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fairclaire

pattylabelle wrote: »

This is an odd one cos I can't see any velvet for this price in Tosco


1 x Velvet Triple Layer White Toilet Tissue - 200 Shee...£2.00£1.50

I know patty, I looked for it when I got in It's some sort of promotional pack, maybe that's why? I had the coupons with me anyway so thought I'd see if they scanned.

Edit Ive just looked again and I can see it on Ts.com. Plain pack, not a promotional one but same price

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=258772335

scamps1966

I'm now sat chillin' drinking a nice glass of finest red Grenache. :beer:

mimi1234

scamps1966 wrote: »

I'm now sat chillin' drinking a nice glass of finest red Grenache. :beer:

Very nice. I was hoping to drink a nice glass of Vimto later on but the kiddies have pinched both bottles. Errrrrr!

rebeccalb

Evening everyone. Been dealing with rl again at the moment, so just been lurking and catching up now and again.

Don't suppose anyone knows if more than 1 of the velvet coupon will scan in 1 transaction. Culd do with a few and would use it towards a £40 shop, but it does say 1 per transaction so wondering if 2+ will scan.

Thanks

hampydoodums

Evening luvlies, apologies if this has been reported in the past couple of days (was caught right up, but now slacking again ).

Popped into our ex-Netto sada this afternoon and much of their camping accessories and some of their gardening stuff has been reduced right down. This must have happened this morning as I went in yesterday and it wasn't showing on SELs then.

Anyway, we bought -

Camping Cookers - the little gas ones - down to £2.50
LED Glow Handle Torches (come complete with battery) 75p
LED magnetic Lights (also come with batteries) 75p
Strong Garden Wire and Garden String (ideal for supporting sunflowers ) both 50p each

Hope everyone is well, glad it's a bit cooler today, will try and catch up later

fairclaire

scamps1966 wrote: »

I'm now sat chillin' drinking a nice glass of finest red Grenache. :beer:

I will be popping the cork on some vintage rose cava just shortly

Savvybuyer

Saving the best till last...;)

Why £4.55?

8 items on your bill qualify for comparison Waitrose

+£3.99
1 x ASDA Easy Scoop Vanilla Ice Cream (2L)£1.38£0.75
1 x Jacob's Twiglets Original (150g)£1.78£0.89
1 x Jacob's Cheeselets (125g)£1.39£0.69
1 x McVitie's Mini Cheddars - Original (7x25g)£1.00£0.94
1 x Whitworths Ground Rice (500g)£1.00£0.62
1 x Silver Spoon Create Strawberry Flavour Buttons (10...£0.83N/A
1 x R Whites Lemonade Ice Lollies (3x75ml)£2.00£0.99
1 x Mr Sheen Leather Wipes (30)£1.50N/A
1 x Slim-Fast Chocolate Nutty Nougat Snack Bar (24g)£0.47£0.31
1 x Slim-Fast Chocolate Caramel Snack Bar (26g)£0.47£0.31
Comparison total (compared products only)£9.49£5.50

I had a brief moment of :eek: after I'd done that shopping - doubting whether the Mr Sheen wipes were going to be N/A. Think I've seen them on msm several months ago at £2.50 odd for Waities!:eek: Did I check both outside my account as well as in it before doing my shopping?:o:o Or before I put it on my Avs W post suggesting it might be an okay filler? Came back home and checked them again - W N/A on msm (but we know that's not always conclusive).

I went to w.com and checked for "Mr Sheen". There are some Mr Sheen All-Purp. Wipes on there (over £2 cost:eek:) - but no Leather ones. Phew, that was close!!:)

(I couldn't have picked the wrong ones up:j, apparently A doesn't stock the All Purp ones that W has.) No guarantees - they might suddenly start being stocked by W!

The 2 litre vanilla ice cream - in effect cheaper than S'price!!:j:j:j.
Those McV cheddars good priced too (vs that price) - better than brandmatching Sains. on the other pack size ones to T's more expensive half prices. Or attempting to price promise T to the Sains price when Sains on offer on those! (N/A in A. But A vs W at 94p on the 7pk ones is better!:p:rotfl::D)

Can't confirm the Smarties on that one - didn't need them this time!:):cool:

V.v. good - especially with one a little pricey filler on there that (correctly) gave N/A. I paid, after APGs, only a few pence more than the voucher I got back:cool:. Now... to spend that £4.55 wisely next time:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::beer:.

aau1

hannahp wrote: »

Hi aau1.
I am a bit of a newbie to this section of the forum and confess I am non the wiser.
I was told by Mr T's customer services that a screenshot would suffice & I thought that a 'Morrisons press office ' check was fairly sufficient too.
I obviously have to revert to the old adage 'things aren't always what they seem'
I thank you for your time & apologise for not understanding how the PPs work.

