whooppsies in the supermarkets not so cheep!

1carminestocky

I had to pop into our local Asda late the other night (milk!) and as I was walking past the reduced section I noticed 2 really nice looking fresh salmon fillets. Checked them out and the original price was £3.47 but they had been reduced to 95p. I picked them up to put them in my basket but a bloke with one of those strange looking 'price guns' comes over and tells me that he was just going to reduce all the stuff further, takes my salmon fillets and places a 10p sticker on them. Astonished. Bloody lovely they were as well.

hilstep2000

I gt a box of five mini danish pastries in Tesco the other evening. Was £1.62 reduced to 40p! Delicious!

amumoffour2

I too had some real bargains shopping at 9pm last week- would normally be in bed but hubby on lates so nipped out when he came home.

Tesco had loads of veg reduced -2.5kg of potatoes- 20p a go -still using them now! Bags of carrots and bunches of organic ones for 10p and loads of broccoli at yep- 10p a go! Can't go wrong at that price with 6 of us to feed:jmost of it was still with- in its sell by date- not that i take any notice!

Reverbe

1carminestocky wrote: »

I had to pop into our local Asda late the other night (milk!) and as I was walking past the reduced section I noticed 2 really nice looking fresh salmon fillets. Checked them out and the original price was £3.47 but they had been reduced to 95p. I picked them up to put them in my basket but a bloke with one of those strange looking 'price guns' comes over and tells me that he was just going to reduce all the stuff further, takes my salmon fillets and places a 10p sticker on them. Astonished. Bloody lovely they were as well.

Excellent - now can he come at work at our tescos :j

wembley78_2

kt33uk wrote: »

I have noticed that my local Sainsbury doesn't have as good savings as it used to. The bargains used to be fantastic but due to a change of manager they are not quite as good. Mind you they have now started reducing all of the bakery stuff which they didn't used to. Used to break my heart going in later at night and watching the staff putting rolls, baguettes and that into bags to be binned.

Mind you for some strange reason the new manager has stopped reductions on the fresh cut flowers. The plants can be reduced but not the flowers they are just binned rather than being sold cheap. :mad:

The cut flowers not being reduced IS a corporate decision by Sainsbury's, this has been in force for about 12 months now. The flowers that aren't sold within life should not be binned though. They should be donated to local hospices, churches, old peoples homes etc

liam8282

Could it be that the reduced stuff is available to staff?

Maybe they have a little staff shop or something and put most of the stuff that's reduced in there?

I know in tesco, asda, etc near me it seems to be late evening 9pm ish, that everything is reduced the most.

Helix

liam8282 wrote: »

Could it be that the reduced stuff is available to staff?

Maybe they have a little staff shop or something and put most of the stuff that's reduced in there?

I know in tesco, asda, etc near me it seems to be late evening 9pm ish, that everything is reduced the most.

We have a reduced area for staff at work but its only stuff that is past its best before date. Anything that is in date is available to all customers, but staff arn't stopped from buying it.

~~Diane~~

I used to work for a large branch of the Co-op till it was closed down, and the staff always got first dabs on the reduced items, the walk-in fridges and freezers would be full of staff produce, if it could be frozen then it was until payday.

The week leading up to its closeier (sp) staff got most things for 10p be it joints of meat to kettles :T

MrsW82

I used to be a "Dairy assistant" at a local Co-Op as a 6th former - and it was my job to reduce stuff in the chiller cabinets...
It was always funny how much popularity was caused by what I was reducing...

It used to be a case of knocking a third of the original price off at 5pm, then half it's orginal cost about 8.

Then the manager changed, and the stuff tended to be sold before it needed to be reduced!

FatAndy

This brings back memories of the good old days when Co-op used to pay you to take food off them. Their tills used to be set to automatically reduce items on promotion, e.g. if something was £2 and on a BOGOF the till would automatically knock £2 off your bill if you bought two of them. The thing was that if you were lucky enough to get two items that had been whoopsied it still took off the full £2. So if they'd been reduced to say 75p you paid 2x75p less £2, i.e. you got the items free and they paid you 50p as well. I think this happened in other supermarkets as well. It doesn't happen any more as the whoopsie stickers all now have their own bar codes but it was great while it lasted.