Asda Price Guarantee

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I shop at tesco for most of the comon day to day things but get most of my ready meals at M&S my mum has a discount. I just love all there italian meals and pizzas. We dont have a waitrose anywhere near to try. Keep hearing good things about them though.

We dont even have a tesco in our town so its online or nothing. Asda is decent but its only as its a year old this summer our only other choice is a old morrisons or if your feeling really bad a coop in our town cetre lol.
 
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[TW]Fox;16477412 said:
I would gladly pay more not to shop in Asda, as I'm sure most people would.

The last time I went in there every other person was wearing a filthy tracksuit or a pair of jogging bottoms and there was, and this is not a word of a lie, an announcement of the tannoy which said:

'This is a colleague announcement. Can we have a passion for service please, a passion for service. Thank you'.

I cringed.
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Good grief, that's bad. They must treat their employees like crap.
 
You might call Asda shoppers scum, but when you're living purely on a student loan that's about the only choice you have. I was able to shop at Asda and loved it there but then moved apartments and ended up next to Tesco.

I literally spent 50% more shopping in Tesco! Those 'special offers' are an absolute bloody con made for the easily influenced to think "oh they've got buy three finders crispy pancakes for the price of two, that's good init... I dow see any offers in Asda like this." Same goes for the loyalty card, our house was loyal to one card (15 Storeys High rules) and those crap points weren't worth nothing either, another con.

Now that I have a choice I put my money in local butchers and markets instead, rather not have a water soaked piece of meat or eat an apple that could stay alight for weeks if I put a wick into the wax around it.
 
We always shop at Tescos, as there are 3 stores within walking distance, compared to one small Sainsburys and a few out of town places. It's convenient. Yes, it's probably sometimes slightly more expensive, and other times slightly cheaper. My girlfriend's a bit of a pro when it comes to making the most of special offers, so I leave that to her, but on the whole, convenience wins.

I don't quite get this whole "undesirables" thing though. Do people not want to be seen shopping in the same place as people they perceive as being of a lower class? If I need to go get something from the shops, I tend to have my headphones in until the checkouts and just go about my business, walking around the store and picking things up. Yes, sometimes chavs get in the way - and sometimes old people get in the way while they leave their trolley to go find something elsewhere in the store, and sometimes middle aged people get in the way while deciding which sauce they fancy tonight. I don't put that down to the fault of any particular supermarket's reputation, I just see that as there being people from all walks of life who are inconsiderate.

I've been equally as irritated in Waitrose as in Lidl. Seeing the differences between every store around the country and the customers they attract, making any sort of blanket statement about them is just daft.
 
msm722 said:
If this thread has proved something it's that the supermarkets vary massively from store to store. The Asda here in Milton Keynes is in a league of it's own, being one of the biggest supermarkets in the country means it's spacious, has a great selection of meat/veg and checkout time is minimal.
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Definitely. The Morrisons in Lincoln is awful, yet in Wetherby is really nice, much prefer Sainsbury's though.

The standards of Tesco though seem to be relatively consistent through out, I have no qualms shopping there.
 
Asda is pretty grim. Morrisons is full of old people. usually Tesco for me or Sainsburys if I am feeling posh. M&S do some nice stuff but it doesn't have everything I needs so unless I can be arsed going to 2 places I don't bother.
 
Supermarkets are -- as others have said -- mainly a reflection of their immediate surroundings. Most people shop at the most convenient store to them... though convenient may mean easist to park at, easiest to walk to, or easiest to visit on the way back from work. So it can be fairly complicated working out a store's total catchment area. Lots of money is spent researching this kind of thing when stores are planned though.

However it's usually only very choosy, or well-funded folk who will seek out a particular brand (like Waitrose, M&S, or whatever). So if you have a scummy supermarket, chances are it's just a reflection of a scummy area. These places are, after all, the only place which just about everyone has to visit, so reflect local society well.

