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MKS

rose28454 wrote: »

DD's friend came last night and she recently started at T as a supervisor. She knows about DTD and wombling and told me to look out tommorow as a lot of promotions end tonight. Might be worth a look in the morning. i will have to go early as off to Costco with Mum and my 2 sisters. Anyone know of any good offers there at the moment?

google addicted to costco -they usually have the latest offers. hth

ChrisEvanson

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Regarding the Alpen, these are currently down to £1.50 in A (and around £1.99 elsewhere or multibuy 2 for £3). My own preference at the moment would be to buy some other brand in A, which is similar pack size, and currently on offer at £1 at a competitor. This, 90p equiv., works out cheaper than £1.50 'rollback' with 50p off.

The coupons are valid till May. In which case, seems best to wait until a competitor has Alpen on offer at £1, then off to A, whatever its price, with 50p off. Making them (if a competitor offer comes along in the next four/five months) 40p, with your appropriate 7 items that you needed anyway and were already going to buy vs whichever competitor it is. Even if it's M, all is not lost for NI readers, as surely at least one of S or T will have them on offer at £1 at some point in the next four months?

If not you can simply use it when A has a lower price if it's getting close to May, or another voucher or coupon will come along, I'm sure, even if they expire and you miss out.

A word of caution though: sometimes (and I'm not suggesting this is necessarily so in the above case) supermarkets raise the price of items just before they include a coupon in a mag that appears you're getting something off. The price, after the MOC, can be more than the price in their store without any MOC was before.

I know one retailer (won't mention the name) had an offer on some kitchen item. They were on 'half price' at £2 (or something very similar). The half price ended and the price rose to about £3 or £3.50. Shortly after, there was a coupon in their in-store mag for 50p off the product. This made it around £2.50 or £3 after the 50p coupon - more expensive than the £2 the product had been not very long before. Remember coupons are there to provide an incentive for you to buy. It may be the coupon encourages you to buy and think there is a saving, when in fact the product was even lower priced, in the same store, just a few months earlier.

I didn't buy the kitchen item with the coupon. I think I bought it in A on a comp. vs the appropriate retailer at the time of the competitor's £2 offer. Then you probably bought it even cheaper than me with glitches vs W!!! Swings and roundabouts, it can work out sometimes...:rotfl::rotfl:

These Alpen Light bars are rarely on offer, and best I have seen over the past 6 months has been 2 for £3 or, latterly, £1.50 at A. I did of course stock up during the cereal glitch last year. They are one of the few bars on Slimming World (many others have lots of sugar and/or fat in them) so will be very much in demand. I have seen the (not light) Strawberry ones in pound shops, but not the light ones.

I wouldn't buy a competitor 'similar' bar because there isn't anything comparable to those seriously following Slimming World.

£1.50 with 50p off is a very good price.

Shortfatscotsbloke

andi123 wrote: »

Supermarket Price Comparison

Proposed Private Members Bill by John Denham MP

In a tough economic climate, consumers need to know that they are getting the best possible deal. But despite the growth in online supermarket shopping, most have to shop around in much the same way they did decades ago. How much better it would be if consumers had, at their finger tips, comparative data on the price of goods, not just retailer by retailer, but shop by shop, product by product................

Thanks Andi, great post. I nearly missed it as it has all the hallmarks of a "Savvy Special"..

Anyway, I think it confirms what we all already know, however, it is nice to know that an MP is trying to do something about the major supermarkets taking the mick.

princessmelody2009

Night all x

QPR10

princessmelody2009 wrote: »

My mister had a part-time job there as a Matchday Steward before he got his full-time job! In fairness he is from Bermondsey so he never had any trouble

Ask him about the fenced in pathway between the away end & the station

QPR10

MKS wrote: »

Oh! Jed will be jealous

They keep threatening to shave their heads & there was a rumour they were offered Dancing On Ice would have been interesting to seeing them compete against each other, Edward is the best dancer

princessmelody2009

QPR10 wrote: »

Ask him about the fenced in pathway between the away end & the station

:eek: He says it's to protect the away fans from the hooligans that are Millwall supporters!! Apparently there was a riot that prompted the building of said fence when he was a young lad

Really am going now, night everyone x

QPR10

Hooray caught up but had to miss a lot of yesterday, kitten has made my legs go to sleep & I have the washing up to do

Goodnight everyone

MKS

QPR10 wrote: »

They keep threatening to shave their heads & there was a rumour they were offered Dancing On Ice would have been interesting to seeing them compete against each other, Edward is the best dancer

How do you know that?

QPR10

princessmelody2009 wrote: »

:eek: He says it's to protect the away fans from the hooligans that are Millwall supporters!! Apparently there was a riot that prompted the building of said fence when he was a young lad

Really am going now, night everyone x

It is & when we last played them at our place when we came out they had left glass bottles lying under all the tyres so we could drive over them :mad: