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steddenm wrote:Coca-Cola (All varieties) 2l, £1.55 each or two for £4! Apparently the SEL is supposed to read "3 for £3".

Yes, isn't it terrible, these people who deliberately give out misleading and incorrect information.

They should be locked up, shouldn't they.

Pete wrote:On a Sainsburys theme, I note that their posher cheese now has double height SEL compared to the rest of the store. Is this just for certain parts or is it going to be rolled out everywhere?

Should already be in Wine (and "barker" sized ones in Produce).

Asda's 'spend £40, get £40 worth of vouchers' promotion is disappointingly deceptive. I had thought it was basically 'buy one weekly shop, get one weekly shop free' but apparently you're given a booklet of savings vouchers that are redeemable against 27 selected items only, meaning you would need to spend something like £150 to take full advantage of the £40 saving! Selected items include beef steak, whiskey and cat food, which is about as useful as a lesbian panda if you're a teetotal dog-owning vegetarian.

That there small-print afoot the advert always needs reading with this sort of promotion, Chie.

Chie wrote: lesbian panda

Is that why it's so hard for them to breed?

I thought pandas came from China.

Chie wrote:Asda's 'spend £40, get £40 worth of vouchers' promotion is disappointingly deceptive. I had thought it was basically 'buy one weekly shop, get one weekly shop free' but apparently you're given a booklet of savings vouchers that are redeemable against 27 selected items only, meaning you would need to spend something like £150 to take full advantage of the £40 saving! Selected items include beef steak, whiskey and cat food, which is about as useful as a lesbian panda if you're a teetotal dog-owning vegetarian.

You need Morrisons for that kind of deal. They're doing a spend £40 over 5 weeks and get £40 back to spend over Christmas / New Year kind of thing.

As we all know, when it comes to supermarkets Morrisons are the innovators.

Square Eyes wrote:

Chie wrote:Asda's 'spend £40, get £40 worth of vouchers' promotion is disappointingly deceptive. I had thought it was basically 'buy one weekly shop, get one weekly shop free' but apparently you're given a booklet of savings vouchers that are redeemable against 27 selected items only, meaning you would need to spend something like £150 to take full advantage of the £40 saving! Selected items include beef steak, whiskey and cat food, which is about as useful as a lesbian panda if you're a teetotal dog-owning vegetarian.

You need Morrisons for that kind of deal. They're doing a spend £40 over 5 weeks and get £40 back to spend over Christmas / New Year kind of thing.

As we all know, when it comes to supermarkets Morrisons are the innovators.

How is that at all innovative? It's no more innovative than Green Shield stamps. (Sorry if I missed a bit of sarcasm there.)

It's a £25 time-limited voucher and a separately timed £5 voucher if you spend £40 FOR 5 weeks not £40 over the course of 5 weeks, so it works out as a 15% back if you spend only £40 for 5 weeks - spend more and the discount rapidly decreases in value, then of course there is no further discount on the shops you have to do to use the £25 and £5 vouchers (and you're at their mercy as to what offers they have during the period they're on, typically not brilliant offers if previous years are to go by).

Nowhere near as good as the straight %back you get with Tesco and Sainsburys through the year. And there you get to shop in a pleasant modern supermarket rather than a tacky c.1980 branch of Tesco.

From an operational point of view it's a nightmare too; staff in every store have to spend a good amount of time validating receipts to issue vouchers. Further evidence to my point that Morrisons is managed by idiots.

Pete wrote:Tesco, Sainburys and Asda all run variants of NCR Fastlane. Tesco seem to have managed to get it working the best over the years through blatant trial and error (did anyone else have to suffer the ones with the belts? *shudder*)

One thing I've always been a bit skeptical about is the cost of buying loose produce on a self-checkout. Having worked on the tills in M&S back in my student days, I had to frequently zero the scales before weighing. Yet, there never seemed to be a calibration requirement on self-checkouts. I considered they could have been pretty wonky, and actually thought about posting my concerns here.

Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised to have Sainsbury's self-checkout tell me to stop and zero the scales today when I was attempting to buy some broccoli. Still don't know how accurate the end result was, really but I now have a new-found sense of confidence in the whole thing now.

WillPS wrote:That there small-print afoot the advert always needs reading with this sort of promotion, Chie.

There is no perceptible small-print on their in-store signage apart from "see customer service desk for terms and conditions".

Well there we go.