It's getting tough out there. Feeling the pinch?

YoungBlueEyes

Thanks @EssexHebridean. I was getting properly het up just thinking it could be true!

I didn’t realise there’s an etiquette with the retailers names tbh. I’m opinionated and everyone can have a bit if they want, I don’t obscure it. And I’m sure t3sco or ald* etc fools no-one and is discoverable by them if they wanted. 

Edit - Nice to see someone else say Grauniad 😃

Si_Clist

YoungBlueEyes said:

... Edit - Nice to see someone else say Grauniad 😃

Yes indeed.  It immediately identifies a reader of Private Eye (assuming that they still call it The Grauniad) ...

YoungBlueEyes

I haven’t bought a Private Eye in a long while, cost of living crisis dontcha know. 

I do miss it tho. 

Floss

YoungBlueEyes said:

I haven’t bought a Private Eye in a long while, cost of living crisis dontcha know. 

I do miss it tho. 

Try your local library 😉

Florenceem

We don't buy Private Eye - a friend passes his copy to us each week.

JIL

Si_Clist said:

Si

That's bizarre!  Do people really believe that the likes of Tesco keep an eye on MSE to see if somebody's slagging them off or knocking their products?  If that's the case, I wonder why the same doesn't apply to other forums, Facebook, Twitter and suchlike? 

They do indeed, I cant remember its true name but theres a number of customer insight software products that scans social media sites picking up certain words, looking for customer opinions. It includes all social media sites, so I would think this site would be included. 

It's also used in telephone calls. When you call and you hear this call may be recorded for training and QUALITY purposes, Again picking out certain spoken words to select certain calls, picking up themes. 

Pollycat

YoungBlueEyes said:

Thanks @EssexHebridean. I was getting properly het up just thinking it could be true!

I didn’t realise there’s an etiquette with the retailers names tbh. I’m opinionated and everyone can have a bit if they want, I don’t obscure it. And I’m sure t3sco or ald* etc fools no-one and is discoverable by them if they wanted. 

Edit - Nice to see someone else say Grauniad 😃

Is there really an etiquette?
I've been posting on MSE for 15 years and have seen these changed retailers' names in posts but have never adopted the practice.
If they want to check for my opinions, they are more than welcome.

YoungBlueEyes

EssexHebridean said:

As for the obscuring of brand names - the debate has been running on for years, and remembering that some people on here choose to be more identifiable than others, I’d say we should all do what suits us on that one if on a general thread. If on - for example - someone’s debt free diary though, the accepted etiquette has always been to follow the diary owner’s lead - so if they prefer to obscure the names, we follow suit. Their diary, their rules. 

My bolding.  Yep a proper person said so, although on general threads it's up to you. 

Si_Clist

Pollycat said:

... Is there really an etiquette?

Yes - although not many posters nowadays seem to be aware of it, so perhaps the correct answer to the question is "there used to be". However, I've never been aware of any etiquette that says if the OP says "T3sco" or whatever, everybody else in the thread/on that forum should follow suit.  Having said that, though, I've only been participating in online forums for 21 years. 

The main "rule" of net etiquette that's broken every day by most posters on MSE is that if you're quoting a post, it's good manners to trim it down to just the relevant bit rather than simply quoting the whole shebang, but whatever.  (This not directed at you, Pollycat: most folk on here do it)

Meanwhile, at risk of getting back on track, where's the government going to (ahem) lead us next with The Energy Crisis?  We've gone from "the lights will stay on" to "get ready for blackouts" rather sharpish, and now it seems that we'll be OK because if things get a bit iffy we'll import energy from Europe - despite them having been scrambling for six months now to secure their own supplies and sensibly warning their populations to cut back on energy use or face the consequences.  

Off now to do another check on the candles and camping gas ...

OrkneyStar

YoungBlueEyes said:

I agree about tesco clubcard prices, the whole thing seems like a con to me.

I mentioned this a while ago on another thread - I buy himself facial moisturiser from tesco because it's one his skin likes.  Having been £2.79/£2.99 for ages, it then appeared on the clubcard price thing as being 'reduced' from £4 to £3.50.  It had never been either £4 or £3.50 so how are they allowed to call that a reduction?  If it's not actually illegal (which I think it should be), it is at least immoral. 

I don't shop in tesco's at all any more.

I am not 100% sure but I think there are guidelines on how long it has to have been on sale at the higher price before they can call it an offer, open to being proven wrong though. Regarding not shopping at Tesco, we don't have that much choice where we live - we have Coop(s), Lidl, Tesco, recently Poundstretcher has opened, we are maybe getting a tiny Asda (to replace one of the Coops), plus local (mostly expensive) small shops. We live on an island so to go to anywhere else it's a boat trip/car journey which adds silly costs on and is only worthwhile unless you are away anyway.

PS Regarding shop names, my brain has enough gobbledigook (sp?) in it, and I have added more by learning German and Spanish, so they go by what they are actually called in my posts, if you don't like that feel free not to read. xx