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Tinyshoes wrote: »

You are right and it is exactly how I imagined it. :j

The oak smells lovely, I have a lot to be grateful for that we could afford it. :cool:

That's the main thing as you got what you wanted and could afford it:cool:

chocaholics

Savvybuyer wrote: »

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!

Savvy I think this store collection lark is a bit of a con, all the things I ordered were taken from their online site which no doubt Sada can see.

emerald21

aau1 wrote: »

What size were you getting on ipint?

440 Mls don't think I've seen any smaller

aau1

chocaholics wrote: »

Savvy I think this store collection lark is a bit of a con, all the things I ordered were taken from their online site which no doubt Sada can see.

Morries often have web only offers though and they don't advertise them as such

emerald21

aau1 wrote: »

Have you definitely got an ipint reward pack and not a Giftcave reward pack?

Yes I made that mistake once ..... Never again

nerfdad

hornetgirl wrote: »

Are you any good at laying laminate flooring? They'd probably feed you five courses for that

I just paid someone £160 to lay my laminate flooring and it was worth every penny as he did such a good job and it looks far better than what I would of done:cool:

emerald21

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

That kitchen looks fantabulous TS, I am sure you will get many happy years out of it

As for white goods going on too long, I want to change the microwave. It must be about 15 or more years old, and it is massive as I used to cook full meals in it, it is way too big now and I have other ideas about where it will go when I get a smaller one, but it keeps going, and going, and going ...........

Of course if I could get an extremely cheap one it would be different

The thing is the newer ones are much better and more efficient .

TrulyMadly

Tinyshoes wrote: »

We used granite, the company managed to get all the window sills including in both the larders, splash backs and work tops out of one slab. There wasn't enough to go across between the cooker but it has a lift up glass lid. :cool: It wasn't cheap mhoc.

But it was my dream thanks to my mum. :A

And it is a dream kitchen TS.....it oooooozes quality. Mam would be so pleased I am certain:A

Will you promise to take a photo in a few months time when mr TS has walked inside wearing his dirty gardening shoes, you are pickling beetroot and buckets of veg need blanching for the freezer:rotfl:

hornetgirl

The kitchen looks stunning TS, well worth the wait. I'm sure your lovely mum would be delighted too to know that you're putting the money to such good use.

TrulyMadly

LEJC wrote: »

I'm a big fan of a worcester boiler too.....

I'm a Baxi girl myself:cool:

:rotfl: