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strewth71 wrote: »

Good evening everyone, called in to my a today and the dw tabs were rtc along with the cif so did a cc for tonight and here are the results :T Paid £5 each for the dw tabs and £2 for the cif. I also used a £15 apg so only had £1.15 real money to pay


Why £10.30?

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11 items (9 different) on your bill qualify for comparison Sainsbury's

+£7.88

0.17 x ASDA Bananas by Weight per kg£0.11N/A
0.23 x ASDA Onions by Weight per kg£0.17N/A
1 x ASDA Smartprice Batter Mix (128g)£0.15£0.20
1 x Green Giant Salad Crisp Sweetcorn (150g)£0.60£0.60
2 x Fairy Platinum All in One Dishwasher Tablets Lemon...£26.00£20.00
2 x Candyland Flumps Mallow Twists (12g)£0.20£0.20
1 x Haribo Starmix£0.10£0.10
1 x Haribo Tangfastics£0.10£0.10
1 x ASDA Smartprice Unsmoked Back Bacon (312g)£1.56N/A
1 x ASDA Smartprice Clear Mints (250g)£0.50£0.50
1 x ASDA Smartprice Mayonnaise (500ml)£0.40£0.47
1 x Cif Power & Shine Bathroom Spray (700ml)£4.00£2.00 Comparison total (compared products only)£32.05£24.17

I see that my recent mention of them led to you buying them:(:rotfl::rotfl:. Do we really need to spend money on sweets and mints and the like? (Except the 10p ones:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.) We could live life without them, and thus save all the cash. That said, we'd never spend anything, would never go anywhere or live life at all if we did that:rotfl:.

Savvybuyer

mhoc wrote: »

OO I thought it was a minimum £20 spend ..... ?????.

No, it's £15. According to the info. I've seen. I wondered why you seemed to be wanting to spend too much:rotfl::rotfl:.

zagubov

For the night shift. What a song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYSVMgRr6pw#t=32
:beer:

Video's very disturbing though.

Savvybuyer

Evangeline1971 wrote: »

Savvy if you are there help please Do you know what these tomatoes are comparing to in Morries?

2 x ASDA Extra Special Sweet Aromatico Cherry Tomatoes... £3.00 £3.38

Not showing on msm website or app They did compare well when I first found them. Thanks in advance, I'm off to bed now so will check for replies tomorrow :cool: Goodnight all

I think it'll be those Vine ones again, from memory, that were 99p offer in M last time (months ago). Sadly not been back at that price in M. Sorry, I can't remember what it was that I said last time - my OP would have to be located, from months and months ago. Was it back in March?:think:

EDIT: That suggests we have to find some at £1.69 in M. I've have an eye out for them next time I look (be on Monday now).

Savvybuyer

fairclaire wrote: »

LA la la .........keep up savvy :rotfl::rotfl:

Eh?:)

I've now caught up with the last 24 hours, and seems nothing I missed. Too late now though, so not even got to my 'stories' from M or to the Birds Eye 4 pack chickens info.

Can't tell you just yet the info. I got from the third store, as it would take ages writing it out. Rest assured, it has been obtained though!:D But, in short, it seems to be the Southern Fried Chicken 4 per pack T £3.25 vs M £1.62. That's the summary for now. The detail later:D:D:rotfl::cool::rotfl::rotfl:.

Goodnight!

Savvybuyer

The loose broccoli turned out to show £1.39/kg in the third M store. So, maybe it is that then? Just so you're not wasting your time seeing if it will scan in M at £2.29/kg and having it go through at unwanted £1.39/kg. Yet the first store did have £2.29/kg price showing.

Anyway - it's Avs T. I don't think it will compare favourably Avs M in any event (probably N/A, maybe just maybe £2.29:eek:/kg).

