Professional Shoppers!!!

geordie_joe

Pink-winged wrote: »

As this thread has dropped down the board and is more related to shopping than Old Style I've moved it over to the Food Shopping and Groceries board to see if you can get more replies.

Pink

I doubt it, we already had a thread but it got moved to discussion time. I don't know who did it, they didn't have the bottle to put their name to it, they just pop in now and again and move posts at random.

kittycat204

somebody got a little moving forum happy, tonight

Lynsey

Stephen_Leak wrote: »

What took them so long? Wake up and smell the coffee. (Nescafe. 200g. Wilkinsons. £2.78.)

Thanks for the coffee tip, getting low on Nescafe and was hoping Morries would do the £2.50 offer again - settle for £2.78 for the time being though - hopefully get some tomorrow.

Lynsey

andy2004

hate to thing what they call me,. crazy probably,
i bulk buy on items the family uses, its not uncommon for me for instance to go into lidl and buy 10 packs of 24 toilet rolls when they are on offer, of 16 packs of Ariel, lidl dont seem to mind.
When i did my shopping in tescos the other week cat food was £1.84 half price, and i bought 24 packets, + the 10 packs of ariel, twice. they didnt seem to mind.
or iceland with their £3.50 pg-tips for 240bags, mind you when morrisons and tesco had it for £2.42 i did go a little over board and buy 36 packets.

Stephen_Leak

It's been ages since I bought my last jar there!

I don't drink a lot of coffee. You wouldn't want me overstimulated, I assure you.

Lynsey

andy2004 - do you use coupons??
I stock up with the use of coupons and glitches (luckily the combination of both)!!
Quite proud of my "little corner shop" and once you have your "stash" you just need to tick-over and buy when cheap to top up. God knows how much stuff I've had for free/near free??
Check the coupon thread out, they are the true "Professional Shoppers" - quite funny really how they hit the shops and manufacturers hard - they completely turn the tables. I was amazed at first and of course sceptical, but I've been "educated" and learned my "trade" and it's great fun and money-saving. :money:

Lynsey

Ken68

In Tesco yesterday, the cheese aisle was one ribbon of YELLOW.
It seemed every cheese had an reduced or bogof or 3 for 2.

squeaky

Lip_Stick wrote: »

This is a not good. Now that the major supermarkets have sussed out our habits they'll be planning a new strategy to get us spending our cash! They'll be flashing yellow stickers and fake prices, drawing us in and hooking us! I'm worried! :eek:

We're fighting back...

Supermarket tricks - watch out for these...

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<<<<Well yesterdays shop was a tiny bit more than I thought it would be butI eventually came in to under my £10.00 limit
this is what I managed through whoopsies and special offers .

7 x small lamb chops was 4.75 reduced to 1.19

Pork Joint ,was 7.18 reduced to 1.79

2packs of 2 Herb and beef Taste the differance 1/4 lb burgers was £6.00 reduced to 1.48

2 loch fyne salmon cutlets was £4.09 reduced to £1.04

2 xpack large naval oranges special offer was £4.00 now £3.00

4 x bananas 38p
Large pack of 700gms assorted biscuit £1.00
2 x longlife cream was £1.00 special offer £1.00
Large tub Yoghurt 99p
1/2 cucumber 50p
washing up liquid 55p special offer reduced from 89p
1 x pack of Warburtons 'pockets' (I had promised the boys if I saw them I would get them a pack to try)89p
1 pack fairtrade fresh groound coffee special offer £3.00 reduced from £3.50
4 x chocolate bars for my dgs's as they had been good and patient helping me and I treat them to a bar of chocolate on a Friday as they help with the shopping £1.80
Price it should have been in total was £37.27 price on bill £18.61 less £10.00 nectar points I had on the card toatal I paid was £8.61 so i think I had a brilliant shop (the soya bread I wanted to get my DD had picked my up a loaf when she was in Icelands getting milk and wouldn't take any money for it so the bread was free.This shopping will more than do me for at least a week if not more so hopefully another fiscal seven days ahead.:j:j
The whoopsied items were just too good to miss>>>>>


Looks like I have become a professional shopper or just a canny old biddy who wants her pension to streeetch a lot further.:rotfl:The days of folk been fooled by the big supermarkets maybe over .You can only fool some of the people some of the time then they wake up

Edwardia

Its not just supermarkets rippng us off, it's manufacturers too. For example in ASDA you save 45p per 100g by buying the refill packs of Nescafe and NOT the 500g tin. Often if you buy multiples of a smaller size it works out cheaper than the big box/pack/tin. We assume the big one will work out cheaper but those shelf edge labels tell the true picture per 100g.

I'm a semi professional shopper as I buy in bulk at best price I can find and my freezer is just sooo useful. I don't coupon and I don't yellow sticker except for veg. I do go to Lidl first though.