Supermarkets discounting their food discussion thread [merged]

Owain_Moneysaver

Hunt them - I haunt them! I can hear the whirr of a reductions label printer like a cat can hear a tin-opener from three streets away.

spike7451

The's a £1 shop opened up in the Flagship Center over in Bangor,I was over there yesterday to get a few things from there,household things mainly as I have a couple of doors to varnish..groann...
Anyway,I got some retro food from there,Toast Topper,Fray Bentos pies & a few other things inc yummy Bacon Grill!! (Mmmm..rat pack bacon grill...babies heads & train smash! Those were the days!lol)
The place was bunged.
As to the posh lady,I've often found that these people who dress poshly are so tight with money they squeek!
Mind you,may be it was my shorts & Op Telic II tee shirt she was frowning at...mmmm.
(or my stumpy hairy legs...)

jcr16

i don't head straight for reduced section;'s but i do always have a look. sometimes your get wonderful bargains, other times there is just a couple of pence off and the food looks like it been in a washing machine.

My mum went to morrisons thur evening. she said they had moutains of milk for 9p, pork pies, 9p, sausage rolls 9 p. and on their cooked chicken counter they had whole cooked chickens and ducks for £1 each. as she was heading there two ig men pushed passed her and took the whole lot!!!! and stood there while the chap was reducing more so they could get the rest.

Pink.

Hi spike,

I always check out the reduced sections when I'm shopping, around 8.00pm my local tesco reduces prices to 10% of the original price for perfectly good produce.

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jenniewb

You got funny looks for raiding the bargin bin?- wow! In all the shops I go to and all the years I have been doing that, I have never had any funny looks: I have had people trying to take from my basket (only 1 ever got away with it), people asking "where did I get that from/is there any more" and sales assistants doing double checks on the price reductions of some things (I shop v.late).

Where do you shop OP? Harvey nics? (lol!)

spike7451

jenniewb wrote: »

You got funny looks for raiding the bargin bin?- wow! In all the shops I go to and all the years I have been doing that, I have never had any funny looks: I have had people trying to take from my basket (only 1 ever got away with it), people asking "where did I get that from/is there any more" and sales assistants doing double checks on the price reductions of some things (I shop v.late).

Where do you shop OP? Harvey nics? (lol!)

LOL! It's a little seaside town called Donaghadee on the County Down coast,On the way out of town towards Bangor,the's a long 2 mile stretch of luxury homes,mostly owned my company directors,politico's ect.It was more of a glare so maybe I picked something she wanted....:think:
The other week I got 24 tins of John Smiths bitter for 50p each!:D:beer:

chelms38

I think in these troublesome times you wouldn't get many dirty looks if you did a freegan hunt in their wheelie bins.

jamespir

i always look at the reduced shelves first thing i do wheb i go to tesco

UnderPressure

Always check them, we have had some great bargains from these especially fesh meat bung it in the freezer eadt it on the day you defrost it its great, nothing wrong with these bins they offer far better value than most products on so called special offer.

Co-op/Somerfield are generous, Tesco can be sometimes Morrisons are appauling the amount they knock off you may as well buy fresh

gallygirl

I'm feeling extremely traumatised as I have no Whoopsied fresh soup in my freezer (never more than 39p ) and only 1 pasta sauce :eek:.

As you surmised, she probably glared as she had her eye on what you had picked up.

Years ago when Morrisons 1st opened next to us they had a policy of always having stuff available, so at closing time there were bargains galore. For weeks we ate fillet steak & lamb chops, 10 & 15p a pack, till we longed for mince & sausages :rotfl:. Didn't last though .