greed

ThinkingOfLinking

Best ever bargains here:

30p for a salmon fillet.
5p for fennel.
9p for an Extra Special yoghurt.
30p for a good sized lot of sushi.
30p for scallops.
50p for 2 venison fillets.

Almo

My best ever was those packs of 5 chewy cookies that Sainsbury's do (not so keen on the Tesco's ones) for 4p.

I love bargains!

fabulous_girl

I used to work in a Coop store, til 2004, which is before they put the new tills in so it might not work anymore. There was a fault though, where if something was on a 2 for £2 offer for example, but then was also reduced to clear, if you bought two the til would also knock off the multisave reduction, meaning in effect the shop owed the customer money. One particularly savvy shopper knew this and came to the checkout with only multisave, reduced to clear items and I knew exactly what she was doing for as she was a renowned bargain hunter, so when I finished running her shopping through and subtotalling it, the till came up saying that we owed her £6! despite the fact that she had a trolley of shopping! i looked up and she was even holding her hand out waiting for the cash, cheeky mare!

donna-j_2

Blimey I filled my freezer with stickied meat, pizzas etc yesterday. Not mega bargains - 30-50% off. I find it absolutely ridiculous that people consider me greedy for trying to feed my family well and not leaving things for complete strangers who may or may not want to come along and buy a lamb joint ... :rolleyes:

ETA: I bought four reduced campanulas too. Am I being garden greedy as well?

Smickan

donna-j wrote: »

ETA: I bought four reduced campanulas too. Am I being garden greedy as well?

Yes :P

We only have a microwave to cook with at the moment and only a freezer - no fridge. So if I can find things in the reduced items that will pad out our meals and stop us living on a) the same things, b) a little bit of luxury and c) cheaper than ready meals are I'll snatch their hands off for as many as we can store!

Not being able to store food that needs chilling, small budget and only having one not-too-big chest freezer has made me greedy if that's what it is! Too many days of having to eat stuff that we don't like or basically starve.

samba

Anyone who says they wouldn't take as much as they can of something they want at a reduced price is either lying or stupid, or both.

tryingtobegood

fabulous_girl wrote: »

I used to work in a Coop store, til 2004, which is before they put the new tills in so it might not work anymore. There was a fault though, where if something was on a 2 for £2 offer for example, but then was also reduced to clear, if you bought two the til would also knock off the multisave reduction, meaning in effect the shop owed the customer money. One particularly savvy shopper knew this and came to the checkout with only multisave, reduced to clear items and I knew exactly what she was doing for as she was a renowned bargain hunter, so when I finished running her shopping through and subtotalling it, the till came up saying that we owed her £6! despite the fact that she had a trolley of shopping! i looked up and she was even holding her hand out waiting for the cash, cheeky mare!

Oh to have the brass-neck to even try that one! :eek:
Did she take the cash?

OrkneyStar

tryingtobegood wrote: »

Oh to have the brass-neck to even try that one! :eek:
Did she take the cash?

The thing is, if you give her the cash it seems crazy, yet if you don't surely the till will be over by £6!
I had this happen to me, although bought other stuff too so till only owed me 2p! The assistant was having none of it which I understand. Of course being the Office Cashier I would expect that til to be over the next morning lol!

calleyw

The other day in one of my local sainburys I got some good deals 2 X 900g beef joints 80p instead of £8 ish and one pork joint 70p instead of £5.

There had been 6 beef joints and 3 of us waited for them to marked down. One person took one I took two and another person took 3 and they even asked me if I wanted another one. I said no as I had 2 beef and one pork.

Personally I don't feel comfortable taking loads of stuff. but do take extra if it is something my mum could make use of and can be frozen.

But at this sainsburys it is not a rugby scrum. The one that is closer to home they stalk the staff and you know when the reduced to clear has come out as there are people zooming off to the redcued to clear areas. Even saw one person hand back a load chilled already reduced stuff to a staff member to have it reduced again and then they waited at the fridge for it to come back out on the shop floor. I thought that was a tad cheeky but each to there own I suppose.

Money is tight for loads of people recession or not. But it does not mean that I will hassle staff or take part in a rugby scrum just to get a reduced price item.

But do agree that people should not be aggresive or rude to staff or other customers while trying to get a bag bargain.

Yours


Calley

tyzer2001

I just popped into Sainsbury's to buy dog worming treatment (which set me back £12 eek) and was near the reduced section as the chap arrived with the new reductions - I got a £10.50 lamb joint for £2.50 yay!!!!