In message <83o0ridici550o9hnng5vgfb8j4of8c028@4ax.com> at Wed, 24 Jan
2024 00:57:39, Vicky <vicky.ayech@gmail.com> writes
>On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 21:04:52 +0000, Nick Odell <nickodell49@yahoo.ca>
>wrote:
[]
>>Now I've come over all nostalgic.
>>But like they say, nostalgia's not what it used to be.
>>
>>Nick
>
>
>https://www.msn.com/en-gb/foodanddrink/other/uk-s-dirtiest-supermarkets-
>revealed-and-the-most-hygienic/ar-BB1h8hic?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=6c
>e4907b57b44be6bab2b3303b3b6e1a&ei=34

Comes up blank for me (I tried two browsers).
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On 24/01/2024 05:07, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
>>
>> https://www.msn.com/en-gb/foodanddrink/other/uk-s-dirtiest-supermarkets-
>> revealed-and-the-most-hygienic/ar-BB1h8hic?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=6c
>> e4907b57b44be6bab2b3303b3b6e1a&ei=34
>
> Comes up blank for me (I tried two browsers).

Did you highlight the whole URL before clicking? I did and it worked ok.

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In message <l1ca6qFdoe2U5@mid.individual.net> at Wed, 24 Jan 2024
11:22:02, Jenny M Benson <NemoNews@hotmail.co.uk> writes
>On 24/01/2024 05:07, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
>>>
>>> https://www.msn.com/en-gb/foodanddrink/other/uk-s-dirtiest-supermarkets-
>>> revealed-and-the-most-hygienic/ar-BB1h8hic?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=6c
>>> e4907b57b44be6bab2b3303b3b6e1a&ei=34
>> Comes up blank for me (I tried two browsers).
>
>Did you highlight the whole URL before clicking? I did and it worked ok.
>

Yes. But on viewing the page source (of the blank page), I discovered it
was entirely made of scripts from assets.msn.com, a source I normally
have blocked; temporarily unblocking it lets me see the page - telling
me that they assessed supermarkets on a scale of 1-5, with Aldi coming
out cleanest, but the lowest - Iceland - being 4.89, so not a lot in it
(Aldi and M&S coming out at 4.99).

What a crappy - sorry - page design! _Very_ hard to read (even find!)
the guts of it, among all the adverts, clickbait links, twitches ...
(Not getting at you JMB or the OP.) No wonder I had that source blocked!

P. S. - Now looking at it in Firefox rather than Chrome. Lot more
readable - at least all the adverts and clicklinks are after the body,
and I could see the "Continue reading" button.
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

If a cluttered desk is characteristic of a cluttered mind, what does an empty
desk mean ?

On 22/01/2024 10:10, BrritSki wrote:
> On 21/01/2024 21:59, Serena Blanchflower wrote:
>
>>   Ocado and Waitrose, while being noticeably more expensive again,
>> stock a lot of more up-market goodies, which neither Tesco nor
>> Sainsbury have.
>
>> ...   For the things I buy, Ocado and Waitrose
>> were always very significantly more expensive than either Tesco
> YAmeAICM5BOGOFs

Wofe just received an email from Ocado. They just did a price-match
with Tesco[1] and were refunding £1.68 (approx) on her last order (it
was only for around £48).

[1] Should that be 'price match against Tesco'?

On 26/01/2024 01:48, Sam Plusnet wrote:
> Wofe just received an email from Ocado.  They just did a price-match
> with Tesco[1] and were refunding £1.68 (approx) on her last order (it
> was only for around £48).

Yes, I've just had one of those, for £3.98. Mind you, once or twice, on
weeks when I've actually done my own full price match with/against
Tesco[3], building near identical orders in the two systems[2] and known
that, for those, Ocado was much more expensive (generally in the region
of 20-30% uplift), I've received a cheerful message telling me that I've
saved money by shopping with Ocado... I can only assume that their list
of products that they compare consists largely of items I don't buy.
>
> [1] Should that be 'price match against Tesco'?

