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Anon

Results in - Yollies x2 £2 each, 2 for £3 compared £4 A v £2 S.

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Anon

Anon

Results in, thanks Ops. Actimel, pizza deal.

Noting AvM
1x Ben & Jerry's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream (500ML) £4.00 £2.00

£1 on Shopit

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Anon

Savvybuyer

squigs wrote: »

Apologies for giving incorrect information.

No, you're not incorrect at all - it probably should have compared against S at £1.50 (I didn't check that - they were more expensive than M anyway) but Strawberry & Vanilla does compare against M at £1 but is returning N/A against Sains. (I think I just said that in my last post lol:rotfl:.) Not much use for N.I. - it compared against £2 at T and that was only because it was part of 2 for £4 with my other one.

Once in store, all my plans go out of the window!:eek::rotfl:
I came back in to the comp. showing a lot of Activia Intensely Creamys and all of them comparing against M at £1 - probably all of them were bought except Zesty Lemon. Well, I bought Zesty Lemon and thought it would be typical if that one didn't work. I hadn't even originally gone to buy that flavour:rotfl:. I only swapped one instore and switched to Zesty Lemon as it was a much better BB date in my store. I got home and saw that Sains. was showing OOS on msm:eek::rotfl::rotfl:! I would never have bought it if I'd known that!

All is well however, as the Zesty Lemon does compare against M at £1:T:T. These price collectors are working really well for me:D. It's a good job M is picked up as Sains. returns N/A on Zesty Lemon - and I notice I would have lost nearly £4 had the M comp. not worked:eek:!

It's been a long day, with lots of glitches - there were too many for me (:eek:how can there be too many?:rotfl::T) so I got to M very late. There is almost no change in M today - I think the Barratt Liquorice Catherine Wheels going up from 59p to 64p. I would have got back here and said just the ones that make any difference would be the Ben & Jerry's going to £2.50 in M - however I don't think they are! I don't know why one of my stores (and a different one this time to the culprit last time) has decided to change some SELs back to higher prices even though the offers have quite some time to run. They had the Ben & Jerry's in a side freezer - big £2.50 over them and then on the shelves themselves - £2.50 SELs on all of them. Whether I have found the only store where they are now £2.50, I don't know. The thing is that that store showed £2 on Monday so an active decision has been taken to change the SELs to £2.50. Two further stores today however have the price of £2 until 28th February showing - and I think that is the price. I think there is no change to the £2 price in M, so I wouldn't worry about it.

The AB Roast Potatoes at £1.50 (1.5Kg) are moving around again for me, but I am now seeing them in enough Ms as to think that they might still work:rotfl:. However, for all I know, because the stores in which they are found are changing and ones where they were before no longer have them (or any evidence of SELs for them), it could be - they were picked up on the APG before - that they were in at least one price collection store before but could now have moved out of the price collection stores and into other stores instead - so, even though they are now more widespread for me, they might now not have them on the APG. It could be that M is now regularly stocking them at £1.50 price for some time to come.

But again - and it's another store (a third separate one) this time!:mad::mad: - it had the AB Roast Potatoes 1.5Kg with £1.50 SEL showing on Monday. So, why mess with that when it hasn't changed?!?:mad: The 1.5Kg bags are still physically there - the bags are there - however the SEL for the 1.5Kg is no longer to be seen, instead it now says AB Roast Potatoes 900g £2.74 - why put that up, for a 900g version that isn't even present on the shelves? However, my other store is fine - they now have the AB Roast Potatoes 1.5Kg - I have never seen them before in that store - but they have just appeared and with full £1.50 SEL!

I'm also having a mad moment of thinking that the specific Quaker Warm & Crunchy that is at 50p will even work from this time. That's because I even now have that in two stores for me at the same time! Neither of which are price collection stores if we go by other items in both stores going N/A when they are in there. Perhaps it is now in more stores or maybe it is just my two.

