Free food from supermarkets

Equador

Hello money savers!

i've discovered some gold money saving!!!!
You can actually be paid by supermarkets to take their food. All you have to do is go to the discount to clear section, then see if anything there is already on special offer in the store. If it is then work out what the original saving was and this will still apply even though the products are already reduced.

So, an example.

Recently in Sainsbury's, they had some ham on offer,
original price: £2:49 per pack.
Offer: Buy 2 for £4.
So your save 98p.

But these were redused all the way down to 30p each. So i bought 2 packs of ham for 60p and saved 98p. so the till owed me 38p! i bought some chewing gum on top to even it out.

I know for sure that this works in Sainsbury's and i'm trying other supermarkets when ever i can, but Sainsbury's is my local. So try it yourself and let me know if it works anywhere else.

Good Luck!

bellagio_2

This trick will not work at Tesco as they print a new barcode so any original offer will not be deducted.

Ms-Money-Penny

Not exactly free but in my local Somerfield this afternoon in the discount section the had boxes of 24 weetabix reduced to 33p a box - the box was damaged so i had three boxes.

RumanaB

I work at Sainsburys and they always have these type of offers. But I think they've started to pick up on some of them.

amie

this happened 2 me in new look, bought some clothes that were reduced 2 £3 but were previously on 2 for £8 and the discount (2 for £8) still came off at the till! got away with it once but the next time the assistant realised and adjusted it

LongDongDave

bellagio wrote:

This trick will not work at Tesco as they print a new barcode so any original offer will not be deducted.

Asda put green stickers on the bar code, so the cashier has to manually enter the new price.

smokeysmate

A few months ago, I overheard a member of staff telling a new member about this loophole and that it had been closed in that shop Explains why it never worked for me :mad:

RumanaB wrote:

I work at Sainsburys and they always have these type of offers. But I think they've started to pick up on some of them.

jellyhead80

This used to happen to me in morrisons, havn't tried it recently, they may have twigged since, i used to get it alot on scotch pancakes!

andy88_2

LongDongDave wrote:

Asda put green stickers on the bar code, so the cashier has to manually enter the new price.

Sainsburys have the red reduced label that the assistant must peel off and enter the price manually, but the discount is still stored in the system.

When I first discovered this , someone had just bought 31 items for 11p. After moving house 2 years ago, I explained it to the person on the till. She said I've got news for you, you've just done it again. I hadn't even noticed the almost 2 for 1 offer on the pizzas - went back and bought some more; 12 in the freezer.

Also, at our local store at about 1920, someone comes and cuts the reduced prices much more, so items that have been getting lonely at 99p or £1.49 are cut to 20p and 30p. If I'm stopping off to fill up with fuel about that time I'll go in and hang around. Within about a minute of the staff member coming out, about 7 or 8 people are waiting, but it's quite civilised; they share them round

bonnie_2

it will not work in asda now they have put signs up.

angelcake

Why would everyone want reduced items? They are reduced because they are going out of date probably the same day! I think that sometimes there have to be limits on this "moneysaving" stuff! Although to those who have got away with this and need the food for that night then fair shout!