General Chat

Too true Wisechild, they must think we are thick!

The other week in Asda, baked beans were on offer in packs of 6 and packs of 4. It was cheaper to buy two packs of 4 than buy the pack of six

Grrrrrrrrrrr

Gins.
That is exactly why shopping takes so much longer, but I think most shoppers are pressured by their children/grandchildren into buying things that they wouldn't normally buy and said children saying they don't like cheaper brands, in my house they wouldn't have any say in the matter.

Sometimes...just sometimes...the offers are in our favour.
One well-remembered one was Apricots in a foil pack in Tesco.

They were £2.18 a pack or you could buy 2 packs for £2. ..- Proper printed signs, not a 'shop' reduction'

If you only wanted one, it was still cheaper to get 2 and give one away.....

Gwyn

I love taking my teenage grandson shopping with us - he always finds the cheapest and doesn't pick the top brand if another one is cheaper. Obviously passing on what his mother learnt from hers!

Potty :-)

Trouser manufactures are skimping on waistband sizes, what really bothers me is they have got into my wardrobe and altered the ones I have had for ages too! ;-)

I always look at the shelf labels in the supermarkets for the best buy on a branded items:
The one on Special Offer is not always the best buy!

I checked the shelf label last week with dishwasher tablets as mental arithmetic is not my strongest point!

The smaller packet of 32 tabs was on "special offer" and worked out at 25p per tab
The larger pack of 72 tabs was not on offer, yet it equalled 17p per tab.



:-D :-D :-D at Mayfield!

Kerrygold is now making butter in 200g blocks@ £1:29

instead of 250grams


not sure if that was a special product though

Just re-checked Asda prices on:
Fairy All In One Dishwasher Tablets
24 tabs @ £7 = 29.2p per tap
70 tabs @ £10 = 14.3 per tab

Neither are on Special this week!

Son is so good at supermarket bargains - he is like a sniffer dog.

His best one was Tesco last week - he always checks the Bargain Shelves first and he got 5 pork loin chops for 29p and two packets of stir fry pork for 40p. each.

So as he works it out he has 9 dinners for £1.09 (about 12p each) plus veg.

The meat was perfect - had to be sold within 2 days. Split up, bagged and into the freezer it went.

I remember Mars Bars doing this trick when I was very young. A Mars Bar was 5d and had been 5d for yonks. Then they reduced the size by 20% and still sold it for 5d.

A few months later they brought out a new bar with much more "goodness" and 20% bigger for 6d. And so it has gone on. I think Mars Bars (now probably about £5 a bar) were a barometer of inflation for about 30 years.

I am with Mayfield. These clothes shops are continually reducing the quantity of material but keeping sizes the same :-( It is scandalous ;-)

same thing happened in decimalisation
a double bounty was 9d, when it went decimal it went to 4p which was nearly 10d

4x2.4= 9.6d

By 1971, Bob, prices were pretty stable. You knew that a newspaper was 3d, a packet of crisps was 4d, a Mars Bar was 6d. All of a sudden we were confused about prices. And I think the real inflation came when the half new penny was removed from circulation. Everything that had been 2 and a half new pence (6 old pence) suddenly became 3 new pence.

And it was like being abroad. Hand shopkeeper a pound note or five pound note and hope you got some change. None of us had any idea whether we were being ripped off or not. Usually we were.

And a lot of these special deals, BOGOFs, buy 3 and pay for 2 etc are confusing us just as much. And now this playing around with product sizes is adding to our problems. :-( :-(

In Oz, everything is marked (on the shelf, not the product) for the price per kilogram, per litre, for one or for ten.

Everything! food, dishwashing liquid, soap, you name it.

If your groceries add up to between $19.96 & 19.99 you pay $20 if you pay with cash, if you put it on a card (debit or credit) your statement shows the exact amount. Our smallest denomination coin is 5 cents.

I noticed a while back that the sausages I usually buy from Tesco, Sainsbury or Morrisons no longer had the same weight, altho the price stayed the same, the weights were less. Same with baked beans I found one tin didn't seem to go as far, had a look and they were down by several grams. It's really annoying, I think I would prefer the weight to stay the same and the price go up a bit, at least I would know what I was doing lol

Saw this written earlier: The era of cheap food in Britain is over, the boss of Tesco has said.

Chief executive Philip Clarke said the growing pressure on global food supplies meant prices would have to go up.


Well there's a surprise, incomes are worth less and food goes up. I suppose that's one way to sort out the obesity problem!


Lizx

yes liz ive noticed
sausages are much shorter these days :-D

we are all been short changed :-D

Dare I give everybody a good laugh here? Some years back I felt that a piece of toilet paper wasn't the same size that it used to be. A week later I happened to find an old roll (or part thereof) in our caravan. I compared the size with the new roll and there was definitely a difference. Perhaps they were hoping to encourage us all to lose weight, so the smaller size would be ok. All very well for those who have no problem losing weight. :-(

There's a thought Huia ~

I must check the price of loo paper next time I'm at the supermarket

How much per sheet?

Or how much per linear metre?

Or how much per square centimetre?

Or how much per............ :-0

:-D

I checked it here Scozz.... the shelf price is per roll!

How many...... er......... sheets in a roll?

:-D