http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/pricewatch Just another irishtimes.com weblog Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:52:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This I found mesmerising. Then depressing. Very, very depressing. Share This http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/pricewatch/2009/07/01/make-it-stop-2/ Nearly half the State’s 1500 pharmacists have said they will pull out of the community drugs schemes in response to the Government’s plan to cut their payments and the Irish Pharmacists Union has warned that more could follow. They say that they will no longer dispense medicines under the medical ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/pricewatch/2009/07/01/mr-pharmacist-i-insist/ Busy day today. We have Tesco rolling out its price cutting campaign in the Capital (a mystery celebrity is going to help them at their midday launch but their press people have steadfastly refused to tell me who it is - I’m beside myself with excitement. Who might it be!!! ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/pricewatch/2009/06/30/its-your-own-fault/ What do you do if you’re served food in a restaurant which, when it comes, turns out to be pretty horrible? A) Eat it and tell the waiter everything was fine? B) Push it round the plate to create the impression that you ate it and tell the waiter that everything was ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/pricewatch/2009/06/28/what-to-do/ Another front in the supermarket prices wars has been opened after Supervalu rolled out €86m worth of fresh price reductions. It takes to €200m, the number of price cuts the store says have been implemented since the beginning of the year. (more...)Share This http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/pricewatch/2009/06/25/better-value-at-supervalu/ Tesco today recalled its cans of Value Beans and Sausage after pieces of plastic were found in a number of cans although I would have thought the plastic could only have been an improvement on what is, by most definitions a pretty dodgy product. Actually, while I might turn ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/pricewatch/2009/06/25/hmmmm-tinned-sausages/ Lasy week I featured a story from a person who received a threatening solicitor’s letter from the ESB about his last month’s payment after he switched from the ESB to Bord Gáis Energy. An ESB spokeswoman said that the letter was sent out “inadvertently” as a result of a glitch in ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/pricewatch/2009/06/22/red-letter-day-for-esb-customers/ I spent weeks earlier this year advising anyone who asked me – and quite a few who didn’t – to make the switch from the ESB to Bord Gais and when I was asked what the catch was I insisted there was absolutely none – switch and save, ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/pricewatch/2009/06/17/its-not-a-gas-at-all/ Here's the story I had in the paper today about M&S: MARKS AND Spencer is to significantly reduce the prices of all its clothes, homeware and furniture in the Republic from tomorrow but has stopped short of introducing its “permanent price cuts” in its food halls. The British retailer says it is ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/pricewatch/2009/06/17/every-little-helps-2/ Put down that breakfast roll, it’s Meat Free Monday. Meat Free what now? The new initiative is being heavily pushed this morning by the world’s most famous vegan Paul McCartney. He is trying to convince people to go without meat for just one day every week in order ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/pricewatch/2009/06/15/meating-of-minds/