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Savvybuyer wrote: »

Zott Jogobella - Various (400g)97p

I've not seen this (the description is from msm btw) - a potential Tvs M item from earlier - for a few weeks now as it is not in any of my nearby Ms. I think there is little chance I will see it in any M near me and - for all it was - a potential difference of 3 pence:( - I might just get rid of that entry in the list. I may go on another 'tour' visit at some stage and may come across the product again at some time then.

I cannot confirm what price it now is in M (even if they have it anymore. Some M must have it surely?:think:) - and it could well have gone up in price for all I know. If anyone does see it in M and have the price, let me know! TIA.

Savvybuyer

Some of the Christmas items are still around in M as I have seen them just now! So, even if you don't have them in your M(s) and even if you think they are unavailable, they are not and I am leaving them on the list! I've not seen any of the Christmas tubes that recently though. I did see a battered one at the back of one store's RTC shelf not too long ago; however the Christmas tubes, where available, did go down to 25p in Poundland. Therefore, I have a reason that allows me to remove all of them from the M list. You should have been buying them in Poundland at 25p, whether or not they were available to you! (Unless you come across a store-specific RTC shelf price in M, which will be of the type that wouldn't make the M list anyway.) I didn't think that a 'small' tube for 50p for something like Fruit Pastilles was that good in the first place, as 230g Dominion - as I keep saying - are 49p in Aldi. However, I have no need to keep Christmas tubes on the M list at 50p even if I were to come across them in some M again. I'm deleting them on the basis of Poundland - and at least that will enable the list to be shortened a little!:cool:

Savvybuyer

The frozen Snacksters Quarter Pounder with Cheese (180g) did not compare on the APG recently. I suspected it might not, as it was available in few Ms for me - and that it's price of 50p in M might have increased. However - small store to the rescue again:rotfl: - it is still at 50p in M. I think this will be likely to continue to be £1 vs N/A. I won't bother putting it onto the list this time, so just to let you know.

I have the Snacksters Ham & Cheese Ciabatta in full stock there and at 50p. Now moved from one store that has gone OOS and has no SEL anymore, to another store that has an incorrect SEL of £1 but no stock anyway, to this smaller store that has stock and 50p SEL!:rotfl::T:j

So, if you can't find it in your M, keep looking!;):D:rotfl::(

(You may have, briefly, seen this on my list, when the item first appeared, wrongly described as "Snacketers". That was the incorrect spelling copied accurately from an offer label in M btw. They had it as wrong and I just copied it down, not knowing that it was incorrect. I later found the correct spelling of the product name and changed it:cool:. Sorry if it originally caused any confusion.)

Savvybuyer

With the freezer now full, there won't be any risky ice creams shop vs M now.

I did not think that the Cadbury Swirl Ice Cream was risky btw (which is why I deliberately omitted to link it to a note that suggested it was random) - or that it was as risky as the others. This is a new one which only went onto £1 in M more recently. Msm had it as that, which first alerted me to the item, but I did not have it in any of the stores I checked. I had it on Monday though, when msm (based on m.com) was saying it was OOS and unavailable in M - clearly it had merely dropped offline but was still available in some M stores. If it's any consolation, I don't think that it was that risky from Monday data as I feel that they will have it in one of their six stores. However, now, from Wednesday, I am not sure.

I had it in one store with stock and a SEL on Monday and one store with the product but no SEL.

From the Ms I checked on Wednesday, I do not have any sign of the product in two of them. In one of them, I have the product but no SEL. (I do not know what they do when they have products but no price labels for them in their Ms on the APG - or on TBG for that matter. I assume that they would not obtain any price as there is no SEL. Even though the product is clearly available in M and clearly it must have some price (even if it has no price label).)

I feel it is likely that, when the product has a SEL, it is likely to go OOS and therefore may leave no trace if that SEL is then removed by staff. However, it may OOS and a SEL be left somewhere in some store and, if that's an APG store, they might pick it up. But then, a week later, if that remains, they might go N/A as it has been OOS for 7 days or more. In fact I had that situation once on a shop I queried with the CS team. They told me that the product had been picked up the previous time (up to 7 days) but had been OOS for longer at the time of my shop and was therefore N/A. Even though it continued to be available in my M.

