B & Q Deal

[securespark]

They have a deal at the moment:

Fully loaded 16 way dual RCD board for £50.

Unfortunately, their website search facility is so awful, I can't find it...

 

[PrinceofDarkness]

B&Q indeed!

Don't you have accounts with your local wholesalers?


Lucia.

 

[1john]

what brand?

 

[Adam_151]

Don't you have accounts with your local wholesalers?

Sometimes wholesaler prices arn't quite as keen as they have you believe and it pays to keep an open mind where you buy from, normally B+Q are OTT for prices, but sometimes when they have a good special sorted out, they can become competative with the wholesalers on some items for a little bit, before reverting to being OTT again...

 

[ELZ4742]

denmans have a 17th edt MK 10 usable way, fully loaded for 58+vat at the mo.

 

[bernardgreen]

when they have a good special sorted out, they can become competative with the wholesalers

Then people go into Q and B and "save" £30 on the "special deal" but then as they are in the place they save time by buying other items which they could buy else where for £ 40 less than they cost in Q and B

 

[ELZ4742]

when they have a good special sorted out, they can become competative with the wholesalers

Then people go into Q and B and "save" £30 on the "special deal" but then as they are in the place they save time by buying other items which they could buy else where for £ 40 less than they cost in Q and B

The ole 'tesco value loss leader trick' even the wholesalers are up to it!

 

[bernardgreen]

The ole 'tesco value loss leader trick' even the wholesalers are up to it!

And people fall for it. Shoppers are easy prey. Some years back before the nanny state stepped in to protect shoppers a super market manager had a tinned product stacked neatly on shelves at one price and the same tins were also tipped haphazardly into a box on the floor a few feet from the tidy ones. The ones in the box were priced higher than the same item on the tidy shelf. They sold more from the box on the floor than from the shelf.

If it looks cheap it "must be cheaper" doesn't always hold true.

 

[mointainwalker]

"..Some years back before the nanny state stepped in to protect shoppers a super market manager had a tinned product stacked neatly on shelves at one price and the same tins were also tipped haphazardly into a box on the floor a few feet from the tidy ones. The ones in the box were priced higher than the same item on the tidy shelf

I'm fairly sure there is no legislation to stop that happening now.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I often see multipacks of tins priced at more than X individual ones would come to, and larger sizes of products costing more per unit weight/volume than smaller ones.

caveat emptor - if you can't be *rsed to read what's placed in front of you it isn't the sellers fault.

 

[Adam_151]

True, but what really gets my goat is where price labels and offer labels are delibrately placed right next to products they don't apply to

Eg. an buy two and get one free on mulipacks of canned drinks and in the middle of the row of products it applies to above, there is one placed in the middle which isn't included

And marked down products being charged at their full previous price

I've taken to keeping a very carfull watch as things go through the checkout and checking receipts carfully!

 

[ban-all-sheds]

And marked down products being charged at their full previous price

Or the old trick of whacking the price on a particular product for a bit and then reducing it to "half price".

Works well with wine - if one Australian Shiraz is too expensive you'll buy another, so the supermarket still sells you a bottle of wine anyway, they don't lose any sales overall for the time while one of them is on the shelf at £9.99 instead of £4.99.

I've taken to keeping a very carfull watch as things go through the checkout and checking receipts carfully!

I've thought about snaffling shelf-edge labels for wines when they are at normal prices and then reintroducing them next to the "half price" ones in the future, but it needs too much organisation....


USEFUL TIP:

Particularly at this time of year. £1 sized chocolate coins will work supermarket trolleys, and can then be pulled out once you have the trolley and kept for re-use or eaten. Means you don't have to schlep back across the car park in foul weather to get your £1 back AND it helps keep supermarket employees in a job.

 

[Chri5]

Particularly at this time of year. £1 sized chocolate coins will work supermarket trolleys, and can then be pulled out once you have the trolley and kept for re-use or eaten. Means you don't have to schlep back across the car park in foul weather to get your £1 back AND it helps keep supermarket employees in a job.

Just use the blanks on metal back boxes- they can be used all year round.

Chocolate goes soft in the summer...

 

[Adam_151]

USEFUL TIP:

Particularly at this time of year. £1 sized chocolate coins will work supermarket trolleys, and can then be pulled out once you have the trolley and kept for re-use or eaten. Means you don't have to schlep back across the car park in foul weather to get your £1 back AND it helps keep supermarket employees in a job.

As much as those trolley things drive me mad (cos invariably I don't have a £1 coin), I think the lazyness of those who cannot be bothed to return the trolleys to the trolley parking areas drives me mad, especially when the car park is almost full and there is a trolley in the 1 remaining free space... or its rolling randomly about the car park! (and I suppose its such lazyness thats lead to the introduction of the the coin slots in the first place... )

Now... if you had a tip for making the silly self serve checkouts not insist on checksuming the weight after each item...(a single time before payment would suffice) then that would be brill, because at the monent I refuse to use them because it throws an error whenever I try and scan what I have in my hands before putting them all in the bag... I refuse to keep bending and twisting to the stupidly low bag holder more often than neccessary. I reckon the design brief much have included a requirement to make it as infurating to use as possible

 

[ricicle]

I hate the term '17th edition board'