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savvy_sal

David. wrote: »

I didnt respond the other day as I was not looking to cause any trouble and no that was not aimed at you or anyone in particular

But seen as you have brought it up again "that FC continuing to respond to nerfy's snidy remarks is childish" that is my point exactly
I am not trying to make out I am the good guy at all and yes I dont contribute anything worthwhile to the thread as hardly post now

But seems you have proved my point

I was talking about ignoring Nerfy not you.

David.

savvy_sal wrote: »

I was talking about ignoring Nerfy not you.

Fair enough but it fits me as well :rotfl:

zippydooda

locarr wrote: »

Evening ALL!:)

Monday's Teaser


There is a school with 1,000 students and 1,000 lockers. On the first day of term the headteacher asks the first student to go along and open every single locker, he asks the second to go to every second locker and close it, the third to go to every third locker and close it if it is open or open it if it is closed, the fourth to go to the fourth locker and so on. The process is completed with the thousandth student. How many lockers are open at the end?

if its the END one 1

zippydooda

shirley999 wrote: »

That's where you went wrong David.. Nerfie is Court jester, some of us just need to lighten up and remember that!

even 3 weeks ago when he was calling my wife names, which she read by the way. and made her really unhappy. i dont think that was very "jesterish".

zippydooda

Savvybuyer wrote: »

A slim chance I think, if the price collectors were at M early in the day and if they had half (or more) of their 6 stores showing £1.96 SEL. Later in the day, I think it is more likely to be altered on the shelf, increasing the likelihood of having £4 instead of £1.96, or have no SEL showing thus being an N/A among probably more £4 stores at that later time of day.

The hotdeals link is more or less my own experience - different stores showing different prices - people having £4 on the SEL but the products going through, early on, at £1.96, others having £1.96 on the shelf but scanning at £4 (they should be held to the SEL in that case IMO), other people with £6.97 on the main aisle but £4 on the aisle end and the products going through at £1.96.

For the APG, it depends which stores they checked and what time of day they did so. And, since there are different flavours, it's possible that some may get one price and others another price. It depends what is on the specific SELs - so, you could have a store that does an incomplete job, shows £1.96 only on one version and £4 on the others. If that was a price collection store, then the one version gets £1.96 from that store and the others get £4. But... this is then combined with the information from the five other stores. Which could mean that £4 (or even £6.97 or £8, whatever is displayed elsewhere) trumps that £1.96 if there are more stores with £4. Then the other stores on the product that showed "£4" in the first store could all have £1.96 in which case they would get £1.96. Bear in mind too that, even if they got £1.96 from more stores, this should flag up that the price has dropped so drastically as to cause them to do a further check. However, this might be done from the information from the other stores.

"14.2.3. If more than one price for a product is found in the representative stores sampled, we will use the most commonly occurring price; if there is no common price, we will use the lowest price found."

It is possible that TBG may have different information, from its stores, to the APG and TBG could work on one that fails on the APG and vice versa, or that none could work on either or one works on both but not another flavour. I don't know why I think this may stand a better slim chance on TBG than the APG. Maybe because there seems a general consensus developing of £4 from the hotdeals SELs. Such that, take 6 stores (APG), and it's likely that more will have £4, if they have a price at all showing, thus £4 being the most common price. However, with TBG, take just 3 stores, you happen to find two (early on) that both have £1.96 SEL and the other has no price marked at all since they took the SEL away when they got the HO email and hadn't put the SEL to £4 before the price collectors got there. It might get £1.96. However, it's a slim chance on both TBG and APG, I don't think it will work on either of them and the chance may be slimmer on the APG (but, then again, maybe not).

There's a different rule:

"Where prices are found to be different, we use the most commonly occurring price. In the event that all the available prices for Morrisons are different, no fair price can be used for a Tesco Brand Guarantee comparison, and therefore the product will be marked N/A."

So, they get £1.96 from one store, £4 from another, the third removed its SEL and is N/A. The prices are different, there is no common price, it is marked N/A. They get £1.96 from two stores and the third is £4. The most commonly occurring is £1.96 so it returns £1.96. They get £1.96 from one store but the second one had changed its SEL to £4 just before the price collectors got there and the third store has £4. It returns £4.

so do you think after the years of using msm it may be the same price collectors.

MrsBartolozzi

locarr wrote: »

Evening ALL!:)

Monday's Teaser


There is a school with 1,000 students and 1,000 lockers. On the first day of term the headteacher asks the first student to go along and open every single locker, he asks the second to go to every second locker and close it, the third to go to every third locker and close it if it is open or open it if it is closed, the fourth to go to the fourth locker and so on. The process is completed with the thousandth student. How many lockers are open at the end?

1? Just the first one?

wendyak

MrsBartolozzi wrote: »

1? Just the first one?

I think so too x

zippydooda

MrsBartolozzi wrote: »

1? Just the first one?

:rotfl: we sort of had the same idea. wonder if aau has been editing

zippydooda

aau1 wrote: »

So from the fourth student onwards they don't actually need to do anything with the lockers...just go to it?

I'm going with 499

:eek:

how can they do nothing? if open close, if closed open

Sunflower1227

Just wanted to say THANK YOU to the OP (think it was Ladyshopper) that mentioned about HE and the "free if it's cheaper elsewhere" got DD her BF and 2 others free airport lounge passes :T:j:T