On these prices per weight things, I have to alter the S/P Whole Chicken by Weight. Showing as comparing A to M as not 10% cheaper on my list. That should still be the case - there's been no price change in M, but I think I have weight of 1.3Kg showing on my list. Just to clarify it has been known to work at different weights - so, really, I should be converting it to give price per kg for A and for M, rather than straight pricing for 1.3Kg. I had a womble the other day that showed it comparing where a quantity of 1.5Kg was bought. So it doesn't seem to be any fixed weight. It's just S/P Whole Chicken, whatever weight it happens to be, will probably compare 'favourably' i.e. not 10% cheaper vs M - even though M is more expensive, it still gives a slight return on APG vs M as A isn't 10% cheaper, but goes N/A vs everywhere else so is not favourable on the other (non-M) comps.

Savvybuyer

Jacob's Baked Oddities (various ones) are 200 points in M and at £1.59, but £1.00 in A. Still doesn't work out very good IMO (80p net) as my guide price is about 69p these days. And even that should be far lower than they ever go to, as they are fairly low weight, so, surely, much better (on price) alternative similar products?

Also with 200 points and this one until 2/11 is the Sun newspaper. It's obviously 40p everywhere, but M has a points offer on so, if you are 20p short of a £5, it might be best buying the paper in M*. That's if you buy papers at all:rotfl:. Might be good if another F&V voucher offer comes on before the offer ends:rotfl::rotfl:.

Now, how would I know this as my earlier stores weren't showing the offer at all?!?:mad::rotfl: Come to think of it, this new, third M store did not have the 200 points on the Big & Fresh Eggs 10 pack showing, so how would anyone there ever know that had a points offer? And was quite good, maybe, vs T. Just again, different Ms not showing every offer. So, if you happen to be shopping, just as a muggle shop, and end up getting some random points from your shopping that you didn't expect, that's what they might be!:D

*That is, of course, what M want you to do. So, there we are - we fall for the offer:wall::rotfl:.

Savvybuyer

Anon wrote: »

52 items on A and 56 on MSM ... doesn't particularly help us as the wrong way round but it suggests that there may be others in A that may not be currently flagged in the offer?

HTH

Anon

This is what I was alluding to before - that products may go onto different offers in A but msm has yet to catch up and has them still in the old offer. If that offer is, for example, an 'any 3 for ...' offer, but the new offer is any 2 for... then buying 2 would miss the offer on msm (unless you happen also to buy a different item which is also in the 3 for... offer on msm, which may now be full price and no mbuy in A or may be on another offer, or even in the msm offer). We can get stung on this too - by happening to buy in A items that are no longer on offer, yet on msm show as being in an mbuy and, if we happen to trigger the mbuy on msm/in the APG, whether by same item or by mix and match, it's the offers that show on msm that are likely to count (as being in the APG) and will lose us APG if we hit an A mbuy as showing on msm. Even if the items are no longer on mbuy instore. The worst ones are where the items are now full price but the original mbuy was cheaper than the unit price now is - e.g. £2.40 or any 2 for £2.00. Then, if you bought at full price, two instore at £2.40x2 (or maybe through C&C/HD but was charged that), but msm, if it still has mbuy - or even if it is in a state of change and says, bizarrely, £2.40 and any 2 for £2.00 - it would compare from 2 for £2.00 going by msm and not the £4.80 paid:(. So, that's how people can be caught out - if there's a price increase but msm has old, cheaper mbuy pricing (and you hit the mbuy number).

I'm not sure the 'wrong way round' suggests there are other items in A, although I do know that, when I saw more in the 3 for £2.50 bakery offer (that may be ongoing or may be off now) on msm than there were on a.com, I thought that was curtains to any trigger. Yet I still managed to find an item in the offer that wasn't on msm.

