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vanilla_twist wrote: »

Found but not tested

Small glitch on Mr A 3 for £10 chocs

Linda Lindor the new winter addition is not showing on mys or a online so should be a trigger along with 2 of the red boxes or regular ones. Think orange is also a trigger.
Not the best comparison but £4.80 a box in Mr A but £3.50 a box in Sainsbugs and Morries.
NOT TESCO but should work. Giving apg of £2.60

I know tiny but I found it so one to watch for better comparisons

Also found what would have been a glitch on old ordering system. One of the air wick home signature flowers was priced up at £6 instore but £12 online. £6 in T
I believe before it would have given a £6 apg and a free air wick but now nothing:( so if anyone still has old system or way of getting it go for it.

Oh well just keeping My hand in. Would have tested chocs as mums absolute favourites but comparison not good enough for me. These are only ones we have in 3 for £10 so far.

V x

Every little helps vt:T:T

Savvybuyer

It seems that a few of the price increases that occurred (or maybe they were a "thing that happened" - an event!:laugh:) last week have been reversed. Meaning that basically they are on the same price as they were before the price went up:wall:. It's a number of items in the freezer area, including the higher weight Goodfella's pizzas. And Birds Eye 2 Chicken Quarter Pounders, Birds Eye Omega 3 336g, Linda McCarney's Sausages and Mozzarella Burger, may or may not have gone up last week - I forget exactly when - but they are back at the same offer price now having simply gone up recently. All at same price as they were before they when up. It's not just freezer items though. The Pork Meatballs (340g) that were £1 but went to £1.36 last week are now back at £1:wall:. So, ignore that crossed out price as basically it's the same deal as you could have got before they went up and merely went up to provide a crossed-out price that none of us would buy at. The Coco Pops biscuits pack were £1 offer price recently. Then, last week midweek, I checked - the offer had ended and they'd gone up in price. Now, as of midweek this week, they are £1 RTC:wall:. (I don't know why online is showing £1.91 now, it seems out of sync - unless M have already reversed the "RTC" within days after presumably trying to get rid of a few at £1 around midweek.)

The annoying ones are the Lightsaber and Minions lollies packs (and I presume the Peppa Pig lollies as well). They have been 2 for £2 for quite some time. Now they are £1.52 RTC:wall:. Showing the £1.92 individual pack price that they technically were before, but in my view no-one in any rational mind would have bought one pack at £1.92! Seeing the price at £1.92 and 2 for £2, I suspect most people would have bought 2 for £2, for all of 8p but for much better value, unless they happened to forget or missed the mbuy out of rush or something like that. That's the problem though - most people are not of rational mind!

So, as you would, or should, have bought 2 for £2 last time, if you were buying them at all and had any sense, it will of course now cost £1.04 more to buy the same as last time! I think just buy a single pack in Aldi where some of them are on straight 99p (if indeed they are still at that price there as they have been).

EDIT: Peppa Pig is even worse. Straight £1.92 apparently (according to online). Avoid! Whatever price it is, it is too dear! In fact, Minions showing that price as well - I have no idea why online is showing completely different prices to what I have instore.

It seems M are having an alcohol event (my description) instore this week, whereby all the 20 pack/18 pack crates that went onto £10 the week before have now gone up (a "thing that happens"!) and the 1L alcohol bottles that were £15 have now gone to £17. Complete, in my store, with large yellow labels with £17 price on them:wall:.

I don't know if I could work in M and I don't know how people manage to work there and to have a clear conscience in their soul - whilst not suggesting anything illegal underhand - or maybe it is just a job and that's how they feel clear - but to replace smaller 'normal' white £15 SELs with larger £17 yellow [Strike]offer[/Strike]* labels, either knowing for well that the price has gone up or else being, to my mind, wilfully blind to the matter, when clearly larger labels are meant to have people buying the product... I don't know how they can remain totally emotionless in doing that and not feel at least something 'wrong' about doing it. However, maybe people have different moral standards than me and it is doing their job of selling to customers at a higher price than before and making the store money. Staff are not employed to represent us, they are there to make their own businesses money and, I suppose, to keep their own job in that way. They are doing their job - I cannot complain (and perhaps they feel comfortable by looking at it this way, that they're just doing their job).

