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MiserlyMartin wrote: »

I was shopping today, noticed Asda have put the price of 4 pints of milk up to 95p! When did this go up? not widely publicised was it?, its creeping up from the old 89p it used to be. Tesco £1.

I don't see how cpi can be 0.5% when there are so many things going up now. Petrol up to 105.9 from 95.9, cost of eating out up,. Even carveries are up to nearly £8, hotels up, airfares not any cheaper even though fuel has fallen.....

Umm, so now need to buy and compare it against elsewhere in order to get it back down, not quite to 89p but to 90p. They were slightly more than 10% cheaper but now they are not 10% cheaper!

Prices on some products - for example in M yesterday and I'm sure this is true of all the supermarkets - do seem to be like trying to push springs down that just spring back up:(. However, clearly supermarkets can't have everything at reduced prices and would need to put some prices back up as they would otherwise never make any money. They don't tend to publicise their own price increases I don't think:rotfl::rotfl:. (You need Savvy to publicise price increases - M's certainly:rotfl:.)

Anyway, I can't be posting about 'silly' things like milk at this hour of the day. So, I'll see you later!:D I'll try and get to the M list, hopefully some time this afternoon, but it might take me a while or I might not start until Friday. Bear with me - I'm sorry for the delay folks, I'll try!

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Savvybuyer

In fact, all those "price crunches" they are telling us about. Prices crunched across the store, as I was taking details of quite a number of items that appear to have increased in price in one aisle. They were telling us about some Chicken Drumsticks on the advert on the tannoy last week, that had gone down in price by a "few" pence and which were nowhere near as good as any of three previous options that I hadn't heard them promoting. It seems the Chicken Drumsticks they were mentioning as price crunched last week have now stayed at that price but gone onto a 2 for £3 mbuy - so, actually, on the mbuy a better price now than what they were last week. They don't seem to be mentioning them now. Misdirection maybe to "price crunches" that are at still rather high prices.

So, ignore everything that they tell you about on the tannoys and pick anything except:money:. The way to save money at the supermarket is to buy whatever they don't seem to want you to be buying and to buy in a manner totally different to what they expect. So, I just buy the complete opposite of what they seem to be telling me about. I do like being 'naughty' and disobeying:D:rotfl:. Makes me feel naughty and I do seem to get some satisfaction out of such:rotfl::rotfl:. As well as being made to feel even better on top by paying far less than most of anyone else in my stores:T.

They've not been telling us about some items as far as I've heard when I've been instore. It's not what is said: instead, I think it's the omissions and absences in life that are far more revealing:rotfl:! The silences, the failures to mention, the lack of saying something - those things speak far louder! I've heard no tannoys about 40p Princes Salmon, or 10p chocolate biscuits and no mention on the tannoys now of any 25p Cadbury's Fingers. Those prices crunched, that are actually good, don't seem to be within the "price crunch" campaign:rotfl:. Then again, maybe they aren't available in every store, precisely because they are RTCs that have gone from some of them, and therefore it wouldn't be easy to put them onto a tannoy announcement for play across all stores. They definitely seem to want us to buy things that make them money though and promote those as "price crunches". And, wouldn't you, as good business sense? (Sometimes the price crunch items have been somewhat cheaper sometime before they went up in price and the "crunch" now hasn't brought it down as much. Gone from their everyday high price that they call low to a price still quite a lot higher than an offer price that has been on them before they reverted to their higher "everyday" price!)

Hmm...:think: the lack of saying something about a price increase in milk in A for example? It speaks to us by its absence, or by an indirect way - or some other way (such as seeing the price of 95p on the shelf - which is actually expressly saying something - but, again, it is the "what is not said" that is the most significant thing - such as the fact that the price label before said 89p and only because we remember that are we able to see the price increase that, of course, isn't expressly said). And I've said it before: if someone doesn't provide an answer to a question, or fails to answer it directly, it's because you've hit the nail on the head! That's what I find. The failure to answer speaks volumes. Speaking totally generally, if any organisation (certainly at the centre rather than any 'informal' face-to-face) ever answers a question straight, it's because it conforms with their PR claptrap and the answer is therefore totally meaningless. It means your question was insignificant and pointless to have asked in the first place, whereas if you have really got the right question and are totally correct, it will remain unanswered or an irrelevant point raised in (failure to!) answer to it instead.

Anyway, on that, goodnight:rotfl::rotfl:.:wave:

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Good morning everybody, I hope you are well and have a fabulous Thursday.

Happy shopping.

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Goooood Morning beautiful peeps......Just popped in quickly...Orf to work...Having a few long days at the moment......Hoping to get back to a bit of normality soon..I do hope you are all well...Hugs if you need it....

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Gotta go..Catcha Laters folks..:wave::wave:

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Good morning all

Running even later

Just checked asda receipt Mullers worked last night No signage though

Thanks to all the posters who kept me up to date

Enjoy your day

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