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So it looks like nobody knows, or at least nobody is telling. If the ship does not meet the latest SOLAS standards, as rumoured, it should be on public record along with the specifics on how she is deficient.

This seems to indicate an ongoing UK commitment to SOLAS updates unless there is something in the small print excluding some specifics. Don't have time to study it in detail. Has Manxman fallen down a crack between one update and another? One would have thought that the specification given to the Korean shipbuilder would have been the highest current standard. Perhaps we should be told. https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/changes-to-international-maritime-law

She started when she noticed a few differences in the prices at Tesco here and in the UK and was just intrigued by it. It led to us bringing more stuff back in the car when we're over there along with stuff we like from Aldi and Sainsbury's. I doubt that it would be the difference between the Life of Riley and the poorhouse though..........

Yes, and from our shopping experiences we reckon the difference between here and the UK across a shop has risen from about 2% before the takeover to about 3% now. I'll leave it at that rather than go on repeating myself, but will report back if we notice that differential growing.

Is this true? I've heard the rumour a few times, but I've never seen anything to corroborate it. All UK registered vessels need to meet SOLAS. If it is true, in what respect is she non-compliant?

It appears to boil down to whether we think they are justified in charging about 3% more here than in the UK across a typical trolley of shopping. That depends on whether they are subsidising the undeniably enhanced cost of trading here or we are - information we don't have. I suspect it's about right.

You'd be crackers to cross the threshold without a Clubcard.

And a very good example of what I was pointing out to @IOM . That £2.65 is £2.50 across, but the £1.25 is the same in IOM and UK.

How is that not a genuine reduction?

Surely though, you have to take account of offers on very many popular items that most people avail of at the same as UK price. The effect of these probably cuts your 5% in half on the average real life shop. I never go out of my way to antagonise or pick an argument. Better things to do.

I will if I ever turn out to be wrong. 😎

Always thought Peel Shoprite was a bit of a mystery. Seemed like half the floor space was given over to booze. Unless that just says something about Peel.

A bit more, not a lot more. In our case I am reliably informed that we paid about 2% more here than we did buying the same stuff in the UK pre-takeover. Now it's about 3% across the shop. As we frequent Tesco here and in the UK, we are watching to see if the differential grows bigger over time.

I've said before that you used lots of examples of individual items, but completely ignored the way people shop in real life. Lots of your items were available in different sizes or in multi-buy Clubcard offers at exactly the same prices as throughout the UK, and I listed those against your lists. I see you've chosen to ignore this too, although it has a bearing on the differential in a total average shop. Still around UK + 3% we reckon, so I don't think we have much to complain about yet. Anyway, although there are certainly more 5%ish uplifts from UK prices now than in the past, the IOM prices were never all at par with across as you claimed. There were always some differences. I do have a controversial one for you though. Mrs. W reports that loose bananas are still 95p kg here and 90p in the UK, BUT in Lake Road they are claiming the 95p price as an Aldi price match!! How very dare they!! She wonders if they are leaving them more expensive to make up for a couple of months when bananas were marked up at 105p per kg on the shelf but through some system cockup were only being charged at 78p per kilo on the weighing scales.

Fairly certain he knows what he means, but he knows nothing of my levels of empathy. I accept that it's a controversial view I posted, but it's honest. Had enough bereavement in my time, but the treasured memories of loved ones lost are with me rather than in an urn of ashes. Others will see things differently, as is their right.

That is so profound. Genius.

That's not going to happen, is it? Seems the ship sailed about 60 years ago.

Find it hard to get excited about ashes, frankly. Wrong baby given to parents at the maternity ward, yes. There's something to get worked up over. Lifesaving surgery lashed up by a stupid error, absolutely, but a few ashes? When you're gone, you're gone. You ain't coming back whatever happens to the ashes. What you gonna do with 'em anyway? Obviously it's me and my lack of religion.

Tesco have always done bits and bats of small electrical appliances at Lake Road. Kettles, toasters and the like.

I can't take much of the credit. It's Mrs W's domain really, but it really isn't a matter of "taking care". It's blindingly obvious and takes no additional time at all. Someone going into the confounded place every day is spending more time there than us. I reckon most people have their heads screwed on tightly enough not to pay over the odds by ignoring offers.

As, I should think, are most people. Totally bizarre to be in and out of shops every day to me. No love for them at all. Use them as effectively as possible for the shortest time possible then stay away for the longest time possible. Along with this approach come multibuy offers without having to think about it.

Don't use comparison sites. Just our experience buying stuff in various places. It isn't difficult and it takes no time at all beyond that taken to do the shopping. It's @IOM and @CrazyDave that keep coming up with lists of unlikely shopping combinations that are not the best buys. I've just edited them and offered better options. I am surprised about one thing, and that's how unsophisticated many of the denizens of MF appear to be in their shopping habits.

Can use them till end of year.

That must have been some send off. Are you King Charles? Only worth 2 to a penny aren't they?

Takes a lot less time than your comparisons on here. Mrs W can be around a supermarket shop in about an hour (or if I'm with her, 40 minutes). Then that's it for at least a week. It's not really a question of that. People tend to know what their regular items are. They keep a list of those and add extra products to it as they go along. It isn't at all burdensome. I bet doing this and shopping once a week takes less time than being disorganised and going into the damned place every day which seems like the ultimate pain as well as being the least economical.