whooppsies in the supermarkets not so cheep!

jenster

i know we all love a barguin but are the barguins to be had

is it me or are they not such a barguin anymore - used to be able to get bread at 10p a loaf at the end of the day -- now though ur lucky if u get 10p off

same with joints of meat again 1/2 price or more used to be the norm with them now if its £5.00 origional price u might be lucky and get them for £ 4.50

Floss

It depends on the supermarket & the time of day they reduce everything.....for example, Tesco tend to drop their prices to rpence after 7.30ish in my local store, but if I go to Asda after work, all their reduced stuff has already gone.

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ClaireLR

I agree with Floss, if you go to my local Tesco's after 830pm you can get bread for 15p, pizza's for abut 30p, last time I bought 2 pork chops for 34p. On Saturday's I go to Morrisons early in the morning and at that time they've only reduced things by about 10-50p (Depending on their original price).

The only problem with Tesco's by me is that some people take their entire families and crowd round the reduced section to grab all the best things as soon as their reduced, you can see them passing them out to someone else who's waiting with their trolley!

OrkneyStar

Sometimes I have seen things like Chicken Fillets reduced from £2.99 to £2.49, yet they are also on offer at 2 for £5 anyway, so no saving really (unless the computer takes of the orginal 98p as well). This does tend to be earlier in the day of course.

shy_at_the_till

Hi there!

Don't you love ir when you find a whooppsie? A couple of weeks ago I was shopping at Waitrose (Canary Wharf) and they had reduced the turkey fillets (four of them in each packet) to 30p. There were about 10-12 packets with the whoopsie sticker. As I was taking one item a lady in her late 50's came and placed her trolley by the refrigerator, blocking anybody else... and started telling me how cheap they were. Then, as I was about to leave with my two packets (yes, i only took two) she explained to me how greedy she would feel if she took all of them, how guilty.... blah, blah. I told her that i was not feeling guilty as i had left plenty of packets for everybody else.
Can you guess what she did next? Took all of them and put them in her trolley? I guess that all that greed and guilt was just to justify herself. I have seen this lady before and i had never paid any attention to her shopping habits. I bet next time i see her i will "investigate" what other whooppsies she has raided fom the aisles.

jenniewb

I always laugh when I see the reduced box- not the sell by date reduced stuff, but all the broken/missing lids/opened or damaged boxes that have been reduced- some of the reductions make the items cost MORE then they do on the shelves!

I saw a box of chocolates in Tescos, reduced to £9.99 from somewhere around £10 and on the shelves, and BOGOF. They took of about 1p. And not really even that!

Similar with tissues, an opened box stuck back together with brown gaffer tape, down by 1p.

You do begin to wonder what the point is- a box of reduced stuff like that then becomes a dumping ground for anyone who can't be bothered to return the item to its place or leave it at the end of the till. So the box builds, more stuff gets damaged, and the 1p off does nothing to sell anything!

queenpig

shy_at_the_till wrote: »

Hi there!

Can you guess what she did next? Took all of them and put them in her trolley? I guess that all that greed and guilt was just to justify herself. I have seen this lady before and i had never paid any attention to her shopping habits. I bet next time i see her i will "investigate" what other whooppsies she has raided fom the aisles.

This reminds me of my friend, I do love her really.
One early morning she decided to come food shopping with me and I wanted to get some pork mince, asda which the we went in had about 4 trays of mince reduced. I kid you not she almost fell over her self running to get them before I got there, as it was, it was minced beef.
I know we all need to save money in this climate but I think I would have entered a physical with her if I dared to take any of them, I told her its ok, i didn't want any of them, she said I wasn't stopping (clutching ALL 4 trays of mince like a kid with a bag of sweets) you from getting of them! She only saved 80p at the most.
She's also another block the whoopies aisles, so no can get in there with me lady too.

QP. x

AndyInYorks

In Morrisons, I picked up a French stick reduced to 25p, thought it would be nice for my tea with some salad. Then the assistant chases me down the aisle, I wonder what I've done wrong and she says "I haven't reduced that one again yet" and put a new sticker on it - now 5p!

maman

Definitely agree that reductions are nothing like as good as they used to be. I don't have time to go back late at night or whenever but during day they knock of such a small amount I'd rather buy the fresher stuff. In my Asda the shelf of damaged tins etc has such poor reductions that the same stuff is there from week to week!

chnelomi

i thought that my local Tesco's was lowering the amount the reduced items by too. was having a little look the other day for cold meat, usually i can get a few £ worth for roughly 75p/£. But they had only taken around 20p off. When it is such small savings i prefer to just buy at full price and have some for tea then freeze the rest. like the Pork chops i seen dated for that day with only 50p off pointless when you save that and sometimes more by buying two packs with several days left on the main isle.

And i havent seen a loaf of bread reduced in our store for months. sometimes the rolls or frenchsticks if they have loads after a BOGOF or similar offer.

One thing that makes me laugh recently since they have started reducing items buy pennies instead of pounds, the people that are so determined to get a bargain that they dont even realize the would save money going to the next isle and getting the BOGOF offer. lol i cant help but simle when i put 50% saving in my trolley and they are blocking the whole isle for less 5% saving :rotfl: