Selfsufficientish.com Supermarket Survey

Tomr · Post: # 66422Post **Tomr** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 8:31 pm

Following a - shall we say passionate? - debate on another thread I have written the following.

Selfsufficientish.com Supermarket Survey
http://www.pheos-online.co.uk/ss/

It will only take you a couple of minutes to complete. I'll post the results in a few days when its had a few people complete it.

It was knocked together in a hour and bit so be gentle with it!

I'll repost it as a new topic as well. The result could be interesting.

Meredith · Post: # 66430Post **Meredith** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:25 pm

Excellent for an hour and a bit.

Meredith.

Tomr · Post: # 66431Post **Tomr** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:31 pm

Meredith wrote:Excellent for an hour and a bit.

Meredith.

lol thanks, I've done loads of them before so I'm getting quick at them now. Nearly everyone of my degree assignments contains the words "conduct a survey".

possum · Post: # 66434Post **possum** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:38 am

you have missed one thing out, what about markets I shop there as much as possible and would like to be able to shop there for everything

Muddypause · Thu Jul 26, 2007 2:05 am

I'm just a little concerned that by calling it the SelfSuficientish.com survey you seem to be implying that it is a survey by, or on behalf of, SelfSufficientish.com rather than your own independent survey of forum readers.

Millymollymandy · Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:17 am

possum wrote:you have missed one thing out, what about markets I shop there as much as possible and would like to be able to shop there for everything

Markets come under 'small specialist' - mentioned at the top of the survey.

Tomr · Post: # 66448Post **Tomr** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:38 am

Muddypause wrote:I'm just a little concerned that by calling it the SelfSuficientish.com survey you seem to be implying that it is a survey by, or on behalf of, SelfSufficientish.com rather than your own independent survey of forum readers.

Noted - title changed

Tomr · Post: # 66450Post **Tomr** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:52 am

Why I put together the survey:

1. I was getting confused with what the general consensus was regarding supermarkets. Some people hated one in particular, some all of them and others were not bothered.
I was interested to know (as I guess a few people would be) the answers to the questions in the survey.

2. I was going to add one of the polls that’s build into the forum but that only allows one questions and is a little simplistic. As I mentioned above I’ve had to do loads of this kind of web based survey before for my degree (which is in Information Systems) so I just knocked one together.

3. It started out as just a couple of questions (the last two) but then my training kicked in and I had a little frenzy in trying to cover all the angles. I could have carried on for pages!

4. I was bored! There was nothing on telly!

5. Believe it or not I actually enjoy writing PHP code (the scripting language used to process and store the results) so it was not a chore to write.

I’m not secretly engaged in market research or anything like that. I just have a curious mind!
It’s entirely up to you if you take the survey or not.

Thanks
Tom

Millie · Post: # 66458Post **Millie** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:16 am

Tomr wrote:
3. It started out as just a couple of questions (the last two) but then my training kicked in and I had a little frenzy in trying to cover all the angles. I could have carried on for pages!

I got to the bottom and thought damn its only 1 page

possum · Post: # 66469Post **possum** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:06 pm

Millymollymandy wrote:
possum wrote:you have missed one thing out, what about markets I shop there as much as possible and would like to be able to shop there for everything
Markets come under 'small specialist' - mentioned at the top of the survey.

Yes, but I think grouping them together is a mistake. I know in the UK most market stalls are run by full time business people, but that is not the case worldwide. In NZ the markets are a combination of business stalls and a farmer selling their excess produce and small holders selling whatever they have grown. Markets really are a very different type of business to buy from

Tomr · Post: # 66472Post **Tomr** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:24 pm

possum wrote:
Millymollymandy wrote:
possum wrote:you have missed one thing out, what about markets I shop there as much as possible and would like to be able to shop there for everything
Markets come under 'small specialist' - mentioned at the top of the survey.
Yes, but I think grouping them together is a mistake. I know in the UK most market stalls are run by full time business people, but that is not the case worldwide. In NZ the markets are a combination of business stalls and a farmer selling their excess produce and small holders selling whatever they have grown. Markets really are a very different type of business to buy from

As I said, I could have extended the survey to many pages!
But the main aim was to look at supermarkets so I did "Supermarkets" and "others"

possum · Post: # 66490Post **possum** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:09 pm

true, but if your aim is to see if people would rather shop a supermarkets or elsewhere, fine, group everything else together.
If your aim is to find where people prefer to shop, then........

Thomzo · Post: # 66530Post **Thomzo** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:39 pm

Hi
Good survey. The only problem was that there wasn't an option for "I don't know" in the first question. I honestly don't know if there is a greengrocer in Swindon. I only found out about a butcher last week (and I've been living here for 9 years!).

Edited to say that isn't a criticism of the survey, more a criticism of Swindon where we are forced to rely on the major supermarkets.

Zoe

Tomr · Post: # 66545Post **Tomr** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 9:08 pm

Thomzo wrote:Hi
Good survey. The only problem was that there wasn't an option for "I don't know" in the first question. I honestly don't know if there is a greengrocer in Swindon. I only found out about a butcher last week (and I've been living here for 9 years!).

Edited to say that isn't a criticism of the survey, more a criticism of Swindon where we are forced to rely on the major supermarkets.

Zoe

Thats a good point.
Bit late to change it now though as it would throw out previous results. I would just put 0.