And always something cheap on the fresh meat/fish in the afternoon, and in the frozen cabinet they have lamb hearts.
Even Heston stuff at a discount, and so it should be, some of it
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6Tricia wrote:A bargain?Kg price at Lidl 19p!!
Tricia
CliffEdge wrote:How much difference does it really make whether you spend £2000 pa at Lidl or £4000 pa at Waitrose on food? For essentially the same items.
BullDog wrote:Could do worse than pick up a couple of bottles of Jansz sparkling wine reduced at the moment in Waitrose. A delicious champagne style Tasmanian sparkler and it even comes in a nice box for Christmas lunch. Couldn't resist collecting a few bottles myself yesterday.
bungeejumper wrote:Waitrose does indeed have some pretty good deals. Better still if I'm in store early to check out the discounted for quick sale cabinets.
AF62 wrote:A lot of their chilled items are buy one for £x and multiple for £y, for example one is £4.50 and three are £10.
Now nobody in their right mind buys the one for £4.50 rather than the notional £3.33, but when they come to mark down because it is that days sell by date, the £4.50 is the price they discount from - and often the discounted price is more than the notional multi-buy price!
bungeejumper wrote:AF62 wrote:A lot of their chilled items are buy one for £x and multiple for £y, for example one is £4.50 and three are £10.
Now nobody in their right mind buys the one for £4.50 rather than the notional £3.33, but when they come to mark down because it is that days sell by date, the £4.50 is the price they discount from - and often the discounted price is more than the notional multi-buy price!
Let me get this straight. You expect them to give you an additional discount on top of another discount that would have applied if you'd bought three of something, but you didn't?
In principle, you're right of course. A sandwich with 12 hours to go is worth about as much as an unsold airline seat on the runway. You have to try and sell it for whatever it will fetch, because after that it'll be worth nothing.swill453 wrote:bungeejumper wrote:Let me get this straight. You expect them to give you an additional discount on top of another discount that would have applied if you'd bought three of something, but you didn't?
For something that's about to become unsaleable, yes.
bungeejumper wrote:AF62 wrote:A lot of their chilled items are buy one for £x and multiple for £y, for example one is £4.50 and three are £10.
Now nobody in their right mind buys the one for £4.50 rather than the notional £3.33, but when they come to mark down because it is that days sell by date, the £4.50 is the price they discount from - and often the discounted price is more than the notional multi-buy price!
Let me get this straight. You expect them to give you an additional discount on top of another discount that would have applied if you'd bought three of something, but you didn't?
BJ
bungeejumper wrote:The logic applies in other fields as well. My local plumbers' merchant will charge me £280 for a pump that I can get for £125 on the web. It can do that because most of its customers are professional plumbers who can afford the higher prices, because they'll simply pass them on to their customers. (And more to the point, it's because they can walk out of the store with the goods today, while they need them.)
AF62 wrote:bungeejumper wrote:AF62 wrote:A lot of their chilled items are buy one for £x and multiple for £y, for example one is £4.50 and three are £10.
Now nobody in their right mind buys the one for £4.50 rather than the notional £3.33, but when they come to mark down because it is that days sell by date, the £4.50 is the price they discount from - and often the discounted price is more than the notional multi-buy price!
Let me get this straight. You expect them to give you an additional discount on top of another discount that would have applied if you'd bought three of something, but you didn't?
BJ
Yes, because nobody buys the individual products so the individual prices are fake prices to make it look as if you are getting a discount when you are not.bungeejumper wrote:The logic applies in other fields as well. My local plumbers' merchant will charge me £280 for a pump that I can get for £125 on the web. It can do that because most of its customers are professional plumbers who can afford the higher prices, because they'll simply pass them on to their customers. (And more to the point, it's because they can walk out of the store with the goods today, while they need them.)
No that isn’t why your local plumbers merchant charges £280 for a £125 pump.
The first reason is that they don’t want to deal with individuals who ask silly questions, so it is a ‘go away’ price, but if the individual is stupid enough to pay it…
The second, and more important reason is that the professional plumber can show Mrs Miggins their customer the invoice that the pump cost £280 and add their labour on top.
What the professional plumber doesn’t tell Mrs Miggins is that he will get a month end retro discount of £155 from the plumbers merchant on his settlement account.
CliffEdge wrote:AF62 wrote:No that isn’t why your local plumbers merchant charges £280 for a £125 pump.
The first reason is that they don’t want to deal with individuals who ask silly questions, so it is a ‘go away’ price, but if the individual is stupid enough to pay it…
The second, and more important reason is that the professional plumber can show Mrs Miggins their customer the invoice that the pump cost £280 and add their labour on top.
What the professional plumber doesn’t tell Mrs Miggins is that he will get a month end retro discount of £155 from the plumbers merchant on his settlement account.
You never see a plumber on a bike.
AF62 wrote:bungeejumper wrote:AF62 wrote:A lot of their chilled items are buy one for £x and multiple for £y, for example one is £4.50 and three are £10.
Now nobody in their right mind buys the one for £4.50 rather than the notional £3.33, but when they come to mark down because it is that days sell by date, the £4.50 is the price they discount from - and often the discounted price is more than the notional multi-buy price!
Let me get this straight. You expect them to give you an additional discount on top of another discount that would have applied if you'd bought three of something, but you didn't?
BJ
Yes, because nobody buys the individual products so the individual prices are fake prices to make it look as if you are getting a discount when you are not.
BullDog wrote:Could do worse than pick up a couple of bottles of Jansz sparkling wine reduced at the moment in Waitrose. A delicious champagne style Tasmanian sparkler and it even comes in a nice box for Christmas lunch. Couldn't resist collecting a few bottles myself yesterday.
WrenChasen wrote:BullDog wrote:Could do worse than pick up a couple of bottles of Jansz sparkling wine reduced at the moment in Waitrose. A delicious champagne style Tasmanian sparkler and it even comes in a nice box for Christmas lunch. Couldn't resist collecting a few bottles myself yesterday.
I happened to be in Waitrose not long after reading your comment and decided to give the Jansz a go (it helped that it was on offer) and in a taste test with friends on Christmas Day it absolutely knocked the socks off the Piper-Heidseick NV Brut I'd already bought.
Thanks for that.
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