Reduced bargains and yellow stickers shopping

clairaay

This might sound like a silly question but my tesco and asda are 24 hours 7 days a week and morrisons is open until 10 every night. When roughly should I be looking for these reductions? Thanks xxx

Gaelen

Steve059 wrote: »

It can be like scavengers around a kill on the Serengeti. 250,000 years is nothing in evolutionary terms.

Then again, shopping is still a bit of a "hunter gather thing". OK, you don't get sabre-toothed cats in supermarkets (with the possible exception of Waitrose, they do lots of things that the others don't), but those trolleys can hurt if they hit you in the back of the ankle.

You are right, it really is! I encountered it all last night as I popped in after work. The rudeness of some people just astounds me. The nicest looking person gets nasty!

Sadly for me it was all cream cakes and cheese when I went in so nothing on that venture.

BeckyC2be

It really is like watching the discovery channel in my local MrT's at reduced times. One of the staff members told me they'll put the trolley out with the pricing gun near the reduced bit and then go and watch the cctv for ten minutes, said it was his favourite ten minutes of the day watching everyone trying to get nearest!

I normally go in about 1pm, that tends to be when the meat gets 30-50% off and you don't have to fight for it, and sometimes about 8pm, all the scavengers have been an there's always lots of veg left as they don't seem to want that!

Now I'm not saying there is anything wrong with wanting reductions as I regularly ys shop myself, but it really is like a different planet in my local!

timehastoldme

At our local waitrose the other day we bought salmon and dill fishcakes (4 packs of 2) and breakfast muffins (2 packs of 4) which came to the grand total of 4p for the lot after the reductions and multi-buy discounts kicked in. We were pretty pleased with that.

eagle_eye

Steve059 wrote: »

Then again, shopping is still a bit of a "hunter gather thing". OK, you don't get sabre-toothed cats in supermarkets (with the possible exception of Waitrose, they do lots of things that the others don't), but those trolleys can hurt if they hit you in the back of the ankle.

Yes that's true, which I why I usually leave my trolley out of the way where the reductions are being done and at the side of the isle. Only problem is that shoppers think it's there for their benefit and are sifting through it helping themselves! I've had this happen at least 5 occasions - even when my shopping bags are in there. Mind you they are usually a lot more embarrassed than I am. These days the cycle helmet and gloves seems to do the trick but I still keep an eye on it.

Steve059

clairaay wrote: »

This might sound like a silly question but my tesco and asda are 24 hours 7 days a week and morrisons is open until 10 every night. When roughly should I be looking for these reductions? Thanks xxx

Not late night/early morning. I recently tried this as a bit of an experiment. Bad idea. The bargain shelves were always empty.

jenster

Amusville wrote: »

Today I got a few naan breads in A's for 2p each will do nicely in the freezer but my bargain was some thorntons chocolate lollies reduced to 10p but with no barcode on them so nice man at the till gave me them for free!

only time that happened to me was id picked up some bread 12p a loaf so got 6 also on reduced was 2 legs of lamb down from about at tenner to £1.99 each still a bargain i thought off i went to the till
and when they went to scan the lamb it wouldnt scan so she put the red flashy light on for a supervisor to come well we waited and waited in the end the till op said its too late for this was about 9.30pm at night (shop shutting at 10pm ) , give us one of your loafs of bread back - she re scanned that and gave us the 2 legs for 12p :rotfl:now that was what a call a result - never happened since lol

yep yellow stickies very hit and miss now

mishmash

Got some real bargains without even trying yesterday, went to Mr T to get a box of chocs (little girl need to take them into school for a raffle..honestly there is something every week) anyway had a look and got 7 packs of petit flours yoghurt for 10p each, 2 packs of smocked salmon for 20p each, 3 packs of finest Cumberland sausages for 39p each and a block of cheese reduced to 20p also 2 large packs of bananas for 10p each, strawberries for 20p and blueberries for 10p don't think I have ever been so lucky, freezer was already full though so it's like a game of Jenga now trying to get things out

eagle_eye

clairaay wrote: »

This might sound like a silly question but my tesco and asda are 24 hours 7 days a week and morrisons is open until 10 every night. When roughly should I be looking for these reductions? Thanks xxx

Can't answer for Morrisons but at Tesco you need to go around 6 pm to get the 50% discount and around 7-7:30 pm (usually the latter) to get 70%+. The amount of discount will depend on the amount of stock they have and possibly on footfall, which is why I always make a point in going if the weather is bad. Occasionally I have got bargains later in the evening but I rarely shop after 8pm.

In my location finding yellow labels is not harder than it was 2 years ago and is easier if anything. However I rarely "pop in and out" and always look at what is available or potentially available before deciding to "wait it out" or go somewhere else.

gailey_2

Theres definatly less

co-op and spar my faves,

morrisions been dire this year.

but even those 2had less and no meat and poulty.

did get some bread, fruit and veg other day which pleased me.

we decided to try eat more veggie dishes this year and often theres lots of veg.