Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

Savvybuyer

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Just typical we buy something only to find the price we bought at is beaten:(.

Oh you like this post - four thanks. That shows to me we've all been there and done it:(. And most of us probably continue to do so, despite all the efforts we make. Just so hard trying to save money:rotfl: (or maybe that's just me?). I share your pain and you share mine.

Savvybuyer

I may be making excuses for Asda now:rotfl:. Unfortunately the problem for Asda is maybe that they can't lower so many of their prices quickly enough that, when the PG ceased to be available to check (including barring shops that had not been done at least three hours earlier), as the PG probably inevitably had to come to an end at some point, as 'all good things come to an end' and 'nothing lasts forever', many of the prices in Asda effectively became more expensive for us because it had not been focused on lower prices before but the PG itself may have caused an inertia that left it enabled to price at any high level as it had a PG to fall back on.

Unfortunately, I think rising prices on the correct shelf prices may have caused a few previous customers, who had other retailers available to them nearby, to go to those places and Asda lost market share despite having a PG, because those previous customers who no longer are didn't think of the PG and Asda wasn't pushing it or able to sell it to them or was ot believed or was wrongly thought to be a con when it tried to do so. Frankly most general customers were already sick of stores pushing price promises at them that they didn't believe when prices seemed to be rising everywhere despite having them and sometimes advertising too loudly can annoy people and make people switch off and go to another place because they are fed up of you trying to sell it to them. The PG wasn't enough to ensure people (out in the wider world, who didn't see its benefits) stayed with Asda and Asda went through a period of losing market share even though it had the PG - from that, it was I think obviously clear to Asda that it wasn't achieiving its aims and helped contribute to the decision to scrap it. It's a shame (and this is shared by customers who didn't use it but felt it was there, even if they didn't use it and liked the fact you could challenge them to see if somewhere else would have been cheaper: https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/asda-scrap-price-guarantee-1985067) and arises because people generally lack knowledge and one basic problem with a 10% cheaper guarantee is that people lack knowledge even as to what percentages are. They don't know the meaning of the word "percent" let alone have any hope of understanding how such a system works! So trying to sell that... it would be amazing and would be shocking except I have ceased to be amazed or shocked at the sheer lack of knowledge of some people or of the wider public, but some though that, when Tesco had a guarantee, it meant that Tesco would always be more expensive. I bet those people think now, with the scrapping of the PG, even if thought about it even cross their mind which it probably doesn't and has passed them by, that the ending of the PG and even lower prices means that prices are now immediately lower in Asda.*

In fact, at least before, prices didn't just rise: they often went through a cycle, sometimes fixed cycle, of going up in order to go onto a more expensive offer and then come back down, based on the previous individual price being stated, to promote an offer of the original price to the customer in order to try periodically to attract them to buy the item. They go up so that later the previous higher price can be promoted and "look what you are saving!" so that the product then sells, perhaps on impulse to people who didn't need it and makes them buy more there, and hopefully a few people bought the item when it was full price (and maybe on offer or maybe on better offer than Asda ever went to or came from) and failed to claim the PG so sold the product and paid for the store there.


