What time do supermarkets do cheapies?

randomer

Do you find your local supermarket have good deals on at certain times? I usually have a look in the cabinet with cheap stuff in but it looks unappealing on the whole. Creamy deserts which I'm not keen on or rather dodgy looking brown meat and I'm never too sure about the prawns.

Maybe I need to try harder?

Penelope_Penguin

randomer wrote: »

Do you find your local supermarket have good deals on at certain times?

I think it depends on each branch There are several similar threads on the Grocery Shopping board, so I'll move this over.

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woody505

if a store has a poor stock control department there may be more reductions in the cabinet if theyve ordered too much in. can allways work the over way and they dont order enough in aswell.

tryingtobegood

I was lucky enough to be in M&S Braehead last night at 5pm. There was at least 3 different assistants going round the shelves putting out loads of reduced items. The place was heaving but I stalked the assistants :oall round the shelves and came away with a trolley load of yellow stickered items.:j:j

nic_nac_

tryingtobegood wrote: »

I was lucky enough to be in M&S Braehead last night at 5pm. There was at least 3 different assistants going round the shelves putting out loads of reduced items. The place was heaving but I stalked the assistants :oall round the shelves and came away with a trolley load of yellow stickered items.:j:j

How much do M&S reduce there stuff by? Don't think i've ever had anything reduced in there, then again i'm never in at that time so that's maybe why.:)

babyshoes

The best day and time we have ever found for reductions was about an hour before closing on Christmas Eve in our local 24h Tesco - they were going to be closed the next day and only open for a short period on the 26th, so a lot of freezable stuff like meat was heavily reduced, as well as other short life stuff like dairy. Of course, there were huge crowds there too, but we still came away with a really big load of stuff which then took a lot of clever packing to fit into the freezer. It included a whole salmon for less than a fiver!

TravellingAbuela

The only time I have found reduced items in M & S was by accident! This was late on a Friday afternoon - don't know whether this is their regular time as not been back since at that time. I got a few Italian meals (Lasagne, Cannelloni, Tagliatelle) all reduced to £1 and packs of 2 Chicken Kievs reduced to £2.

jamespir

our local tesco dont reduce anything less than a pound now they seem to be cutting down on what thyre reducing as well and you cna go in next day and the items are still there cause people havent brought them as its considerd to expensive tesco then gather it up and throw it away

the bakery on the other hand is wonderful it seems like totaly different staff thy reduce down to 10 and 20p for donuts bread cookies etc

always_skint

babyshoes wrote: »

The best day and time we have ever found for reductions was about an hour before closing on Christmas Eve in our local 24h Tesco - they were going to be closed the next day and only open for a short period on the 26th, so a lot of freezable stuff like meat was heavily reduced, as well as other short life stuff like dairy. Of course, there were huge crowds there too, but we still came away with a really big load of stuff which then took a lot of clever packing to fit into the freezer. It included a whole salmon for less than a fiver!

That was a tad expensive, I got one for a quid at our local Tesco

Ballymackeonan

Unfortunately, too many people around here have got wise to Tesco Christmas Eve reductions and you can't get parked anywhere near them!

At my local Sainsbury's, the best time is 7.00 on Wednesday - a lot of chiller cabinet stock brought in fpr the weekend is "use by" then, and it gets well discounted (like 75% or more off), bread is marked down to 10p etc. And it was one of the cashiers that told me..!

babyshoes

always_skint wrote: »

That was a tad expensive, I got one for a quid at our local Tesco

Wow! That is an impressive price. Was it a big salmon, or a smallish one? Ours was too big for the oven, and we thought it was good at the time - certainly less than half the usual price, and it did us several meals, so still a good buy for us at the time.:rolleyes: