Everyone lost in the Ether II

Savvybuyer

I like this Guarantee. I only went to T with a couple of quid and a bit of loose change and wouldn't have had enough money to pay for my shopping if not:rotfl::rotfl:!

Sir_Dodgy

MrsJoJo wrote: »

Coke glitch didn't work for me :-( No mention of BG on the receipt even. Not sure if it's stopped or I did something wrong! Shop was 30 mins ago.

What exactly did you buy?

Savvybuyer

MrsJoJo wrote: »

Coke glitch didn't work for me :-( No mention of BG on the receipt even. Not sure if it's stopped or I did something wrong! Shop was 30 mins ago.

Must have done something wrong? Not scanned ten different items individually?

If there's no BG mention, I assume going to the checker website and entering the receipt details will bring up nothing, since the shop didn't even qualify for the BG - suggests you bought too few items?:think:

Anon

PEScum wrote: »

Just got 16 boxes (4 shops)

the SS guy was nowhere to be seen until my 4th shop and he queried the amount, I walked away and said I have paid, so sale complete... good night

PEScum wrote: »

So it is only on Coke Zero? Shame - that stuff tastes awful

... when there is a glitch, compromises are sometimes made .

Anon

Savvybuyer

I'm sorry - I'm amazed that people even have receipts after shops like this (if they were failed shops). If the final thing the machine did was to ask for a payment of over £20, I wouldn't put the money in! I'd 'change my mind' entirely, abandon my planned shop and have them cancel the whole thing off. In a way, I had a failed shop, very minor "failure", myself. As I struggled and tried to get the system to give the wanted price. I thought I'd not scanned one of my items - in the event I had, but scanned it twice and just paid them 10p more, so not that great a loss. Especially given the price the shop made the Coke Zero.

MrsJoJo

Sir_Dodgy wrote: »

What exactly did you buy?[/QUOTE
Coke, value ginger nuts, loose onion, flump, dolly mixtures, white chic buttons, milk choc buttons, dolly mixtures, loose Braeburn, loose banana, 4 different 10p sweets. Thought I'd gone OTT with fillers but obviously not.

Wheres_My_Cashback

MrsJoJo wrote: »

Sir_Dodgy wrote: »

What exactly did you buy?[/QUOTE
Coke, value ginger nuts, loose onion, flump, dolly mixtures, white chic buttons, milk choc buttons, dolly mixtures, loose Braeburn, loose banana, 4 different 10p sweets. Thought I'd gone OTT with fillers but obviously not.

COKE ZERO or another variety ?

Anon

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Anyway where is SFSB at times like this? Surely he should be down T, getting his 1p broccoli, 1p carrot, 1p slither off of an onion and paying £1.05 for the whole lot with 4 Cokes:rotfl:.

I think perhaps we should have a bit of a competition, just for fun, no prizes, and see who managed to do a shop with the cokes for the least amount payable. No prizes, as you got the prize really - by paying less:money::rotfl:.

Depending on the range, I think the 12 for £1 sweets are the cheapest packaged/branded items instore, as loose fruit and veg are excluded from brand guarantee and it seems the cheapest own brand have been sneaking up in price (e.g. Noodles 25p). My store only had 7 items available in the sweet range so I had to go with a few more expensive items.

Hth

Anon

Savvybuyer

PEScum wrote: »

So it is only on Coke Zero? Shame - that stuff tastes awful

I suspect - but this is only surmising and guesswork - that it's more likely to have been that it's affected Coke Zero because that variant was stocked in only one of the three Ms they checked and in the one store they picked it up they happened to give it an incorrect price. The other two - Regular and Diet - are more widely available in M (I suspect) so that they would be likely to have at least two prices, from two separate M stores, for those items and pick up the most common one - thus if Regular and Diet are each in all three (very likely), even if one store had 24p on those, two others would have £6 each and thus the system gets £6. If they got those variants (Regular and Diet) in only two M stores - less likely as they are widely available - if they got 24p in one and £6 in the other, it should be marked N/A as there would be no common price. I think it's probably, or possibly, because Coke Zero isn't as widely available as the others in M and they've got it from one store and the price collector there put in an incorrect price.

So, watch out for items that are 'quite rare' in Morrisons stores (stocked in only one of my three stores perhaps?:rotfl:) in order to try to buy them in T and see if they work:rotfl::rotfl:.

Perhaps some of those ice creams would work - as they are quite rare (or only in one store). But that would be expecting the one store they got them in (and they might have found them more widely) to have put in an incorrect price, which is unlikely. It's actually as unlikely as this Coke Zero glitch. But, when we have a glitch, that affects a random item like this, we can't choose which item it is I'm afraid. It's probably Coke Zero for that reason (it's more rare stockage in M).

Moreover, the ice creams are technically RTC pricing - which TBG terms say it does not compare (whether or not it sticks to that though is anyone's guess, that's what they say) - however the fact they are RTC isn't marked on the shelving in some M stores. So the TBG collectors would never know. They'd just scan, or take the price however they take it, and that was that. Or maybe sometimes they could scan things in error, and prices end up being put into the system, even if they are marked as RTC. These price collectors you know - you always renowned for attentiveness:rotfl:. They ain't Savvy:D:laugh:. Thank goodness for that you say!:rotfl:

Also there's the possibility that, if a particular branded ice cream is available in two of their three stores (not available in the other), that it could be marked RTC in one and thus missed off, correctly, but that this leaves only one store with the price - and they could get it much lower than it really is (perhaps 1p) and put it in wrongly. More fool them for excluding marked RTCs:rotfl:. (They would have to be marked, i.e. displayed in the M, I don't see how they could know it was RTC if they was no indication at all in the store of that.)

Savvybuyer

Anon wrote: »

Depending on the range, I think the 12 for £1 sweets are the cheapest packaged/branded items instore, as loose fruit and veg are excluded from brand guarantee and it seems the cheapest own brand have been sneaking up in price (e.g. Noodles 25p). My store only had 7 items available in the sweet range so I had to go with a few more expensive items.

Hth

Anon

I wouldn't necessarily be buying 12 for £1 though (unless 11 were the same and that would be daft overpayment) as the mix and match mbuy could then reduce T's price and lose (a few pence) vs M at full 10p price:rotfl:.

Lucky you - I don't think I had 7 different sweets in my store (I probably did though - check my posted shop). Loose fruit and veg are not excluded. That's a misconception. I bought loose potato, a loose banana and the smallest loose carrot I could see:rotfl:. And it worked.

They are excluded from comparison. This is because they are own label. However, they are not excluded from the number of items total, they appear on the comparison itself even though they do not compare (that is they return N/A against all other shops), and they definitely count as numbers towards the 10 items (as long as you don't buy more than one of exact same item - if you do, it just counts as one, it doesn't count as however many you bought). Whoopsied own label counts as an item as any other (again putting aside any duplicate items - i.e. I understand that to mean exact same barcodes - not sure if items have different prices depending on the time of their reduction - probably count as the same one item if they are for example both T [specific version of x type of bread same weight]). Whoopsied branded also counts - but I wouldn't include that unless you are definitely sure that the item isn't stocked at all in M (its regular price otherwise would almost certainly be more expensive).