Probably.

[2] before adding the goodies that Tesco doesn't sell and which were the
reason for me to place an Ocado order in the first place.
[3] not something I do that often. It generally only happens if I've
been planning to buy from Tesco before, for some reason (probably
imminent visitors), I've changed plan and decided to get an Ocado order
instead.
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Best wishes, Serena
Q. What was the tortoise doing on the motorway?
A. About 1 mph.

On 27.1.24 09:54, Serena Blanchflower wrote:
> Q. What was the tortoise doing on the motorway?
> A. About 1 mph.

As fast as that?

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On 23.1.24 17:43, Wenlock wrote:
> J. P. Gilliver <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
>> []
>> When I started shopping for myself, which would have been about early
>> 1980s, I thought of the supermarkets as:
>>
>> Waitrose
>>
>> Sainsburys/Tesco/ASDA/Morrisons
>>
>> Netto
>>
>> Netto was _really_ cheap, and often in the rougher part of town - had
>> security guards I think, and their fitments were made of the boxes stuff
>> came in, stacked. I think they might have been only in the north - and
>> have disappeared.
>>
>> There were others - Safeway, Lawes, co-op, etc. - who were regional
>> and/or short-lived.
>>
>> Of the middle tranche, I thought of Tesco as cheap-and-cheerful - but
>> not with any _negative_ connotation that term often implies. I thought
>> of ASDA as similar, but didn't have access to one. More recently, I've
>> thought of them as quite good value - perhaps mainly because of their
>> size; I don't think I've ever seen an ASDA other than huge. Morrisons I
>> rather liked more for their character than anything to do with range or
>> value - but initially they were northern only.
>>
>> Then Lidl came along. I initially started visiting them because of their
>> non-grocery items, but bought groceries there as I was there anyway
>> (presumably that was the idea); it wasn't long before I found I was
>> spending more than half my grocery spend there, and now, I go there
>> first, then to one of the others - usually Sainsburys for geographical
>> reasons, but Tesco or ASDA sometimes - for the things I can't get at
>> Lidl. On the whole, I'm happy with the quality of Lidl's groceries, and
>> they're definitely cheaper. I was hardly ever a brand-name shopper -
>> before Lidl came along, I mostly bought own-brand. (And, where I could
>> find it, budget range; I was convinced that the "premium" ones are
>> mostly identical other than they use more black ink in the packaging.
>> Oh, and I don't think I've ever bought slimming, calorie-counted, etc.
>> products - IMO, you just pay more for that [and sometimes for less, i.
>> e. the product has a higher percentage of water or whatever!].)
>>
>> Aldi I think of as similar to Lidl - though I do feel they have slightly
>> different characters (though if you asked me for details, I couldn't
>> answer; thinking now, I think they tend to be _slightly_ bigger). Lidl
>> by default for geographical reasons.
>>
>> Other than choice range, I rate Aldi/Lidl quality-wise same as the
>> middle range above - maybe a _smidgin_ lower, but not usually enough to
>> notice - and noticeably cheaper.
>>
>> Oh, the other reason I went to Lidl initially was they had some things
>> (groceries I mean, not "middle") I _couldn't_ get elsewhere, especially
>> German things I remembered from childhood.
>>
>> Waitrose - I admit, I've only been to one branch, about twice or thrice
>> in quite a few years - I've been _un_impressed with: didn't have a lot
>> of what I wanted, and _significantly_ more expensive. I was willing to
>> make allowances, but didn't actually feel it was a nicer _experience_ -
>> not just to justify the expense, but at all.
>>
>> (M&S I've never food-shopped at - mainly I think for geographic reasons,
>> but also I tend to think of them as for posh stuff [and I think of them
>> as good for that].)
>
> I realise that I took a longish absence from UMRA but surely things have
> not changed so much over that period that individual supermarkets may be
> freely mentioned without any indication of their chirality?
>

I think it is fair to say that all supermarkets can be one or the other
but all supermarkets have both somewhere.

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