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Savvybuyer

I've just seen it now - an ad for Boots has come onto the TV I was watching - and has an offer of "Buy one get a second 1/2 price" on some Tena product.

That is NOT a good offer IMO. It's a 'reduction' of only 25%.

Offers (in supermarkets etc.) to "save" 50ps and "save" 89ps are generally not good offers. (Unless the cost originally was 75p and it's a save 50p off that:rotfl:.)

Almost every item in a store goes to half price at sometime, so anything less that that is no good.

Apart of course things like milk, those sorts of items rarely go on such offers - but most items do go on special offers at some time. In fact the website that dealt with supermarket tricks (think it was an article on Reader's Digest - 50 supermarket tricks, you can Google it) mentioned that people generally know the cost of only five items - milk, bread, potatoes, bananas and I think it was butter or something like that. So that means most people have no clue as to whether any other product is good value at any time or not. Hence why the research from Sains. is based on people's perception that they don't expect Sains to be cheaper and how people have said they find offers confusing - so that Sains. can now go to round pounds:( and 'everyday prices'.

"Everyday" prices are often extremely expensive btw. My price guide on Chicken Fillets for example is £5/kg. The 613g packs on "everyday" price of £4.29 - price locked at that - they have been locked at £7:eek:/kg. I think they have to be quite expensive prices if they can substain them for that long. I'd rather have a temporary, shortlived promotion at a loss-making price so that I can stock up at that time!

For example they didn't expect us to be getting Bisto Granules at about 56p! And they don't really want us getting Alpro desserts at 72p. (I found those desserts (at £1.50 shelf price) on the bottom shelf in my store:rotfl:.) They want us getting the Bisto, together with other of their offers, at £1 roll-back price - and indeed several of my womblees have paid that £1 price! It is certainly working, being on that aisle end, with the big red £1 card.

Of course, if they don't want us getting something, or getting it in a certain way, then we should definitely get that thing!:rotfl:

I've noticed earlier today that very few of the items in Morries' leaflet ("BIG BRANDS small prices"), that they want us to buy, are on my M list. - instead I have a whole range of S/P and other stuff that works out much cheaper! "New Bonus Coupons" it says - of "Save up to £15" (obviously the word "Save" in larger type and the words "up to" somewhat smaller and also smaller than the "£15"). I notice they are three £5 off £40 vouchers:(. There is no way that I am "saving" £15 by spending £35 x3 = £105:eek: real money.

I have decided therefore, instead, to buy nothing at all and save the £105 that way!:D:rotfl::rotfl: I note my saving of one hundred and five pounds far outstrips the £15 "saving" that I would have got under their approach, so I think mine's the best money-saving there, certainly compared to theirs - and anything a supermarket ever does is aimed at getting us to spend money*. (Even though it's believed these cond.spend-type vouchers don't make the stores any money - although, obviously they attract custom there, from people who buy a shop over £40 at £5 less, and in that way get more custom that they would otherwise have got, by offering a £5 discount.)

*I am not spending, I'm saving! Savvy non-buyer:rotfl:.

its_a_secret_66

mrs_lds wrote: »

Off topic but ds1 had his A level paper re marked. Pray tell someone how does he go from a C grade to an A . Does not instil confidence in the persons marking the papers. Having said that delighted with another A grade. He knew he did better and insisted on getting the paper re marked.plus get refund on the £40 costs .

Well done on the higher mark. Know what you mean about worrying about the marking though. One of my sons mates said he had a G and was remarked and it went to a C. How can that even be possible. It makes you feel as though every paper that person marked should be checked! It is disgusting

Savvybuyer

I've just saved £105!:j Shame I can't really count that in my hands:(:rotfl:.

That Radio Times offer I saw earlier (possibly £5 odd Top Cashback) - I'm changing topic suddenly again btw:rotfl: - are we sure that we're timing it properly so that it covers the Christmas double issue? Timing is the key;).

Savvybuyer

Goodnight - I've spend all the obsessive-interest time today that I wasn't going to waste yesterday!:rotfl: So, lost out sorting the RL things that really ought to be sorted more. (Then again, arguably lots of people do things like watch TV instead of doing the house out all they could [literally], and that's your normal people watching soaps and "reality" programmes for example rather than the specialist-interest people stuck on threads about arcane topics like supermarket pricing:rotfl::rotfl:.) The balancing act of priorities for everyone, again...

