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squilliondollarbaby

Savvybuyer wrote: »

V good question. It depends, I suppose, how you value "time".
Regarding cost of petrol etc., I combine the shops I do into the same run - so I'll go off to M's when near my work etc., as there's an M there - and thus not be going out too much on separate journeys. I've no idea how much my shopping is costing me (will, eventually, get organised enough to do so) but it can't be much more than £10 or £15 a week. It's certainly come down a significant lot, ever since I found how to do T PP when it was DTD (and haven't been able to return to 'normal' shopping ever since, given just how much it - and the other tips elsewhere on MSE - is saving me).

This whoops run, nominally cost me nothing as I walked to the nearest store for them (and used an old pair of boots that are worn out and on their last legs - replacement already sorted!).

Savvs what do you choose to eat? Beef & gravy etc, sandwiches, pizza or the old quiche stuff?

dawnylou

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Yes, it's there I'm afraid: Dreamtime Ridge Australian Red Wine (750ml) - with the individual price and the 3 for £10.00 at A and N/A everywhere else.

On MSM.co.uk

I wonder why it shows for you but not for me?

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Apologies again for the delayed reply.
When I am compiling my shopping, I do so online on MSM (the only way to do it really as otherwise it would be very difficult to have supermarket websites open and comparing them all). I start off at the competitor that I am doing my shop against, and add their best offers plus ones in my saved lists (Avs T, Avs S, Svs A etc.) - my saved lists invariably get out of date and I keep moving things away and onto other lists or price alert.

It used to be the case, that when you put into your basket, when logged in, an item (let's keep it simple and say it was a branded item, the exact same product, variety and size) on one supermarket that it was cheapest at, the same item would be in your basket when you switched stores.

Now (and this started perhaps a year ago) the system, when you switch stores, changes that item to a cheaper variety available in the new store - good for those just shopping straight at stores and comparing, but, for those do price comps from one store to the next, which actually works out, I think, more savvy than MSM, you'll need to find the original item, more expensively, in the new store and put that into the basket instead (removing the replacement MSM has put in).

Where items are own-brand, or the stores have the same brand but a different size, for example, the sizes of own brand items, particularly fresh meat, vary so much that a different size of the other store's product (than your first store) will go into the basket at that other store. MSM may put two or three in, to meet approximately the size/weight you were proposing buying at the original store. Or sometimes they may be no equivalent item available in the competitor at all. In which case MSM will put the Sains. item into the A5da basket, for example, but it will be greyed out "unavailable" when you switch to A5da, but the basket price has added the Sains. price of its product.

Also, loose fruit and veg. doesn't always show up on the product comparison details themselves. These come in different weights - and MSM, e.g. for bananas, seems to think A is 100g and insists T is 180g (and total prices calculated accordingly). On A, for the loose banana, you'll see N/A for T - but T do have loose bananas - you'll need to flip over to the T side of MSM and search for bananas to check their price (price per kg) as these will compare Avs T on the APG (they won't compare Avs S as S is fairtrade bananas and hence non-comparable, although T itself compares its bananas, on its PP, against both A and S (and M anyone?) - T's T&Cs say to the effect "every attempt is made to find a matching product" and thus seems to use a wider definition of comparable - comparing Wh/ml Bread to A's Brown Bread, and Low Fat Value Yogs to A's version, even though not the same variety of fruits, these do not compare (rightly in my view) on MSM/APG.

For example, Loose S/price apples at A may be £1.20? per kg at the moment. They do compare to Sains's basics apples though (the loose ones) - that's if my SAs ever key in the right type of apples:mad::mad: - so look for Basics Apples on the Sains side of MSM and if the price is 100p/kg, I'd add them to your A basket (if doing vs Sains) if you need them and depending on your taste/preference etc.

Dont worry I just flit in and out when I can - sometimes I can't get on for days, other times I only pop in to catch up during night feeds, sometimes I forego my nap for a neb.... :-)
Thanks for that. I shop via A but for each item I need I click to enlarge thus seeing prices at the other stores as I go - but I don't add to basket I just make a list depending upon the comparison given which I save as a craft email so I can access it on my phone whilst shopping.
A is currently the only shop I can use.

Soooooo whoopsies...... Are they taken into account or not? Should I put them in a desperate shop if I'm ever lucky enough to get any?
Although I can't believe some of the deals I've seen you lot get! We usually see the odd 50p off here or there...

frequent

Savvybuyer wrote: »

They needn't have "done you out" if you'd bought those breads separately!!

1 x Patak's Mild Korma Sauce (450g) £1.00 £1.00

1 x Patak's Butter Chicken Sauce Original (450g) £1.00 £1.00

The Korma & TM are on offer @ M 88p for 450g.

fairclaire

squilliondollarbaby wrote: »

:beer:Not sure what others use but I find 'come here and clean your teeth otherwise they'll go black & fall out and nobody will want to kiss you' is reasonably effective (8YO) :beer::D:beer:

just make them watch an episode of jezza Kyle....much more effective :rotfl::rotfl:

Witch_Hazel

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nuttybabe

tweets wrote: »

On news Newcastle fans in running battles with police on horseback after their defeat.

not surprised. Dh was there with the kids and they left early as the people behind them in the family area started kicking off. Throughout the match they were swearing, threw beer over the 3 of them and kept kicking dh's chair. When they left he told 2 stewards who were not interested and the police that it was all kicking off. No one seemed bothered. :mad:

Savvybuyer

nuttybabe wrote: »

it does say in the t&c's that they dont compare whoopsied stuff but they do. Always put these in a seperate shop. I have complained about it and was told they would pass it onto the relevent person and others have complained and I think got gift cards.

Ah - I see I have now said and replied to everything:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:(the joke being the amount of text I used!).

dawnylou wrote: »

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Soooooo whoopsies...... Are they taken into account or not? Should I put them in a desperate shop if I'm ever lucky enough to get any?
Although I can't believe some of the deals I've seen you lot get! We usually see the odd 50p off here or there...

I've mentioned already since that, in S, own brand whoopsies can go safely onto any BM shop (as all own-brands are excluded from BM). Apart from that, I'd never put any whoops item onto a comparison shop, in case it compares reduced price I paid vs full price elsewhere. (I might be wrong - it might have come back, had I only known, with full price (despite paying much less) vs full price and give a 10% off, but I think APG - normally - picks up what actual price you paid in-store even if online/MSM has a different price.) For example, one of my stores seems to charge 19p for something that, in the other outlets, is 17p. It's 17p on sada.com and MSM - but the 19p (fortunately), if bought in that store, always comes back as 19p on the APG and therefore makes no odds (just puts that 2p onto the price voucher for the money off next time).

Mentioning 2 pences again. Bigger fish, Savvy, bigger fish.:rotfl::rotfl:;)

Tweets_2

I was hoping to show my Tosco PP shop and my first ever using coupons from supersavvyme but I have to wait for an email. I thought an instant PP meant the end of all that

fairclaire

Tweets wrote: »

I was hoping to show my Tosco PP shop and my first ever using coupons from supersavvyme but I have to wait for an email. I thought an instant PP meant the end of all that

was it a click and collect shop Tweets? The last time I did an online shop the email came the next day....don't know if it's got any quicker lately?

tweets

nuttybabe wrote: »

not surprised. Dh was there with the kids and they left early as the people behind them in the family area started kicking off. Throughout the match they were swearing, threw beer over the 3 of them and kept kicking dh's chair. When they left he told 2 stewards who were not interested and the police that it was all kicking off. No one seemed bothered. :mad:

:mad: Thats awful. Hope your DH and kids are ok.