Buying yellow sticker/reduced 2012 challenge

mcallister1

abitofhelp wrote: »

Hi, i'm new on this forum, i've been lurking for a while. really enjoy reading this thread, i always like to have a look at the yellow stickers. i tend to go sunday morning shopping so i dont normally get much in the way of reduced items but i always look. last night whilst reading this thread my partner announced he was popping to asd* so i insisted on going with him. the fresh stuf was dire & i dont think they had reduced much. £1 for a pack of sausages, i want them for 10p. however the bread isle each for 10p i got 2 french sticks 2 packs of rolls and a pack of 2 pizza bases. i was so exited i skipped out with my purchases:) i am working till 9 this coming saturday so i may well pop to tesc*, enjoy your day.

Any little co ops near you? They are good on Sundays in the morning I find. We had some lovely salmon I got in sainsburys a few weeks ago, 80p for two lovely fillets. With the weight watchermeal glitch, and the post Christmas meat joints, my name freezer is full. Asked some friends over next Saturday... I do want to see them, but I'm also pleased we can make some freezer room by using some beef!

gailey_2

victory wrote: »

well what my morries local here to me said was that just before xmas and this Jan nearly over now, so for 5 weeks they have been putting out the yellow stickers at 12/12.30 lunch timethey never normally do that and have only done it for the 5 week xmas over stretch.

What the SA intends to do is cut all the lunchtime stickers out, go back to late afternoon and try her hardest to get all items taken off the shelf completely that obviously do not sell and end up in the yellow sticker silly price aisle, she said even with the reductions Morries expect to make a % and the prices were beyond silly (19p for chicken that type of thing) and Morries were having meeting to stop that happening.

In the last couple of days there has been reductions but literally 50p off and they just lurk there, loads of people go over and look but do not buy, if push comes to shove then they reduce properly or put it out back and the SA help themselves.

While I was there she put 2/3 things in her bin, saying that they could have been tampered with or were dropped on the floor and she was not going to reduce them, just haul them, what a waste, an absolutely travesty.

So, I don't know if Morries nationwide are clamping down on the reductions and would rather give it to the SA than loose vast % but ours is no more lunchtime silly prices and back to afternoon the odd 50p off so on that knowledge I went to Mr T, it was very much disorganized chaos...

It seems my Mr T does not do it in one go, does higgle di pickledy here and there, bits and bobs, the odd thing that does not marry up to anything, I had my curry night thanks to Morries and was going to have a spanish night so was lucky...

They had spanish tapas 3 for £6 or 5 for £9 going at 50p each so got 4 and the laugh was at the till it took off £3.50 for the deal:rotfl: paying me now to take it away, I got some naan bread 20p, raspberry individual trifles 40p from £2, cod and chips £4:eek: to 65p, two cornish pasties 11p from £1 and scotch eggs 20p were £1, I thought that was that got it all, had been to MOrries and got paella for £1.99 instead of £5 and seafood marinara £1.99 instead of £5 I have olives and will get some french stick and laughing for the spanish evening..

Went to leave, saw out of the corner of my eye the SA coming back with about 6 plastic trays in his hands, as fast as I could get my trolley to go back down the aisle a lady from nowhere, came, swept them all up and walked off:rotfl: turns out they were all chicken pieces, she had the lot, loads of yellow sticker hunters wait ages for the meat to come and swoop and take, I have noticed a lot of that.

THis reduction is a challenge, fastest wins:rotfl:

I have also rarely seen any major reductions at M&S even when it is near closing, they just do not have the daft prices at my one, the over stock of the daily sandwiches yes that goes to 50p etc but not the dinners, meats etc never seen them other than the odd £1 off here and there.

Sainsburys I have never come out of there laden down either, the odd £ off on their currys but nothing if you missed it you would be disappointed over not getting no.

I dont know could be store specific as having been store manager of supermarket stores have shrinkage /wastage budgets so if they reduced by too much they be high in shrinkage total.

Or it could be company but starting to think best reductions might be store specifc as never git fab reductions in tesco or sainsburys or could be timing!

Thinks it getting harder dog eat dog world everyones looking for bargain and swoops.hence why pleased and greatful I get what I have.

for me focussing on smaller shops like spar and co-op paid off.

