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nikkilala_2

I'm off but I can see Nannylala is having fun;):rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Iamsohappy

nikkilala wrote: »

I'm off but I can see Nannylala is having fun;):rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Don't worry - she is in good company :j:j:j

FloFlo

Filler for A vs T

Alberto ultra strong hair gel (blue tube) £1 A vs 40p at T

Savvybuyer

carolt2 wrote: »

http://www2.sainsburys.co.uk/instoreoffers/fuel-deal
Website says offer valid until 2/01/2013, valid for 14 days after issue.
HTH

Subject: Fuel deals and S v T

I'm not a big fan of fuel deals, as anyone who read my previous post on the topic will know. Whilst it is very welcome to get any amount of the horrendous price of fuel, I'd prefer to save more on the rest of my shopping than go for one of these types of deals.

The deals require you to spend X amount in order to get pence off each litre. It's realistic that you might fill up with about 40 litres at a time. Even on 10p off per litre, that's still just 40x10p = £4 off.

Yet to get that £4 off, you spend £60 in one grocery shop. I'd rather reduce the price of every item I buy in my grocery shop, to half price say (by buying alternative brands or shopping at "the right time"), and pay £30 for the same shop. I don't get the £4 off the fuel. However, I pay £30 plus the normal price of the fuel rather than, in effect, £56 plus the same fuel price. I've saved £26. You've bought the groceries at £60 in order to get £4 (much less than my £26) off your bill.

When I have to spend X amount in order to get Y pounds off (or the equivalent X amount in order to get Yp off fuel), I use the price promises so I can, in effect, get the same amount off but spending less (or, rather more accurately, putting part of the grocery bill to a reduction off next time - and I'm going to return to that grocer anyway and probably repeat the same thing).

I used to do this with T. I'd pick up that week's Price News leaflet, take out the vouchers for the items I needed and then, within each one of them, which required you to spend £X on fruit & veg. or whatever, choose items that were cheaper at A. I'd combine this, all items, from several vouchers I was using in the same shopping, cheaper at A or, failing that, cheapest in T but non-comparable to A and total bill came to £40.02 or something of that order.

So £5 off the £40 shop, all the various pounds or three pounds off for buying, at more expensive T prices, items of a particular type (e.g. "£3 when you spend £5 on frozen food") and then, everything half the price at A compared to T, so £20 price check voucher back.

It was good in the days when the price check wasn't capped at £10. After the £5 off promotion ended, I'd still have a £20 voucher, which I then used on a £20 shop that would have cost £10 in A, for £10 voucher back. And then the £10 voucher spun out on a shop £5 in A, and another voucher, diminishing value, but with clubcard points for the T bill amount everytime.

Finally I'd get down to about £2 odd voucher and do the A multibuy on the milk in T and get 36p back and then buy a soup or something like that (with a bag reuse of course). By the end I'd got around 5 times the amount of clubcard points and ended the collecting period on an exact round number, and quadrupled them up to use on day's out (in fact they had a special 5x value promotion at the time I decided to trade in!). Bags and bags being reused every time, the smallest bags I could find, because, with the reduction to single clubcard points on the general shopping, the bag reuse is made more valuable. (You would have had to spend £1 in order to get the CC point that reuse of a bag gives.)

I'd just managed to get my final voucher over £10 from out of one of these (originally) £40 shops with the £5 and price news vouchers off, when T locked the stable door after I'd bolted and capped at £10. But - no problem - didn't affect me at that point, as the just over £10 voucher became around £5 on the next shop, which of course was wisely spent on items amounting to £5 in T that were as cheap as possible in A.

It's no good at all now, with the £10 cap, on a £5 off £40 shop or, even worse, only a maximum of £10 back on a £60 shop getting a fuel voucher. It would be better if you could get a fuel voucher off a £60 shop, that cost £30 elsewhere, and have £30 back. I reckon T may have cottoned on to the way some of us would have used it and stopped us by having the £10 cap. That, in effect, means the most I'd ever spend at T, on one transaction, would normally be around £20 - and they'd have to give me an £x off a £20 shop voucher in order for me to take them up on it!