Must go - bye!!:):wave:

Mildred1970

poppypopster wrote: »

Brioche Pasquier Pitch Chocolate Brioches (6)

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/asda-compare-prices/Patisserie/Brioche_Pasquier_Pitch_Chocolate_Brioches_6.html

Good T £1 A £1.70


Apples?
http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/asda-compare-prices/Fruit/ASDA_Cripps_Pink_Apples_Approx_160g.html


Raspberry
http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/asda-compare-prices/Fruit/ASDA_Raspberries_150g.html

You had me at brioche :T:rotfl:

Snap-ant

David. wrote: »

If it was not for me, he may have thought you had already had the op;) and it was summer so no cold snap :cool:

No I'm still quite warm

zagubov

Evening all!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xTGrfs5TXM
:beer:

Savvybuyer

poppypopster wrote: »

Brioche Pasquier Pitch Chocolate Brioches (6)

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/asda-compare-prices/Patisserie/Brioche_Pasquier_Pitch_Chocolate_Brioches_6.html

Good T £1 A £1.70


Apples?
http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/asda-compare-prices/Fruit/ASDA_Cripps_Pink_Apples_Approx_160g.html


Raspberry
http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/asda-compare-prices/Fruit/ASDA_Raspberries_150g.html

Begging to differ on the Brioches - I did see these at £1 in M a few weeks ago and not meeting my prices these days, I thought about them when I saw that in M at that time, but I then decided and managed to resist that expensive round £1 price. Effectively they are a roll of bread aren't they? With tempting chocolate in them - enough reason to avoid the money-wasting that they therefore, for that reason, cause! Remember supermarket's business is always to make people spend money. Instead, S/P/Value or Savers Part Baked Baguettes at 49p... or why not get whoopsied bakery? Why ever bother with anything at £1 these days? (Perhaps we've been too spoiled by glitches in the past - in which case, continue to spoil us I say.)

On apples and raspberries, this is being posted in respect of something I've probably missed? The fruit in A, small packs, is generally v. expensive IMO. And in M the 150g Raspberries appear to be on 2 for £1.50 (does not compare from A) as opposed to A's v. expensive £1.50 each price? M 99p each. I can't see the A Raspberries on any mbuy offer, or they weren't yesterday when I tried to compare them vs M, so I can't see of any mbuy glitch with a trigger (perhaps the 2 for £3 produce item I referred to earlier), so therefore price will be no good.

Savvybuyer

zippydooda wrote: »

I cant find out from on line searching what the mystery missing item is.
more to the point, I also cant find a good comparison on the items that are on msm.
so investigation finished. thought id post my findings to save savvy from searching for "a glitch to be had" hth

Thanks. I suspected there are no good comparisons - and even the 57p pears (I've switched, sudden topic change again), that I've been going for, are not best ever value - given the pears pack in M, when they were 800g, now probably 600g, once went down to a very rare 50p.

I would not have spent loads of time searching for that missing item, I hope!:D

May as well mention now, the 335g Broccoli in the A Price News, should be swapped for the loose broccoli instead as that's cheaper price per unit (and even then not 10% cheaper than M or T, although, of those two, only compares to T), the 84p Oranges - have had packs of oranges at 39p in Aldi (not now, but some while ago, just making point 84p isn't extremely good price), the 84p tomatoes - aren't 10% cheaper than Morries and, in any event, packs of tomatoes in Aldi are allegedly cheaper at the moment (39p?) - Pears pack as above - Peppers 3 pack at 99p, seems expensive - Plums 400g at 75p, real expensive price given that Yellow Plums 400g have gone down to 50p in M in the past - and the apples at 96p should be replaced by the 98p apples as they are somewhat more product. So that's page 3:eek: of the Price News covered - probably just the Leeks, and they should probably be bought in T or bought on real knock-down whoopsie rather than ever at any time going for fresh veg. at 67p:rotfl:.

poppypopster

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Begging to differ on the Brioches - I did see these at £1 in M a few weeks ago and not meeting my prices these days, I thought about them when I saw that in M at that time, but I then decided and managed to resist that expensive round £1 price. Effectively they are a roll of bread aren't they? With tempting chocolate in them - enough reason to avoid the money-wasting that they therefore, for that reason, cause! Remember supermarket's business is always to make people spend money. Instead, S/P/Value or Savers Part Baked Baguettes at 49p... or why not get whoopsied bakery? Why ever bother with anything at £1 these days? (Perhaps we've been too spoiled by glitches in the past - in which case, continue to spoil us I say.)

On apples and raspberries, this is being posted in respect of something I've probably missed? The fruit in A, small packs, is generally v. expensive IMO. And in M the 150g Raspberries appear to be on 2 for £1.50 (does not compare from A) as opposed to A's v. expensive £1.50 each price? M 99p each. I can't see the A Raspberries on any mbuy offer, or they weren't yesterday when I tried to compare them vs M, so I can't see of any mbuy glitch with a trigger (perhaps the 2 for £3 produce item I referred to earlier), so therefore price will be no good.

I don't really know.. but they taste good