Signs of the Times

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As this thread is more about shopping than Old style I've moved it over to the Food shopping and groceries board.

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mardatha

And I was just thinking this sounds like it should be on the OS forum! lol!

mymerrywidow

i try and be restarined in the supermarket but find i am more purse friendly if i do the shop online at places like rosspa.co.uk or asda.co.uk. i dont tend to get grabbed by the special offers then.

fresh fruit and veg come from the market tuesday and saturday. i make a loaf of bread a dAy. this i put on at 6am, its cheap electric until 8am.

superted187

What about what the Supermarkets are doing to claw back this loss of earnings?

I've noticed that the produce and a lot of the food has slid in quality hugely recently. To the point where we now don't but any fruit and veg from tescos. We'll only be meat and things like soap powder, bog roll and squash (only ever in bulk) and tinned items. Won't even buy condiments from there unless they are branded.

Small example - Tesco's own brand mayonnaise - absolutely horrible

LolaLemon

I noticed that abt the fruit n veg as well. banana are off after 2 days! And I mean proper off, furry n swarming with flies if I don't catch the culprit as soon as he turns.

166million

I use my phone to work out the deals, for example they had 4x tinned toms @ £3.49 B1G2F, so I have to divide that by 12 and the price per tin is slightly less than Value ones, so I decide it's worth getting

MaLarkin

superted187 wrote: »

What about what the Supermarkets are doing to claw back this loss of earnings?

From my side of it I can tell you:

We now have to pay for our own uniform

And we've been told the increase in the fuel costs will come out of our bonus (not much for shop floor part timers anyway)

rogerblack

babyshoes wrote: »

I also noticed that last time I was in Tesco. The cynic in me decided it may well be a deliberate policy not to refill basic items immediately or to stock less than the expected sales.

There is a way round this.
Order online!
If they can't find a value item, they substitute one they have in stock.

Ordering online does mean you can't get to the reduced shelves - but for tesco at least - not so much Asda - the occasional deep reduction can be awesome if you have the freezerspace.
For example - there was a buy one get two free on cheddar.
I'm ordering 3-4 weekly at the moment - I've just done a shop, so my fridge is completely packed with fruit. (mostly bananas and british plums that were sharply reduced, though also a couple of reduced pineapples)
This will ripen and be eaten over the next month.

emmamed

as someone else has said the fruit from the main peeps dont last. asda for one their bananas go off really quickly and even on the day of purchase they start going black.
only problem i find with the reduced items, i tend to buy more, thus then spending more. like tonight i popped into morrisons for milk and to look at the veg, i ended up buying bit of fish n read meat reduced and a gammon shank for the dog, as only 35p. came out £19 lighter.

Buttonmoons

Has anyone tried a CO-OP? I don't have one next to me, but my mum does, and as she is in a quite small village, the bargains are ridiculous.

About 8pm, everyday, everything that has been reduced earlier in the day by pennys, gets put down to 10p. Everything!

I've stocked my freezer up so many times, with packets of mince, chicken breasts, steak and kidney (I came to the conclusion I dislike kidney, but the cats liked it and for 10p who cares!) freerange quiches, pizzas, readymeals, fruit and veg, bread, all the bakery stuff (cookies/maple pecan slices)

I love that shop! Even once got 5 packs of 3 mixed peppers for 10p each. They didn't even look or feel remotely off, I just sliced them up and froze to add to meals.

Now when I look in asda/morrisons and see their reductions I think its all too dear because it isnt 10p :rotfl: have noticed the reduced bit in tescos is nearly always empty.

I shop at Lidls a lot as its literally 2 mins from my house but it has got a lot more expensive I think, but perhaps I buy a lot of unneccassary products - Pancakes, nutella, crisps.....