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Savvybuyer

What happens if you buy this in T at the moment, on a qualifying comparable branded shop which is on the worst place to buy it?

Kellogg's Crunchy Nut Cornflakes (750g)



£3.14 £1.57 20.9p / 100g Valid until 23/02/2016

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Let's say that, although it was now less likely, you still got a TBG 'discount' and it happened to be that all of the other comparable branded items in your shop were cheaper in A. In that case, you have paid A's prices on the other branded items but have 'opted in' to buying the Crunchy Nut Cornflakes at A's full price £3.14!

Not quite what you might think you were doing when you paid the bill pleased that you had a small deduction off. Would have been somewhat higher if you still had enough items and had not bought a packet of the Crunchy Nut at all. (Indeed, you could probably have got your greater deduction, not buying the Crunchy Nut in the shop, and then gone back and bought just the Crunchy Nut at £1.57 and possibly(?) still paid less overall than if you put it in one shop and lost £1.57 of the deduction. In addition, if you shopped in T all in one shop - as most people I would think do - and got a lower 'deduction', because you got it to match paying A's cheaper prices on the rest of the brands but £3.14 on the Crunchy Nut, then the grocery shopping itself would have been cheaper if you had bought all of A's cheaper items in A and bought the Crunchy Nut at £1.57 from T. You really do need to shop around:rotfl:. <<<This is therefore what TBG means IMO. It means you need to shop around more*. Because, if you mix up your basket, you pay more expensive prices than T's on some items. Or, if you don't want to shop around, you need to buy your shopping in the correct baskets against the correct competitors as we do here. (This is the point at which it becomes too complicated for the rest of the world as a whole (i.e. not us minority savvy people on here) to understand and therefore they just overpay.))

*Whereas it's in the store's interests to promote the opposite belief, to encourage inertia, failure to shop around and encourage people to buy all their groceries with them, failure to investigate better prices elsewhere, and just assume they are getting the best deal because prices are matched and they will get discounts if other places are cheaper on the branded items they've bought. In fact, where T has more expensive prices than a competitor, people, if they get a discount, pay T's more expensive price in all cases in which that item is non-comparable against the competitor that comes out best on their overall shop. (And, if the item is comparable against the 'best overall' competitor but happens to be even more expensive than T's price, then they pay that even more expensive price for it, in effect^ (even though they pay cheaper prices on other items in their shop that were cheaper at that overall-best place&) and they do not pay the cheaper price of somewhere else to which the item that compared more expensively compares even though - or perhaps actually because - the comparison against that competitor was not the best overall - namely had the biggest difference between T and competitor prices on comparable items.)

^(less any product-specific coupons they may use in T but could have used anyway off T's cheaper price)

&but would still, in that case, (we exclude travelling costs and assume everything's in one place) be better off if they bought the items that compared cheaper at the best competitor overall at that competitor and bought the item that was cheaper at a different competitor at that different competitor and did not buy from T at all!(:rotfl:) The exception being store-specific coupons for T not valid at the other competitors but then you would need to do a specific comparison against the cheapest competitor in T and not mix up your shop if you were to get the best price for that (but might lose the value of the coupon if you are having to buy 9 other different items that you would not otherwise have to buy or have bought if you shopped at the best shelf-price competitor anyway even if you could not then use the T coupon, even though, in T, you would end up having the additional items for use for yourself later or at some point - they are not valueless but then watch the prices of own label items if you would have bought any of those in case they could have been got cheaper elsewhere!).

izzeyb

Morning squigletina

Unfortunately your mail box is full :eek: :eek:

xx

squigs

Morning izzey!:)

It isn't now:D

It's looking good for another day of glitchy meal deals and quorn don't you think?:T

izzeyb

squigs wrote: »

Morning izzey!:)

It isn't now:D

It's looking good for another day of glitchy meal deals and quorn don't you think?:T

Yep Looks good to me. Checked earlier and just, and nothing has changed for me
(you have mail )

squigs

Is turkey mince still looking ok for you?

izzeyb

squigs wrote: »

Is turkey mince still looking ok for you?

Sorry, not sure where to check this one
Never logged into asda dotcom x

EDIT: thanks so much for your tutorial squiglet lol, I didn't realise it was so easy.

Yep, turkey mince still looking good.

squigs

izzeyb wrote: »

Sorry, not sure where to check this one
Never logged into asda dotcom x

Messaged you!:)

elainemn

Good morning

Savvybuyer

Just to confirm from earlier, SP Cottage Pie (300g), of which they bought 8:eek:, is now N/A against Morrisons.

M used to have 300g at 71p (was 70p/69p/whatever it was before) and it compared before, when they had it. They have moved to 400g and are now charging 93p for that (assuming there has been no change in price since last Wednesday - which is probably a reasonable assumption).

I thought 93p for 400g was now very slightly (like a small fraction of a penny:() cheaper than A's straight price on 300g (given that no 10% is now available on that - I remember when A was 60p before, a long time ago, and haven't bought them ever since:rotfl: but anyway - no 10% available anymore due to M's change in size:().

However, I notice T's Eday Cottage Pie 400g at 90p. However, that's frozen version whereas T's 'fresh' Eday Cottage Pie, also 400g, is 95p. So, M slightly best if you want it 'fresh' but worse than frozen price. Iceland's (frozen) 500g Cottage Pie at £1 would seem better - I can get two decent enough meals out of that - one each for two people in one sitting - even though it says "meal for one" - even though Iceland's price did increase from 89p to £1 around the middle of last year. Seems to me to be best value for me as it is equivalent, obviously, to 50p each for two. Whereas SP Cottage - I can only one meal out of so is straight 70p each (or slightly more expensive if you opt in wrongly to vs Sains. comp).

The 300g SP would certainly be for one. And, probably, the 400g pie would really be for one as well - not really much decent at 200g each - but then I do sometimes eat lots (and never put any weight on either the ladies on here will be envious to know:o:eek: - I just have fast metabolism obviously, just the way I am built, or not really - I just can eat and eat and never get fat!:eek::rotfl:), so, maybe, anyway, maybe 200g is enough for some people here (whom I cannot understand how they can eat so little and still, apparently:huh:, have had a substantive meal - I would be starving at eating just 200g!!:rotfl:).

remote90

Please could someone explain iPint to me? I've got the app and have played the game a few times but never got any vouchers! Is it because I'm bad at the game, lol? Have you got to get to the end of the game, or am I in the wrong app altogether??? TIA