Everyone Loves Ingenious Tenuous Equations

wackynut

redfox wrote: »

links to petitions only on the Campaigns board please.

post removed, sorry

Sorry, didn't realise.

Savvybuyer

I've done a test on these and here is the result vs M:

1x Wall's X-pop Ice Lollies (6X50ML) £1.95 N/A:(:question:

I think the system probably does work the way I think it does - if they don't have them in the 6 price collection Ms, then they won't compare. I don't have these in M at all this week, despite looking wider the week before - not in any of the Ms I've been in. However, they almost certainly are available in M at 91p, because they were in one of my stores about three weeks ago and then disappeared. (They always will be - I cannot see that they would have completely vanished from every one of over 500 Ms and not be available still even if in only one of them - and probably available in a couple of hand-fulls more. Someone will be able to confirm that their M does have them for 91p.) For example the Robinson's Fruit Shoot lollies - also on sub-£1 in M - disappeared for me a little earlier (they were in other stores refound and had then already gone the week before the X-Pop disappeared from mine) but they came back into one of my Ms last week, so I am sure the X-Pop Lollies are around - my experience is that items in M always are - and are somewhere at 91p.

However, vs M:
1x Mars Bar Chocolate 9 Pack (9PK) £2.69 £2.67
1x Nestle Shredded Wheat Bitesize (750G) £2.00 £3.15

I put my shop totally against T:
1x Wall's X-pop Ice Lollies (6X50ML) £1.95 £1.00:)
1x Mars Bar Chocolate 9 Pack (9PK) £2.69 £1.25
1x Nestle Shredded Wheat Bitesize (750G) £2.00 £1.59

All was well there. I figured that, even at 10% off £1, the X-Pop would - only just - work out better than buying them straight at 91p in M because I didn't think the APG would find them, even assuming I could have found them myself in M and even if - being in some M far-away - I could have got them safely back to home without spoilage (which I doubt that I could even if I could have found them now, which I couldn't).

Yes, you got me buying a pack of Mars bars:o:(:( - moneysaving really:question: by buying tempting items you wouldn't have bought at all if the prices elsewhere had been no good.

So, I'll give you one back:

Vs T
1x McVitie's HobNobs Milk Chocolate Biscuit Flapjacks (5PK) £1.40 £0.65:p

I thought this might be an N/A:( (because it doesn't say Biscuit on t.com and says just Chocolate and not Milk Chocolate) - but it does work:T. It is a nice difference and some of these shops, against T, even when there is no glitch:((:rotfl:) can sometimes give half their original spend back or sometimes even a bit more than that, because T is so much lower in price. This is one that contributes more than 50% of the original cost back. I think I bought one of these, with a 65p womble, on a rare purchase of them a few months back, but look at how much more expensive they work out at when they are 65p in A:eek: as opposed to £1.40 and therefore less than 65p.

If anyone is looking at these sorts of bakery products and cakes and the like, and wishes to spend more money than sense:rotfl:, there are some others on 65p in T - however M has twinpacks of Jamaica Ginger Cake at £1 and also Golden Syrup cake at £1 (so 50p for each one in the pack - cheaper than expensive 65p price(:laugh:) on singles elewhere).

I didn't mention I had this 'test' in the system before (plus the fact I needed to replace the X-Pop Lollies (I bought in M last time, weeks ago) as someone consumed nearly the whole pack I bought:mad: - and they are very hard to come by in M it seems to me - but I do not believe that M now has them nowhere). The reason I didn't mention I had this waiting for 3 hours:eek: was in case there was a whole load of complete :o:o in case I hadn't bought enough items - yes, I bought exactly 8 again:eek::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.

My wombles though, useless: even if they struggle to 8, by buying useless duplicates, they still buy Branson's Brown Sauce at £1.58 (T N/A:() as opposed to the Daddie's Brown Sauce at £1.39 (T 69p). As a result, I ended up with four pence:( - and even that because most of their items were N/A against T - I got 10p 10% on one that went £1 vs £1 and lost four pence on them buying three 4 pint milks that lost a penny each plus a pack of Dodgers that was more than 10% cheaper than T - only just - because of 59p at T. They bought the wrong number of another item, that was on cheaper price, but only on mbuy, elsewhere (N/A vs T:p) and generally mixed up the shop (as well as nearly not buying enough in the first place).

So, I think the idea on the sub-£1 (or most probably sub-£1) M lollies is to wait until they are £1 somewhere else and then, if you ever need to buy them anyway, test against there first to see if they have randomly hit upon a rare M still having them on the other side of the comp. - and then if so everyone else (outside NI), for those 5 days or 2 days:(, switch to M (as doubtless they will have moved out of that store by the next time - they seem to make brief appearances on one day and then vanish for me now - as the Fruit Shoot Lollies, from my M local store, have indeed done - there last week, not there this week:rotfl:).

bubbs

ilovetoshop wrote: »

Afternoon

How's your sis today bubbs ? It's also my dds birthday today X

My dd loves little mix so we got her tickets to go and see them so she is currently on her way to Sheffield to see them and my dear husband has taken her:eek::rotfl: not sure who is going to enjoy it the most :rotfl:

Hello :wave:
Happy Birthday to your dd:D, hope they have a fab time
She has gone seaside with her friend and the dogs, i cant get a reply so she has either left her phone at home (unlikely) not got a signal, more likely, i am sure she will ring when she is home

mhoc

Snap-ant wrote: »

:o:o

I'm sorry Mhoc but I am beginning to think like you. They are exactly the same dimensions & shape.

Sorry

But come on lets do some here

I am so naive and trusting. I even showed the pic to numerous people yesterday and not one came back and said it might not be as it seems

Oh well, lesson learned, nothing is ever as it seems.

The odd thing is that OH took a roof top pic over York the other weekend and he has something on his camera that can turn pics into a line drawing, looks very impressive. But we have never said to anyone that it was drawn from scratch, always said it was an app, never deceived anyone - still impressive.
So why did it not click

So maybe I am best not to say anything but just to turn some of my pics into art works and put them on my twitter feed - but after she has done the Sophie one.

I wonder how she gets the text into pics and the signature ...

bubbs

Serendipitious wrote: »

Am so envious here. I have mild withdrawal symptoms - no choc or sweets since Weds. Have chipped back tooth and earliest appointment to fix is two weeks although if it starts to hurt I am to turn up any day. All good up to now, but I'm on a self-imposed sugar ban till then as I don't want to trigger anything off.

So 3 large E/Eggs, 2 medium and 1 tub of chocs are all sitting waiting on top of wardrobe.:eek:

It's OK not having it, I weigh 1lb less already, but I have this persistent niggling sensation that something is missing in my routine! :rotfl:

Off to DD's in a bit to see what the builders have done today...

:eek: no dont trigger anything , too painful , just think it will last longer:rotfl::rotfl:

underperky

How is your ds Bubbs

bubbs

underperky wrote: »

How is your ds Bubbs

She is doing ok thanks, she is being very brave but goes to bereavement counselling for young widows, But it is her DH's birthday today and i cant get hold of her, sure i will later as she is out for the day

tweets

:whistle:

Sausages

bubbs

tweets wrote: »

:whistle:

Sausages

Have you won at footie?

tweets

bubbs wrote: »

Have you won at footie?

No its not half time yet

Match on BBC1