Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

pippo

scamps1966 wrote: »

Afternoon peeps.

Just got back from A's to look for the cheap toilet roll, didn't find any as it's only a small one.

On the way out, I remembered I had to get some tobacco. As I was paying the CS said 'anything else?' Normally I don't buy said I'll have a £2 scratch card. Scratched it on the bus home and I won £200.

Having a take away tonight.

Well done scamps.. your luck has changed.

bubbs

Pippo what you doing with yourself these days then?

Sarahdol75

bubbs wrote: »

We have had a couple of showers today but very muggy:eek:

Just had couple of little showers

Rhosynbach I hope weather stays good, got family coming xx

emerald21

Sarahdol75 wrote: »

Evening all, been lovely and warm in north wales today.

Has it ..... Must have been when I was in Chester for a couple of hours then

Serendipitious

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Has that got incorrect price for M as I believe it had at one stage? And are the tomatoes now not capable of 10% cheaper than M? TIA. (:oI think Salad Tomatoes at one point were cheaper in Aldi than 10% off (which probably on the APG is now not available). However the savings on the toothbrush and/or use of a womble may have made that more worthwhile - as well as, probably, the cost of a journey - even if only a mile or two - onto Aldi being more than the few pence saved.

In fact, if you could post whole M comp. on that shop... TIA. (Also wondering if the Lemons work against M.)

That one was v T, I'll go back and edit it to say so.

This is v M:

1x Colgate Minions Battery Toothbrush (EACH)
£6.99 £4.00
1x ASDA Smartprice Baked Beans & Sausages In Tomato Sauce (405G) £0.38 £0.38
x ASDA SmartPrice Chocolate Chip Cookies (250G) £0.35 £0.40
1x ASDA Ready Salted (6X25G) £0.85 £0.85
1x ASDA Chosen by You Washing Up Liquid Original (500ML) £0.50 N/A
1x Giant Strawberry Stripes (1PK) £0.10 £0.10
1x Barratt Flumps (12G) £0.10 £0.10
1x ASDA SmartPrice Ham & Beef Paste (75G) £0.25 £0.25
1x ASDA Grower's Selection 6 Firm & Juicy Salad Tomatoes (6PK) £0.65 N/A
1x ASDA Grower's Selection Loose Lemon (EACH) £0.34 £0.30

Savvybuyer

emerald21 wrote: »

Has it ..... Must have been when I was in Chester for a couple of hours then

It can be very local. We had one day once where, fortunately, it was very nice where I live. I could hang the washing out. It was raining down all day at a relative's house five miles away and I had I been there, the washing could not have been hung outside.

We also had another time - strangely indeed - where I was in the work office and it was raining one side of the building but not the other. We must literally have been on the divide between the rain and the sun. It just rained the one side of the car park - and the cars the other side of the building stayed completely dry:huh::rotfl:.

bubbs

Sarahdol75 wrote: »

Just had couple of little showers

Rhosynbach I hope weather stays good, got family coming xx

Is your mum a bit better now?

bubbs

6 bottles of Chilean Frontera Carmenere red wine £20.00 @ Morrisons
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/6-bottles-chilean-frontera-carmenere-red-wine-20-morrisons-2501347

bubbs

only £2.00 for 2 rolls at Co op Regina Blitz
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/only-2-for-2-rolls-co-op-regina-blitz-2501346

Savvybuyer

Serendipitious wrote: »

That one was v T, I'll go back and edit it to say so.

