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myrtleturtle

hi flo
theres a link down on coupon thread

FloFlo wrote: »

Didn't know this, I think I've missed the coupon is there a link?

David.

FloFlo wrote: »

Didn't know this, I think I've missed the coupon is there a link?

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=58379167&postcount=6748
Rootednomad

Savvybuyer

locarr wrote: »

Ive noticed this recently with items i buy on a regular basis!

granny smiths apples 2.00 a bag used to be around £1.30:eek:
porridge 1.20 used to be £1 when I last bought in the petrol promo in the summer, that is a massive 20% increase and a real pithtake!!:(

If anything I've noticed the opposite and that my shopping bill has gone substantially down ever since I started using everything I could to make it do so. The Granny Smiths may be £2, but they were £1 in M's for one week or two last year, which was the only time I bought them. I was buying the Sada Pink Cripps (as a filler) at £1 until they rose to £2 and don't seem to have come back. Since then, though, I've not being buying them and have rotated back and forth between other £1 apples (and now onto 25p whoopsies and probably £1 seems now way too dear so there's now no going back and my apples are cheaper and cheaper).

If you only like and rigidly stick to Granny Smiths, then you're out of luck I'm afraid. However, if you keep switching and switching and switching - rather than buying the same stuff every time which is doubtless what most people do (and therefore end up constantly overpaying whenever the items they get aren't on promotion) - you'll pay less.

The DM article seems a bit simplistic to me (although no doubt reflects what most people, who aren't savvy and who don't know about the psychology behind price marketing tactics, are experiencing), and whoever believed the DM and their style of writing to appeal to their target audience??:rotfl:

They'll always still be offers, to attract people through the door, and they'll be goods got in at knocked-down price, with bulk buying by the store, that people who's shopping bills are bucking the tread are buying. Plus hopefully some glitches on certain apples if m'buys don't kick in on every occasion in future!!

Anyway if prices do rise, there's always inaccurate SELs.;) So far my shopping this year appears to be in minus figures. I've had £4 odd gift card from S, £5 moneycard from T, £20 odd gift card from A, wombles of nearly £10 in total and I haven't spent that much yet so far this year!! Plus all the payback from end of last year's APGs, the extra £18 overnight by buying three gift cards last Nov., and the glitches. Long may it last I say.

David.

izzy65 wrote: »

I have two laptops, ones for works, and it works on IE on one and firefox on the other:o, go figure because I don't have a clue:rotfl::rotfl:

That makes at least 3 of us on here :rotfl:

sally06

hampydoodums wrote: »

Thanks, BK also giving away a voucher for a free coffee for the whole of January. Noticed them the other side of the till when I popped in this morning, I had to prompt sa as she forgot to give me one. She gave me 2, so all good

I might try and get the leaflets in store. I am very low on ink and printing this will leave me completely empty:eek: thanks OP

bubbs

sally06 wrote: »

sorry you have to leave again bubbs. Is it the river? x

Hi Sally
No we have to leave every year for 1 month, been here 61/2 years should be used to it but hate it :mad::mad:

3010

FloFlo wrote: »

Didn't know this, I think I've missed the coupon is there a link?

http://www.welchsjuice.co.uk/news/have-a-grape-new-year



Thanks to RN for bringing this over here.

forestroxydog

zippydooda wrote: »

do the codes expire a week before the tickets that were sent to me then.
FROM WEB PAGE
8. Each voucher can be redeemed for one free ticket to a standard film (excluding 3D movies) screening at a participating Cineworld, Showcase, Apollo or Movie House cinema on any Sunday prior to 13 January 2013 (inclusive).
if you are on about the codes that are on the sweet packets, they had to be claimed in december

I have done mine as online codes and sure it gave me 10th Jan as last date so this Sunday was last I could use. Maybe I read it wrong x

hampydoodums

Savvybuyer wrote: »

...... a piece of rolled-up tissue or a juice carton that I've passed three times now on my way there and back, which looks like it's green and white striped but isn't!!! Grrr indeed...

This sort of thing is always happening to me, well done with your lists BTW

Savvybuyer

mhoc wrote: »

I had a look on mys, half price in tosco and full price in Sainsburys.

but we are very short of juice so I got 2 packs for £3.50 in Sainsburys as part of my £20 shop and I found a nice boy on a manned till, MOC scanned for £2.59 so a good price for 2 cartons and it does not seem to have made a difference to my BM.

I am trying to keep my Sainsburys shops as low as possible and spaced out. the till spit machine keeps giving me extra nectar points vouchers for £60 shops :mad: £20 is the most I spend at once.

Ignore those 'extra points' vouchers, you're doing well. They seem to want me to spend £40 for an extra 160 points (which works out at 80p) and week after week the same offer comes out, probably because I keep rejecting it. Not after £8 off a £40 spend with double nectar points on the whole lot, that was £30 elsewhere and then repeat (albeit not always with double points) for 6 weeks for the period of the coupons they sent me. There's no way I'm spending £40 after that for 80p back (which doesn't go very quickly to making 250s etc.). So keep ignoring them and you'll do very well. Selective use of coupons is what works. I only use the ones that pay me to do so.