I know that some Asda stores are in pretty well-heeled areas, and have a lot fewer problems and less messy stores. Others are little more than 24-hour hostels for the homeless and benefit-sponsored subcultures.

Andrew McP... definitely working in a relatively scummy area if the amount of theft, chewing gum left stuck to the shelves, or meat stuffed down the back of shelving to go rotten is anything to go by. :-)
 
trentlad said:
Those 'special offers' are an absolute bloody con made for the easily influenced to think "oh they've got buy three finders crispy pancakes for the price of two, that's good init... I dow see any offers in Asda like this."
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I buy a lot of Primula. I use it in my sarnies for lunch at work. It generally retails at about £1.10 a tub. If I can get it on 2 for the price of 1, how is that a con? I WANT to buy the Primula, and will do so regardless of price, so if I am getting 50% extra for nothing that isn't a con.
 
Lopéz said:
I buy a lot of Primula. I use it in my sarnies for lunch at work. It generally retails at about £1.10 a tub. If I can get it on 2 for the price of 1, how is that a con? I WANT to buy the Primula, and will do so regardless of price, so if I am getting 50% extra for nothing that isn't a con.
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yea my missus is really good at offers usually she will stock up on washing powders etc when they are on offer and we will have enough stuck under the sink to last us a few months.

its not a con unless the use by date is in the very near future, people can and will stock up when offers are on and in the long run they save a lot of money.

if your buying something you wouldnt normally use/eat just because its on offer than thats your own fault, the majority of us only get the offers for stuff we would normally buy anyway
 
the 2 for 1 offers can be used to your advantage very easily.

For example, i dont drink tea or coffee and drink diet fizzy pop and robinsons. Both of them have use by dates far further than it will take me to drink them. Thus, i usually buy whichever fizzy is on offer that week, be it coke, pepsi or whatever. Same with the robinsons, if its on offer of 2 for £1 or whatever i'll just stock up and use it and save myself having to buy another next week.
 
[TW]Fox;16477412 said:
... an announcement of the tannoy which said:

'This is a colleague announcement. Can we have a passion for service please, a passion for service. Thank you'.
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Anybody else read that with the voice of the announcer from Theme Hospital? :D
 
Ahleckz said:
M&S is rubbish.
It's just full of over priced ready meals.
I shop at ASDA as it's the closest to me, though it's rather rubbish; but as is the closest Tesco. They stock food according to the area and prosperity and accordingly there is a greater choice in processed and pre grated cheese than there is proper cheese.
And I have to go to the other side of the city to get game :(
It's hard being a pretentious sod in the wrong area!
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Maybe you mean the asda at the fort, but last time I visited ASDA in glasgow I narrowly missed seeing someone get shot. On your way in you have to weave in and out of obese people in clothes 10 sizes to small for them with their trolleys filled to the brim with salt induced ready meals and junk food for their kids while they carefully balance their weekly supply of special offer booze which balances tediously on their over filled trolleys meaning they have little time to acknowledge people like me. Get in their way and they wont do anything different.
 
If the price guarantee doesn't take into account special offers it fails.

The Grocer (even shops have their own mag) does a comparison of the big supermarkets on prices every issue IIRC, have a snoop in that if you want to have a less biased view on how pricing matches up.

Individual branches of supermarkets vary enormously in management/staff/customers/lines offered. Not diggin the flag burning on the basis of narrow experience.
 
shorttricky said:
a full trolley at Tesco will easily cost 30-50% more than a full trolley at Asda.

In my experience, Asda has long running deals on the regular stuff I buy.
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This is so true!

Most people seem to be b*tching about this like they genuinely compared the two over a long duration of time.

Instead they've probably just gone to Tesco one week (and been duped by the amount of buy 2 get 3 offers on 90% utter crap and 10% commonly purchased goods) then Asda the next! That scientific method some how leads to; TADAAA my bill was more in Asda.

In fact, I bet the thought process doesn't even go that far it's probably just a recollection of the pseudo deals in Tesco!

The Tesco deals are a ploy. Wake up!!
 
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