*FOOTNOTE: This goes on forever (fortunately not literally as it could never literally do so) so return to where you got directed from before you come back to this: I sound really condescending and high-minded to think that people have such a low level of knowledge and understanding - however this refers to no-one on here as we are the ones with the knowledge and understanding - instead it is the outside public who don't use, or even know about, this forum and it never ceases to amaze me just how lacking in knowledge people generally are (or rather the reverse, as nothing will amaze me anymore and I can't put it past consideration that anything at all, no matter how ill-informed or misunderstood, will not be believed by someone). Basically the general public know almost next to nothing about virtually everything. It's true though: we can't even get every Trivial Pursuit question correct so, if we can't give the factually correct answer, how do we know that anything else we think or any opinion we have is right? I know nothing, on some or many things: most of us are the same. I know everything about the 5% of things that I study, but nothing about the 95% that I don't concern myself with. You will know the 1% of the world in which you deal with: the other 99% will pass you by. So ask an engineer about questions about engineering and they will know but questions about the 99% of other topics and they will know nothing. As everyone is in the same boat as regards each other things, overall it works out as the 1% of us (these are not true figures, just illustrations) that are engineers will be the only ones that know about engineering but 99% of us don't so, overall, most people know next to nothing in that area and, in any other area, 1% will know but 99% won't, so again, overall, people know next to nothing there and so on - therefore that most people know next to nothing about virtually everything. When I find that people are unknowledgeable, they are unknowledgeable of course about things which I know about (or claim to know about:rotfl: - except that my claims are almost always the truth as I wouldn't know how to lie, and in the rare occasion that they are an untruth, it is because (possibly) I am not even aware of what the truth is and honestly believe it to be something else which, unknown to me at present, it is not). I find people unknowledgeable in things about which I have knowledge (or claim to but we are going round in circles giving this caveat every time). Other people will find that I am unknowledgeable in things of engineering or how to build a garden shed in which I know next to nothing (although I could take time to learn and then understand how to do so and then would know about how to do so). There will be shed-building experts on here, who will also know about money-saving expertise but next to nothing about, I don't know, producing a cyclinder record or typewriting formats.

pandoraskids

Quids

20p & pde

Boohoo & Holidayextras

TrulyMadly

pandoraskids wrote: »

Quids

20p & pde

Boohoo & Holidayextras

I've got 20p and 20p

The only time Is win is early morning:think::think::think:

Do we know of any other comps like this? Most are benefitting from the daily reminders:)

TrulyMadly

mhoc wrote: »

Suggestions please as to other uses for sour cream?

OH came home on Thursday with the makings for fjahitas but with no sour cream. But on investigating the fridge I still have a bit left at the end of the last pot, few days out if date but it smelt and tasted fine and I survived the night.

So tonight we had fjahitas again - as the makings do 2 meals - bag of beansrouts, stir fry, 8 wraps - but I had a new tub of sour cream which Ive got 2/3 left now ...

In the interests of economy today OH did breakfast sausage butties using 2 Linda Mc sausages and 2 saved lincolnshire sausages from the freezer plus a pack of part bakes baguettes from Aldi so about £1.60 in real money.
Also made cheese scones this afternoon
Fjahitas for dinner with Marks chicken from the freezer.
This evenings TV snack was home made chips baked in the oven sprayed with the fry light - so about 15p for a baked potato.

I am not doing Frocktober as such but its very inspirational, all the cooking and cordon bleu meals being concocted.
Its def more satisfying being in the kitchen rather than in supermarkets spending money

You can freeze it mhoc. Since space is at a premium for most of us might be better just to use it up.....I would probably throw it in a cheesy pasta sauce

TrulyMadly

DD is in Vegas watching the McGregor fight:eek:

I'm trying to make sense of the news stories:eek:

Unsure if anyone watched it live but it looks/ looked like chaos:o

tweets

Good Morning :hello:

pandoraskids

TrulyMadly wrote: »

I've got 20p and 20p

The only time Is win is early morning:think::think::think:

Do we know of any other comps like this? Most are benefitting from the daily reminders:)

I am doing these every morning

https://www.dorsetcereals.co.uk/collect-and-win/spin-to-win/
https://www.nectar.com/competitions/autumn

There are loads on here
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5786002/daily-competition-thread

hornetgirl

Morning all

tweets I was having a drink at Manchester station yesterday evening while waiting for my train. The place erupted when the third goal went in Much better performance than my boys managed

mattswife

mhoc wrote: »

Suggestions please as to other uses for sour cream?

baked potatoes? i use quark (thanks to sw) instead so there are never leftovers as i use it on fruit or in sauces, we only use sour cream when my american inlaws are over

WON 10P!!!!!!!!!!!!! :rotfl:

didnt spend anything yesterday due to being in bed all day. one way to do it i guess lol gonna need petrol this week though, was hoping sainsbobs were doing somthing.

have a great sunday xxx