The Reduced section: Your best bargains

xxvickixx

I love yellow stickers. Our freezer broke recently and had to keep all the frozen food at my MILs, she joked that it was kind of me to label it all with stickers so it didn't get mixed up!
My best bargain was a really lovely chicken free range, organic with herbs etc from Asda for 10p!

VfM4meplse

£3 pumpkins were reduced to 10p in my local Sainsbo's on Tuesday evening.

Have also been lucky with strawberries before - 400g punnets were reduced from £2.49 to just 10p and they were perfect!

telboyo

I got 10 sacks of logs for the fire at 50p each from my local asda. Apparently people don't need wood in the winter so they reduced them from £3.50 to 50p. Weird.

mrsd

rosie383 wrote: »

You just need to be prepared sometimes to hang around. I have managed to time it right 3 times in the past 2 weeks.
I got sea bass fillets, 2 in a pack, down from £4.98 (:eek:) to just 50p. Grabbed 5 of those.
Very rare to be able to get halal meat reduced. Got 2 big packs chicken mince for 50p each, and sausages.
In total, I got around £70 worth for around a tenner over 3 visits.
My meat/ fish freezer drawer is stuffed full now and that should do me for the month.
Obviously 10p bread/ fruit/ veg etc.
It's Eid this weekend, so we will have nice grub and a bit extra to spend on treats from what I saved on the shopping.
Oh, and nabbed quite a few packets of 'slimey / spooky' Jaffa cake bars etc for 30p each, reduced after Halloween. They will do nicely for Eid visitors. I just take them out of the packets and no-one is any the wiser!

Eid Mubarak!

Kaz2904

It's funny, our Tes*o's never reduce stuff by very much at all. Our Mr A's reduce stuff from 7pm. Tuesdays were always the best days for reductions, probably due to the fact that they're open 24 ours apart from Saturday (shut at 9pm) and Sundays (shut at 4pm).

squeaky

Yeah, yellow stickers in my local Arsda barely even get as low as half price. A pack of fruit or a loaf of bread for ten pence...? Forget it. Never happens.

Birdie85

We live next to a 'posh' supermarket and tend to nip in at odd times for bargains so we can get some nice food for an affordable price; the best time was when my OH was supposed to be going to a friend's house on a Saturday night, he'd popped in for some beers but passed the reduced section on the way as he always does and found 4 big resealable packs of chicken breasts, about 8 per bag reduced from £8.50 each to £1.20! We were eating chicken for weeks!

We also love hanging around the hot counter on a Sunday afternoon, 10 chicken wings for 28p, a gammon joint reduced from £7 to £1.50, beef joint down to £1.80 for £8... great stuff!

Jules69B

We have a store locally that reduces during the day and then about 7pm cuts everything to 10%. so my freezer is full of really cheap bread/ veg etc. There are several ladies and gentlemen who also go everyday to collect the bargains and they have trollies full of reduced meat/ fish/ ready meals etc. they scout around for ages and seem to always be in the right place when the reduced stuff comes out. one man took all 12 cooked chickens in one armfull and dumped them in his trolley. The particular ones who shove everyone else out of the way frustrate me so much, they shoved me into the fridge the other night (I am not a tiny little thing!) but I was so embarrased at ending up sitting in the fridge I just couldnt say anything!

valk_scot

I was at my local Tesco on Tuesday and came away with a huge shopping bag full of fruit and veg for about £2. Most of it was 10p a pack and the two bags of brussels sprouts even went through as BOGOF, lol. I got four packs of nan bread and two of finger rolls at 3p a pack too, and a rather excellent looking Finest pasta bake with salami and mozzerela for 50p.

The reductions are getting more popular though and there's now a regular little group hanging around come whoopsie time. Most of us recognise each other and are reasonably polite about it but there are a couple of really rude horrors that try to push and shove and grab and barricade the section off with trollies. I'll move a trolly quite happily with a firm "Excuse me" but really, I can't be bothered with the nights it turns into a scrum. There's plenty of other quieter nights, (I usually go twice a week) and the freezer is regularly topped up. I only take what I need and will use reasonably soon too. No point in filling the freezer to the brim with cheap ready meals and then not have space for the cheap steak and chicken next week!

European_Citizen

I think my best bargain was lamb chops for 30p. The problem is that now I'm so used to buying reduced ones and freezing them that I always feel ripped off when I have to pay the full price.
Do normal etiquette rules apply at reduced-to-clear counters? For example, when you see 3 identical pizzas reduced to 20p each do you take all of them, especially if there are people behind you? Do you wait for your turn or just push yourself and grab whatever you can without any consideration for the others? I don't want to be seen as rude yet I also don't want to miss a good bargain...