Reduced bargains and yellow stickers shopping

buzi

alibo100 wrote: »

This might have been asked before but I can't find it, I'm fairly new to yellow sticker shopping.

When does Tesco usually reduce their prices, I can't seem to catch it at my local Tesco Express.

If I do catch it the reductions don't seem to be that great. Is there a knack to this?

my local mr t express reduces in stages, usually get better reductions after 5pm but then again by that time in the day there will be less items left to be reduced! i usually get the sandwiches which can be reduced down to 16p but most times are around 40p-80p

ScarletRaven

mcculloch29 wrote: »

In Tesco I sometimes watch folks filling baskets with non-freezable YS stuff and wonder where it's all going to go...

I used to work in a supermarket and I've known of people doing the same that would then hand it out to the homeless or to people less well off.

One guy would regularly come in and buy reduced bakery goods and let some of the late night staff have them as a treat because we'd be working until the end so couldn't buy anything ourselves

FatVonD

Our local Mr S used to reduce by about 25% early in the day then by 75% later on. Now they seem to be reducing to half price earlier in the day and there's precious little left to be reduced any further. It suits me though, I'm happy to get something half price from a bigger selection and it stops me impulse buying because it's just *so* cheap!

WantToBeSE

My local tesco is rubbish for reduced stuff recently, only reducing by about 50p-£1 at the most!
The co-op is much better, and the reduced section can be huge sometimes
I am going to start doing my reduced food shopping there instead.

alandbailey

I buy reduced price bread and green veg for my poultry. I cannot afford the full price so I tend to pop in to Morrisons and Tesco in the evenings. Morrisons seem to reduce the most - sometimes down to 9p per item.:j

ScarletRaven

Just the one YS item with today's shopping - a Sweet & Sour Chicken & Rice ready meal for 90p - it was lovely, too!

marris

got some bargains

Mr M
12 large free range eggs £0,75
multi seeded bread £0,25
just roll puff pastry 500g £0,25 x 2
2 raspberry doughnuts £0,09
fresh parsley £0,05

Mr A
celery hearts £0,10 x 2
runner beans £0,10 x 2
Romano lettuce £0,10
Covent garden soup £0,10
extra special bacon lardons with oregano (twin pack )£0,10

Mr T
fresh green beans £0,10 x 2
finest ciabatta bread £0,10
kingsmill rolls (6 pack) £0,10

Eeyore2009

16 lamb chops for £1.20
2x turkey breasts for 29p
chicken portions (3) for 23p
chicken breasts x 4 21p
plum tomatoes 15p
courgette x 2 9p
2 norfolk free range pork chops 23p

ScarletRaven

Wilko:

- A toddler toothbrush and a baby toothbrush for 35p each (down from 70p each).
- Pack of woodland sticker sheets for 25p (down from £1).

Smoosh

Had a pretty good haul yesterday. Most of it wasn't reduced by 90% as I would usually want, but it was stuff we would've bought full price anyway, and I'm a bit less picky now that OH has a new job. We went to a different Tesco, seemed much more civilised than our local.

2x almond croissants - 20p
2x pecan plaits - 18p
2x chocolate brownies - 25p
2x bakewell tarts - 20p
2x chocolate cupcakes - 36p
Punnet of cherries - 60p
3 cans of Carlsberg - £2.25
A coconut - 16p
Ready made root mash - 25p
Pack of grapes - 50p
Ready made cauliflower cheese and roast potatoes - 99p
Quorn savoury eggs - £1.19
Tub of ready made pasta with tomato sauce - 40p
Pesto dip (I use as pasta sauce) - 27p
Pack of 4 jacket potatoes - 23p
Pack of pears - 50p
Tin of potato and leek soup - 39p
2x punnets of raspberries - 40p each
Punnet of blueberries - 40p
Punnet of strawberries - 40p
Pack of 4 vine tomatoes - 30p
Pack of lettuce etc. - 20p
Bunch of flowers - 50p
Pack of wholemeal bagels - 18p