10p bread - every day!

GarnetLady

M&S are great for bargains now. The last Sunday we were in, we got bags of potatoes for 10p, baby toms 10p, grapes 50p, 5 bakery cookies 10p, organic cabbage 10p and whole chickens were reduced to 50p each! I was really pleased about the chickens (I'm veggie, but DH isn't), there were loads on the shelf reduced to £4, so hung around until the woman came over to reduce them further. I did say to her she must feel like she's being stalked at this time of day! We had a loaded basket of stuff which cost about £8.

Was also in Tesco the other day looking for £1 clothes, they didn't have any, but I got to the reduced fridge at just the right time, mince for 80p, 2 chicken breasts for 75p etc... Again a basket full for £10 and my freezer is now heaving. :T

eleanor73

Our M& S def do not reduce like this. The only thing i've seen down to 10p is radishes. Other things are 50p but that's really rare and last night before closing any meat was reduced to £2. Wow.

lutzi1

Colin4May wrote: »

That's an ace tip. There's no M&S near me though. In fact I got a rather sophisticted breadmaker for Fathers' day in June. The 2500WXC It's great, and I am sure the bread is gluten-free and healthier- but if you buy the best inredients to get the best taste, then it's not that cheap.

And really I guess it shouldn't be the way that you have to pay to get the healthy stuff. Probably not true of other products, but for wheat and the like, if you pay peanuts, err.. you get rubbish husks!

If you are putting wheat in your bread then you clearly haven't got the faintest idea what gluten free means. People who bandy the term around or assume a gluten free diet as an affectation just make life harder for people who NEED a gluten free diet because gluten will kill them.

eyelinerprincess

I got a 5p Warburtons loaf from Asda last night, not due up til tomorrow, and will prob keep another day or so (if it lasts that long!). Shame we don't have a big freezer or I would have gotten another couple...

crazyguy

Waiting for the discount stickers,

mrshassall1987

M&S are great now for on the shelf reductions. When I worked there about 4 years ago, all of that stuff went to a staff sale at the end of the night.I do miss my 5p cookies and 1p milkshake lol

Shatnorry

crazyguy wrote: »

Waiting for the discount stickers,

I saw the most brazen vulture today I have ever seen.

There was this big guy with a beard who just stood with his trolley next to the reduced section waiting for the different reductions to occur. I must have walked pat him about 5 times over the course of an hour and he simply was not moving anywhere, probably hoping that the assistant would evcentually come and reduce everything to silly amounts.

The last time I passed him another shop assistant asked him whether he had superglue on his feet! The guy said he had been in the shop for about 2 hours just waiting for the reductions.

Brazen or what? Most of the vultures do tend to move around the shop, even if looking for the people with the reduction guns, but this guy just stood there!

Surely the shop people would simply not go and reduce it when he was standing there. He may have been hoist by his own petard.

Haffiana

Yeah, then we get the threads here from people complaining that they have been unfairly banned from their local supermarket just because they were buying reduced stuff....!

louby_lou

I used to be the person with the reducing gun when I worked at co-op. I used to make lots of friends. Its nice being followed around - don't worry makes you feel special!

Aesop

Sarah7 wrote: »

I was in a large Tesco last night around 9.10pm; they were taking unsold bread off the shelves, lots and lots of it -- all the instore bakery bread plus several crates of branded bread. The reason for this wasn't obvious, so I asked if they were marking it down further or simply moving it?

The answer was neither - it's all going into the bin, he said. Most staff change shift at 10pm, he explained and said that anything left always has to be binned before they go. Pretty shocking really - so much waste, pity they don't just give it away (actually I know Asda sometimes do)!

Oh well, at least any freegans near that store should do well!

I am sure that someone said that Health and Safety meant they were no longer allowed to give the food away to local charities, like Homeless shelters or soup kitchens like M&S used to do at the end of the night.

Which seems really bad considering most stuff is still edible, like wrapped sandwiches and would be consumed that night, next day and saves on food wastage and mountains of disposed waste.