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itch_for_a_glitch wrote: »

Any one know if MMW is still OK ?

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=65580624&postcount=7678

She's still around as I'm sure I've seen her name pop up somewhere.

DeeDee74

Dove bath indulging cream 3 for £5 ,£4.38 each compare s £3 each.Slightly better than free can mix an match with others in 3 for £5 may get better return.

DeeDee74

aprilshower wrote: »

Hi Everybody

I went to A's to test the Tresemme but it was £2 each and not £3.69 or 2 for £5.

I wasn't sure if I should buy any or not so did not as I wasn't sure.

Seems strange that is is different prices in different stores.

Aprilshower

Some are £2 each if you look at .com you will see the ones which are £3.69 each or 2 for £5.

Savvybuyer

It seems slightly more bearable indoors, so I went to M. 27 degrees on the car when I went in - came out, just over one and a half hours later, and 34 degrees!:eek: It did calm down, to a more comfortable 31 degrees, later.

There are a "small number" (probably) of changes in M today.

The Mr Muscle touch-ups may be about to get better:D. Not just yet though. I have 99p SELs in my main store. (However, still showing £1.50:( in other store.)

The M Spanish Chicken Cook-in-Sauce (500g) is 60p. I have the others (whose weights vary slightly) as being 85p - makes their price seem quite expensive:rotfl:. The Kellogg's Squares (Rice Krispies and the like) are "Save even more" - apparently, we're told, they went from £1.99 to £1.00 to 99p - a one penny saving:(. However, if you still have them on RTC in your store(s), you may be able to save more on the Batchelor's Super Noodle King Prawn (100g) which have gone down further, to 18p:T. Be careful though with APG/TPP as this may also be their riskiest point - they seem to have gone OOS in some stores and therefore may be more likely to be N/A. These sorts of things vary by store. The Mild Curry version has gone from my main store, but may also be RTC 18p somewhere. However, my other store today (a new one compared to Monday) has the Mild Curry in stock at 81p:( - see what I mean about these sorts of things.

Nonetheless, we did have T PP comparing to 5p (and maybe the APG a little earlier to 10p) on some Value Pasta Sauce ages ago - NB this is not current offer and has long expired - I think they were N/A when I had them at 10p and then the week after, they were unavailable for me so I removed them and it was during that week that they compared to 5p on TPP. So the timing on these things - never seem to manage it.

The KTC tins (tomatoes etc.) offer is 4 for £1 fwiw. Also you may have seen Mornflake Chocolately Squares cereal briefly going onto my list last week at £1, with the help from msm, although I had them at full price in all my stores. Then I removed them, as no evidence that they were £1 for me instore. The second store today though (I'm not trying any further ones as it is a nice day:p:D) has £1 for a few weeks, so back onto the list they go. It seems totally OOS as just the label and offer until on the shelf. Plenty of stock in the other store that still shows £2.18:rotfl:.

A number of minor annoyances today with inconsistent pricing, items not available in the two stores and having to guess whether they might still be available elsewhere or whether to remove them etc. I don't have the 700g BPBV Strawberries in either of my stores (probably in my other store, several miles away:rotfl: that I'm not bothering with today), so I don't know about them: may be OOS. There are a few more gardening offers at 48p.

I have no price on Savers Garden Peas tins today. I don't know whether that means the price is changing, whether it has gone up, has gone down, whether they are back in stock but not yet with a price label or whether it means the price labels have been removed but not put back yet. I'm not trusting the price labels when I see them anyway:rotfl:. Should be Avs T at 21p anyway (we hope, on temperamental new system). Found no SEL on them in my main store (and not price-marked on the tins either) and went to second store - and found no SEL there either:(. They can't be bothered to put a SEL on them in either store (actually, they probably can but are so snowed under with work that they haven't been able to get round to it yet) so I can't be bothered to take one to the tills, scan it and then have it cancelled off - not for such a small thing as some stupid value-range peas and not bothering with any more stores over it. Meanwhile, it seems that both t.com and a.com are in error over their price per unit and, strangely, have the same error? Both of them, very strangely, say £1.14/kg - which I make as meaning they would be just over 34p for 300g (unless I'm missing something?). Yet the tins are 21p for 300g and therefore actually 70p/kg, which, barring the fact they have water in the tins, makes them better price per kg than SP frozen peas (1kg) at 78p (or T Eday Value frozen garden peas vs A). Just to confuse you, Avs T on the tins, but Tvs A on the frozen.

More will appear, elsewhere, on the list later. Some 'fresh' 454g two-pack burger packs at straight £2 in M. Some plant pots that were £1 have gone down to 49p or 79p - may be store-specific. :rotfl:I was only putting ones on that had grown to larger sizes before, but, clearly, you wouldn't just want one type. (Or, maybe, it would have been better to have bought a plant pot in Homebase with the £3.25 points back.)

Okay - that is the update, may not always be doing this (indeed I didn't bother with one last Wednesday but just popped in, updated the list and then left:cool: - it's just time writing posts that I didn't have last time - getting a bit weary of it all then:rotfl: - so do watch in case I update a list without mentioning anything. We'll be going out tomorrow:D:D - another nice day. I think I will be doing Monday, as things stand though, as that's the day the rest of the folks in my house are out so not able to go out elsewhere with them. Then Wednesday is budget day (probably worth watching that) although this heatwave is supposed to last a couple of weeks!!

