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Hangon-well said! Mrs cynic is possibly brighter than her husband as inside washed and graded packs you can see the quality and lack of damage in the goods you are buying.-thus saving money. Eggs in cardboard are often crushed in delivery and the supermarket has to price in this waste. Tomatoes soft fruit etc as well. There is some case for loose carrots/potatoes etc but as you say not even dented tins will sell and time is money! o/t maybe we could get sola interested in starpol to stop it's wafer damage**

wrong! ..... pre-packed potatoes means the supermarkets can not only rip off the customer with the pricing, but can also jumble up all sorts of sizes ...... loose (same variety, washed etc etc) you get to pick exactly how many you want and the size and quality.

dented tins are a different matter .... technically the vacuum can be damaged and thus the contents ruined ..... not sure that that is true nowadays, but certainly used to be the case.

soft fruit etc ..... your argument is flawed, for on that basis, loose would be at least as expensive as pre-packed, and that is patently not the case.

eggs ..... somewhat more susceptible to breakage, but even then it is comparatively few.

wine ..... nearluy always in cardboard cartons with cardboard protection ..... almost never any breakages

There is a difference between glass and egg shell! Soft fruit eg if you visit a pick your own to buy at the counter not pick in the fields the squashed ones have to be sold for jam in super markets this is thrown away as waste. I will check out the potato point again and compare time and price. sorry to admit this though but it drives me mad trying to get to things with elderly couples standing looking at every carrot or potato usually with the husband hanging onto the trolley and blocking the aisle!! sure this isn't you though--you're probably with Alan watching the sport. lol.

i cook 3-4 nights a week and always do my own shopping for it ..... Beloved and i (thank goodnes) never shop together.

don't understand the point you are trying to make re soft fruit and veg ..... strangely, there seem to be no varieties that grow self-containerised!

I'm impressed-a modern man lucky mrs c! I give in on the other points each to his own.

Beloved reckons i'ld make someone a wonderful wife! ..... i don't get headaches either (lol)

cynic- never would have guessed you were that way inclined....

ah well ..... life is full of surprises, some nice and some just plain scary

like seo sp - plain scary

Oblomov, if you are there have you got time to take a look at the EPO site and give an opinion on these and say what you make of them? Ta!

MAKING FOAMED BODIES remove
Inventor: BALCHIN IAN HENRY (GB); FEAST MICHAEL ALAN JOHN (GB); (+1) Applicant: STANELCO RF TECHNOLOGIES LTD (GB)
EC: B29C44/10; B29C67/22D1 IPC: B29C44/10; B29C35/12; B29C44/02 (+2)
Publication info: AT350207T - 2007-01-15

MAKING FOAMED BODIES remove
Inventor: BALCHIN IAN HENRY (GB); FEAST MICHAEL ALAN JOHN (GB); (+1) Applicant: STANELCO RF TECHNOLOGIES LTD (GB)
EC: B29C44/10; B29C67/22D1 IPC: B29C44/10; B29C35/12; B29C44/02 (+1)
Publication info: DE602004004117D - 2007-02-15

kim

Cynic, I just checked the price of potatoes in my local Co-op supermarket - loose washed ones are 1.32/ Kg, nearly all the bagged ones were 90p/Kg, so your theory doesn't work out in that shop at least.

Marlow is much too posh for Co-op (lol) ..... we have Waitrose + a small Sainsbury's (awful; no wonder they lose market share) and small M&S (badly overpriced).

Even so, the differential of 46% that you have found just to have some machinery stick some spuds in a plastic bag is patently unjustifiable ..... other than that mugs clearly buy!

Hi cynic ever frequented the "Marlow Donkey" before,after or during shopping trips ??

I'll happily give a Sainsbury's tip. Whatever you do don't get their home insurance! Unless you want to wait for 6 months for them to do a week's repair work that is, as well as having customer service that makes NTL (or whatever they are called now) look a shining beacon to attentiveness.

not really a pub man, but certainly the Donkey does not feature highly on atmospheric pubs .... try Two Brewers or for upmarket, Hand & Flowers, though that is really more of a restaurant than a pub

Cynic, I don't think you read my post properly - the bagged spuds were CHEAPER.
(Unfotunately I live in the middle of nowhere so can't enjoy the delights of M&S or Waitrose.)

Oblo, I don't know if you have had a chance to look at the Euro Patent Office site yet, if so I am wondering if you are of the opinion that there is nothing out of the ordinary there, or do you think that there may be a chance that SEO are beginning to dot their i's and cross their t's in preparation for some real action at last.
kim

you're right; i did misread unless you were comparing apples with pears ..... shows what a rip-off Waitrose certainly is, and i suspect Sainsbury's are similar

Kim,

sorry for not replying earlier - Haven't 'logged in' for a few days.

I'm not sure what you mean by what do I make of it.

Some further info here though

http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US2006279014&F=1&QPN=EP1631428&RPN=EP1631428&DOC=cca34af198500dc77f3af3b27b33daaa51

Hi Oblo, no problem. I can't quite get my head around these patent thingies! The latest mention (Publication number:DE602004004117D) is at:-
http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?CY=ep&LG=en&F=5&IDX=DE602004004117D&DB=EPODOC

and includes EP1631428 (B1) in the Bibliographic data section, this wasn't in the previous one. Would that be because it was missed off the original (Publication number:EP1631428) by mistake or is it now in addition to the original?

Is it me? Or is it really as complicated as I think it is, yea ok it's probably me!!
kim