Reduced bargains and yellow stickers shopping

Lady_Muck wrote: »

It depends. Can always always get cheap bread in our local Tesco Extra. Sometimes there is a bit of a scrap on for the cheap veg - sometimes lots of people after it, sometimes barely anyone.
It depends on who is managing the store that night - sometimes you get 25% off, sometimes 90%, just depends.
I tend to pop into whatever store I'm passing but I always go to T Extra for bread.
I do save lots though, couldn't buy many yellow stickers last month and shopping bill went up by £80 for that month!

Totally agree with this, I have not done as well with Mr T reductions recently, but can still hit a good evening with fruit veg and fresh meat. It really is just luck, I usually go in at about 5.35 ish. It depends also on person doing the reductions and what other customers are hogging the area LOL.

HappyMJ wrote: »

Pure luck...I might just come back with what I went for...a loaf of bread and milk.

For a fiver??? Where do you shop, Harrods?

Not worth it for me. It's usually the overpriced stuff new lines that they have made a mistake on that is reduced so not a bargain at all. You really need to know what your prices are across the length and breadth of what's on offer. People usually vote with their wallets.

Sometimes I will go for high value stuff reduced by 40% at least if eating it that day or meat for the freezer. The shopping bill will be higher if shopping like that but sometimes it's nice to have the best quality stuff or convenience food though.

If I am around at 7pm the bargains are much better but here luck really does come into it. You would get more value for your fiver then. Tesco use their computers - PDA's to work out how much stock they have at three times of the day to work out how deep the reduction will be. That's why YS shopping is rarer these days.

It makes for variety in the diet if cooking a whoopsie/YS meal but again can be more expensive cooking and shopping that way due to level of quality or convenience. It's more of a bargain if the exact stuff you usually buy is on reduction.

I wouldn't expect to come home with anything and only go if I need something and was passing anyway.

Hit and miss. Me and OH will hit both Mr T and Mr A in an evening and come home with maybe 4x bag-for-life bags full for less than £10. 70-80% of our shopping is from the yellow stickered stuff and we often laugh that we eat like royalty, plus get to try stuff out that we wouldn't otherwise buy!

Nada666 wrote: »

I'm a traditionalist and tend to opt for 3M's own. I tried the Niceday ones but was disappointed the dog was only on the outer wrapper and not on the stickers themselves. Viking own brand - the colour was too strong, too garish and not matt enough. Stationery Box/Ryman - uncompetitive prices, it felt like I was buying printer ink.

So I am sticking with sticking Post-Its to everything.

Useful information, which has been noted with interest. However, may I respectfully suggest that it might've been a good idea to have read a few of the previous posts first. Thanks for the laugh, though.