It is perfectly legal. There is nothing against the law about putting prices up and you can display prices in any manner in which you choose so, it would make sense to display higher prices much more prominently to have as many people as possible paying you more for the product and making you more money. It doesn't say it is an offer at all, although some or many (how many Savvy?:p I don't know, I have no evidence:o) people may assume it is and therefore it does "say" that it is, to them. (You do not have to say things in words - you can communicate things by other methods and sometimes silence can "say" things or "speak for itself".) For it communicates to people what they may assume. And, when lower price offers are available, and when those are promoted, cynically they are only there with the intent of getting you to buy something else as well and make them money that way!

Tell me, someone, if you work at a supermarket... do you not at least feel some guilt, or unease, at replacing a smaller price label with a large label showing a price when the price has gone up?

*Sorry they are not offer labels - it is just that they are meant to look that way, most probably deliberately (and there is no suggestion that that is wrong - the deliberateness is in order in order to have people buying from them - the only aim, a legitimate one, of supermarkets is to sell people products and make money).

davemorton

Evening all.
Zippy, I think I can beat your 10 mins for payout. I had 2 receipts to do tonight, I did one, and by the time I did the second one, the first had already paid out. Second one was about 30 seconds after :eek:

Serendipitious

Had to laugh in A's today. Called in yesterday to look at the end-of-event pet stuff, nothing there hardly, just a few cat igloos at £5 instead of £10, so I nipped in as passing today in case they'd been reduced further as I might have been tempted for DGD who has a cat of her own.

No chance. Today the same ones on the same shelf were back up to £10.:rotfl:

redrose1414

Good evening,
I haven't got time to read back so apologies if I'm repeating what someone else has said.
These http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/asda-compare-prices/Conditioner/LOreal_Paris_Elvive_Nutri_Gloss_Luminiser_Conditioner_250ml.html?TrackingCode=141.BzMzpHg2j0yrxoGh_LCGjA and the matching shampoo are RTC at £1.20 in my A so I got 6 on 1 receipt and 6 on another for COS and CS 75p payout for each item.

Edit: just realised I have put the link up for the 250ml, it is in fact to 500ml but I can't find a link for it with a pic.

zippydooda

vanilla_twist wrote: »

Found but not tested

Small glitch on Mr A 3 for £10 chocs

Linda Lindor the new winter addition is not showing on mys or a online so should be a trigger along with 2 of the red boxes or regular ones. Think orange is also a trigger.
Not the best comparison but £4.80 a box in Mr A but £3.50 a box in Sainsbugs and Morries.
NOT TESCO but should work. Giving apg of £2.60

I know tiny but I found it so one to watch for better comparisons

Also found what would have been a glitch on old ordering system. One of the air wick home signature flowers was priced up at £6 instore but £12 online. £6 in T
I believe before it would have given a £6 apg and a free air wick but now nothing:( so if anyone still has old system or way of getting it go for it.

Oh well just keeping My hand in. Would have tested chocs as mums absolute favourites but comparison not good enough for me. These are only ones we have in 3 for £10 so far.

V x

TM please help the ladies with their workings out.

Tinyshoes

zippydooda wrote: »

TM please help the ladies with their workings out.

Is it £3.30 APG zippy? Think VT forgot the 10%. :money:

I know I'm not TM but I'm sure she will be tucked up in bed by now.

Tinyshoes

Might go for this cheese instead when I go to waities. :money:

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/waitrose-english-mature-cheddar-2-25-for-550g-2504992

Tinyshoes

Know this is expired but this happened before and I'm sure it worked in store too. Someone might remember?

Still it's worth checking to see if it comes back in stock online.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/3-dove-travel-minis-sets-for-3-instead-17-97-superdrug-2504826

3Dogs

bubbs wrote: »

Sorry to read about Mllie 3dogs:(
One of my customers has a springer and she has seizures she had a brain scan £3000:eek::eek: but that was covered with insurance

I remember you saying about your customers dog bubbs. Yes they told me about £3000 for a scan :eek: I've not got any of mine insured due to their age when I adopted them, plus Berry Bear and Millie both had serious existing health issues which wouldn't have been covered. However one of my Rommie fundraising friends has told me about E&L Insurance and I did a quote, start at £16.50 a month up to £24 a month, despite their age, depending on cover, BUT of course would not include any existing health problems. This may be of use to someone else who has older dogs not insured, or anyone looking for pet insurance

Anyway, off to bed now, to read my book, as I've got back into reading in last week or two

Night Night Elite