Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

gocat wrote: »

Anyone found the elusive yogs in a A's that previously didnt have them if you see what I mean
Or have you been to A's. Didnt have the christmas yogs but went a 2nd time and they had them.
Wondering if its worth doing the rounds of A's again to see if they now have them in stock.
tia

The Cadbury Swiss Gateau has finally appeared in one of my Ms today (fwiw). And the Pork Rind that I was picking up from only one store each time (I've been confined to my nearby stores recently - would surely have picked it up from 4 or 5 others if I was going out elsewhere) was sold out there and didn't have price on the SEL today. However, today is the day that it has appeared at my other store, first time I've had it there for ages:rotfl:.

Just shows how things come and go at various Ms - and surely the same is true of any chain of supermarkets?

I had Savers white bread present in one and lost from two others (as in no trace and no SEL) on Wednesday. On Friday, it was completely absent from the store that had it two days before (no location for it on the shelving - stock of others obviously moved around and no SEL - so completely not there not even OOS but with a SEL to indicate it had been there). That day, it was now in stock with SEL in one of the other stores that hadn't had it last time. Now, two days on, it's back, with SEL in the first store (that didn't have it Friday).

I have also had to decamp to store number 2 today to pick up the Savers chocolate bars. Completely absent from the first store:rotfl::rotfl:. By that, I mean no products, no SELs - not a SEL and an OOS notice that I can deal with (even if occasionally a bit dodgy). That is unusual, for them to be complete no trace - they're been consistently there for months on days/times when I've been there at any rate - first time I've had them (both of them, let alone one of them) as a carryover item I think. Maybe didn't have them once before, in over five years, when I started at a small store. They were moving the shelves in the chocolate aisle around and it seemed to me getting a few Christmas items onto the shelves - obviously people want branded chocolate at Christmas and aren't bothered in Savers:rotfl:. There's no indication, but I would not know, that there is any wider absence of Savers Chocolate from lots of Ms - I had no problem in the second place and I can't imagine a reasonable set of stores, such as the APG arguably has, failing to have them anywhere at all - no indication that they will be dropping off (as in the M price going N/A through no trace in any of the collection stores) and SP Chocolate Bars should keep their M comparison.

Alright, people have had enough time to post to tell me I am wrong and show me up to embarrassment:o:o. I actually expect people to do so:eek::rotfl:.

midwinter wrote: »

This is irrelevant now really, as 342 on shower gel has ended in A, but:

2x Palmolive Aroma Moments So Vibrant Pearly Shower Gel (250ml) £3.00 N/A

Savvybuyer wrote: »

:(What a shame, as M has just put one (and as far as I know so far, only one) of the Aroma Moments (not this one) onto £1. Is the 3 for 2 off on the Palmolive Gourmets as well now? TIA.

As was common knowledge to everyone apart from me, the last to know again, M have at least two versions, including this one, on £1 today, according to the SELs in my third store. It makes me wonder whether the others are also on £1. I might have each store reveal them to me, one at a time and a different one in each:rotfl:. However, I do not need to check as they are not in the 3 for 2 in A anymore.

Switching stores, according to my SELs in A now, which did show 3 for 2s before and I am reliant on that, the toothpastes are no longer in the 3 for 2:( - as everyone except myself again would probably have known for days, if not weeks, already:rotfl:. The Palmolive Gourmets aren't in the 3 for 2 either, or the Grecian 2000 it seems. I will remove the toothpastes and Grecian 2000 from the M list, as those are currently still on it.

In a sense I was right though - M had (according to my SEL) put one of the Aromas onto £1, although it now turns out that (according to a SEL again) it has also put at least one other, onto £1 as well. I was simply referring to "not this one" as in relation to the one I had seen, which wasn't So Vibrant, and I didn't want to give potentially incorrect information that that had gone onto £1 if it had not. It turns out, apparently though, it also has. I didn't know that it had (as, yet again, rightly stated:p:D:rotfl: in my assertion "as far as I know so far" [my emphasis]), from the information showing in my first two stores. As can be seen, I need my third store:rotfl:.

