Online groceries - introductory offers

[al_yrpal]

Personally I couldnt care less about supermarkets offers I just want lowest prices every day without hassle. As for home deliveries in our situation we dont need them.

As a member of the Wine Society I get a box of a dozen bottles selected by them every two months which satisfied my 1 glass a day wine habbit.

When you get out and about on tbe country lanes around here Ocado and Waitrose vans one sees regularly. The hoi poloi seem to love them (pete )

Al

[pete75]

Which do a lot of blind tasting and testing on non food stuff. Waitrose and M&S dont seem to come out particularly well but Aldi in particular seems to do better. Asda often scores top too. We shop exclusivly at Aldi and Lidl and I cant ever remember rejecting anything. Their food chemists seem to be able to replicate and even improve on brands.

Al

I never knew anyone did blind tasting of non food stuff. M&S non food items like clothes and furniture seem to be much better quality than similar items at Lidl.

[al_yrpal]

No doubt thats true, but on food tests Aldi and Lidl do well at surprisingly low prices. At Aldi you often get 3 years warranty on non food items, dont know about Lidl.

Al

[pwa]

Which do a lot of blind tasting and testing on non food stuff. Waitrose and M&S dont seem to come out particularly well but Aldi in particular seems to do better. Asda often scores top too. We shop exclusivly at Aldi and Lidl and I cant ever remember rejecting anything. Their food chemists seem to be able to replicate and even improve on brands.

Al

I never knew anyone did blind tasting of non food stuff. M&S non food items like clothes and furniture seem to be much better quality than similar items at Lidl.

Going off topic, but I have my doubts about M&S clothing being as reliably better than discount stuff elsewhere. It may be true of the range as a whole, but individual items can be good from cheaper supermarkets and poorer at M&S. I recently picked up a heavy duty thick cotton tee shirt from Asda, which looks and feels like it will be good for years of use. Surrounded on the racks by less attractive stuff, of course. And recent clothes buying visits to M&S's big store on the edge of Cardiff have been a bit disappointing, with many items seeming very low spec in terms of build quality. And as I said upthread, M&S and Waitrose get their packaged fruit and veg from suppliers who supply the budget supermarkets. Posh tomatoes from M&S will be the same posh tomatoes from somewhere cheaper, with different packaging. If you can be bothered, it pays to shop around.

[axel_knutt]

M&S used to sell good quality clothes at a fair price, but they nearly went out of business with that lark, so they sell cheap rubbish like everyone else now. Our local M&S is what they refer to as an M&S 'Outlet', it's supposed to be end of line products at a discount, but I'm not so sure that some of it isn't just lines that are purpose made down to a price. The problem with end of line stuff is that it's all the colours and sizes that nobody wants.

I generally avoid buying clothes online without trying them on though (he says, having just bought some trousers online that'll have to go back).

[PH]

Our local M&S is what they refer to as an M&S 'Outlet', it's supposed to be end of line products at a discount, but I'm not so sure that some of it isn't just lines that are purpose made down to a price.

Some retail outlets do this, though M&S have denied they do.

[axel_knutt]

25-30 years ago there was a lot of media coverage about a new retail park, near Bicester I think, which was set up to sell off end of line designer clothes at knock down prices. That triggered a spate of copycat developments, and ours was one of them. I think all that's long since forgotten now, and it's just like any other shopping centre, but when the craze was going I can't see how there can have been enough end of line goods to supply all of them. Even when it first opened, the Regatta cagoule I bought there was the same one as was on sale at every outdoor shop in Keswick, and for the same price.