Christmas Eve price reductions

Missconduct

Our local Tesco reduces meat and fish by about 80% on Christmas Eve afternoon. Does anyone know if Waitrose do this please? Just thinking that they probably have a lot more organic and free-range stuff....

DCFC79

Missconduct wrote: »

Our local Tesco reduces meat and fish by about 80% on Christmas Eve afternoon. Does anyone know if Waitrose do this please? Just thinking that they probably have a lot more organic and free-range stuff....

Yes they do but what time is anyones guess, depends when teh shop closes too, id take a guess at 2 hours before they close for really low reductions.

notsurewhereIstand

More supermarkets are opening 26th Dec this year than they did last year, so it isn't a 2 day closure. Perhaps check if your Waitrose will be open on 26th Dec.

If stuff has a use by date of 27th Dec, they may not reduce it on 24th Dec if they are going to open on the 26th.

DCFC79

notsurewhereIstand wrote: »

More supermarkets are opening 26th Dec this year than they did last year, so it isn't a 2 day closure. Perhaps check if your Waitrose will be open on 26th Dec.

If stuff has a use by date of 27th Dec, they may not reduce it on 24th Dec if they are going to open on the 26th.

True, good point

cubegame

Our local Waitrose generally keeps all super reductions back for staff.

Pentagon

There is one woman at my mother's local waitrose who puts everything with a reduced sticker in her basket, then goes through it and puts the stuff she does not want back, but very slowly. Really unfair on those that also want something redueced.

lilrahi

Some people do stuff like that. Once at my locals Asda's, I picked up some puff pastry that had been reduced but there was one left while I decided if I wanted it. As I reached out for it, another lady grabbed it and then proceeded to ask me how you used it!! Ridiculous, she oh wanted it cos it was 10p, she didn't know what it was how it was cooked but because it was cheap she was having it.

NewStart09

It really is hit and miss with Waitrose, one year I went just as the store had opened, and loads of produce and meat were reduced to 50% -75% but once it had been purchased they replaced it with full price items.

Next year tried the same thing and nothing was reduced when I got there early, so had to return later in the afternoon, by that time I was not able to get everything I wanted.

I only shop there for special occassions, but like everyone else it is nice to get a bargain, why should they only sell all the nice stuff cheaply to the staff, they are there every week getting that deal!

I have seen at another supermarket staff members actually standing next to the person marking down the food and getting it for pence...but then they marked the other items that 'normal people would get at a higher price'. When I queried this with the person, he asked me not to say anything and proceded to remark any reduced items in my basket to 10p, without me asking. I asked him to stop as I felt I was being bribed.

It was the last time I shopped at that store .... hint starts with a S.

NewStart09

Eliza_2

Thanks for starting this thread, I was wondering if it was worth going late on Saturday to look for some bargains, - not ordinary stuff but a few luxuries I wouldn't normally dream of getting. Has anyone done this in previous years and found it worth doing? I live 8 miles away from town and would be making a special journey. We have a Co-op, Morrisons, Waitrose and small Tesco, small Sains and small Asda as well as Aldi.

Thanks
Liz

UnderPressure

I have found in our local Co-Op the best bargains to be had were on Boxing Day, filled the freezer last year with all sorts for about 30 quid

I would never dream of leaving my Christmas dinner to the last minute though, come on people it is 1 meal a year, there is a huuuuugeeee difference between being money saving, frugal even and being, well for want of a better expression bloody tight fisted! £1 a week for the last 51 weeks would have sorted you all out!#]

Eliza_2

UnderPressure wrote: »

I have found in our local Co-Op the best bargains to be had were on Boxing Day, filled the freezer last year with all sorts for about 30 quid

I would never dream of leaving my Christmas dinner to the last minute though, come on people it is 1 meal a year, there is a huuuuugeeee difference between being money saving, frugal even and being, well for want of a better expression bloody tight fisted! £1 a week for the last 51 weeks would have sorted you all out!#]

Oh what a shame, I'm working on Boxing day, that's interesting though. It's not the basics I was thinking of it was the luxuries, things I wouldn't normally consider buying (which means probably most of Waitrose!) However if I can get a nice Xmas dinner at a reduced price then that's great too, and am happy to be called tight-fisted!!! (Wouldn't spend £51 on one day's meals either)