It may well be straightened our by a screen shot. I've straightened out similar by in store photos

My point was this shouldn't have been suggested to the masses if it wasn't confirmed as working in the first place

We don't all rush out and do an AvM shop on the back of a TV ad or press release. One or two of us do test shops until the comparison is confirmed as picked up

RootedNomad

rebeccalb wrote: »

Evening everyone. Been dealing with rl again at the moment, so just been lurking and catching up now and again.

Don't suppose anyone knows if more than 1 of the velvet coupon will scan in 1 transaction. Culd do with a few and would use it towards a £40 shop, but it does say 1 per transaction so wondering if 2+ will scan.

Thanks

Yes, can confirm good to go

Savvybuyer

RootedNomad wrote: »

Savvy, I think COT and aau1 are making a really important point here. It is one of the best things I learned about savvy shopping.

For a very very simple example, there is a product that you want and need that costs £4 at both T and A. You say it is always better to buy at A to get the 10% margin. But when there is a proliferation (:p) of mocs, particularly if they include some high value ones that are T specific (as at the moment), then T wins hands down, probably even if you have to travel a bit further to a T store.

Buy 10 of said product for £40. If bought at A, you are paying £36. If bought at T, there is a £1 moc for each item and a number of stacking cs mocs, but just use a £5 wys £40 for an example. Cost at T £25. That is a massive differential. Even without the product specific moc, with a HH it is £35 at T and £36 at A. But the T cs mocs stack, so you could have £8, £10, £14 off £40 before you even start on product mocs. For me, this is T's usp and puts them ahead of the game.

So we all fritter away hours making lists to capitalise on the mocs available, and there are times when all the different strands come together to enable you to play shopping bingo - where you ring through a £40+ shop, use a shed load of mocs and get back a price comparison voucher for more than you have handed over in hard cash.

This very rarely happens at A, sometimes at S, but much more frequently at T. So allegiance is switched to T irrespective of how competitive their prices are for individual products because you don't care if something costs 20p more at T if you are getting say £40 of food for a tenner AND a ca £10 pp to go round and do the whole thing again.

Frequent and COT are very very good at this and aside from pure glitches, this is how I regularly save the most money off my grocery bills.

I hear what you say. Agree to disagree perhaps. However, an important clarification: always better if you haven't got MOCs.

As I've said COT is very good at this (and frequent is too). Maybe I expect too much:rotfl::rotfl:. But - with the petrol promo. - it would seem best avoided (I've said as much several times). Putting this to bed now.

As I see it - Flora Buttery on an Avs M comp, with the Pampers Simply Dry chucked in - needing only 6 more items and not 8 more (with the Buttery, I wouldn't go for the Pampers if in T) - plus the different Campbell's with MOCs/Dr Oetker pizzas and MOCs etc...

That's saved £1.80 vs T's cost on the Buttery (or you could get it cheaper by not buying it at all, as you don't need that in A and getting an equivalent alternative on a cheaper price vs elsewhere). Then hopefully minus £1.47 from the Pampers. Plus the 10%. Plus (until yesterday) the 2p a litre cheaper petrol. Offset against that the value of the CC points collected on your (more expensive) shopping. As I work it out, even after that, it's more than £2.50.

And you are having to fill your tank 50 litres to full every time to achieve the £2.50 saving in T (from buying expensive products, but then again you may have MOCs so that they are not). Cars filled with petrol perform slightly less efficiently due to having to carry the extra weight around. So your petrol at the top of the gauge gets used more quickly (so you ain't saving compared to filling up not so much but more often, doing so without making special journeys, as you're already at the petrol station quite often - if you're travelling a lot anyway, your journey will doubtless take you near a petrol station and you can choose the cheapest you can get and fill up more when prices go back down). Other people may have different circumstances and/or perform much better with their shopping.

What I'd do is look for items the MOC is still valid against, on which they don't cost 20p more in T (with no refund on PP offsetting that). That would be better - and only if I can't find any of those, would I reluctantly fall back on 20p more but more than that in MOC off (in effect cutting the value of your MOC by 20p, but still being a plus), otherwise the 20p more expensive items are best bought in some other way or elsewhere and the MOC used to its full value, as well as the PP back, on a different item that doesn't cost the 20p more. Of course it's more difficult doing that (and your time may also have a 'value'), but ...why keep it simple when you can make it more complicated??:rotfl::rotfl:I always prefer the more complex way...it's how my brain works:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::j. No - joking apart, I know I do sometimes go the complex route and you're right sometimes it's best going simple (even if it isn't as absolute perfect and best you could, in theory, get it - and the 20p might, as you say, prove no consideration when the MOC takes off more than that and saves more, including making it cheaper than the 10%, even though an MOC against a 20p more costly item - at least if it's not compared to cheaper elsewhere (that itself is very complex to most people) - is in effect reducing the value of the MOC by 20p. (The money-off value therefore looks better than it is - and is possibly therefore encouraging you more to use it, and perhaps non-buying would save money, not shopping at all, and are you getting things you don't need in order to get a £40 shop - however £40 with MOCs down to £8 odd then £8+ PP back is a different matter!)