Again, it just depends where they (and I) check!

So, Cadbury Swirl Luxury Ice Cream, I felt they were likely to have the product and a SEL in at least one store for them on Monday - and it was on msm (albeit then showing OOS there which was clearly wrong - and still is!). I now think, on Wednesday, it's possible they don't have the product or a SEL at all.

As for the other ice creams:

I think it will be quite random. I've been thinking Rowntrees Fruit Shoots and Maxibon might be more likely to be picked up, based on what I've seen from across numerous stores. However, that is still only a selection and could be totally different had a different selection being taken.

As for my own stores, they are moving around:rotfl:. Judge for yourself as to what may/may not work:

Store 1 - I've had nothing at all (although the Cornetto Chocolate 5 pack made a brief appearance (2 days) some time ago but with no SEL - and then totally disappeared) - last week I had the Wall's Funny Feet. Now I have Wall's Funny Feet and Maxibon:rotfl:.

Store 2 - Had nothing at all, then I had a SEL for the Starwars Lightsaber only then nothing at all - no SELs - now a SEL just for Starwars Lightsaber and no stock - there has not been for weeks. If that was an APG store, been OOS for 7 days or more - N/A! I saw numerous stock of the product, but no SEL at all, in one store not long ago!

Store 3 - Had just Rowntrees Randoms for ages, then just a SEL for it, then nothing (no stock, no SEL), then... Walls X Pop lollies with stock and SEL:rotfl::rotfl:.

Totally random. Fruit Shoots lollies may appear in one, other or none for me next week. They are available more widely outside of my nearby M stores.

At one stage, before all this, I had Lightsaber in all three stores I checked on one day. I bought them - and they did work back then!
But now? With constant SEL and no stock for weeks in one of my stores and no trace in my other nearby ones?

Of course, if they check Chorley store, they may get Nestle Toffee Sticks and nothing else:rotfl::rotfl:. Or, maybe they are gone now and it's a totally different one there to what it was when I saw it a couple of weeks ago! It's the only store in which I've seen Nestle Toffee Sticks, out of about 57 (I've lost count), so, as it's unlikely to be an APG store (just as every store is unlikely to be), then they'll probably not have it but may have other ones from elsewhere.

As for the Cadbury Creations pots, I have not seen any of those now in my nearby stores (but that's just my stores). One or two of them - but not all three anymore - and a different one or two in different stores - were still available elsewhere recently. However, I do feel stocks will be diminishing - as well as any SELs pointing to their existence - and, by last week, I thought they were very risky, now I think it's extremely unlikely any of them will compare. However, we don't know: they could still have one or even all of them in one of their stores. I feel, by now, it's quite unlikely. However, maybe that's biased because I just don't any of them now in any of my regular stores.

So, there's the randomness. I feel it is like a room with the lights switched off, in which every product has a flashing light attached to it and it just depends on which product has its light on when the music stops. It's like that! HTH:rotfl::p:rotfl::rotfl:.

It's musical chairs!:D I've sometimes felt that though when we target other stores. When I'm targeting M and buying items in A, I sometimes imagine the floor layout of one of my Ms. And it's like the changing items that have offers on them are lights randomly across the floor. And we just have to get the right "lights" combination in A. This generally means buying the items that have no lights on in A, that are between the products with the lights (namely the ones on 'offer' in A), that match the lights that are on in another store! And I sometimes imagine the lights pattern of one of my M stores when I'm shopping in between the lights of Mr A! The lights just switch round from week to week.

Savvybuyer

squigs wrote: »

Now a glitch for the dogs!

The multi on Pedigree dentastix looks to be ending today, but the apg should show full price.

The best comparison is on the ones for large dogs.

View all2 for£10


28PK


Pedigree Dentastix Large

£8.97

Should compare to S. at £5 or M 2 for £10, so after apg the cost should be £1-06 for two boxes!:D

Not tested!