DeeDee74

Tresemme. 2 for £5

Imperial leather

Imperial leather bath 2 for £2.50

Savvybuyer

I managed to get the 1 pint milk today - from T of all places. Mind you, it would have been a scandal indeed if the biggest T in my city had turned out not to take them. Not bothering with any more cereal though as just too difficult! Seems rather silly for other stores earlier to refuse the coupons though, as I may otherwise have bought something else at the same time in S that I ended up buying today at T instead. It doesn't seem very good from a business POV therefore to send customers elsewhere to redeem coupons, whereas, if you accept them, you may get those customers buying other things in your store (although I know nothing about what may be good for business as I am no good at making judgement calls and don't have any negotiation skills:( which, I assume, are also very important for running a business). (Lol:rotfl: - this post, up to this point, sounds like the composition of a letter to Mr S!)

I make it that I've ended up paying for my milk:( as I didn't get the APG I may have had otherwise. Should have been minus 8.5p each, but they were merely "free", so I work it out that I've ended up paying 8.5p for each one compared to what I would otherwise have had.

Just shows the way it is with these supermarkets. You only have to pick up a 48p gardening item from M (down from 99p before) but then add a ream of A4 paper - £3.00 in M, £2.40 in Wilko (Sains. £2.50) - and, in effect, make it as if you paid Wilko's price on the paper but £1.08:eek: on the Scoop. So, immediately you have lost the offer and paid them more. Then again, if it costs more than 60p to travel to Wilko, or more than 50p to go to S, it makes no sense going there but then you end up paying a premium on your paper:(. As paper "should" be £2.40 (and I bet others in the Elite can find some way cheaper price than that somewhere), it still ends up paying more overall, losing the saving on the gardening item. So, it's no good as just a mere purchase of a single item wrongly and any saving on something is immediately wiped out. Then if the 48p gardening goes to 28p next week, you've lost 20p more. Though it's still equivalent to paying 60p more (and thus, overall, more than the 48p price) if that ream of 500 sheet paper is still in your basket!

mhoc

Just done the walkers 5 - one of yesterdays packs was a winner :j

Today in Home Bargains there was only salt and vinegar left but I said to OK we might as well get some - I can put them into the food bank trolley in Mr Ts

Of these 2 were good :j

4 of my first batch of vouchers arrived today. We were going to Morribobs for salad so I split the shopping into 2 lots - paid 20p for one lot and £1.80 for the 2nd - OH impressed.

I was going to get value water for 18p - we needed it anyway but I though if the assistant was difficult I could say on the blurb a soft drink is optional - water is a soft drink
No value water left

For the walkers element I found Walkers wotsit multipacks of 6 for £1 :j - better value than buying a single pack and also I don't like the gloopiness on my teeth so I wont be tempted to eat more than one pack at a time - house full of crisps but no flavours I actually eat so it will have to be wotsits

But assistant made no comments and just scanned the vouchers :T

silvercar

I managed to get the 1 pint milk today - from T of all places. Mind you, it would have been a scandal indeed if the biggest T in my city had turned out not to take them.

Nothing would surprise me with T.

I've had strawberries not being berries and today they told me they don't take the bonus £10 vouchers that they themselves send out as rewards for tesco home panels.

Savvybuyer

Just had a letter from one of my banks (Lloyds) about my savings account changing...

I see red before they even complete their first sentence! "We are simplifying our savings range":mad::mad::mad::(. Oh no!!

Apparently, when my "Easy Saver" reaches the end of its introductory rate, it will automatically become a "Standard Saver" rather than an "Easy Saver".

"The Standard Saver... has the same features as the Easy Saver. This account will pay a lower rate of interest[:(] which is similar to the rate you would have earned on the Easy Saver at the end of the introductory bonus period...".

:(In other words, the rate of interest will go absolutely through the floor (just like Nationwide tried to "sell" me their 0.whatever percent interest as still being a good deal compared to the 5% I had before on the FlexDirect - er, I think not!), become no use and time to ditch again!

Seems they need to create an extra account, the Standard Saver, to add to the current savings account and the Easy Saver - two account before, now three - making it, to me, now more complicated than it was before as having more names of accounts than previously simplified two. (As it see it.) As usual, "simplifying":(:( things seems to be to make them more complex.

I note (though I may take things literally) that they don't say that the new account will have the "same" rate as I would have had on the "Easy" Saver (their word not mine:p:rotfl:) instead they say that it is "similar to" (whatever that means). A very important distinction and absolutely critical to me to the detail - such a vague word "similar" that again makes the position, in my eyes, more complicated and, if I took it literally, would be more unfathomable to work it out.

On a simplified level, though, I'll be simply and easily ditching when I need to!;)

Probably a bit like all these new "simplified" tariffs on gas and electricity supplies:rotfl:.

HILLBERN

Sarahdol75 wrote: »

Afternoon all, hope you are all enjoying the lovely weather, we had a rain storm and lightning earlier, but my god its got hotter this afternoon, it says 35c in my garden.



Oooooh, that sounds lovely, TM if you are around, would you mind posting the recipe. thankyou.



What a lovely DS you have, to have done that for that your your lad. I have a tear in my eye.

:A RIP to the young man.

I think this is the recipe- I made it a few months ago and its yummy:)


1StepCombine the biscuit crumbs with the melted butter and press into the base of a lightly greased 22 cm spring form tin. Chill.


2StepBeat the Philadelphia until smooth, quickly fold in the lightly whipped cream and melted Toblerone until well combined.


3StepPour onto the prepared crumb base and refrigerate for 2-3 hours or overnight. Serve topped with Toblerone shavings.




Ingredients for 12


•150 g digestive biscuit crumbs
•50 g butter, melted
•280 g Philadelphia Light
•180 g Toblerone Milk chocolate, melted
•200 ml whipping cream, lightly whipped
•20 g Toblerone Milk chocolate, for shavings