Australia: Good and Bad in One Day
Jan 13th 2007, 6:47 am
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Australia: Good and Bad in One Day
The Bad
Shopping this morning for dried lasagne sheets. Found some on SPECIAL for $3.00. Now get this, the special was reduced by.........11 cents!! That's 4 pence folks or a 3.5% discount. I couldn't believe it! What does this suggest about either the marketing strategies of Australian supermarkets or the gullibility iof Australian consumers? Can anyone still in Britain find me a worse special offer than this?
The Good
Swimming this afternoon in Bold Park - an open air pool in Perth's Western suburbs. Youngest child free and for myself and oldest child a total of $6. 2.40GBP for unlimited swimming - fantastic!
Shopping this morning for dried lasagne sheets. Found some on SPECIAL for $3.00. Now get this, the special was reduced by.........11 cents!! That's 4 pence folks or a 3.5% discount. I couldn't believe it! What does this suggest about either the marketing strategies of Australian supermarkets or the gullibility iof Australian consumers? Can anyone still in Britain find me a worse special offer than this?
The Good
Swimming this afternoon in Bold Park - an open air pool in Perth's Western suburbs. Youngest child free and for myself and oldest child a total of $6. 2.40GBP for unlimited swimming - fantastic!
Jan 13th 2007, 7:08 am
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Re: Australia: Good and Bad in One Day
The Bad
Shopping this morning for dried lasagne sheets. Found some on SPECIAL for $3.00. Now get this, the special was reduced by.........11 cents!! That's 4 pence folks or a 3.5% discount. I couldn't believe it! What does this suggest about either the marketing strategies of Australian supermarkets or the gullibility iof Australian consumers? Can anyone still in Britain find me a worse special offer than this?
The Good
Swimming this afternoon in Bold Park - an open air pool in Perth's Western suburbs. Youngest child free and for myself and oldest child a total of $6. 2.40GBP for unlimited swimming - fantastic!
Shopping this morning for dried lasagne sheets. Found some on SPECIAL for $3.00. Now get this, the special was reduced by.........11 cents!! That's 4 pence folks or a 3.5% discount. I couldn't believe it! What does this suggest about either the marketing strategies of Australian supermarkets or the gullibility iof Australian consumers? Can anyone still in Britain find me a worse special offer than this?
The Good
Swimming this afternoon in Bold Park - an open air pool in Perth's Western suburbs. Youngest child free and for myself and oldest child a total of $6. 2.40GBP for unlimited swimming - fantastic!
Jan 13th 2007, 8:44 am
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Re: Australia: Good and Bad in One Day
The Bad
Shopping this morning for dried lasagne sheets. Found some on SPECIAL for $3.00. Now get this, the special was reduced by.........11 cents!! That's 4 pence folks or a 3.5% discount. I couldn't believe it! What does this suggest about either the marketing strategies of Australian supermarkets or the gullibility iof Australian consumers? Can anyone still in Britain find me a worse special offer than this?
Shopping this morning for dried lasagne sheets. Found some on SPECIAL for $3.00. Now get this, the special was reduced by.........11 cents!! That's 4 pence folks or a 3.5% discount. I couldn't believe it! What does this suggest about either the marketing strategies of Australian supermarkets or the gullibility iof Australian consumers? Can anyone still in Britain find me a worse special offer than this?
Jan 13th 2007, 3:14 pm
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Re: Australia: Good and Bad in One Day
buy a pasta maker thingy and make your own freah pasta sheets for pence.... great occupation for the kids on those cold, rainy, grey afternoons...
Jan 13th 2007, 3:42 pm
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Jan 13th 2007, 5:31 pm
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Re: Australia: Good and Bad in One Day
so the phrase 'you've got a face like a wet weekend' doesn't generate from australia?
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Jan 13th 2007, 6:40 pm
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Re: Australia: Good and Bad in One Day
The Bad
Shopping this morning for dried lasagne sheets. Found some on SPECIAL for $3.00. Now get this, the special was reduced by.........11 cents!! That's 4 pence folks or a 3.5% discount. I couldn't believe it! What does this suggest about either the marketing strategies of Australian supermarkets or the gullibility iof Australian consumers? Can anyone still in Britain find me a worse special offer than this?
Shopping this morning for dried lasagne sheets. Found some on SPECIAL for $3.00. Now get this, the special was reduced by.........11 cents!! That's 4 pence folks or a 3.5% discount. I couldn't believe it! What does this suggest about either the marketing strategies of Australian supermarkets or the gullibility iof Australian consumers? Can anyone still in Britain find me a worse special offer than this?
Mrs Buzzy found a special offer in Tescos this week - 49p for something.
Reduced from 51p.
Woo-hoo.
Buzzy
Jan 13th 2007, 6:57 pm
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Re: Australia: Good and Bad in One Day
My OH bought special potato salad from sainsbury, it said "Was" 0.53p
"Now" 55p,
, I didnt have the heart to show him he's loss of saving, haha
couldnt stop laughing.
"Now" 55p,
, I didnt have the heart to show him he's loss of saving, hahacouldnt stop laughing.
Jan 13th 2007, 7:17 pm
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Re: Australia: Good and Bad in One Day
bought a bar of cadbury's dairy milk in Woolies in Kingston this week for $3.29, next to it on the shelf was a pack of two bars for $6.99 on special!
Jan 13th 2007, 7:23 pm
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