Reduced bargains and yellow stickers shopping

Pamsy

NaughtyAngel2007 wrote: »

I worry that there are people worse off than us. my kids never go without food and thanks to this site i've learnt a few tricks of the trade to get cheap items. its been a rubbish start to the year so far but i know we are not the worse effected.

There is always someone worse off than ourselves for whatever reason but do not worry about getting your ys goodies, and we all use this site to help each other save money.

Pamsy

Steve059 wrote: »

Usually, you have to be referred to a food bank and can only be so three times.

Yes you do have to be referred to a food bank, I work for one of the agencies that refer, but if a family is in need then this is a big help if only on three occasions.

Wizzbang

One of our local Sainsbury's gives away its left over food to our local foodbank.

I got 4 tins of Sheba catfood for 15p ea in Tesco last week, my cat loves it! Sadly I can't afford to feed her that otherwise lol

Tell me more about being paid to take away items, I've never experienced this!

Enid0511

In mr W, if they have an offer on, (picked these prices as maths not my strong point) say £2.50 each or buy 2 for £4.00, the offer still applies to reduced items.... So, say you buy 2 reduced pizzas at £1.00 each that were on an offer you would still get the £1.50 knocked off at the till so in effect pizzas only cost you 50p. You will often find that you will be paid for taking items away... At Christmas, I bought two reduced item on a buy one get one free deal, -at £1.99, then £3.99 (the original offer price) came off at the till paying me £2.00 to take the items away.... You need to know what offers are on in store and sometimes I bump up to offer with a full price item, this means the discounts count against the full priced item making that reduced...

Wizzbang

Well, I tried my hand at abit of YS shopping this evening and I'm quite pleased. I got a small beef roasting joint reduced from £6.67 to £4.54 and a 6pk pork escalops reduced from £4 to £2.69. I will be trying this again/ more often- noting the timings you have mentioned. Previously, it's only been chance that I've picked up YS.

cazzy18

Just popped into the small coop beside me & picked up 2 3kg roast beef joints for £5 each reduced from £12, great bargain :j

Enid0511

I picked up a whole gressingham duck in Mr W today for £6.00, reduced from £12, have been hanging on since Easter Monday for these to have a decent reduction

erichamster

Good haul from Mr M tonight at about 8.30pm, which was a good job as I was faced with stretching a waning £60 (intended to last 2 weeks for 2 adults and 1 cat) shop to almost 3 weeks! Anyway I got

Red chillies 25p
President Rondele cheese 25p
Egg & cress sandwich 25p
4 pack of Tiger rolls 9p
3 pack of Pain Rustica 9p
5 large baguettes at 5p each (this sounds very greedy but I had only half a loaf of bread left at home and still left at least 10 baguettes on the shelf, my 5 are safely cut up and frozen)
Brioche bunny 5p
Millet flour 1kg 45p
Samo seeds/rice 15p
Tamarind 15p
Cinnamon sticks 25p

I didn't know what the Samoa seeds were but on researching at home they are a fruit which is a much healthier alternative to rice so might go back for a few more as they were so cheap.

Does anyone use tamarind and cinnamon sticks? I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them but OH and I have just recently stopped buying meat in our food shop so we've been experimenting loads with different recipes.

Happy bargaining!

eagle_eye

Enid0511 wrote: »

At Christmas, I bought two reduced item on a buy one get one free deal, -at £1.99, then £3.99 (the original offer price) came off at the till paying me £2.00 to take the items away.... You need to know what offers are on in store and sometimes I bump up to offer with a full price item, this means the discounts count against the full priced item making that reduced...

I also use this at Waitrose but try to "hide" those items in with the other shopping. I don't like the idea of them having to pay me for my food.
1. Because they are more likely to prevent it happening if they lose money. The goose that laid the golden egg and all that.
2. They are less inclined to sell these reduced items - as it costs them.
3. It's embarrassing - even for me who is pretty thick skinned at the best of times.

Having said all that I don't have too much sympathy for a company that tries to save money by not updating their IT systems to calculate discounts appropriately.

Only once have I been caught out. I had got most of my shopping and reminded the discounter that there were some items that did not have a 2nd discount. So I went through the till, loaded up my trailer and went in again to seek out those remaining yellow items. I bought about 8 items in all and they ended up paying me 79p for items whose full price was around £15. The check out lad was embarrassed, I was embarrassed and my cover had been blown. Well it was probably blown already if truth be told.

The problem is that you don't always know what's on special offer.

lindseykim13

NaughtyAngel2007 wrote: »

try looking at the bigger picture. i am that desperate. at the moment we are going out to the shops when we know the yellow labels are going on. we go to Tesco then the co-op in the hope to find some reduced foods. my husband has lost his job and i cant find work. we have three children and feels like we are living on fresh air. so yes i'm one of those disgusting people who try's to get in first and grab a bargain to feed my family and give them a cheap treat. got our reduced sandwiches last night to make a Easter picnic for the kids as we go on our Easter hunt today. and will be looking into the co-op on the way home to see if they have anything for tea.

I'm sure you don't behave like an animal though? Most people are stuggling my dh has only just got back into work and to be honest we spent the majority of last year with 3 kids too in the same boat as you however i never once started fighting with people or being rude to staff totally disgusting behaviour no matter how desperate you are for a pizza.
My point being though if you were that hungry you'd have thought those dessperate need to feed their children types would have taken the fish and veg!
There is no reason to fight over stuff-push elderly people around ect. I'd rather walk away and come back later/tomorrow.

You really don't need to tell me to look at the bigger picture i've been there done that..