It is also irrelevant as Gourmets seem no longer on in A - Mint Shake (as far as I again know only - and my three stores are all consistent about that one) has gone to £1 in M:(.

EDIT: I have now looked at what online has.
Fwiw, it now seems I have reached the right position, after three stores, of having three of the Palmolives, from within Aromas/Gourmets, on £1 in M - Aroma So Sweet, Aroma Vibrant and Gourmet Mint Shake. This is currently exactly the same as online, which has all the others at full price. Hooray, we are on the same page again:D.

tornado wrote: »

davemorton wrote: »

A fine choice. Blackwoods Vintage is my favourite gin. Neat, it just evaporates on your tongue, leaving the botanicals behind, mmmm.



:beer: Thats a cracking price for it.

Blackwoods is on offer on Amazon, it has been a few pounds cheaper in the past but this is still a good price.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0043A17VE/ref=od_aui_detailpages01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It was not the first store where the time was spent, on a largely static day in M when not many offers were expected to have expired in the first place (even though one of them, on all the Aussies, was a very significant expiry) - instead it was the second and third stores, sorting out the queries that arose after the first! Sometimes telling me something different to my first store and then that having to be sorted out:rotfl:.

I am going to be putting an item back onto the list that I now think I wrongly removed either last week or the week before, as it is still on the offer price. Two offer stores previously had gone to full price - a different full price in each:rotfl: - causing me to think, whatever price it now was, it wasn't offer price anymore. That may have been wrong, unless the item has gone back onto offer only now. On seeing the offer price still up, I have scanned it at SS - and it is offer price.

I have also scanned each of those flash wipes packs and each of them is £1. However, I would still not try either of them on the APG after the update after this:rotfl:. My third store, the same as both the previous two, had £1 prices on display on each of them which, under normal circumstances, would leave me satisfied at that point that that was their price. However, due to online showing full price on one of them, I was still not trusting a set of £1s again. My companion took one of them to the till and, according to them, was told that they are £2. I then took the item from them and scanned it at the SS and - sure enough, £2 - £1 = £1! I also managed to scan, separately, the other flavour - fortunately at a time when there was a changeover of SAs at the SS within minutes of my first scan.

Each of them is clear £1 and the £2 price online on antibac. (that is currently comparing, I believe correctly, against £1 on the APG) is not the instore price as at yesterday.

However, despite my checks of SELs for other items, I have still managed to come away, after being satisfied about the prices I was seeing displayed instore, with a price I now think is wrong. I am still getting the offer price for a product, that was due to have expired, in all three stores but I now don't think it is offer price and online has full price. However, then again, it could be the same as the antibac. wipes. It will therefore have to be doubtful until Wednesday when, hopefully, I will have more stores. Yesterday was supposed to be a minor day in M and I didn't have many stores to do wide and full, but there are lots of offers expected to have expired by Wednesday and I am hoping to have a full and proper check across more stores than yesterday, so be prepared for a big glitch in A to start bang on cue:(:rotfl:.

I now have what I have from Monday to update all through today to prepare for Wednesday. There's also a problem on a small number of items it seems with more people shopping at this time of year - if anything is good and is noticed by the muggles, then people are buying it out of my stores and I am losing a few items completely:(. It seems to be affecting some of the alcohol products - I had Stella 10x330ml pack last time that appeared only that day in one of my stores saying £5. Not v.good really as it's 330ml cans rather than 440ml:rotfl: - I may well just fudge it and get rid! I would imagine it is still £5 - of course it could have changed without my knowledge of it. Well, what a brief transitory appearance that product made for me:(. There it was, grinning at me, like a Cheshire Cat that has now just vanished again. Obviously, some place it is still around and has probably just arrived into - been restocked at - some place where it wasn't before. I shall have another go with, hopefully, six stores on Wednesday (some of them, I am having to use the same ones though, so maybe my chances gone:( - or maybe not as other items, as I mentioned, have gone and come back again). Instead, Monday's third store added some items I didn't have in the first two and I am happy to have seen another item again that I hadn't seen for a couple of weeks and obviously still there in M at usual price and it seems I was right again to keep it untouched on my list:rotfl:!