Supermarkets discounting their food discussion thread [merged]

calleyw

I have seen in it in Tecsos and Morrisons.

It is normally boxes that are crushed or bags that have come open.

Yours

Calley

andrewmp

Some of the big supermarkets sell their frozen food to other companies when they get close to best before I think.

They're repacked IIRC.

tessie_bear

iv seen broken bags of frozen veg wrapped in another plastic bag and reduced...in asda i think

chelms38

Sounds like evening shopping is worth a go then? I was wondering if anyone has got any good deals at these 24 hour supermarkets in the early hours of the morning?

weavedribbon

If it's a help to anyone the TESCO metro in Manchester Market Street (opposite Arndale) seem to reduce stuff at about 7:45pm to 75% or more off (chilled and bakery). Recently I've had hot cross buns for 10p a packet, value pancakes for 7p, loaves of bread at 14p, small trifles for 11p each, coleslaw for 20p.

The small Sainsburys at Piccadilly station is also well worth a look if you happen to be there around 7:30/8pm. I've consistently had great reductions on bakery things there like bags of 5 danishes for 50p, packs of doughnuts for 20p etc.

Also Cheetham Hill TESCO (North Manchester) seem to reduce their bakery stuff to 50% off at lunchtime, about 12:30ish.

I've definitely noticed there's huge variation in discounting approaches from store to store, even stores of the same chain.

geordie_joe

chelms38 wrote: »

Sounds like evening shopping is worth a go then?

I shop in Morrisons and I have found the only real advantage of going in the evening is the bread reductions. It closes at 8pm and it starts reducing it's in store bread at 6pm.

Everything else is reduced throughout the day. Bought in bread, meat, fish, veg, packaged stuff reaching it's sell by date, it's all reduced through out the day at random times.

Having said that, they do employ a few teenagers who start at 6pm. Their only job seems to be to hunt the shelves for items that have a sell by/use by/best before date of that day and reduce it. So if you go in at 6pm and follow them you can get some good bargains, but you have to fight the professional reduction hunters for them.

spike7451

I do!!!

I've just came back from the CoOp in my town,getting mushrooms,bread,oranges,spuds & a few other things from the reduced to clear bins.
While I was rooting thru the chilled one,a posh looking 'lady' gave me a funny look like I was a tramp for doing it!
IMHO,the is nothing wrong with these! The other day I got a cauliflower & a tub of three cheese pasta sauce so....Cauliflower cheese!! (I added extra cheese to it tho!:T)
The food is often on it's sell by date but still has a few days to reach it's use by date.A lot of it you can freeze & in these day and age,the pennies count.What I saved today by useing these paid for my copy of 'The Times'!
Some people need to lighten up & get a grip imho! (refering to the 'posh lady'..:p.)

midnightraven3

why let it bother you
you know you are getting good food at a bargain price
someone asked on here yesterday how do we cope with people who look down their noses at "us"

simple answer is i dont
i ignore
we lead a comfortable life they way we spend, why pay more for the same thing?
if they dont understand, why bother, their loss

shrugs

midnightraven3

thinking about it, if she was THAT posh, she wouldnt be shopping in the co-op, its hardly harvey nicks:D

))))snooty people((((

The_Thrilla

I have no shame. I have headed for the reduced bins in the supermarket ever since I was a student. In days gone by, I used to be about the only person there, along with a few OAPs. Recently, however, there is usually at least two people there, crowding the others out.

Look at it this way: if you bought that reduced item five minutes before they put the reduced label on it, it would have cost a pound more. I mean, it can't have changed that much in five minutes...