Every Little Interests The Elite

Savvybuyer

The trouble is we know more information about their competitor than they do.

Switching now to TBG, which uses just 3 stores, I can think of a number of items could be bought if anyone wants to try for a failure on TBG - hopefully return a complete non-comp. against M and show their system to be a total failure on the shop and show themselves as unable to make sure that people will "never pay more".

Whilst there are items that are common across Ms - and even not all of those get picked up on price schemes, such as 1Kg carrots on the APG - there are different ranges in every M. Even using twice as many stores as T is likely to miss at least one of them - indeed my regular set of stores, where I use four (sometimes five) in order to try to work out the prices on items where three stores may have not displayed the correct ones, I regularly do not see some ranges of products. (With some items, such as the 'new' Halal sweets, which are/were being trialled, you'd be unlikely to hit a store with them. Just 10 stores in the country - 10 out of 500+ - a less than 2% chance of any one store being one that has them. However I wasn't referring to Halal sweets but other ranges.)

The ranges include mainly world food items - I find a lot of variance between Ms on those and some Ms do not have any of them. It's not always smaller stores - I have one smaller store that has one item, although it doesn't have many others, from a world foods range, that is not stocked in my main big store that now has an 'expanded' world foods range. My main store however does not have at least two different ranges from world foods that, as a result, I regularly do not see. I would need at least two different stores, and probably three, from beyond what I use regularly in order to pick those up. In fact I need all my over 90 stores I've ever been to as I find additional items in every store:rotfl:.

The other ranges include the Twarogs and Holland's individual fresh pies (although the latter are in quite a few stores in the North West of England and fortunately I have one of those on my regular run), the Morliny products - although my Twarogs store has quite a number of Morlinys that my other store does not have, it doesn't have the Morliny Turkey & Pork Hot Dog that I have to pick up from elsewhere. And even then a similar Morliny to that isn't in my regular stores and has to be found elsewhere.

Even the biggest store Leamington - even if I were to go to there - it may be that online shows what is in Leamington - there are numerous items missing from online.

And there are individual items within ranges of products that are not stocked at some Ms or, for me, do not seem to be stocked at many of them at all.

Some of the baby products - more so the creams, the cups and bottles - are in only some stores for me.

The Cofresh products are ranges that aren't stocked in quite a few stores, or some stores have very few of them. The Island Delight pattes, the Sea Isle Beans, the Paneer cheeses, the KTC products (again world foods), Taj, Gino's, Iglotex and Shana frozen products, various ranges of shampoos, again don't seem to be in many stores.

With 3 stores, they are going to miss a substantial number of these products or else, if they have a store that has a number of them in, will miss several others as they won't be in their remaining two stores - and those two stores would have to be 'different types' of M - in terms of stock - in order to pick up a wider range of what M stocks so would not pick up the missing world foods items. They might get baby products that aren't stocked in their large number of world foods (but not all ranges) store but I think wouldn't have the world foods that weren't stocked in their 'world foods' store. Trying to find a store that has those - a final third store - wouldn't have either the Twarogs, the Holland's pies or something else (and these may not be in the other two stores you use). You may be missing the Tiger Energy Drinks or the Nestle Princessa bars (I think I may still have one of those missing:rotfl: - as I have just two of them in one of my stores out of a possible three that M might stock but I've no information that they do have all three).

I'll have a think of some of the products that I have only in some rare place but not elsewhere and come up with a potential small TBG failure list if anyone wants to try for a nice failed shop, end up paying more, showing their three stores unable to pick up many 'more obscure' items, and maybe a moneycard ought to be offered in return. However, these 'obscure' items aren't obscure at all in the places in which they exist and, there, are regular items that some people may regularly buy - and maybe I only see them as "obscure" because they are items that aren't in my regular stores, whilst some items I regularly have may be "obscure" from the perspective of someone else's store that has my "obscure" items and doesn't have these. I'll come up with some items that don't seem to be in many Ms and therefore I suspect won't be picked up by TBG using just three stores, although I can't guarantee they will fail:rotfl:.

xxlouisexx56

Went to A's in search or cheap DW tabs.

Couldn't find any but found A's own brand washing gel and liquid on RTC
£1.50 for 34 washes (gel)
85p for 20 washes (liquid)

Star fruit and amber flavour

tweets

Snap-ant wrote: »

Dearest tweets - please can I ask you to carry the QUIZ torch until I return from seeing Dad please?

We leave early on Monday

I will gladly carry the torch and post the quiz for you :A

Enjoy the time with your d dad

purpledonkey

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Nearly forgot.....a heads up.....JL hot drinks and cakes vouchers X 2 have arrived this morning:p

Also a dessert and hot drink at Rossopomodoro when you buy a man:)

When you buy a man?! :eek:

Count me in :rotfl:

purpledonkey

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

I hope that is not "a la Little Britain" :eek:

I heard her testi-clay are magnificent

Afternoon all :wave:

David.

LEJC wrote: »

perky....I have a little thing about James Martin after meeting him in a lift,dropping my bags as I got out and him walking me and my bags to my room....lovely guy

Tart :eek:

Oh sorry bags

:rotfl:

David.

purpledonkey wrote: »

I heard her testi-clay are magnificent

Afternoon all :wave:

Afternoon

That's all I best say to you :rotfl:

emerald21

Pack of 4 Carling lager free on Quidco click snap

Savvybuyer

APG terms

"14.2. Morrisons prices are updated twice weekly (on Wednesday and Friday) using in-store shelf prices which are collected in a representative sample of stores across Great Britain each week (on Monday and Wednesday).

• 14.2.1. Because Morrisons prices are only updated twice per week (Wednesday and Friday), it means that Morrisons prices checked may be up to 7 days old.
• 14.2.2. If a product is out of stock we will use the shelf price label if displayed (for a maximum of 7 days). If a product has a price marked on its packaging which is different to the shelf price, we will use the lowest price displayed.
• 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."

But how do they know that the stores they are using are "representative"? I think this used to say that the agency regularly reviews the range that is stocked in the various Ms and ensures that they are picking a representative sample. Does this mean that they visit other Ms, in order to survey the range, and work out whether they should be moving to collecting in some of those stores - and then, if they did, and dropped another store as a result, what items would they then be missing?

Clearly Ms that currently display £3.50 for Crisp N Dry 2L Veg. Oil are not representative of M as a whole:rotfl:. In some way a "representative" store will therefore not be representative at all.

I don't think this word in the T&Cs is meant to be taken seriously:rotfl:. It's just added there, without any substantiation of it being required, in order to bolster their argument that they are trying to make or as boilerplating. Is the onus on us, though, to prove that the stores aren't representative? I'm, in fact, not saying that they are not: the stores probably are fairly representative of M's general range; however, equally, the stores I use are arguably fairly representative of that too. I think as long as someone didn't deliberately pick all stores that had no world foods range, then you could make an argument that any random selection of a few stores (that didn't have that situation) was "representative".

However, if you are picking a set of stores that is "representative", and then remain at that selection, different items will disappear from the chosen stores and then the stores will not become representative of that at all. I don't think you could show, at any stage, that you were "representative" because you'd lose different items at some stage and then at some points pick up other items that have come into your stores but been lost from elsewhere (that you weren't checking). I think it's like all opinion polls that say they use a "representative" sample but how do they know? It's like a sample that "represents" - so, in an opinion poll, they pick different age groups, or home owners, or people with different incomes, or whatever, in order to try to "represent" the whole - but could never know that their result was the "truth" - in other words the 100% voting (including abstention) figure - and there is always a margin of error.

The Taj frozen products - or some of them anyway - are now 2 for £1 in M - I think the APG has missed them, or at least one of them, before so might not have them in their stores? Then again, different ranges come in and out so that they might now be there. I wouldn't bet on it though!

And their representative sample of stores has failed to pick up the Dove Oxygen Moisture - or else they are excluding it for some reason?:think: - whilst my representative sample of my regular stores would, I think, have picked it up had I visited those stores this week.

I don't have it this week, because I have visited another set of representative stores, and picked up a whole range of items that aren't in my usual set, in an attempt to represent (but fail to achieve) the whole full range of what M stocks. I don't have that though as the Sweet Zone Mallow Twists (although they aren't currently on an offer) aren't in any of my regular stores or the other ones I used this week:rotfl:.

