Buying yellow sticker/reduced 2012 challenge

lyra

It's horrible how some people get so rude where whoopsies are concerned! When they were reducing fish & meat in tatco once, a big guy stood right in front of the shelf as the lady was stocking it with reduced food, barring anyone else from getting anything. Luckily, being relatively petite I was able to reach round him (!) and grab a few things for me & an elderly lady :rotfl: The older lady was lovely, she picked up a toffee trifle, that frankly looked like sicK and went 'well no wonder they're reducing this, it looks digusting!' very loudly

she_who_can_not_cook

other than having serious reduced envy my tip is get to IC##and early this morning it was around 9.10 when chicken and mince was half price it goes quick and for the first time there was two peps already there before me. two doors down is the Al#i so the reduced there was chilled pizza and one of those cooked 600g joints and cakes and little fancy breads a few weeks back there was 30 percent off the advertised big joints there was around 30 priced at 6 quidish pre reduced

computerfixer

Just back from co-op, was told by one of the guys I speak to that big bosses have been moaning at them reducing to much too early and wil now not be reduced quite as much around 6 but after 10 if still left then will get reduced further.

Was good while it lasted, but still some decent recuctions -

2 x 2 pork loin steaks - 55p - were £3 - (2 for £5?)
3 x chicken chilli salad - 35p
1 x chinese chicken noodle snack - 55p
4 x ciabatta rolls - 30p

So still not bad really, doubt i'll see anything for 10p again though, unless there is lots and go back in after 10pm and see if anything left, will need to see how it works out next few weeks. Atleast it's only a couple min away so dont mind nipping out later if need be.

Was impressed with some of the ys other people have had last few days, albeit sometimes a struggle with meeting people who block of the shelves.

Hope everyone else has done well today.

Take care.

kittywight

garnetlady - that is an amazing shop!!

its pretty much impossible for me to find bargains nowadays

sundays reduced (c0-0p) i got
cheese and onion sarnie, 33p was £1.30
egg mayo sarnie, 25p was £1
french bread sesame stick, 22p was 85p
3 triangle seeded bread rolls, 27p was £1.05
hovis best of both "little one" loaf,20p was 70p

not a lot, bargains are pretty much impossible at the moment, plus my cooker/hob/grills broken so i cant get much to cook

xx

eleanor73

Hi everyone,

I just thought I'd pop back on here to share a new trend in the smaller Mr Ts recently. I go past everyday (and always have) between 5.30-6.30pm and usually stuff is marked down but not enough and often leave empty handed. However recently there has been just one item reduced lots and the rest is still too expensive. Eg last week the ready meals and meat was still approx 50% or less off but they had the packs of indian snacks down to 25p from £1.10. The day before they had finest bacon down to 79p from over £3. The week before Quorn sausages down to 55p from more than £3.
However the rest of the stuff is still too high. So I will still be popping in everyday even if I just get to pick up a couple of random bits a day

blufish_2

Got a gigantic pack of Quorn ham-style slices reduced from £2.20 to £1 in Sainsbury's yesterday... that'll do me for sandwiches for a while

GarnetLady

Thanks kittywight, shame you're not getting many bargains just now.

Well done on the quorn, blufish.

DH had to pop to Asda last night. They were reducing the veg, and had taken it behind fish counter to do, so he patiently waited. The guy brought out the crate he'd been doing and before he'd even finished putting it on the shelf, 2 women pushed past him and grabbed everything!

He took a load more stuff to do, so DH waited again, but this time when the guy came back, he offered DH first choice of whatever he wanted before he put the crate down. The women were moaning, so the guy told them that's what happens when you have no manners. :T :rotfl:

So he got -
Jumbo mushrooms - 5p
Big bag of broccoli and carrot - 5p
Egg and potato salad - 5p
Cheese layered salad - 5p

dasophster

I think it really depends on the staff doing the reductions as to how good they are-in my local supermarkets (a sizeable W and small-ish S) sometimes stuff is going to go off in a few hours and they only reduce it by 10p but other days more generous staff are on and they go round reducing absolutely everything to 15 or 25p regardless of original price and sometimes there is a couple of days left on the date as well xx

victory

GarnetLady wrote: »

Thanks kittywight, shame you're not getting many bargains just now.

Well done on the quorn, blufish.

DH had to pop to Asda last night. They were reducing the veg, and had taken it behind fish counter to do, so he patiently waited. The guy brought out the crate he'd been doing and before he'd even finished putting it on the shelf, 2 women pushed past him and grabbed everything!

He took a load more stuff to do, so DH waited again, but this time when the guy came back, he offered DH first choice of whatever he wanted before he put the crate down. The women were moaning, so the guy told them that's what happens when you have no manners. :T :rotfl:

So he got -
Jumbo mushrooms - 5p
Big bag of broccoli and carrot - 5p
Egg and potato salad - 5p
Cheese layered salad - 5p

Excellent:T:T:T:T some people eh?:eek:

I went to morries and she did it again early happened to be ther so waited patiently and got

3 lots of gammon reduced to £1.15 from £4
1 gammon joint £2.99 from £5.99
A free range chicken from £7.14 (can you believe that price?) to £2.99
Lots of turkey slices 25p instead of £1.50
tuna and sweetcorn pasta 49 p from £1.49
Garlic bread slices 49p instead of £1.49
A bag of spanish chorizo slices 99p from £3
Some cakes 59p from £2

I was thinking though the chicken not that I would pay £7.14p for it no way that it was cheaper for me to wait to the end of sunday when they give the chickens away at the end nearer 4pm cooked ready to eat for £1.59 like theo ther week whether for the £2.99 I paid and having ot put on the oven for ages to cook it whether it was the bargain I think it was?

The only thing with the cooked chickens is that the last few we have had have been very greasy, OH says that is because they use cheap chickens full of water and the grease leeches on to them, just thinking a cooked one versus a yellow reduced sticker one which one works out cheaper?

I go for the meat first though all the time and then you can work around the rest of the meal.

I did hear her say that the first two shelves today were for tomorrows reductions which we things like the cheese strings, cheeses, mozorella, creams, that type of thing so will be back tomorrow to wait for them to be reduced again.

They had so many pork pies and scotch eggs for 25p never got those.

computerfixer

Hi All,

Glas to see some good reductions, especially Victory hasn't had great shops for ages, but some stuff seems pretty good for you, hope you get other bits today

I got a good few things last night

Large tub of co-op tomato and basil soup - 29p
2 x whipping cream - 29p
4 x lurpak - 25p each
rump steak - 65p
1 x 2 part cooked ciabbata - 30p

so used some cream with some curry paste and marinaded the rump and flash fried, made up some curry sauce with cream and paste, had some reduced mushroom left used that and a red onion with steak sliced into ciabatta rolls straight from oven - delish dinner for £1ish

Hope the cream will keep tilll tmrw as need some for dauphinoise potatoes, should use double cream but hope this will be just about as good

Take care ye all