Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

aau1

380g Celebrations for £1.25 ALDI
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MKS

3Dogs wrote: »

Thanks for this. I've had a couple of £10 sale tops in my basket for 10 days or so, adn now I can get them both for £10 :T



Mr 3Dogs and I were married for 31 years and he was the love of my life too. Well most of the time

We all have our moments. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

bubbs

davemorton wrote: »

*sigh* I am sure once Alto climbs out of her hole, she will tell the truth, and you should be ashamed of your fibs Mr.s Bubbs!

MR s Bubbs?:rotfl::rotfl:

tweets

davemorton wrote: »

*sigh* I am sure once Alto climbs out of her hole, she will tell the truth, and you should be ashamed of your fibs Mr.s Bubbs!

If I remember correctly it was angelface bubbs being naughty

And you saying bubbs :eek:

davemorton

tweets wrote: »

If I remember correctly it was angelface bubbs being naughty

And you saying bubbs :eek:

Totally agree tweets, and everyone knows you are an :A so could never fib!!!

bubbs

tweets wrote: »

If I remember correctly it was angelface bubbs being naughty

And you saying bubbs :eek:

Me?!!:A:A :kisses3:

davemorton

Bubbs latest passport photo!

tweets

davemorton wrote: »

Totally agree tweets, and everyone knows you are an :A so could never fib!!!

I wouldn't fib being an :A

tweets

davemorton wrote: »

Bubbs latest passport photo!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Savvybuyer

I was just reading something heavy:eek: tonight as I was doing something other than this thread:

http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/critical-thinking-distinguishing-between-inferences-and-assumptions/484

Undoubtedly pursuing another specialist interest:rotfl:. The reason I'm posting here is that one thing however is relevant to mse.

"I assume that an item marked down in price is a good buy only to find later that it was marked up before it was marked down."

:rotfl::rotfl:

I don't! I think, nowadays, I assume that an item marked down is either continuing at the same price as it was sometime before or has increased in price:rotfl::D. Which is now an assumption of mine, or default start point, that may or may not be correct. Supermarkets, again, though, playing on - deliberately and quite tactically actually as they know from careful targeted market research that this is the case - what they know that people generally will be likely to assume which, yet again, is almost always assumptions that are incorrect.

It's also a bugbear of mine (and hence why I'd gone to read the article, obsessively once again!) - that people in normal life (not on this thread but outside in the real world) so often make assumptions that are totally incorrect - note that I highlight the word "assumptions" in order to indicate that they are that - and it often rather annoys me that they believe things that are just not true! Grrr...:mad::mad::mad:

Anyroad...:rotfl: So it makes absolute sense to ramp prices up and then put them down to not as low as they were before and then :doh:people will buy the new 'offer' in droves:wall:. (Give me an assumption though and I shall just be ripping into what you've said, indignantly, and disagreeing with it fundamentally and on every level...grrr...such a bugbear:rotfl:!)

I think it's a better assumption - and probably more likely to be correct more often - to think that items "marked down" are either same price or have increased in price:money:. (In fact, I know from experience that very much of what I see at M - and I'm sure any other supermarket would be exactly the same - that looks like it's gone down in price if you just take the price label at face value has in fact gone up in price. So many times I see "offers" and they're all increased prices from what was last on my list! In fact all the best items seem to be items whose prices have increased, but in fact they've not, whilst the "offers", that always use higher prices that have been charged for a short period whilst the item was cheaper before, are items that have gone up in price. So many offers each week - crossed out higher price - and they're all price increases! It just seems that way on several days recently - however maybe I'm biased as I tend to notice the price increases like this more and am not paying attention to other items which M could say were good value. Solution: Never take price labels at face value:money: - and keep and maintain your own full records of pricing history available:D:rotfl:. I think also it's best to assume whatever the supermarket does not want you to!! And buy anything they don't want you to buy:rotfl::money::money::rotfl: Behave in the complete opposite way, as I've said before, to what they expect as that's how they make their money - which can only be done by you paying more money - based on what they know or expect people generally to do. So, if you behave that way, you are bound to lose. Behave the complete opposite way instead and you're quids in! Until such point as the general population ever starts to take my advice and do so, at which point the supermarkets would change their approach in order to take more money from people behaving that way - in which case then behave the complete opposite to that again!:money::rotfl: I do like being a bit 'naughty':rotfl:. Nicely devious of me I think:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::money::j:D.)