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Thanks Stinky for the new thread!:T:T:T

Lots of pages already - and a new thread managed to be set up last night when I wasn't looking! I have been keeping tabs on prices however (as ever:D).

The number of pages here made me wonder if a glitch was on! I've already come home 'to see if the milk is glitching'. It seems not - I know mbuys were down to 686 yesterday but I've seen the Seabrook crisps didn't glitch earlier - maybe bought a day too early?!? I'd rather not be shopping around price change day anyway - and I'm sure Patty, and others, will be here as soon as anything goes glitchy if indeed that ever happens tomorrow. Keep an eye on wombles and mbuys - TIA!

This was from the 'winning' comparison in a womble that gave nearly £3 yesterday:

2 x Belvita Breakfast Biscuits - Fruit & Fibre (6x50g) £2.00 £5.00

I shudder to think what I would have got if they had not bought the Belvitas. (Answer: £5.44.)

The Cathedral cheeses have thankfully gone up over the weekend to £4.48 (or any 2 for £6.00:rotfl:), Although, of course, people on seeing £4.48 instore or 2 for £6.00 are more likely to buy 2, and thus reduce the APG from £4.48-£3 elsewhere = £1.78 to 2 for £6 vs £3x2 (£6) = 60p. (Cathedral Citys did have mbuys off yesterday, but I suspect no glitching - although Cath City Mild 350g did have its mbuy off for a little longer. So maybe two of that or mix and match one other involving it would work? Sadly, ruddy Sainsbobs has put prices up from £3 yesterday to 2 for £7:eek: today:(:(.)

The Belvitas and 4-pack yogurts at £1 became the items to irritate me. With it being a windy day the other day, I had a womble, from God, roll in my direction outside the supermarket. I saw it contained lots of £1 Belvitas and initially thought they'd bought all the same one. Closer inspection revealed that, although they'd bought 12 packs in total, they had got 4 different ones. Along with just three other different items. So - not enough items!! If items are being an irritant on the APG, I'm sure that means they are items that T and S shoppers should be buying (on their comps vs A).

Those twin pack £4 versions of Cathedral also still an occasional thorn in the side on the APG (they lose out a lot vs T and W).
Surprisingly, given that I've thought they were a 'very expensive store', it was Mr S's prices that generated that nearly £3 voucher.

I notice Sainsbobs is now (to be) £1.50 on the Belvitas:(:(, so yet again they bought them for me either before or after the offer elsewhere:(. Actually I thought £5.44 compared to nearly £3 doesn't seem to have lost as much as I imagined - though I think that's because, if they hadn't got the Belvitas, Sains. would have been (slightly) cheaper. It lost about £2.50. But, just goes to show... if they hadn't succumbed to the Belvitas, at £2, and had then checked their receipt and claimed the voucher, they would have had around £2.50 more on it - which would then have paid for the Belvitas and a bit more.

I also managed to check a receipt of a relative. I'm pleased that they saved more than 10%!:) Sadly they bought some Oat So Simple at £2:eek:, more than twice as much as we'd pay here (I think it was vs 95p recently, but now everywhere that stocks them on higher pricing) - so around a pound lost there and also bought another item and lost around £2.50 on it:eek::eek: compared to 'our prices'. Ah well - at least they are happy with what they bought and it's their money to do as they please:wall::wall:. They got the Heinz individual soup (now on 5 for £3:eek:), now more expensive per can (89p instead of previous 50p) and, even on the offer, more expensive. They were on 6 for £3 elsewhere (though I note that pricing appears now to have increased as well under a new mbuy), which, at the date of their shop, was better. But of course they bought 5 in Mr A and thus instead of getting an additional one, to compare to a cheaper price (6 for £3), they got 5 and compared to full prices at the rival, missing out their mbuy:(.

To round it all off, they bought some Mullers as well. 8 of them:eek::(.:rotfl::rotfl: So no glitch there either. Oh well, I have people that don't listen to me at all (in RL) even when I tell them the items they need to buy:wall::wall:...I just don't understand! So long as they're happy losing five quid per shop, I don't mind!:mad: Though I suppose if far more people did take notice, the stores would never be able to sustain an APG at all. So that was their shopping - a full shop of around £40 spend and 'more than 10% cheaper' (than the ridiculous prices and missed offers of elsewhere) - I'd find it very hard to even spend that much, I'm probably on far lower than even half that now, if that!

I might get an Oat So Simple next time they are £1 in Morries and then sell it to my relative at £2:rotfl::rotfl:! There they were buying that, whilst you here were comparing it earlier vs £1 (or vs 94p), so less than half the price, whilst I was refusing to buy it at all until the mbuys disappeared on the instore 2 for £3 offer and compared fully at full price vs £1 or less:rotfl::rotfl:. Sadly never happened, so I never bought it! They have £2, some here have about 90p, but mine is about 25p or less (hope and...wishful thinking:rotfl::D:rotfl: maybe).

I had this return yesterday vs Morries (a womble of course - I would never have compared this - or bought this much of loose produce in one shop:eek:):

1.69 x ASDA Swede per kg £1.69 £3.04

Nearly as bad vs S and W - £2.70 on that amount there, although N/A vs T so perhaps could be used, with care, vs T. I say 'with care' as prices may have changed - msm now suggesting M is cheaper on a 740g swede (no price history available) - don't know if they've gone down in price in M? I suspect it's 'watch for wombles' and see what the flip-sides of comparisons are telling us.

rhosynbach

Claire1972 wrote: »

Well something has changed I can see these in my evouchers

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£0.50 from Asda Price Guarantee
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Any idea where my £37 is or is it made up of small amounts?

thanks just checked mine and they have started coming in, only did shop yesterday i think it is made up of small amounts

gocat

Claire1972 wrote: »

Well something has changed I can see these in my evouchers

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20p
£0.20 from Asda Price Guarantee
Terms & Conditions Tue, 11 Mar 2014
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50p
£0.50 from Asda Price Guarantee
Terms & Conditions Tue, 11 Mar 2014
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£2
£2.00 from Asda Price Guarantee
Terms & Conditions Tue, 11 Mar 2014
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£0.20 from Asda Price Guarantee
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Any idea where my £37 is or is it made up of small amounts?

Appear in small amounts. Goodness knows why, as makes more work for them.

Westvleteren

Quite a bit of stuff going half price tomorrow at T's

Cheese, beef, yogs, counter salmon, olive oil........

Enterprise_1701C

Thanks for the kfc - have downloaded a couple of vouchers, though it looks as if we will both have to go to get it That might be tomorrow's dinner sorted.

cheer1eader

Westvleteren wrote: »

Quite a bit of stuff going half price tomorrow at T's

i know cadbury's egg n spoons are going to be 3.50 in t's tomorrow
a's are selling for £2 so might stock up because my boys love these :rotfl:

JoPiper

Hope it's ok to join in. Hello everyone

cheer1eader

JoPiper wrote: »

Hope it's ok to join in. Hello everyone

hi jo :hello: welcome to the madhouse :rotfl:

bubbs

JoPiper wrote: »

Hope it's ok to join in. Hello everyone

Hello and welcome , of course you can join in:D

Enterprise_1701C

JoPiper wrote: »

Hope it's ok to join in. Hello everyone

Just leave your sanity behind you before you step over the threshold