Random musings and general banter.

[galesgal57]

£25.20 for two boxes of boiled sweets. Who pays these extortionate prices?

 

[Jazzydrury]

Anybody who spends £33 on Veg for Christmas needs to take a look at themselves

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Bit pongy in there today…Probably all the mispronounced BS flying through the air…

 

[Wanderer]

£25.20 for two boxes of boiled sweets. Who pays these extortionate prices?

Don't forget P&P on top.

I'd hope they were big boxes or very exceptional contents.

Edit - Just looked, less than 600g a box. Nothing unusual in them either. I'd say £1.50 or less per bag in most stores. Just a quick look, B&M £1.00 a bag, so £3.00 for the selection of three.

Just this week I have purchased a 1KG tub of Halloween spooky jelly mix from Lidl, £5.99 and a 1.3KG spaghetti jar made by Jelly Bean Factory, anything up to £20 normally and I paid under £7.

Anybody who spends £33 on Veg for Christmas needs to take a look at themselves

I assume plenty must buy overpriced Christmas foods & snacks, the shop are always well stocked with it. We have been conditioned to think we must have this, that and t'other during the festivities.

The trouble is that they often remove other food lines to make space, reducing choice for anyone looking to buy regular items.

 

[Jazzydrury]

Don't forget P&P on top.

I'd hope they were big boxes or very exceptional contents.

Edit - Just looked, less than 600g a box. Nothing unusual in them either. I'd say £1.50 or less per bag in most stores. Just a quick look, B&M £1.00 a bag, so £3.00 for the selection of three.

Just this week I have purchased a 1KG tub of Halloween spooky jelly mix from Lidl, £5.99 and a 1.3KG spaghetti jar made by Jelly Bean Factory, anything up to £20 normally and I paid under £7.



I assume plenty must buy overpriced Christmas foods & snacks, the shop are always well stocked with it. We have been conditioned to think we must have this, that and t'other during the festivities.

The trouble is that they often remove other food lines to make space, reducing choice for anyone looking to buy regular items.

My dad tells my mum every year, the shops reopen the day after Boxing Day

 

[Wanderer]

My dad tells my mum every year, the shops reopen the day after Boxing Day

True, no reason to stockpile beforehand. Not like when I was young and some independent shops were closed between Christmas and New Year, so you had to buy plenty. Mind you we also had to put up with Turkey this and Turkey that for days afterwards.

 

[Dr Quincy MkII]

Don't forget P&P on top.

I'd hope they were big boxes or very exceptional contents.

Edit - Just looked, less than 600g a box. Nothing unusual in them either. I'd say £1.50 or less per bag in most stores. Just a quick look, B&M £1.00 a bag, so £3.00 for the selection of three.

Just this week I have purchased a 1KG tub of Halloween spooky jelly mix from Lidl, £5.99 and a 1.3KG spaghetti jar made by Jelly Bean Factory, anything up to £20 normally and I paid under £7.



I assume plenty must buy overpriced Christmas foods & snacks, the shop are always well stocked with it. We have been conditioned to think we must have this, that and t'other during the festivities.

The trouble is that they often remove other food lines to make space, reducing choice for anyone looking to buy regular items.

The hampers are usually around at my local market and they end up being quite expensive, you could purchase the individual items cheaper. You do get a nice basket so I suppose as a gift, it has the presentation

 

[Herring]

Don't forget P&P on top.

I'd hope they were big boxes or very exceptional contents.

Edit - Just looked, less than 600g a box. Nothing unusual in them either. I'd say £1.50 or less per bag in most stores. Just a quick look, B&M £1.00 a bag, so £3.00 for the selection of three.

Just this week I have purchased a 1KG tub of Halloween spooky jelly mix from Lidl, £5.99 and a 1.3KG spaghetti jar made by Jelly Bean Factory, anything up to £20 normally and I paid under £7.



I assume plenty must buy overpriced Christmas foods & snacks, the shop are always well stocked with it. We have been conditioned to think we must have this, that and t'other during the festivities.

The trouble is that they often remove other food lines to make space, reducing choice for anyone looking to buy regular items.

