Interesting tale. Wonder if the first thing he did afterwards was buy a lottery ticket? I note one of the fishermen quoted their speed not in knots but as "7 miles an hour" (10:58), and Hannah says "7 knots" correctly the first time it's used (1:24). Might even have been the story editor writing the script, feeling they ought to be using knots because it's on water, and not really understanding it (or indeed converting it correctly, 7 mph is ~6 knots).
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antipodean
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Maybe it is accelerating or decelerating ...
Hmm, they really should know better. Also it's lower case 
but that's much less of a concern to me. To answer @antipodean, the 7 knots was referring to a constant speed (that's partly how the search and rescue knew where to look).
but that's much less of a concern to me. To answer @antipodean, the 7 knots was referring to a constant speed (that's partly how the search and rescue knew where to look).antipodean
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I guess that would make it an epic-entre ...
gomezz
Well-Known Member
Surprised no-one picked up on my tautology.
Knowing just how dodgy Tesco is these days with their bogus without Clubcard prices I would not be so sure it was in error and not just another way to mug its customers who now think a clubcard price must be the better deal without checking if it is. Another recent example of their deceit was........................................ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0m0vrmlzgyo
Black Hole
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I've seen that kind of error in standard pricing, something along the lines of "£2 each, 3 for £7".
EEPhil
Number 28
You need to have your wits about you when shopping. This type of notice appears frequently. Also, when cooking oils were cheaper, I'd often find two 1L bottles were cheaper than a 2L bottle, or conversely, a 2L bottle cheaper than two 1L bottles in an offer - making the offer redundant. Something makes me think the supermarkets are trying to catch us out
Black Hole
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I'm not sure about that.
My example is clearly incompetence.
Your examples are possible instances of when they have more stock of any particular item to shift, a 1L bottle of oil being a completely separate entity than a 2L bottle of oil.
Luke
Well-Knwοn Мember
Sainsbury's do the same with some of their products having outlandish prices if you don't use a loyalty card. I thought it was just a method to encourage use of loyalty cards so that customers can be tracked rather than attempt to give an illusion of bargain pricing when a loyalty card is used.
Earlier this year I bought something from Tesco that was supposed to be £1.50 with clubcard instead of £2. At the till my clubcard was registered first but the product still came up as £2. The staff had to override the £2. A fortnight later I bought the same product and the same thing happened. Another fortnight later the same thing happened again. A fortnight later the clubcard price had ended.
Also this year I bought a 3 for £xxx offer in-store from Tesco. The price came up OK, but one of my later scanned items was a reduced yellow label item for an item that matched the items that were in the 3 for £xxx offer. On scanning the reduce yellow label item, instead of just increasing by the price of the yellow sticker reduced item, the running total went up by the full price of the product, What the till did was to swap that item with one of the full priced items from earlier, effectively charging me full price for the reduced yellow sticker item. A few weeks later when I saw the same item reduced I tried to repeat the experience but this time it did voluntarily keep the price of the yellow sticker item at the reduced yellow sticker price.
I've also had another item this year where the till had tried to charge me more than the price displayed on the shelf, and that display price was still valid according to a big notice by the shelf claiming that is was cheap at the lower price.
I do wonder how often I don't spot Tesco's price increases that occur at the till.
Has anyone this year come across any Tesco till price discrepancies like this in your favour?
Never noticed a "bank error in your favour" in Tesco, but twice this year I've had clubcard reductions not applied by the till (pork joints reduced to £4/kg, and frozen scampi at half price - the staff did remove the half-price shelf label when processing my refund, but the pork was still incorrect a week later [after originally telling me they'd "report it to their manager"]).
Another thing that bugs me about Tesco is that the price for an exactly the same item in a Tesco Express is not the same as in a Tesco supermarket. I was at the opening of a local Tesco by Bobby Moore and Miss England in the 60's, it was supermarket for decades then became an Express and most of the cheaper own brands, the cheaper due to being multi-pack or larger size bargains were no longer stocked and the prices for other items increased above supermarket prices. As others have said the "errors" are always to Tesco's benefit and they occur so often these days that it seems unlikely at least some are not a deliberate ploy to increase profits. The other major supermarkets play the same tricks but none come close to showing such contempt for their customers.
www.express.co.uk
I did a shop at Tesco Express instead of a big store but I won't again
Express Money journalist Jackie Annett has been investigating the price difference at her local Tesco Express compared to one of its bigger stores.
www.express.co.uk
Black Hole
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You expect pricing in a convenience store to match pricing in a superstore? It's there for convenience; if you don't want to pay convenience price, take the inconvenience (and pay the extra petrol) of going to the superstore.
If you take that attitude, you might (in some circumstances) be cutting your nose off to spite your face,
If you take that attitude, you might (in some circumstances) be cutting your nose off to spite your face,
No I expect what was a Tesco supermarket for decades not to have its choices and prices changed to the detriment of its customers by simply adding Express to its signage.
bottletop
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They've been sneaky. I've seen Metro stores converted to Express so that they can hike the prices up. In the old days they had three types of stores with staggered pricing structure. (Use to be superstore, metro and express.)
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