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[bountyhunter] 18/11/2023 22:13

Just seen a TV advert for 1L of Bailey's at £9.99 at Morrisons! ..the Bailey's war is on!

[bountyhunter] 18/11/2023 20:22

As I said, you will also find it in the alcohol section at the far corner of the store, but at just £10 a bottle it's no surprise they put some near the entrance as well - they wouldn't be able to put it all in the usual place given the advertising campaign and likely sales. It's no big deal whether they put some by the entrance as well but at £10 a bottle it's a good marketing idea to get shopper's in the store, as most like Bailey's or know someone who does at Xmas.

[loganair] 18/11/2023 18:44

In the Sainsbury's close to me the Baileys is also right where the customer enters through the barriers, boxes upon boxes of bottles.

[rolo7] 18/11/2023 16:01

Iceland never paid back there business rates back from COVID loans so I don't shop there the rest did!

[bountyhunter] 18/11/2023 14:34

We should be running their advertising campaign!

[bountyhunter] 18/11/2023 14:30

Skinny, perhaps they put a few by the entrance to attract attention, but in my experience the alcohol section where most would look for Bailey's and which I would assume also has Bailey's is normally far from the entrance. They are probably selling so much Bailey's that they can't fit it all in the usual place! :)
I don't have much experience of lamb legs but seem to recall from last year that £6.50 would be a bargain for a whole leg of lamb, often sold in halves I believe but I'm no chef! I'm more like your neighbour re food shopping of which I do as little as I can get away with although I wouldn't put myself in the elderly category just yet!

[skinny] 18/11/2023 13:23

Yes, they're all at it - a process (like many) that has accelerated since covid - but that's another conversation.

I shop at Sainsbury, ASDA and Lidl regularly and TSCO less so - purely due to location.

I also do a weekly shop for an elderly neighbour, who doesn't have a mobile phone capable of running apps and who quiet frankly on the odd occasion when I take him with me, finds the whole shopping 'experience' very confusing.

[anhar] 18/11/2023 13:09

Skinny: Some of the Sainsbury's offers are getting slightly ridiculous, with 'proper prices' being fairy tale...

Tesco has long been like that where the loyalty card prices on many products are lower than the stated full amount. But considering that the great majority of Tesco shoppers will be cardholders anyway, for them the card price is the real price and the ostensible discount to some higher figure that they'll never have to pay is just a marketing gimmick of no benefit.

Incidentally I don't belong to that school of investors who base their decision on personal experience of the company, especially retailers and their local store. Imo this is likely to be very misleading so for me it's all about the numbers, the fundamentals, not whether I might prefer SBRY sausages to TSCO ones etc.

[skinny] 18/11/2023 10:35

BTW - the Baileys was near the entrance :-)

[skinny] 18/11/2023 10:34

Some of the Sainsbury's offers are getting slightly ridiculous, with 'proper prices' being fairy tale - our local which was the biggest in the country when it opened, has recently replaced 95% of the tills with scanner driven checkouts in an obvious drive to force everyone to use use apps or the guns.

Who would pay the 'proper price' for this for example:-

[bountyhunter] 18/11/2023 10:17

No of course not but many will go to Sainsbury's to pick up such a bargain and then do other shopping there as well. Of course they make sure you have to walk to the furthest corner of the store to find the Baileys!

[loganair] 18/11/2023 09:41

Not really an essential grocery.

When essential groceries do go on Nectar or Club Card offer I notice these are the groceries they have far too much stock of and are therefore just trying to get rid of, nothing what so ever to do with helping with the cost of living.

[bountyhunter] 18/11/2023 09:10

1 litre of Baileys at Sainsbury's for £10 is a very good deal :)

[loganair] 18/11/2023 08:46

Yesterday I popped into both a Sainsbury's and Tesco and noticed how most their Nectar or Club Card offers are for Non essential groceries such as the Christmas Booze rather than essentials such as eggs or bacon or butter or cereals.


Iceland general energy costs will be higher than the average supermarket considering the vast majority of the groceries they sell are frozen from the freezer and they report that their energy costs have risen by £85mln over the past financial year.

Also Iceland tends to cater for the lower end of the socio-economic groups therefore have had to try and keep their prices down much more than the other supermarkets groups have needed to do.

[bountyhunter] 17/11/2023 21:59

That's surprising as I always thought of Iceland as a well run company. I hope they don't do a Wilko!

[spob] 17/11/2023 19:56

The long term share price serves 0

[loganair] 17/11/2023 16:31

Iceland is not doing too good...


Iceland has slashed its marketing budget amid ballooning losses, newly published accounts revealed this week, days after executive chairman Richard Walker announced it had canned its Christmas ad in order to invest in supporting customers.

Iceland’s headline losses was £17.1m in the full year to 24 March 2023.

Posting last week on X, formerly known as Twitter, Walker said Iceland had taken the “no brainer” decision to have no Christmas ad this year.

Iceland’s exposure to heightened energy prices has led to concerns over its ability to pay £800m in bond debt. Earlier this year, three credit insurance providers removed cover for the business, and in August 2022 Moody’s downgraded Iceland’s credit rating.

News emerged this week that workers at two warehouses that supply Iceland stores in the south west of England are preparing to strike ahead of the Christmas period.

[loganair] 17/11/2023 12:14

Taking inflation into account Sainsbury's dividend is down by over 50% since 2014.

I initially bought in for 312p after the share price dropped from 600p when QIA made a go for Sainsbury's which I thought was a good price at the time. I then purchased my second lot at 223p.

[loganair] 17/11/2023 11:58

It seems to me all these Nectar and Club Card offers are a real con and don't save customers anything in the long run as 1/2 a shop is cheaper in Sainsbury's than it is in Tesco while the other 1/2 is cheaper in Tesco than it is in Sainsbury's = in the end for a full shop both come out the same so may as well just shop at the closest supermarket to where you live.

[bountyhunter] 16/11/2023 16:30

Slightly tongue in cheek 😊

Fortunately Sainsbury's have many loyal shopper's like Waitrose who wouldn't dream of going to Lidl or Aldi especially with the price matching on many lines.

[loganair] 16/11/2023 16:26

Not necessarily if Sainsbury's running costs are also higher than the other supermarkets.

[bountyhunter] 16/11/2023 16:22

That's will mean more profit to the bottom line :)

[loganair] 16/11/2023 15:18

The supermarket that has seen prices go up most in the past year:

An investigation into “weak competition” among supermarkets is ongoing as food prices continue to rise.

The Trolley.co.uk Grocery Price Index (GPI) monthly tracker monitors and records the prices of products from various supermarkets.

The tracker not only calculates the percentage increase in prices but also keeps track of the highest increase in terms of money.

It showed Sainsbury’s had seen the highest spike in prices since last year, with an average increase of 40p per item, which translates to a 9.7% increase.

On the other end of the scale, Aldi had the lowest average increase in money terms with only 7p per item, equating to a 2.7% increase.



Tesco, Sainsbury's and Marks & Spencer had sales growth over the 12 weeks to 4 November of 9.6%, 10% and 14.4% respectively.

The researcher added discounters Aldi and Lidl continued to grow market share with sales growth of 17.7% and 19.1% respectively.

[bountyhunter] 16/11/2023 13:05

I'll settle for that, plus the yield of course.