Everyone lost in the Ether II

Ladyshopper

Munqui wrote: »

Afternoon :hello:



Good luck bubbs!
I avoid hospital car parks, too expensive!
Is there a nearby supermarket with free parking :money:

Could park at Morrisons, not far to walk to hospital. I've done this before to save both the money and the stress!

Savvybuyer

uglybugball wrote: »

Savvy .
Baileys £9.00 litre at Morries from tomorrow

Really? A cautious :j:j:j at this stage!:D
If that is the case (I remember some politician years ago being tricked by Chris Morris into making hypothetical statements in relation to - if I remember it correctly - some fictitious drug-filled cake), then it might even work on the APG this time! We can hope... even if it causes them to think is the large reduction from M's previous price really right?:think::( M may even have been caused it by A's price - obviously want to get people into its stores, in crucial pre-Christmas - and now a price war on Baileys!:D - maybe - it may even help with my wombles:rotfl::T. Hoping it stays prominently in front of people now in A (over the weekend).

Maybe people who've bought it in T though are now not too happy that they've paid a bit too much?:( I saw the customer in front of me in T yesterday (on my failed potatoes shop) buy two bottles from T's £12 shelf price. Difference to A would have been total £4 - but their deduction was only £2.01 as they bought some butter with it that obviously 'must' be more expensive at A (assuming T's calculations are correct). I was thinking as they bought them - they're £10 in A... but, have you got enough items?!?:eek: I thought they might not have done - there must be a few people at least who do that - just pick up the Baileys and pay £2, now to be £3 apparently (and maybe even £3.90:eek:), a bottle over the odds. It turned out they did have enough items but they didn't get the full deduction because of what else they bought. In that case, assuming A and T were close together on the road - and they aren't - it would have been cheaper to buy the offer butter (I assume it's on offer) at T's price in T and the Baileys from A. It would have been cheaper, otherwise, to have bought a 10p sweet packet instead of the Butter, and more different 10p sweets for each item that caused the loss, in one shop from T and then the Butter separately from them a few minutes later. Even that, then getting the Bailey's at A's price would have been cheaper, since they were at T and with no A for several miles, than in effect paying A's more expensive price-matched by T butter price. We do not want them price-matching £2 to £3.49 or something like that!:eek:

Of course, now wait for M, it seems (unless you're in Northern Ireland:(). This is what it would have been better on their shopping as of yesterday.

I overpaid on my Tuc Crackers:eek::rotfl: the other day. I should have waited and bought them later Avs M rather than at 50p on that "A cheaper" 'muggle' shop I did:(. 5p - really?:rotfl: (I thought M had been so expensive so consistently that they would never come down and price-match A:(. However... :idea:maybe now they've abandoned the match part of their loyalty card, on which you used to get "matches" from instore in M in terms of points, now this makes it more incentive for M to have to cut its shelf prices in order to match competitors lest the prices turn customers generally away and to shop at a store they know is cheaper on these items. Price guarantees mean no incentive to reduce your shelf prices - instead you can put prices up. Without one, you may have to reduce your shelf prices lest customers go elsewhere if they think they can now get it cheaper elsewhere.)

Savvybuyer

Can anyone tell me that the 12.5Kg potatoes will return tomorrow and be £2? Not that I want them to be now I have my potatoes from Sainsbugs:rotfl:.

Savvybuyer

:(A now £18.50 on the Baileys - they've never going to buy at that! I need to find the customer who's extremely daft indeed. May be much better now, buying at £18.50 and comparing than it was buying at £10 in the past! (Of course, people generally won't think that way - especially if they now have their Baileys from A a few days ago at £10:wall:.) That's often been the case in the past - an item becomes better, due to price guarantees, once it's no longer on an offer that wasn't as good as a competitor then becomes. However, on this one particularly it also increases the risk. I really hope we get £9 M price from Friday onwards. Or - buy in M!

I remember the suncreams from T DTD Price Check those years ago (that was when I first started). There, you needed to be quick and buy earlier rather than, here, wait and buy later. We never know which it is:(. Someone I know thought they'd got a good offer when they bought them in T on their offer price. However, if they'd bought the previous week, that was the time to buy really, as they were on (not as good) offer then in A but full price in T and therefore worked out far far cheaper as double the difference meant they were virtually free! No good at all as soon as T put its shelf price down. And then A put its price up by then and if you then bought the suncream in a basket it was then even worse as it deducted from any basket even if you then (like the vast majority of people) also bought items that were cheaper in A.

tweets

Good Afternoon

Look what Poppy received today she won it on the ferrerro rocher game :j:j:j

tweets

squigs wrote: »

tweets, another festive game for your list!:)

https://www.yeovalley.co.uk/things-to-do/fruit-machine-xmas

Thank you

I have added it to the list

Serendipitious

Thanks for replies re batteries, might just try it out in the next week or so once I've made a list of what this year's toys need. Couldn't see anything on the APG t&c that excluded them, that's why I wondered.

Used the last of the cidre today at T, got overage, and lots of magazines. My looseleaf MOCs are for Castello, and expire 26 Jan, handy for the inevitable reductions after the event.

High time I bought a printer, DD can't be expected to print the load of MOCs I've recently amassed...

Serendipitious

tweets wrote: »

Good Afternoon

Look what Poppy received today she won it on the ferrerro rocher game :j:j:j

Wow well done Poppy! Nice gift to give your mum being as you cant eat it yourself. :T xx

Ladyshopper

tweets wrote: »

Good Afternoon

Look what Poppy received today she won it on the ferrerro rocher game :j:j:j

Very nice, well done Poppy! :T

tweets

Serendipitious wrote: »

Wow well done Poppy! Nice gift to give your mum being as you cant eat it yourself. :T xx

Sure is mum will love it

Ladyshopper wrote: »

Very nice, well done Poppy! :T

Mum will be getting it for Christmas from Poppy . As Serendipitious said I cant eat them because I don't like nuts