This is v M:

1x Colgate Minions Battery Toothbrush (EACH)
£6.99 £4.00
1x ASDA Smartprice Baked Beans & Sausages In Tomato Sauce (405G) £0.38 £0.38
x ASDA SmartPrice Chocolate Chip Cookies (250G) £0.35 £0.40
1x ASDA Ready Salted (6X25G) £0.85 £0.85
1x ASDA Chosen by You Washing Up Liquid Original (500ML) £0.50 N/A
1x Giant Strawberry Stripes (1PK) £0.10 £0.10
1x Barratt Flumps (12G) £0.10 £0.10
1x ASDA SmartPrice Ham & Beef Paste (75G) £0.25 £0.25
1x ASDA Grower's Selection 6 Firm & Juicy Salad Tomatoes (6PK) £0.65 N/A
1x ASDA Grower's Selection Loose Lemon (EACH) £0.34 £0.30

There's no need with me as the OP, without stating it expressly, tells me that it is versus T since I already recognise it:rotfl:. Some of those items are better vs M. Of course they do not pick up M's original WUL 450ml (which is on the weight boundary and therefore ought to be compared) - but that may be a good thing (although losing 10% as not put onto vs T) if M is full price and 2 for £1 on those currently!

The reason why it is missed vs M but not vs T is because, I think, the online system identifies the T product of 450ml as within weight range and therefore picks it up (from t.com) but the human price collectors, instore in several Ms, have not identified or noticed that M Original Washing Up Liquid, at 450ml, is within the weight range (it's on the actual dividing line) and ought to be picked up and compared against. They also miss M Savers frozen peas:( (900g from A's 1kg) and therefore they don't compare but instead they compare against T (900g) at slightly worse price (as T is more expensive than M). So, unfortunately, you have to put SP Peas on a T comp to get the best price as putting them onto vs M (where M is better overall on the rest of a shop) sees you getting them at full A price rather than slightly cheaper at 10% off T. Of course they are almost same price per kg. on their products:wall:. Almost always the same price and never 10% cheaper although 10% off often lost on rollbacks that are significantly cheaper than what another supermarket has on the exact same item. If you buy a different size, that isn't on A rollback but is on offer at a competitor, it can sometimes work out cheaper than the rollback... Of course they are usually same price per unit on them whenever on offer prices - they tend to go to the same unit price:wall::rotfl:. Or, sometimes, the competitors are cheaper (in other words Avs those on the right size) as their offers are half price and better than round £1 prices that are more expensive. Another failure of more general public perception again (and we know from Sains. that it is all about perception...) as they seem to believe that £1 prices are good.

The general exception to the equivalent products being the same price per litre or kg. is to be found with Sains, where virtually all Sains Basics products are more expensive - and some of them twice the cost of A, T and M! Of course, I suspect Sains. would not accept that their products are equivalent at all:rotfl:. They are in the position of differentiation and charging a higher price for what they would say is their better qualtity. If truth be known, probably, the items are probably identical or very closely so and some of them may even be made in the same factories. From my POV, it's simply to try to get people to perceive them as better (perception not reality is king) and be willing to pay more for them - which of course makes S more money - when our approach is, or should be, to shun this marketing tactic altogether and, usually, go for the cheapest as that will probably almost always be the same as even a branded version, if not sometimes best. Of course there are exceptions - I bought M Savers Ham once and it turned out to be absolutely poor. But generally I see no difference at all between any of them or indeed any competitor "value" ranges - it's all marketing and the way is to reject it all and "the men [it usually is men] who make us want to spend" and buy the cheapest version:money:. I don't usually see differences in quality (there are exceptions where inferior ingredients are used but most seem to me to be the same) except that, sometimes, the value ranges are even nicer! And they often contain fewer nasty things like sugar and salt. Of course, the public more generally are tugged by the emotions of the advertising which is something we should avoid:rotfl:. I think the key to money-saving, largely, is to avoid buying advertised deals.

I notice too that, whenever I try to haggle my phone contract, each year:D (and of course I am no good at that - that's a disadvantage of Asperger's:(), they end up offering me something that works out at the same bog-standard exact same price per unit as the competitors' offer pricing. Always the same rate:wall:. They cut stuff off their price - it turned out exactly the same, yet again, as the competitor's offer had been (and their own offer had been some months previously).

There's no collusion. It's not price fixing. It's simply the way the competitive market works in order to get them the best profit.