The *OFFICIAL* Asda thread

Pete · Tue 21 Jun, 2011 21.08

FACT ATTACK: M&S used to sell "bananas to go" which were a banana on the checkout grab shelf with a barcode on it. This scanned at 35p.

If you put it on the scales and pressed "banana" it went through at 16p.

Chie · Tue 21 Jun, 2011 22.59

On the subject of prices generally, Kellogg's recently introduced a 'pot cereal' range. 30g pots of cereal which you're presumably meant to take to work for consumption on your morning break. The thing is, these pots are 90p each, which works out at something crazy like £4 per 100g!

People who actually buy this product are the very definition of "more money than sense".

Just decant a portion of normal cereal into a tupperware pot.

WillPS · Wed 22 Jun, 2011 08.26

Pete wrote:FACT ATTACK: M&S used to sell "bananas to go" which were a banana on the checkout grab shelf with a barcode on it. This scanned at 35p.

If you put it on the scales and pressed "banana" it went through at 16p.

Sainsburys have a 'per item' Sku for their convenience stores (since they didn't fit them with scales until ~2007), yet the per kg sku always worked out cheaper.

Only a few pence in it though.

Gavin Scott · Wed 22 Jun, 2011 08.41

Pete wrote:FACT ATTACK: M&S used to sell "bananas to go" which were a banana on the checkout grab shelf with a barcode on it. This scanned at 35p.

If you put it on the scales and pressed "banana" it went through at 16p.

Presumably your hands only accommodate a 16p banana.

Mine hold a more substantial one.

Jus' saying.

Nick Harvey · Wed 22 Jun, 2011 11.18

Tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much information!

Gavin Scott · Wed 22 Jun, 2011 11.21

Nick Harvey wrote:Tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much information!

Nick I had no idea you were troubled by the discussion of fruits.

That's half this forum you know.

Alexia · Wed 22 Jun, 2011 11.24

I like a nice juicy pear.

Nick Harvey · Wed 22 Jun, 2011 17.38

My doctor keeps telling me I should have five a day.

Chie · Wed 22 Jun, 2011 17.51

Alexia wrote:I like a nice juicy pear.

But not a prickly pear.

SirKen · Sat 25 Jun, 2011 19.51

WillPS wrote:I love ASDA. It doesn't try to be anything it isn't (*cough*Market Street*cough*) - it feels like you're in a supermarket. Has all the ranges I like (including stuff I can't get at Sainsbury's or Tesco like that Kriek Fruit Beer), and I'm confident the pricing away from offers is better than the others. The guarantee assists in this belief (although I don't accept it as proof positive).

The best stores, by far, were Safeway megastores though. If only Morrisons wasn't managed by idiots.

They aren't are they? Record profits again? I hear you with the megastores but as good as they were, people didnt buy any more from them otherwise they'd have rolled them out nationally.

Bloke I know worked on the project (I've got a load of photos Ill put up of one in Scotland) but they were very expensive to fit out.

bilky asko · Mon 27 Jun, 2011 13.55

Gavin Scott wrote:I'm paying 50p per 'nana from the convenience shop at the moment. I wonder what that equates to per kilo.

Mostly he only seems to have the ones only fit to make banana bread, with thinning skin and blotches like liver spots. I imagine its similar to gobbling an octogenarian.

But PlymouthStu may correct me.

*ZING*

When I used to buy 2 bananas every day from Sainsbury's, they weighed in at about 70p. I stopped getting them as they were not ripe enough, and I wanted to eat the bananas on the day.

Fun fact: bananas lose weight as they ripen. Buying them unripened therefore costs more if going by weight.