Although QVC's food wares are ridiculously over-priced — to me, anyway — their sales technique isn't pushy about it. They're not pretending there's a pricing error, urging viewers to check out their baskets quickly, "suggesting" you buy the grub and sell it on to trade at the book price to make a few bob, insisting it won't be back in stock, this is a market beating price, one bite of the pie will make disabled dogs walk again…

Silly money for food ( as someone else said, a lot of xmas hampers at food fares and markets and stuff aren't cheap either, lots of artisan/small producer fare is because of the economy of scale) but it's all very self-congratulatory and I don't find myself too bothered by it. The average QVC viewer does tend to be more a more 'comfortable sort' who wouldn't think twice at spending £30 for small bag of sweets.

It's not like IW3 imploring OAPs worried about fuel costs to multi-buy an over-priced no-brand fan heater that guzzles electricity because Pedro says an "arctic winter" is on the way and these will "sell out" and you won't be able to get them for love nor money…

 

[PhædrusR]

My dad tells my mum every year, the shops reopen the day after Boxing Day

Many of them open ON Boxing Day.
Sales, etc. Xmas, it literally is 1 day now, yet people go mad emptying the shelves of supplies in case they 'run out' in the lead up.

And many of the local stores are open on Xmas day too, whether the owners 'celebrate' Xmas or not!

And the true meaning has been forgotten by retailers, just an excuse to sell profligal waste to people who don't need it.

With climate change, a change is coming, and right real soon.

Happy Winterval.

 

[Jazzydrury]

I know this is IW thread and we’re discussing QVC Food,

But over the years there have been story’s. Viewers ordering meat hampers, and them not turning up

 

[Wanderer]

I know this is IW thread and we’re discussing QVC Food,

But over the years there have been story’s. Viewers ordering meat hampers, and them not turning up

Slightly off-topic for sure, but we need something to relieve the boredom of IW humdrum sunday PM......

 

[PhædrusR]

I know this is IW thread and we’re discussing QVC Food,

But over the years there have been story’s. Viewers ordering meat hampers, and them not turning up

Yep. Great way to ruin your Xmas, relying on food hampers and bulk orders. That don't turn up. Especially if ordered close to the deadline.
Keep it thoughtful, simple and honest.

Less is more, as they say.

I do think we're getting to the point where the capitalist 'growth' mantra is at odds with Climate Change (oil, fossil fuel energy, plastics, waste) and the need to reduce our footprint and do more with less. But that's a topic for another day/forum/thread.

Xmas is just the tip of the iceberg, ha ha. And it's headed straight for us.

 

[Duke of Cheese]

They (QVC) had some pies on today. Ten pies - the size you’d get in a supermarket frozen four pies multi-pack for five or six quid. They wanted just under £40 for these pies, plus nearly £6 for delivery. DO ME A MASSIVE FAVOUR!! There are easier ways to pis s your money up the wall than that.

 

[Jazzydrury]

Peter wants us to bang his back door

 

[Samki]

I have no words to describe his intro and that flying Santa - tw*t

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Peter wants us to bang his back door

Ghastly creature.

Lying Santa is more appropriate.

 

[Jazzydrury]

Can’t believe with the postage it’s nearly £13

 

[Dr Quincy MkII]

Although QVC's food wares are ridiculously over-priced — to me, anyway — their sales technique isn't pushy about it. They're not pretending there's a pricing error, urging viewers to check out their baskets quickly, "suggesting" you buy the grub and sell it on to trade at the book price to make a few bob, insisting it won't be back in stock, this is a market beating price, one bite of the pie will make disabled dogs walk again…

Silly money for food ( as someone else said, a lot of xmas hampers at food fares and markets and stuff aren't cheap either, lots of artisan/small producer fare is because of the economy of scale) but it's all very self-congratulatory and I don't find myself too bothered by it. The average QVC viewer does tend to be more a more 'comfortable sort' who wouldn't think twice at spending £30 for small bag of sweets.

It's not like IW3 imploring OAPs worried about fuel costs to multi-buy an over-priced no-brand fan heater that guzzles electricity because Pedro says an "arctic winter" is on the way and these will "sell out" and you won't be able to get them for love nor money…

If you are an OAP you'll likely get free hampers anyway from the Scouts or whoever

 

[Jazzydrury]

Buy 2 or 3

 

[Battiola73]

The prices are obscene. Almost £33 for vegetables for Christmas day.

I usually get my Christmas veggies delivered a couple of days before Christmas Day. They’re usually massively reduced. Think I paid 15p for Brussels Sprouts, carrots & green beans. 45p for a big bag of potatoes and same for a cauliflower. They were good quality and I used the last of them on New Year’s Day. The can’t even be arsed to work out what I’d get at normal supermarket prices for £33.