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Well thanks again Savvybuyer. That information is now all stored up there. *points finger at head*
But see really if I do brand match instead of price guarantee, am I really just losing 10% ? I think I could live with that. Like tonight Tesco took £2.40 off my bill because of Jacobs crackers on checkoutsmart and the can of red bull. Whereas would Asda just have given me a coupon for say £3?
Originally posted by Woolco
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That's talking about your own shops - but, if you need money to buy them in the first place, such as vouchers to do so, that's best with A.
10%
can be very little value. It would not look so great if it were called "Pay 90% of the price of the competitor". Especially on cheap items - for example something 50p at a competitor that's cheaper at the competitor gives just 5p. Even several low value items add up to very little. I often moan about particularly essentials shops, that are so expensive because the difference in price to competitors is not large enough - in fact they're same price on many of their items and ten per cent is a few pence except on their rollbacks that often lose money on the APG due to more likely being more than 10% cheaper - or else cuts your shop to being against the one competitor that happens to have it on offer - and then it loses because another rollback is cheaper at another competitor but full price (A is more than 10% cheaper) at the first.
Although the end result is the same, I get more APG if an item is full price £1.98 in A and £1 at a targeted competitor than if it's on £1 rollback and price-matched to the £1 competitor - just 10p onto the voucher and the voucher then hardly worth printing

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I don't know how TBG works out for you - as to whether you are losing, it depends on what you are buying. When someone switches to A, it has to be viewed the other way around - so that it is
T's cheaper prices, where A has equivalents, that could potentially be got 10% cheaper than T at A (however it doesn't work on whoopsies and goes by items on T's website). In T, we are looking for same price as A or A's prices less the value of coupons or CB that pays on the basis of T's shelf price (assuming that is the price it scans at at the till/self-service and appears on the receipt) rather than on A's price.
I have no idea what finger-pointing at your head means

. Don't do gestures - I mean I don't do gestures - not of that type anyway, that don't mean words - no idea about any but the most obvious and most overt body language as I am apparently autistic. Hence why I draw attention by fumbling around at the till, not looking at people,

or else get fail to be noticed by anyone at all


. I spend literally hours trying in vain to attract someone's attention when the self-service messes up or I need to cancel an item

(well, not literally

). They don't - they don't notice I am there, trying to wave loudly at them: they go to anyone else instead as they can see them giving signals for assistance. Me - they'll turn round and face the other way, chatting to someone else that got their attention whilst behind them and their body language able to be transmitted behind someone for them still to notice it. I must either not transmit body language to anyone or else transmit body language that I am unaware of that is unknown or confusing to others or doesn't transmit anything or transmits the opposite of what I am feeling and thinking.
At the till, I'll be thinking inside "Can you stop chatting to that customer in front and just get rid of them and move to serving me?"

Other people second in the queue doubtless transmit that immediately and the cashier quickly realises they are waiting and does not continue into a long conversation with the customer in front and ignores the next person in the line, seemingly unaware they are there. People inadvertently ignore me (it's not their fault, they don't get any body language from me as I am unable to give it or do not know what to give). I can be there "I am bored, I am waiting, I am waiting, I am waiting" - desperately trying to transmit that to the assistant but they will not realise and will continue chatting, seemingly oblivious to my standing there, waiting and waiting and waiting patiently on the outside for ages. They only move up if someone else comes to wait behind me. Then they probably realise they are waiting, not me

. I'll be trying to say "I am bored and I'm waiting and waiting" by my body (of course I cannot voice aloud as I'm not able to interrupt or know when a cue in the conversation comes for me to be able to find the nanosecond at which an interruption is able to be made and is not rude). No-one else will get that I am waiting inside. Maybe I need to think "I am happy here and completely patient and not waiting at all" and then that will cause my body to give the signal that I am waiting and then they will realise

. I do not know how to stand or look to indicate my inner impatience. Even if I did, I feel I could not get precisely right the exact microsecond at which a glance or body language look needs to be given and the way in which it needs to happen. I think I may have got a response once when I thought the opposite of what I actually thought - but even then I do not know how my body looked or didn't.
In fact I haven't a clue about body language at all - obvious and completely stand-out smiling means you are happy and crying your eyes out means you are upset. Beyond that I do not see or have a clue.
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I bet my autism does show in my detailed replies (that people not on the spectrum won't know or be easily able to comprehend as it comes across as rambling as it contains too many points to be understood easily - to me, too much information is never too much as, of course, I know everything and know it all

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M lists - page 18 (on 40 posts per page setting) - Avs M: post 705-708 inclusive; Tvs M and "Buy in M": post 708 onwards.
3Dogs' lists - page 6, posts 210-214.