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xxlouisexx56

Speaking of giving up smoking.

I picked up a cracking womble. £174 spent and a short receipt. I thought 'BINGO it's got to be booze and I'll get a cracking apg'

It was ALL cigarettes from the kiosk :eek::eek::eek:

EMMAP

Mrs_stinkface wrote: »

Looks fab babe!
Love the cot mobile, did I miss a bargain?

I think I got it in Jan? Definitely posted up a link here (it was on HUKD) but I think it was before I bombarded you with messages on FB It was reduced to £4.49

bubbs

purpledonkey wrote: »

I'm sorry to hear this, I hope they find a treatment that works for her.

I received some news about my German friend last night, her cancer has metastasized pretty much everywhere in her body and she also has a brain tumour now. As they moved her to hospital her spine cracked as well

:( sorry to read this

bubbs

xxlouisexx56 wrote: »

Speaking of giving up smoking.

I picked up a cracking womble. £174 spent and a short receipt. I thought 'BINGO it's got to be booze and I'll get a cracking apg'

It was ALL cigarettes from the kiosk :eek::eek::eek:

Easy done at £8-9 a pack if you buy fags:eek:

xxlouisexx56

bubbs wrote: »

Easy done at £8-9 a pack if you buy fags:eek:

Wowzers! I've never smoked so the cost seems extortionate to me!

MrsBartolozzi

RIP Sir Terry Pratchett.

mhoc

love the GC story - I got my very first last weekend - the look on the face of the staff, all 5 of them was a picture, very shocked

Savvybuyer wrote: »

I had another success with £2 GC in A earlier today. Purely a set of chance circumstances that led to me buying the errant item (very likely an error on the SEL specific to my store - then again, I suppose you never know as they clearly have printed a shelf edge ticket with the lower price than actuality:D on it). I was paying with an APG - couldn't find a lower value APG that I thought I still had but must have already used it, so had to use a bit bigger one and pay 50p more. I went to one A - it was OOS of the item I really wanted, so I popped up the road to the other A. Both stores were well OOS of any Princes Tunas now so couldn't buy 2x them.

So I had a look around - and saw a Yazoo milkshake - the Vanilla version marked on the shelf with a big yellow 50p price, all the other flavours marked with yellow 54p. That was ideal in getting me the extra 50p spend I needed. I thought it was strange that one of the flavours was 50p but all the others were 54p. It seemed to me like a SEL error, so I went and bought the item that had this strange situation:D. It scanned at 54p. Now paid the 4p excess over the APG but, pure set of chance circumstances at CS again, she refunded the amount I "shouldn't" have paid and immediately went on to give a giftcard.

Got back more than I paid. The same as when I went and got some frozen choc. puddings for someone - after moaning about how expensive they were:mad: and not wanting to get them, I went and saw them on the shelving anyway and saw the old price of £1 was still on them (went through at £1.19:D). Pure chance, as if they hadn't asked me for choc. puddings I would never have gone to that area of the store!

However, on this occasion, the Milkshake and rest of my shop isn't really better than free but merely just free. I notice they've increased the price of petrol again - another 1p per litre:(, to add to the 1p per litre that they rose only on Monday. And further two increases of a few weeks ago. Seems like giving with one hand but taking with the other:( - I also noticed the £1 Golden Delicious (600g:() apples have gone down to 94p, but any 6p 'saved' on your shopping there (and I was overpaying when I bought some last week:() is immediately taken back if you drive and buy the petrol. Those r'backs that are now slightly below £1 rather than at the £1 price - but the few pence they're 'giving' immediately taken away by any price increases on fuel. So, the few pence 'better than free' from my shopping today - I'm sure I'll buy that number of litres very soon and thus make the shopping merely just free. So, that's what I'm treating it as - not better than free but any amount made given straight back to them on the petrol price increase.

That's a 4p per litre increase now!:(:( Four separate increases of 1p per litre each over the last few weeks. The incrementalism of a little bit, that people can bear, even if the final outcome would never have been accepted so easily! It's seems nearly any, or almost any, price cuts on fuel earlier in the year have now in effect been reversed. All the cuts - prices increased right back again:(.

I'm trying though - to get more back given this situation! If the first store I went to had not been OOS, I would never have gone onto the second and would probably never have found the milkshake with the wrong price on it. I would never have looked around if they had had the 25p Princes Tuna, and wouldn't have ever looked for an item of 'the right price' or bought it if I'd still had that lower APG:cool:.

So, there we are - some "50p" milkshake (after the 4p back to the SEL price) that pays £2 back (net -£1.50) - way to go!

bubbs

xxlouisexx56 wrote: »

Wowzers! I've never smoked so the cost seems extortionate to me!

When i started smoking in about 1982 was about 50p for 10:eek:

Mrs_stinkface

EMMAP wrote: »

I think I got it in Jan? Definitely posted up a link here (it was on HUKD) but I think it was before I bombarded you with messages on FB It was reduced to £4.49

Ah bum, I must have missed it
Please don't stop bombarding me though, I like it

Claire1972

xxlouisexx56 wrote: »

Wowzers! I've never smoked so the cost seems extortionate to me!

Same here, I certainly couldn't afford to smoke!

Wonder how long those ciggies would last them??:cool: