The Reduced section: Your best bargains

Bossyboots

Trayn123 wrote:

Hi Bossyboots,

Did you actually purchase these items?
If you did purchase them, did you manage to get them both for £1.50?
From my experiece, the till would have registered the first item for £1.50, then the second for £1.50, then both going through would trigger the BOGOF.

Hope you have more luck / get to speak to your manager.

Best regards, Trayn

I didn't buy those particular ones no. A while ago I bought some reduced BOGOF items and they ended up as a minus figure on my bill. A few weeks later I did the same thing and only the reduction went through, not the BOGOF. This has now happened three times and there is a notice saying that the BOGOF does not apply to reduced items. That is why I was checking so carefully whether the reductions really were a better buy than the original offer and found that they weren't.

Prudent

I have reduced my shopping bill quite dramatically by changing the time I shop and buying 'reduced to clears'. My local Morrisons takes mosts things down to around 9p - 20p at 7pm.

I wondered what time other supermarkets do these?

Penny-Pincher!!

Our local small sainsburys is after 9pm....everything even Meat/Poultry etc under £1. Last night OH bought 2 x 8 Organic chicken legs for 20p and a large Beef roasting joint £9.55 to £1. Veggies are normally reduced to pennies and milk too..which can be frozen. Carton of soups last night were reduced to 20p from £2.20 and can also be frozen.

Asda is best about 8pm onwards and find Mon-Thurs best days as theres always surplus.

PP
xx

VickyA_2

Not sure about during the week, but Tesco on a Sunday morning was full in the yellow sticker (reduced) section.

Our local co-op has quite a few reduced things at about 6pm.

Christina_F

Do you think that Saturday afternoon would be a good for reduced items? Just thinking it might be as supermakets are closed on Sunday this week. What time do you think would Tesco reduce on Saturday?

comping_cat

Christina_F wrote:

Do you think that Saturday afternoon would be a good for reduced items? Just thinking it might be as supermakets are closed on Sunday this week. What time do you think would Tesco reduce on Saturday?

Yes, i always go christmas eve, new years eve and easter saturday, as the shop is closed the next day they always have lots of yellow stickered items!!!! I normally go after lunch, to give them chance to start reducing things!!!!

krishna

I think it is a local decision. Our local tesco used to reduce everything around 7pm. Then I guess they found too many people were going in then for reduced stuff, so now they deliberately do different sections at different times during the day. Makes it much more difficult to grab the bargains.

Agutka

My Sainsbury's puts the yellow stickers of items quite early on in the day, but I much prefer hunting for the red stickers - that way instead of reductions from £1.99 to £1.79, you get the stuff for 20p. *big sigh*

The red sticker season is sometimes started as early as 3pm - for mums on shopping trips before picking up kids from school.

**purpleprincess**

My supermarkets are open 24 hrs so no reduced stuff for me and on a Sunday there are always people there to have a fight about it!!!

moggins

If anyone has a local Co-op you can get some great bargains in there too on a Sunday night and Monday morning. I'm constantly picking things up for pennies in mine.