Aleksandr Orlov, founder of comparethemeerkat.com, is urging people not to use his site when shopping around for cheaper carinsurance.
It seems that people looking to compare car insurance quotes are confusing comparethemeerkat.com with the similarly named comparethemarket.com, one of the UK’s leading car insurance comparison sites.
The problem has escalated to such extreme levels that Aleksandr has decided to launch a TV advertising campaign to educate the masses and clear up the confusion once and for all.
The message is clear, comparethemeerkat.com won’t help you find cheaper car insurance but if you’re looking to compare meerkats than Aleksandr is more than happy for you to stop by.
This ingenious piece of marketing is really taking off with Aleksandr proving a real hit on facebook, youtube and twitter.
If you’re considering using comparethemarket.com to search for a car insurance quote be sure to check out our review of their site. As for comparing meerkats, we’ll leave you in the dependable hands of Aleksandr.
Monday, 23 February 2009
New Spring atalogue out Now !!
ORDER A LITTLEWOODS ONLINE CATALOGUE TODAY AND RECEIVE £15 OFF YOUR FIRST ORDER*
Littlewoods offer you an exciting and unique way to shop – not only do they give you 20 or 52 weeks to pay, but they also offer 0% interest on everything you buy and they’ll deliver straight to your door in 48 hours for free (on most in-stock items). You can shop from all the biggest brands and the latest trends, and there are plenty of ideas for the whole family including a brilliant kidswear collection, and all the latest home wares and electricals. And even though you’ll be sure to love everything you receive, returns are absolutely free too.
What’s more, they’re offering you £15 off your first order of £25 or more.
Order your FREE book today, and look forward to an amazing shopping experience with Littlewoods.
Terms & Conditions
*Your request for a book will also act as a request for us to open a Littlewoods credit account for you subject to status. If you are not accepted for a credit account you will not be entitled to your discount or sent a catalogue..
Littlewoods offer you an exciting and unique way to shop – not only do they give you 20 or 52 weeks to pay, but they also offer 0% interest on everything you buy and they’ll deliver straight to your door in 48 hours for free (on most in-stock items). You can shop from all the biggest brands and the latest trends, and there are plenty of ideas for the whole family including a brilliant kidswear collection, and all the latest home wares and electricals. And even though you’ll be sure to love everything you receive, returns are absolutely free too.
What’s more, they’re offering you £15 off your first order of £25 or more.
Order your FREE book today, and look forward to an amazing shopping experience with Littlewoods.
Terms & Conditions
*Your request for a book will also act as a request for us to open a Littlewoods credit account for you subject to status. If you are not accepted for a credit account you will not be entitled to your discount or sent a catalogue..
Sunday, 8 February 2009
Littlewoods vouchers
Littlewoods Vouchers - Huge Savings on New Gym Equipment
It’s a brand new year, time for a new you! Check out the great deals on all new gym equipment at Littlewoods.
Run or jog your way to a svelte and healthier you with the Pro-Form Compact Run Treadmill. This treadmill offers a protech cushioning to provide support, a large running surface for stability and ease, 10 personal trainer workouts, duel display tracks speed, incline, pulse, distance, time and calories.
Originally this treadmill was priced at £1099.00 but it is now on SALE for £799.00!
Plus if you enter the following voucher code: XX340 you don’t have to pay until 2010!
Also enter voucher code:ZG999 to receive 15% Off your first order.
They also offer Free Delivery!
I honestly can’t think of any othe reason why you would pass up on this great deal, and taking active steps to a healthier, happier you!
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
Although many retailers, such as Play.com, now include free delivery in their product prices, unfortunately the web's largest retailer Amazon still hasn't cottoned on to this craze. Standard first class delivery from Amazon can be expensive - for example an electronics such as an ipod item could cost up to £5.88 to be delivered (or for Royal Mail to lose it). Fortunately for a short period of time, Amazon is now offering all customers a month's worth of free next day deliveries, courtesy of their Amazon Prime service.