And then, putting a stop to me ever spending £40 in T, by making the PP £10 maximum - so I'm still spending £30 (way too much for my liking!), they introduced the 8 item requirement (in order merely to get a price match to a competitor) at which point I called it a day altogether.

However, for those still wanting fuel vouchers, and willing to do a £60 shop for 10p off per litre, the best I can suggest is that the comparable part of the £60 shop be £50 at a competitor. In the case of Sains, the comparable brands on your £60 shop should be £50 in one of A or T.

(For an idea of what to get, please see my Sv A and Sv T lists posted earlier, which may be valid on 2/1/13 but doublecheck on the competitor's website - the competitor that you have chosen to compare to - *one* of either A or T - to make sure the competitor's prices are still the same or that the item is missing if it is supposed to be cheapest in S but non-comparable so as not to reduce the amount of the Brand Match voucher.

An afterthought I've had, regarding the Sv T list (to be found at the bottom of the Tv A list as these items duplicate one another), you can also add any own-brands that appear on my Sv A list - as these should be cheapest in S (don't buy if S's price has increased by the time you reach the store), aren't available in A for 10% off there, and own-brand items are excluded from the comparison so don't affect the voucher. Needless to say, you should only get the own brands on which S represents the best value as you won't match a cheaper price on them available elsewhere.

On an Sv T you can also put any of the equivalents to the own brand items that appear on my (quite short) T v S list (found in another of my posts, probably easiest to check through the posts from myself by clicking on my name). This is because T include own brands with their PP, and therefore - if doing a T v S comparison - you include brands and own brands that are same price or cheaper in T (and preferably with no equivalent available at A so that you couldn't do A v the cheapest competitor (of T or S) and get refund to 10% lower).

On T v S you include brands and own brands that are cheaper or same price at S but, on an S v T, you can include S cheapest own brands as these are excluded from Sains Brand Match scheme. The equivalents are same size/type, so where you see T such and such a product 500g, in S it is S [same product] 500g. Where you have T Eday Value... replace with "S Basics".)

In summary, as the last four paragraphs are the detail [and CoT, I've considered what you've said: I think my trouble is I'm trying to give all angles to it rather than giving a simplified version]:
S v T items are:
(1) those at the bottom of T v A; and
(2) the own brands in S v A; and
(3) the equivalents at S to the own brands on the T v S post.
(But remember to check on tosco.com for any changes in price, etc., that may have happened since I posted.*)
Hope this is now very clear.

A final note for those wanting a little bit more detail:
*You need to check the items in (1) to see that T's price is still the 'low' amount and those in (3) to see that T isn't now cheaper than S on T's own brand - if T has bettered S's price on an own brand, then it moves from buying at S to buying at T - presumably going from a T v S shop to a T v A as should all be N/A in A! (But safest perhaps to buy with a low-value PP voucher on a shop that you don't then enter into PP.)

SpiralingDown

26_may_1999 wrote: »

1 x ASDA Smartprice Chicken Flavour Instant Noodles (6... £0.11 N/A
1 x ASDA Smartprice Instant Noodles Curry (65g) £0.11 N/A
1 x ASDA Mega Samosa Bombay Potato £0.75 N/A
1 x ASDA Mega Chicken Tikka Samosa £0.75 N/A
1 x Swizzels Matlow Giant Parma Violets (40g) £0.25 N/A
1 x Swizzels Matlow Strawberry Refresher Bar £0.10 N/A
1 x Barratt Flumps Mallow Twists £0.10 N/A
1 x Roberts Bakery Thick Sliced White Loaf (800g) £1.29 £1.15
1 x Haribo Tangfastics Mini £0.10 N/A
1 x ASDA Chosen by You Giant White Mice Bar (15g) £0.10 N/A
1 x ASDA Chosen by You Giant Rainbow Buttons Bar (15g) £0.10 N/A
6 x Flash Wipe & Go Lemon Wipes (48) £6.00 £3.00

Comparison total (compared products only) £7.29 £4.1

Could I ask who this compared to? Thanks
On MSM the only place that has the wipes on offer for me is Ocado at £1 and 3 4 2

26_may_1999

It's waitrose.

