Reduced bargains and yellow stickers shopping

happydays89

Last night in our local Tesco we managed to buy 3 pizzas at £3.75 each reduced to 20p,2 packs of gluten free fingers rolls £3 each for 10p each.6 posh yogurts £1 each reduced to 2p each.4 packs of sliced barbecued chicken £3 each reduced to 30p each.lots of fruit and veg for 10p a pack.Lots more people seem to be bargain shopping it's becoming more of a challenge,two of us go now so we can watch different areas,well worth it though if you can get a weeks shopping for a family for about £6.

dlusman

Good "purchase" from freecycle last week.

Someone in our local group had got fed up with the "Jane plan" diet she had started , and was giving away over a months worth of food
So for zero cost I now have the basis of meals for at least 4 weeks

breakfast : porridge , muesli ,branflakes
lunch : soup , couscous
dinners : pasta , lasagane, Beef, Chilli Con Carne, Mushroom Strogonoff

thedogsmum

happydays89 wrote: »

Lots more people seem to be bargain shopping it's becoming more of a challenge,two of us go now so we can watch different areas,well worth it though if you can get a weeks shopping for a family for about £6.

How true is this? It's also interesting the 'variety' of people looking for a bargain, including lots of men in suits. Last week, I even saw my doctor waiting to get some cheese that was being reduced to half price - I didn't expect that!

pennypincher3562

Hi

I was in Lidl tonight and noticed that they had quite a lot of yellow label reduced price meat. However, they only had a reduction of 30% on them.

I've never seen a reduction greater that 30% in Lidl. Has anyone else seen a greater reduction?

Thanks
PennyPincher3562

elsien

No, only ever 30% that I've seen. And they never seem to discount any of the fresh fruit and veg, just the meat and fridge stuff.

torbrex

I have had free stuff in Lidl, they used to put giveaways on the counter at the other side of the tills and you would get told to help yourself.

I've not seen it for a while though as I no longer shop at the end of the day

lookingforthebestdeals

hello guys

i do not know if this is common knowledge but i have found sainsburys late evening take alot of money off their cakes in the late evening if not sold , i think it might because of the fresh cream cakes etc but i love getting them for my family. :A

Salome_2

They've always done this. I worked in Sainsbury on a student basis in the late 80's & did a fair amount of time in the bakery. We would have people queuing up for reduced cakes (which we took down by 50%) and often tempers were raised when two people wanted the same item. I have to admit to occasionally sneaking the trolley with the reduced items out the back of the bakery dpt.,thro' the rear of the shop & parking it near the front door, then returning to the bakery counter & announcing what I'd done, to watch people thunder to the door.....

VfM4meplse

Salome wrote: »

often tempers were raised when two people wanted the same item.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

If they had wanted them that much, they would have paid full price for them.

pennypincher3562

Hi

So far the best shops that I've found for 'yellow label' bargains are Tesco, ASDA, and Marks and Spencers (even reduced quite pricy, but good quality.)

I've struggled to get any decent bargains at Sainsburys, the CO-OP, and Morrisons however. Even there reduced stuff seems expensive to me.

Where does everyone else get their 'yellow label' bargains from?