Amazon Prime is a subscription service from Amazon, a bit like a golf club, or paying to get into the House of Lords. You pay Amazon £49 a year, and get free stuff and preferential treatment in exchange for your hard earned cash. One of these treats is unlimited free next day delivery on all qualifying products, so if you're a serial Amazon shopper, this could be quite a worthwhile service to have under your belt. But that's not all - you can also get:
- Express delivery (before 1pm) for the discounted rate of £4.49 per item
- Evening delivery (same day) for the discounted rate of £7.49 per item, if you live in Birmingham or London
- The ability to share your benefits with up to four other people in your household
There's no minimum order value, meaning there's no more buying unnecessary stuff just to get up to the £15 free Super Saver Delivery threshold. If you want to buy the Now 18 CD and listen to it in the car on the way to work in a couple of days, you can.
Best of all, for a short periodncel the service by the end of the month, Amazon will automatically start to bil Amazon are offering Amazon customers who have not previously used Amazon Prime with a free month's trial of the service. If you're looking to buy a new TV or home furnishings from Amazon, it may be worth taking a look to see if you can start a trial and get quicker and free delivery. As with any freebie, there are a few catches and clauses - if you don't cal you for the service, although £49 a year works out at just about £4 per month, which isn't too bad, and you could probably spend that amount on delivery from Amazon already. Free delivery is only available on certain items, and you can't get free delivery if you live in some ridiculously remote offshore cave in the British Isles - but have a look at the Amazon website for details.
Click here for more information on free next day delivery with a month's free trial of Amazon Prime. Give it a go if you're shopping with Amazon, you've got nothing to lose!
“2008 was a year in which onlineshopping faced steep rises in the price of their staple food items, far beyond the general rate of food inflation. mySupermarket.co.uk, the supermarket comparison site, has uncovered an increasing trend of ‘downshifting’: consumers swapping their favourite branded products for a supermarket own brand alternative, often surrendering long-standing brand loyalty to make significant savings.
The attached table gives a detailed insight into this recent trend, but to summarise:
- Pasta is the product people are most willing to downshift on with an 8% increase in the sales of own brand items since last year.
- Other items people are happy to downshift include crisps, tomato ketchup and cereal - with sales of own brand products up 4% on last year.
- Cola is one product which shoppers don’t seem to be willing to compromise on with 91% of sales going on branded, a figure which hasn’t changed in the last 12 months.
The items which have seen the greatest trend for downshifting are many of the staple items which have seen significant price rises.
“With shoppers seeing the price of their weekly shop rising, becoming a savvy shopper became more important than ever in 2008. Downshifting is a quick and easy way of saving money and is something which is becoming increasingly popular. There is a definite correlation between the areas where prices have risen sharply over the past year and where shoppers are downshifting and whilst there are certain products which shoppers seem unwilling to compromise on, many are surrendering their brand loyalty on favourites such as ketchup as they move to an own brand alternative.
Saving money doesn’t have to mean giving up our favourite products or deserting our chosen supermarket. By simply swapping brands or taking full advantage of special offers we believe shoppers can often save up to 20% on their shopping bill. The trend for downshifting is set to continue into 2009, but rather than shoppers having to trawl the aisles, they can input their weekly shop into mySupermarket.co.uk and the Price Checker tool will automatically highlight the ‘downshift’ item as well as like-for-like alternatives.”