This is a bit of a booger otherwise, as items may still keep showing (at least temporarily) in an mbuy on msm even though they are no longer on mbuy. I had the cleaning offer 2 for £2 - lots of items on msm but fewer items on a.com and some appeared not to be on the mbuy. I wish these blasted items would go to full price:mad::rotfl:. Yet they kicked around at 2 for £2 on msm and remained at that and have remained at that ever since - and I dislike them a lot as they are, on the mbuy, a lot cheaper than everywhere else and my muggles often get them on wombles and they lose a lot. It really is about time that cheap 2 for £2 offer was removed in A. Or at least removed from a.com and msm - it can then kick around instore for a few days to my liking:rotfl::rotfl:. (Otherwise, if they were way more expensive than what they are at the moment, but if our muggles on wombles still bought them...)

Savvybuyer

Anon wrote: »

Did anyone try out the potential glitch on 2 for £2 cleaning products? Potential trigger was the yellow 1 litre Dettol Power & Fresh Multi Purpose Cleaner which still doesn't appear on A or MSM for me.

Potential useful matches Harpic 100% Limescale Remover Original (750ml) or Harpic 100% Limescale Remover Fresh (750ml) £1.98 v £1.15 AvT

Harpic White & Shine Bleach Citrus Fresh (750ml) or Harpic White & Shine Bleach Original (750ml) £1.80 v £1 AvW

It may be that it is left over from the cleaning events, so in short supply?

HTH

Anon

Er, no. I'm just working backwards now and hadn't seen this - that may be the answer to my long hoped-for cleaning trigger - I do hope so!:)

Those "cleaning events" are a blasted nuisance. Always makes them a lot cheaper than the other stores. My approach is, whenever A or somewhere is having a "cleaning event", that's the time to be doing a "cleaning event" of my own, at a competitor to compare against the A offer. I normally decide it's time to have a "cleaning event" in Sains. if Asda's doing one:rotfl:, and then I do my own 'invisible' one - carefully buying, at full prices in S, items that are in the offer at A. Ah, those invisible competitor offers that aren't displayed in the store from which you are attempting to match them. Unless it's T's - didn't they sometimes display prices for A where A were dearer? In fact that would then send me to A, to 10% cheaper than T and then T, in A, being the invisible competitor offer:rotfl:. Thank you, T, for pointing out where A are more expensive and which, therefore, (at least in theory, you'd need to check msm and online etc.) are the very items to buy in A and use the APG to get 10% cheaper than your price which, therefore, does not work out cheaper. (However, of course T fail to mention A mbuy pricing if that works out cheaper - and they (T) do make this clear on their shelf, in small print, that it only applies to single purchases - in which case you would buy at T*, but need to buy the A mbuy number in order to match A's cheaper offer pricing. A are not always more expensive when T displays a higher price for A, if A have an mbuy on offer under which the item works out cheaper, except it does not do so as an APG killer:mad::rotfl:.)

Anyway, the invisible trigger option (if it is) would be far better than A's well-advertised, and expensive, "events". Bet this "trigger" item is now impossible to find however:rotfl::(:rotfl:.

*unless perhaps Sainsbobs were cheaper than T, of course T only mentions the A price, very strangely:rotfl: they never mention prices of competitors on which the competitors are cheaper, in which case maybe Avs Sains. Or Aldi etc. may be cheaper than any of them. (Regular users of the Elite threads will appreciate this - as I shift items from one place to another - so that, for example, Sains may be cheaper and the product more expensive in T, so we'd be buying Tvs S, then T puts its price down whilst Sains puts it back up... and sends us off to Morrisons to match the price of T:rotfl: - never did Mr T expect this. Or, best of all, we stay away from T altogether and shop at competitors, vs S when they were cheaper and then vs T when they put their offer on so, at no point, did their price 'cut' get us to shop there:D:rotfl::rotfl:.) Oops - just expanded a footnote that's probably longer than the text from which it was referred, sorry folks! It's good - do the unexpected, and shop completely counter to what they expect, and you'll be quids in!

Savvybuyer

That was another night of just catching up, replying to stuff and not realising how many posts I had built up!:rotfl: Ah well...:D:wave: