Why no coupons like in US?

Miser_Mike

Having seen That programme about coupon addicts in the U.S., I was just wondering why we don't seem to have the same system over here? I regularly shop online and in-store at three of the main four supermarkets here in the UK and wish that I could do like them and use a load of coupons from specialist magazines to help save money and reduce my debts a bit. Truth is, having seen that prog, I now feel more despondent than ever! I look for coupons, yet Asda, who I use most often only ever seems to have discount codes for free delivery & having looked all over this site, I have still to find one which works! I am now reduced to buying all the 'Smartprice' stuff that there is, and fear that when all the farmers force prices up once again, due to the ever-present 'bad British weather' (like they do every year), I am going to have to start cutting meals out and go on an enforced diet. I have come to the end of the money and don't know where to go from here. Please help, someone...?

Miser_Mike

Just to quickly add something to that, I also have a family to feed, consisting of my wheelchair-bound partner and a young son.

Browntoa

first few posts in this thread have loads

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3341266

no_choice_now

Browntoa wrote: »

first few posts in this thread have loads

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3341266

They're from 2007. Nearly half a decade ago

no_choice_now

Miser_Mike wrote: »

Having seen That programme about coupon addicts in the U.S., I was just wondering why we don't seem to have the same system over here? I regularly shop online and in-store at three of the main four supermarkets here in the UK and wish that I could do like them and use a load of coupons from specialist magazines to help save money and reduce my debts a bit. Truth is, having seen that prog, I now feel more despondent than ever! I look for coupons, yet Asda, who I use most often only ever seems to have discount codes for free delivery & having looked all over this site, I have still to find one which works! I am now reduced to buying all the 'Smartprice' stuff that there is, and fear that when all the farmers force prices up once again, due to the ever-present 'bad British weather' (like they do every year), I am going to have to start cutting meals out and go on an enforced diet. I have come to the end of the money and don't know where to go from here. Please help, someone...?

OMFG are you talking about Extreme Couponing?

I heart that and downloaded all 12 episodes and watched them it was amazing, people getting hundreds even thousands of dollars of stuff for mere cents!! Some of them had home stockpiles bigger than my local corner shop lol

http://tlc.discovery.com/videos/extreme-couponing-videos/

tanith

I have friends in the States and they all 'do coupons', they wouldn't dream of going shopping without a stash of coupons... I too wonder why we don't have more of it here in the UK..

Browntoa

no_choice_now wrote: »

They're from 2007. Nearly half a decade ago

you need to read closer , the post DATES are 2007

the links are updated all the time and are ALL current

no_choice_now

Browntoa wrote: »

you need to read closer , the post DATES are 2007 the links are updated all the time and are ALL current

OMFG my forum settings were set to hide all posts over a couple of years old, I've had to undo that :eek: Did nobody think about people trying to hide the 99% of cruft that's accumulated on the forum over the years? :money:

gastronomix

Miser_Mike wrote: »

Having seen That programme about coupon addicts in the U.S., I was just wondering why we don't seem to have the same system over here? I regularly shop online and in-store at three of the main four supermarkets here in the UK and wish that I could do like them and use a load of coupons from specialist magazines to help save money and reduce my debts a bit. Truth is, having seen that prog, I now feel more despondent than ever! I look for coupons, yet Asda, who I use most often only ever seems to have discount codes for free delivery & having looked all over this site, I have still to find one which works! I am now reduced to buying all the 'Smartprice' stuff that there is, and fear that when all the farmers force prices up once again, due to the ever-present 'bad British weather' (like they do every year), I am going to have to start cutting meals out and go on an enforced diet. I have come to the end of the money and don't know where to go from here. Please help, someone...?

I think you may find that although weather obviously plays a part, pushing up world food prices not just in the UK, the supermarkets are also responsible for artificially inflating the price of some commodities. Most obviously milk, where the price paid to the dairy farmer in no way reflects the price charged to the consumer.
Dont blame the producers, try blaming the consumers who demand year round perfection and the supermarkets who drive unreasonable deals in search of bigger profits.

no_choice_now

I really wish we had more coupons like on Extreme Couponing

Miser_Mike

gastronomix wrote: »

I think you may find that although weather obviously plays a part, pushing up world food prices not just in the UK, the supermarkets are also responsible for artificially inflating the price of some commodities. Most obviously milk, where the price paid to the dairy farmer in no way reflects the price charged to the consumer.
Dont blame the producers, try blaming the consumers who demand year round perfection and the supermarkets who drive unreasonable deals in search of bigger profits.

I don't want to blame the producers, but they are all really panning the weather, first we don't get enough rain, then it rains so much that even NOAH is surprised, I've seen some pretty big crops of wheat in our fields here in Norfolk (UK), but they STILL say that prices are gonna have to rise. I am thinking of one local farmer especially who seems to own nearly every field locally and lives in a mansion, there's no way he needs to earn any more than he does already! I'm just a little guy who's nearly going under, the farmers & supermarkets should help us by not putting prices up, although I do agree that most farmers get a raw deal. Regarding the coupons being current & updated regularly, I have yet to find a single code that works!