Re: Loyalty cards again

Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> In article <C0lyj.16350$XI.15844@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Jette  <bosslady@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Konrad Gaertner wrote:
>>> David Friedman wrote:
>>>> Earlier posters, discussing loyalty cards, repeatedly asserted that
the
>>>> price with a loyalty card at a supermarket that uses them corresponds
to
>>>> what the price would be if there were no card, the price without to a
>>>> higher price.
>>>>
>>>> Dorothy, if I correctly interpret the above, is claiming the
>>>> opposite--that if a supermarket doesn't have a loyalty card, its
price
>>>> corresponds to the higher price that customers would have paid
without a
>>>> loyalty card.  I don't remember if she was one of he posters who made
>>>> the opposite assertion earlier.
>>> Getting a loyalty card means you get the best price offered by that 
>>> chain, which may or may not be better than the price offered at 
>>> another chain (which may or may not use loyalty cards).  And next week

>>> all the prices will be different.
>>>
>> Why not get a loyalty card for all the chains that offer them, 
>> comparison shop, and buy whatever is lowest priced at each of them?
> 
> Because what's cheaper at store X than at store Y this week won't
> be next week; and because if you prowl around from store to store
> finding the best prices on everything you'll expend all the money
> you saved thereby (and more) on gas, just getting there.  I have
> in fact seen people prowling the aisles talking to their S.O.s or
> somebody, "It's ninety-five cents here, you better get it over
> there," but since they are thereby putting gas in TWO vehicles to
> do their comparison shopping, I doubt they save any money either.
> 

???  Why not check the store's prices online before you go?  All the 
big supermarket chains in the UK have websites and their instore 
prices are listed.  There are even "comparison websites" that directly 
compare stores for you.

I do about 50% of my weekly shop in Asda (Walmart), then head to Lidl 
(about 1/2 mile away) for the rest - and top up with odds and ends 
during the week from Sainsburys or Morrisons, both of which I pass on 
my way home from work.

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Jette Goldie
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