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Re: The *OFFICIAL* Asda thread
Posted: Tue 21 Jun, 2011 21.08
by Pete
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.
Re: The *OFFICIAL* Asda thread
Posted: Tue 21 Jun, 2011 22.59
by Chie
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.
Re: The *OFFICIAL* Asda thread
Posted: Wed 22 Jun, 2011 08.26
by WillPS
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.
Re: The *OFFICIAL* Asda thread
Posted: Wed 22 Jun, 2011 08.41
by Gavin Scott
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.
Re: The *OFFICIAL* Asda thread
Posted: Wed 22 Jun, 2011 11.18
by Nick Harvey
Tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much information!
Re: The *OFFICIAL* Asda thread
Posted: Wed 22 Jun, 2011 11.21
by Gavin Scott
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.
Re: The *OFFICIAL* Asda thread
Posted: Wed 22 Jun, 2011 11.24
by Alexia
I like a nice juicy pear.
Re: The *OFFICIAL* Asda thread
Posted: Wed 22 Jun, 2011 17.38
by Nick Harvey
My doctor keeps telling me I should have five a day.
Re: The *OFFICIAL* Asda thread
Posted: Wed 22 Jun, 2011 17.51
by Chie
Alexia wrote:I like a nice juicy pear.
But not a prickly pear.
Re: The *OFFICIAL* Asda thread
Posted: Sat 25 Jun, 2011 19.51
by SirKen
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.
Re: The *OFFICIAL* Asda thread
Posted: Mon 27 Jun, 2011 13.55
by bilky asko
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.