All this talk of spanish night makes me fancy paella.
inspired to cook it soon and buy everything reduced.

only one part of dinner was reduced tonight felt quite odd kids had reduced readymeal 19p from morries which they hardlky touched.

trying to decide where to try tommorow?
will probably definatly do spar
maybe co-op.

matty17r

Pinkpauline - shame about the new pots. I have got quite a few to use up as they were on the reduced counter. Might google it later to see if I can come up with any good ideas for the roasting of them.

mopsymuffin

Hi glad I found this post... I mostly do my weekly shop in Tesco's... just paying normal price for most of my shopping but in the evening for years now have often been lucky & got some yellow sticky bread ranging between 10p to 50p. Since early January when i have been there late I have seen different sales asst's put all that days dated bread in a huge clear binliner. When I asked why it wasn't reduced he advised that they were no longer allowed to reduce the bread that went out of date that day, this was a head office directive & they had been told just to dump it! What a waste, surely with the problems of the economy at the moment can Tesco's really afford to just dump this bread! Would it not be better to at least make some money towards their profits/shares. I do not go there for this reason & I do spend about £100 a week there on normal priced food but I am so annoyed by this ludicrous decision I have decided not to shop there anymore, unless I have to. I am now shopping in Sainsbury & Asda who at the moment in my local stores, do still reduce at the end of the day. My local Tesco is Caterham branch & weirdly last week rushed in to Purley branch who were still reducing their bread! How is this consistent! Has anyone else found this in their local store? Also if they have lost my custom because they would rather just waste food, how many more customers will just change where they shop?

Edwardia

I buy yellow stickered veg at supermarkets for soups or if I know I'll use it within a day or so. Never buy reduced meat or fish now at ASDA because they have a nasty habit of removing it from chilled cabinet and perching it on the edge and I had food poisoning from sausages

When OH and I first lived together he earned £10 pw too much to get housing benefit and we ate loads of pasta, spuds, rice and reduced food.

Now we're doing OK, we'd rather eat well than go on holiday or out to dinner so I'm not quite the yellow label fiend I was, but still pick up special offers especially on meat, game and fish.

victory

Been to Morries for the last couple of lunchtimes and true as the SA said it they have stopped that and now at luchtime all you find is 50p off here and there, I guess they will do it later on in the afternoons but so far have asked a few SA and they just mutter something about if it sells we leave it, if they can see it is still there they may reduce it a little, a lot of messing aobut time wise for some yellow stickers, let me know what time and I will be back. the don't seem to know.

So, because of that I have not bought a single reduced item at Morries, reduced to me means more than 50p off, even Mr T at lunch time has the odd 50p here and there off but nothing else, a three tier reduction centre with noting in it today all it had was 3/4 yogs, a bit of cheese and the rest was 50p off, uhm, the hunt has got to be wider now, mr T will not pinpoint a time for me either, sure I have time but not all the time in the world to be hanging around hoping I see a SA marking down and when I say marking down I mean marking down:rotfl::rotfl:

So far it has been 1/2 price things for me, not full price nothing not even bread has been full price so at least that is something and making and baking and creating for Valentine's day so that should save on the well over the top expensive meals they are charging art the supermarkets;)

Riversong

I always check reductions whenever I'm in Asda.

It annoys me when people pile up their trolleys with things, wait around for reduction time then ask the staff to reduce them. To me it's a bit mean to hoard like that and pressure on the staff.

terra_ferma

Edwardia wrote: »

I buy yellow stickered veg at supermarkets for soups or if I know I'll use it within a day or so. Never buy reduced meat or fish now at ASDA because they have a nasty habit of removing it from chilled cabinet and perching it on the edge and I had food poisoning from sausages

Oh that's terrible! If you had reported them to the local council they could have been in trouble.
Once I reported Waitrose for a mouldy cake and the council took that very seriously, even if we had no bad effects from it (saw the mould after we had big chunks, greedy lot we are...)

Sessy

Riversong wrote: »

I always check reductions whenever I'm in Asda.

It annoys me when people pile up their trolleys with things, wait around for reduction time then ask the staff to reduce them. To me it's a bit mean to hoard like that and pressure on the staff.

Thank you, in my store we are not allowed to reduce these items if we are asked to, hopefully all stores will follow suit and the pestering will stop

Edwardia

terra_ferma wrote: »

Oh that's terrible! If you had reported them to the local council they could have been in trouble.
Once I reported Waitrose for a mouldy cake and the council took that very seriously, even if we had no bad effects from it (saw the mould after we had big chunks, greedy lot we are...)

Just never occurred to me to do that terra_firma. DID report local pub that landed me in an isolation room in hospital for a week with e.coli 0157 via the hospital though. Never been so ill - all due to unwashed veg !

ASDA near me very good for loading up with yellow stickered veg. They announce it via PA and people are 6 deep waiting !