| Product | 2007 Own Brand (% sales) | 2008 Own Brand (% sales) | Change |
| Cola | 9% | 9% | - |
| Instant Coffee | 14% | 17% | 3% |
| Crisps | 19% | 23% | 4% |
| Ketchup | 21% | 25% | 4% |
| Tea Bags | 23% | 26% | 3% |
| Breakfast Cereal | 28% | 32% | 4% |
| Bread | 35% | 36% | 1% |
| Baked Beans | 35% | 38% | 3% |
| Biscuits | 39% | 39% | - |
| Water | 43% | 45% | 2% |
| Toilet Paper | 61% | 60% | -1% |
| Tinned vegetables | 62% | 63% | 1% |
| Pasta | 56% | 64% | 8% |
| Juice | 68% | 66% | -2% |
Source: MySupermarket
empty cupboards
tesco phoned while i was out, and have left a message on my a/p saying they wont be delivering my food order today, so i need to rebook another delivery slot
But i cant see how you can do this. according to my account, i can no longer access that order, as its 'being picked'. which i think is an automatic message, cause its obviously not being picked
Does this mean i will have to re-do my total order? also today is change-over day for the offers, so anything in my basket that was on offer, wont be, come tomorrow
Why is it, the one time you have totally empty cupboards, and had decided to do an online shop, because you knew it would take you a couple of hours to get round the shop (grumpy kids in tow), that it goes t!ts up.
But i cant see how you can do this. according to my account, i can no longer access that order, as its 'being picked'. which i think is an automatic message, cause its obviously not being picked
Does this mean i will have to re-do my total order? also today is change-over day for the offers, so anything in my basket that was on offer, wont be, come tomorrow
Why is it, the one time you have totally empty cupboards, and had decided to do an online shop, because you knew it would take you a couple of hours to get round the shop (grumpy kids in tow), that it goes t!ts up.
Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Free Range Chicken
I had this problem with my local Somerfield after the first HFW programme. At first you had to be in there before 9.00am to get FR chicken otherwise it was all gone. Gradually "the shock" of the programme wore off and people stopped buying it so much. After a while you could go in at 6.00pm and get it reduced to half price.
After that they simply didn't stock so much.
I don't know why Tesco don't have FR chicken on the shelves, it could be because the supply is just not there and they can't actually buy enough to satisfy demand.
Or it could be that they don't have the demand for them, so don't stock so much.
One thing I do know, if the supply was there and the demand was there, Tesco's would be selling it.
I don't believe for one minute that Tesco are not stocking FR chicken just to annoy HFW, or anybody else! Tesco are so big for one reason, and one reason olnly, they sell what the customer want's to buy at a good price.
I will sell you childrens clothes made by 7 year old Indian kids in a sweat shop without batting an eyelid. They will force the price of coffee down so much that south amercan farmers starve, and not lose a wink of sleep over it. They will force the price of milk and veg down so much that half the farmers in the Uk go out of business, and not care one jot.
Putting FR chicken on the shelves would be nothing to them. Nor would stopping selling chickens at 2 for a fiver, if people didn't buy them.
The reason they don't have enough FR chickens for sale is either becasue they can't get enough, or they can't sell enough.
The reason why they have chickens at 2 for a fiver is because they can get them, and sell them.
After that they simply didn't stock so much.
I don't know why Tesco don't have FR chicken on the shelves, it could be because the supply is just not there and they can't actually buy enough to satisfy demand.
Or it could be that they don't have the demand for them, so don't stock so much.
One thing I do know, if the supply was there and the demand was there, Tesco's would be selling it.
I don't believe for one minute that Tesco are not stocking FR chicken just to annoy HFW, or anybody else! Tesco are so big for one reason, and one reason olnly, they sell what the customer want's to buy at a good price.
I will sell you childrens clothes made by 7 year old Indian kids in a sweat shop without batting an eyelid. They will force the price of coffee down so much that south amercan farmers starve, and not lose a wink of sleep over it. They will force the price of milk and veg down so much that half the farmers in the Uk go out of business, and not care one jot.
Putting FR chicken on the shelves would be nothing to them. Nor would stopping selling chickens at 2 for a fiver, if people didn't buy them.
The reason they don't have enough FR chickens for sale is either becasue they can't get enough, or they can't sell enough.
The reason why they have chickens at 2 for a fiver is because they can get them, and sell them.
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