Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

Savvybuyer wrote: »

[...] No good merely using six stores, but I have still not got items that I think M has - I have lost the Coke Zero 4 pack now, but I think it will simply have moved to somewhere else in M. Some of you will be able to go to your M and find it straight there. I am having trouble finding it although I suspect that you have it. I think that, probably, this will be false for most people - however it will be true for some I think! [...]

I have now found the Coke Zero again. In my local M:rotfl:. Absento Selo:D. However, I don't have the Red Bull 12 packs that I had only last week - I didn't mention those earlier - as they've vanished on me this week. I notice that A has now put the price up on its 4 can version:T, however purely based on M shelf price or price after APG (ignoring travel costs, any MOCs etc.), the 12 cans packs from M work out slightly cheaper if they are still £8.

So, there I am, trying to find the Coke Zero across the country when it's now in my own M. I was right to think it had just moved to somewhere else - and it turns out I was talking of myself when I said someone could just go to their M and find it straight away:rotfl:. (As I have just done that myself.) I also have an additional item from there despite previously visiting only last week. Things get moved around and different items brought out in different Ms every day. I no longer have the Poppin Chicken though - there was stock there before, along with a SEL and OOS label on a different shelf. Unfortunately the stock has now gone in my store. I do have a SEL around elsewhere but no stock, although I think there probably will be some stock in M somewhere. They did work on the APG before, but I think they probably won't anymore (however, I say that...).

I now think the Stephenson's Fruited Teacakes are 65p and any 2 for £1. This is despite nearly all my stores showing 50p Wednesday/yesterday and ending up with me concluding they were 50p (despite being told at the till they were 65p). Today, in a different store, I have been told again that they are 65p but two of them scan at £1, so I think that's correct. It seems they've gone from 50p earlier to 2 for £1:wall:. That's now at least eight stores up to yesterday showing 50p price crunch. They could have changed today: however the first 65p at the till was yesterday and I had a store earlier showing 2 for £1, but OOS, and the offer label saying ending 4th December (I don't know what that is about - it seems to refer to the "offer" that ended last year).

The Rustler's Hot Dog is £1, unless they have some other stock somewhere else or some in a parallel universe that I haven't seen:rotfl:. They are, I am sure, not trying to confuse anyone by largely showing the correct price; however it almost confused me as someone who doesn't believe the price I'm being shown. I've now had the stock that isn't flashed at £1 scan at £1. I had been taking that to be £2, even though I had some £1 SELs. However, I kept seeing £1 SELs that, eventually, I had the item checked at the till and have been told it's £1. It's the stock on BC ending 9181 that's now scanned at £1 - which is normally the £2 one - it's usually the other BC, on packs flashed at £1, that scans at £1 (which appears currently to be unavailable) but now the "£2" one has gone to £1. Anyway, they are £1 - the stock on the "£2 BC" has gone to £1.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Coke Zero was usually N/A on the TBG but if it had come on and off at some point reflecting when it was in one of the three collection stores. However, as far as I think, it has been continuously available somewhere at £1 throughout the past three months and therefore 'should' be M at £1.00. It has sometimes (and getting more often more recently) taken me slightly more than six stores to find it and, usually, I have then found it without a SEL. We never know what time it will have landed in the TBG stores or not - it could be there now, at the same time as it has landed at my home store, wherever that is, but I think most probably it's in none of the TBG stores - or they could, if they have it which I think is unlikely, they could quite likely have no SEL like myself and therefore have no price for it therefore N/A.

EDIT: Coke Zero 4 pack now OOS in T apparently. Well, I do not believe it - it's just not on t.com - and could it even have gone onto RTC cheaper somewhere?

As suggested yesterday, the Wyke Mature Cheddar, both at the counter and prepacked stock, is now £5/Kg. It's now generally that price therefore - although avoid any older prepacked stock that was priced when they were £9.18/Kg. in the stores in which that still exists (which, presumably, might go even cheaper if it reaches its UB date). The £5/Kg. price looks like an offer - however I think prepacked stock of the cheese has been continuously £5/Kg. in one store or another for the entire period (and it's now been a long period) from when they were last generally £5/Kg. I think I might have failed to find £5/Kg. prepacked stock on just one occasion in that time and, even then, I believed it was very likely to be still around somewhere as it was a very brief failure to find only two days after finding £5/Kg. prepacked stock, with several days in the future, in one store. Other than that one brief occasion, I think I've always had at least one store - a minority of stores - with prepacked stock available at £5/Kg. The blocks of Wyke Mature and Creamy Cheddar are also £5/Kg. (unless someone's store has only prepacked full price stock) - it seems to be rare for those to be £5/Kg. as I have not seen that before - however I seem to have stock which with the weight rounded up on the price label - the 'worst' example I have is 1.115Kg. on one label, but then the one with the pricing has 1.2Kg. so it seems they may not quite work out at £5/Kg.

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Morning hg,

Rhos might be your lady.....if not I might be able to help tonight:)

Have a great day everyone.

I've woken up this morning and depending on what I see when I go down to look at where I parked, I think I'm going to appeal my parking ticket. I'll tell all tonight:D

If PD can do it so can i:rotfl:

Only because London fines are £130, well £65 within the first 14 days. Money grabbing gits :eek:

Afternoon Everyone,
Does anyone know if the large Easter Eggs in Asda compare with Tesco's?
Hope everyone is having a good day and hugs to all those that arn't.

♥ Birthday Flowers looking gorgeous I week later ♥