I bought some (smaller than Russet:() pack of Golden Delicious in A the other week - needed to get a variety of a different apple - not too pleased about them as not very crunchy, perhaps even a bit soggy when I bite into them - I obviously picked a wrong pack there:( - seems they are not as fresh as they looked (do they do lighting tricks - a bit like "that Dress" - in the supermarkets [Strike]sometimes[/Strike] all the time?:think:). Why do apples last for 9 months in the warehouses/shelves and then only last a few weeks, even in the fridge, at home - why don't they ever last 9 months, or a year, at home?

    The Sweet Pears I happened to pick up were better and the Braeburn Packs (600g) even though q.expensive fruit packs on the A prices these days - and the Braeburns now not 10% cheaper than T.
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