Bigger packs are not better value

siamesecats

zenseeker wrote: »

What worries me more than anything is the fact that you people need calculators to add up such small figures...

why would that worry you ?

Horseunderwater

zenseeker wrote: »

What worries me more than anything is the fact that you people need calculators to add up such small figures...

Not sure why it worries you. But here is a relatively easy mind method that my OH taught me a long time ago.
If something is 49p or 99p make it to the whole 50p or £1 then do the maths. When you get to that answer deduct the extra 2p at the end. Makes it easy to tell whether something is a saving or a diddle.
But even I have trouble now and again if I am tired, so I sometimes use the calculator on my phone to double check my head workings.
I have to be able to add up like that as my bus driving till does not have that facility, so I get lots of practice at it.
:beer: Frances.

kittendothroar

Tesco own brand baked beans are much cheaper to buy in 4 pack, rather than the 6 pack, has been like this for ages now, can't remember exact price but around 50p cheaper

I always look at the p/kg label!

KimYeovil

Four-packs of 7-Up for a £1 in Tesco sitting right beside the six-packs for £2.7x.

RHYSDAD

<<<<sigh>>>> :whistle:

I don't know how many times i've said this on here but how else do Tesco et al continually announce record profits whilst promising they are 'saving' you money.......

geordie_joe

RHYSDAD wrote: »

<<<<sigh>>>> :whistle:

I don't know how many times i've said this on here but how else do Tesco et al continually announce record profits whilst promising they are 'saving' you money.......

Because of the way they word things.

I can't remember the exact figures now, but I looked into this not long ago. Specifically tesco's record profits.

It turned out that they had made more profit that year than they did in previous years. However, their profits had gone up 20%, but they had also increased the number of stores they have by 40%.

So they announced the total profit, and it was more than the year before. But working it out per shop, or per customer, or per sale it had actually gone down.

As a simple example

They have 10 shops one year and make £10,000 profit. Which equates to £1,000 per shop.

The next year they open 4 new shops and make a total of £12,000 profit.

It's a record profit, but now it equates to £714 per shop.

Schrodingers_Cat_2

This is one of my biggest money savers. Buy one..get one free....reduced price, extra free, etc.

The key to saving on such things is to make the most of the deals when they are on offer. When that jar of coffee says '50% extra free'....don't just buy one, get 10 of them. On 400g jars....you've then saved about £25 !

It's worth just wandering round the supermarket and noting all the special deals before even starting shopping. But conversely, I'm not inclined to buy things I would not otherwise buy just because they are cheap or in some deal.......that defeats the whole object of the excercise.

The savings from this hugely outweigh the measley 0.5% one gets from loyalty cards. I knocked about 20% off my last shopping bill via special deals.

geordie_joe

Schrodingers_Cat wrote: »

The key to saving on such things is to make the most of the deals when they are on offer. When that jar of coffee says '50% extra free'....don't just buy one, get 10 of them. On 400g jars....you've then saved about £25 !

That's true enough, but you have to be sure the offer is genuine. Quite often they will increase the price by 50% then introduce the "50% extra free" packs. So you run round buying them, thinking it is a bargain when actually it is exactly the same price.

I've lost count of the things I have seen on offer, but when the offer ended the price didn't go back up to what the offer banner stated it was.

And my favourite at the moment is Morrisons muffins, the bread type ones not the cakes. They all have big red stickers on saying "Buy 2 for £1" but they were only 50p per pack before the offer! And if you pull off the clip on banner on the shelf, the price underneath it says they are 50p

slummymummyof3

I always buy copious quantities of biological washing detergent, fabric softner and loo rolls when they are on offer and it does make a massive saving.

Clowance

watch out for the end of aisle "offers" - often more expensive than equivalent items on normal shelves. Check before buying unless you know the normal price. And be flexible with brands/own brands.