I'm glad it's just pet food you're finding as I don't have pets:rotfl:. So, I can now stay here, at home, for a few relaxing days without having to go out and get any glitches:T:T. Until some item I will want glitches:T:(:rotfl::rotfl::j:j. It's just 'disruptive' sometimes; you know - not planned for! Someone can see it from the autistic's viewpoint - having to go out at a moment's notice, disruption to his routine! I manage it but... :rotfl:do like to have my time at home! Hopefully, with all the work now done at M, I can have a few days off now! If not, if there are more glitches today, Friday or the weekend, then oh well!:D:T

So, my plan is... I'll update the M list, at my relaxing leisure, over the next few days (in fact I'll probably start it late on today and probably complete much of it). But if I get "interrupted":o by a glitch, then I'm prepared for that to happen!:D Hopefully I can get some rest and not have to rush between here and A and back again! Poor me eh, having to chase these glitches sometimes:D. Thanks, earlier, for the fish - that was very nice and of course prioritised, rightly, over me dealing with everything from M. Not that there's too much:rotfl:. I'll be back later - doing the list from time to time but hoping I can relax and do nowt at times too:T:A.

:wave:

nerfdad

Good morning:)

Savvybuyer

Savvybuyer wrote: »

ASDA Fishmonger's Selection Cod Fishcakes (2 per pack - 270g)[Strike]£1.49[/Strike] £1.25 £1.00 Q.expensive way of having fishcakes, and I always refer to Iceland's frozen cod fishcakes (although they have had a recent price increase). £1.50 SELs in my Ms now on all the Fishcakes in this part of this list but the packs themselves have £1 price on them - they may continue to work.
ASDA Fishmonger's Selection Jumbo Salmon Fishcakes (2 per pack - 270g)[Strike]£1.49[/Strike] £1.25 £1.00 As above.
ASDA Fishmonger's Selection Ruskoline Crumb Smoked Haddock Fishcakes (2 per pack - 270g)[Strike]£1.49[/Strike] £1.25 £1.00 As above.

From Wednesday's information - the Fishcakes may continue to work but I think you will be risking it now. I still have £1 prices on the products themselves (if there is a SEL but a product is in stock and has a price marked on it, they will take the lowest price if they follow the rules); however one of the Ms that I checked on Wednesday has introduced some that have a price marked £1.50 on one version.
All the SELs say £1.50 in all four stores I've seen. If they have any but have no stock in any of their stores, they will get £1.50 from that store. Assuming they have a SEL for them which, highly likely, says that. You would be chancing it as to whether they have £1.00 (taken from the product in stock) from some stores and £1.50 from others (which may be from the SEL, with or without stock, or may be from the price of £1.50 on the products themselves) and what is the most common price they find. This may differ for the different fishcakes.
It's of no use at all, but the one that had £1.50 in one of my stores was the Haddock. That means absolutely nothing - they could have £1.50 priced on everything except the Haddock in their stores, or one or more of them. Or could have everything with stock of £1.50 price marked on it. I suspect the SELs will say £1.50.
I would assume these are £1.50 now in M and that that would be the price they would scan at. However, the old stock that is price marked at £1 may be still around and those packs may scan at that. M is either £1.50 or is moving towards £1.50. As I suggest, whilst I might have risked this from Tuesday-Thursday very early doors indeed, based on Monday finding, I think this would be very much risking it now and I would not risk it from Thursday onwards as the new price collection might come in and may well be £1.50 on all of them.

They do say £1.50 for M on msm (which takes from m.com) and that has been the case since the start of the week. I saw that but ignored that on Tuesday (when using my information from Monday) as I go by SELs and what prices products have marked on them if any. From that, it does seem that these may have continued to work on Monday's data if they had the same position as I found in both of my Ms on Monday. However, the situation for me, from what I've seen across the stores I checked on Wednesday, is that this may now pick up £1.50 on Wednesday's data (it may have £1.50 from Monday for all I know) and that I think it will be a much greater risk now. I think there may have been a good chance of £1 from Monday's data but that there may now be a less than 50% chance of getting £1 from Wednesday's.

Besides, who needs fresh fishcakes anyway?:rotfl:
My Youngs Basas will again be very nice fish:D.

Savvybuyer

nerfdad wrote: »

Good morning:)

Good morning!

Good night!:rotfl::D:wave::wave:

cjj_2

Morning all.

Hope everyone is well.

Thinking of you bubbs today, hope you get results you are waiting for xx

streetlights

Good morning everybody I hope you are well and have a fabulous Thursday.

Happy shopping.

bubbs I hope your bil and sister get the information they need today, my thoughts are with you and your family.