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/morrisons-price-comparison/Sweets/Sweet_Zone_Mallows_Twists_190g.html

Nine stores visited, across Monday and Wednesday, this week and still didn't see one item therefore - in fact there's more than this one that I am aware of. There's items on m.com that I haven't got in these nine stores, there's also the 50p Kia-Oras - if they are around anywhere - I assume they must be - and the Maynard's Sports Mixture Carton (unless they were in one of my stores but not noticed by me because, if they were there, they had unchanged full price SEL) that I am aware of but which are not online and - the Kia-Oras certainly, the Maynard's probably (I don't recall seeing them) not in my nine stores. So, I'm still missing - that I know to be missing - items from using three times TBG's number and possibly half as much again additional to what the APG uses. I might be missing the Nestle Princessa milk chocolate bar (I have Coconut and I have Hazelnut) but I'm not sure whether M stocks it - I have a vague thought they might have it at some far-away from me store that I visited several months ago and may have seen it when it wasn't on offer price but I don't know. Can anyone (truthfully) tell me they have Nestle Princessa milk chocolate in their M at 33p? TIA.

I am not counting any of "handful" of outstanding items I said I was missing yesterday as classing as "missing" here as I picked them up on Monday and therefore they are included in the total of 9. (They are all on m.com and the offer prices ongoing on there, so there's no issue about me saying they are still on offer - and I saw them physically on Monday anyway.) However of course I'm missing the Crunchy and Fudge funsize packs if Burton still has them, because I didn't visit there. APG was N/A soon after Christmas. And Aunt Bessies 1.5Kg Roast Potatoes if they are still around anywhere - but I will decide that they are as they never completely vanish from everywhere! I've not got the alcohol can that ended up at 50p RTC - I again start to doubt it will now be anywhere, but what do I know? If it is now available anywhere, it is going to be very rare I think across M as a whole. I will delete one of the Bottlegreens that I have at £1.21 - and last saw at St. Helens over a month ago, probably with an incorrect SEL of a higher price than that - but can fudge it on this one and delete the item from the list as T is £1.19 offer price on some other Bottlegreen at the moment!:cool::):j:rotfl:

Has anyone still got Cadbury Roses (321g) carton at £1.50? I lost trace of that about three weeks ago - probably in some M that missed the marking down of the price and has only just put the markdown on now:rotfl:.

I did, eventually find, from the 9 different (some new for me) stores, the Laila Broken Basmati Rice 5Kg that's showing £2.50 online. However, I found a SEL of £8:eek: and I had the product checked at the till too and it scanned at £8 so I don't know why online is saying £2.50. I'm starting to doubt I even have the right product but I am sure that I have got the correct one. The bag had 5Kg on it and it said "Laila" and "Broken Basmati Rice" on it too. I've therefore taken it off the list for safety - I doubt if the APG will have a store with it anyway as it doesn't seem to be in many stores (I could certainly go through far more than twice the number I have and fail to find it in any of them - if I then did not go to the one store I found it in) but, as far as I know, I've seen it at £2.50 online but the only information I have found from instore is that it is £8!

TrulyMadly

underperky wrote: »

Well my guess it will ""offend"" some people .... It's a disgrace that in

In 2016 we are being knuckled down to not upset any other religion

I mean the Queens birthday where is the harm in that


Whilst the people of other religions will not knuckle down to what is our right to celebrate birthdays etc

If our traditions upset them that much why don't they build and fund their own schools
Or just ignore it if they don't like it .....as there is plenty of things I don't agree with in different religions and countries but I do not protest about them ..I accept that people are entitled to their own opinions

Do you think these countries would not celebrate their traditions if we lived in their countries and it offended us

Now I am not wishing to upset any religion from Catholics to buddists

and all the rest of the religions

But we need to get a back bone and put a stop to all of this and Happy Holidays for Xmas

We don't protest when other religions want to celebrate their traditions
And we should uphold all of our traditions and ceremonies after all

we do have a Lady as our head of state and long may she rule

Happy Birthday Philip

Happy Birthday to our Queen

How many people on here will wish our Lizzie and Phil a Happy Birthday

Let's see how many like this post or how long before the post is removed because my opinion offends

Pressing the button then running for cover

Can I be the tiny tiny voice of dissent:o

I agree with most of what you say perky....it's just the tone:o

I'm not one for jingoism and broad brush statements as that way lies trouble....I think it's up to us as individuals to challenge the way that political correctness has turned the world upside down.....and keep on keeping on promoting tolerance and diversity.

Right....I have an early finish and spending it baking.......back to my pies:D