Savvybuyer

I noticed I got at least one thank you and returned with a bang there on the final day of the year!!!

My last post doubtless has flummoxed you all. It combined what I wanted to say into one post. Therefore it's perhaps best to skip over it and read it all later!!

I'm off now to celebrate the new year. Happy new year to everyone. For those of you still on here - or who return and discuss before I come back later with much less of a flurry - I have my own, unoriginal idea of what's your glitch wish-list for the New Year?

I think we'll try to confine this to items fall under the APG (i.e. grocery shopping rather than wider things such as prices of your next holiday or the petrol pumps).

The items I'd most want to glitch are some of the more 'big ticket' items like the washing powder. Although I'm by no means run out, it would be nice to stock up again at an incredible price!

I think I also need a glitch on the fresh meat (not the big 1kg packs that my house can't get through but the 500 or 600gs ones) - none of my household will eat the RTC meat unfortunately - so a pack or so of each of the fresh turkey breasts, the beef joints and the chicken fillets would be nice. Preferably if the glitch recurs shortly before each weekend. And again mid-week for the fresh pork chops.

Finally, on a lesser note, perhaps a glitch on the chorley cakes or eccles cakes would also be nice, as my household get through so many and it would be nice to be able to stock up.

I can't promise to fulfill your wish list - however perhaps it might encourage me, or others, to go and find a glitch on your item, so we can live in hope. After 2012, we hope 2013 is just as glitchy a year.

Best wishes for the new year. Back at some later day, sometime in the new year.

Savvybuyer

SpiralingDown wrote: »

Could I ask who this compared to? Thanks
On MSM the only place that has the wipes on offer for me is Ocado at £1 and 3 4 2

[FONT=&quot]Just before I leave - and I'm not the original poster - I think it might be M's, as they might have an offer on the Flash wipes (I've already got enough so didn't take this down specifically). Beware though - some of those N/As (emphasise some) could suddenly turn into prices for M as the M comparison on the APG can sometimes be a little haphazard and pick up some items one week and not the next (and vice versa).[/FONT]

[NB: This post is wrong*. I now see the original poster has posted and it was actually Waities - note the offer there is now due to expire 2/1/13. It appears M's offer, which might not still be running, wasn't as good. If you want, please unthank me on this post and thank me 5 times more on my other list posts.]

*Except regarding it's cautionary note about M's N/As which, as a general point, I think is still correct.

SpiralingDown

26_may_1999 wrote: »

It's waitrose.

Thanks.
It's just typical that they don't compare there for those of us in Northern Ireland, not that I need any more mind you but I would know a few good homes they would have went to.

sally06

evening everyone:) I was hoping to go to sada tonight to use my £5 off voucher, but by the time I got home from work the store was closed! Had a little wander around the car park, but it was very tidy! OH found one receipt, but we haven't checked it yet. They bought lots of booze so I am hoping to get something from it! I've got my fabulous fingers crossed:D

I popped to a metro store at lunch time. They had so much stuff reduced. Loads of meat, cheese, pies etc...wish I could have gone back after work. I'm sure they would have reduced it all further. I got a few things at lunch time:

2 x Tesco Finest Wild Mushrooms Filo Parcels, reduced to £1.25

1 x Tesco Finest Brie & Cranberry Filo Parcel, reduced to £1.25

total= £3.75, then I used a £2 off finest voucher as the pks were originally £4 each. Voucher scanned no problem:D paid £1.75 for the lot:j

In the 2nd transaction, I bought:
8 x Tesco Garlic Mushrooms party food, reduced to 95p each. I threw in a few bananas too as I knew I would be in credit by 40p:)

off to catch up....