I think the Pepsi 30 cans packs might work right now but, after the update, may go N/A. They do seem to be very thin on the ground in M now - I don't have them in any of the three stores I've been to today although I am sure they are still somewhere. I also reckon the Disney baby products, even if they have ever worked in the first place, and I doubt whether they would - but maybe that's just me creating issues for myself over exact words of specific product descriptions when in reality there's no such issue in existence - they seem to be becoming rarer as well now, with them at 50p RTC, though I do have them in one of my three stores today.

I have the store with the Nuage shaving oil at 47p, though I reckon that (and indeed the Palmolive shave stick) is becoming rarer in M now. Or maybe it isn't. It depends which stores the APG collectors use. For me, I've had the Nuage product originally in three of the main four that I usually use two or three from each time. It went OOS and SELs were taken away in two of them. It remained in a third for me, which I check less often, until it disappeared from there about three weeks ago. I found it in another store, which I happen to have been back to today, so it has now appeared for me in there (it's probably been there before I was) and I'm now picking up the product and its price from there.

However, for the APG - or from another perspective that the APG might have (because of the stores it uses) - it might be the opposite way. They might have been checking - and still are - the store I'm now checking and finding it in there. But, let's say it was not there before I found it there - I wasn't visiting that store so I don't know - but, if it wasn't - and I was at other stores picking the product information up there whilst they had it - then I would have had the item at the outset and it would have been N/A for the APG. Now, it appears in their store having vanished from the normal ones I use - and I now would be N/A (were I not aware of what I already was and suspected that it would still be stocked somewhere even though for a brief couple of weeks I couldn't find it - so, under my new approach of suspecting it is still available even if I don't find it, I now keep it on my list) - previously I would be N/A at this stage, had I not switched stores to including an unusual one (for me) but the APG if this is a price collection store (I very much doubt it is!) may have been N/A before but now have it! Right at the moment when it is no longer in any of my three more usual stores.

I don't know what this says:rotfl:. Anyway, that's the situation: there is very little change indeed in M today - in fact I don't think I've had so little before even though I still have two sides of a sheet of paper(:rotfl:) - but much of that is my items with conflicting prices that were rechecked and duplicate information from other stores.

I saw about the £1 fresh pizzas here earlier. I saw them (or maybe I didn't - more next:rotfl:) instore too and, when there, thought the price was good enough for me to take. So, I took the details of them down. Or what I thought "they" were! I was just browsing haphazardly around my third store - I only went there because I still had another hour left till closing time - and I didn't have many queries to resolve at that stage (the Ben & Jerry's having been largely settled but the third store also said they were £2) and then I noticed that several of the pizzas were different weights and different ones to the ones I had from the other store! So, I've taken down details from the third store - got about half from store 1 and half from store 3:rotfl: - though I now suspect I'm missing one - as that version wasn't found in both Thin & Crispy and Deep Pan version but I suspect it does exist in both:D! - I've no idea of what weight as I haven't found the product in my stores - but, there you are, the information on some from one store and the information on the others from another! I suspect they'll be all found non-comparable and none of them appear on my list in the event at all:rotfl:. But I will check them ("them" as far as I have them!). Strange to think that two stores only a few miles apart could have nearly a completely different range of pizzas - though there are two or three duplicates as well - the majority though are unique to one or the other at the moment. I'm glad I went to that third store:rotfl:.

There's not much information to be changed so, with it - in theory - not being an arduous task, I am going to try to get out to another couple of stores a little farther away on Thursday to do another 'new items' check and then update the combined information. Two stores I've not yet visited before! Wish me luck! See you later:wave:.

Danigrace

A v Tosco
Cinnamon ice cream N/A against T

13 items (11 different) on your receipt qualify for comparison Asda Tesco
1x Chicago Town The Takeaway BBQ Pulled Pork Pizza (635G) £3.75 £3.90
2x McCain Lightly Spiced Wedges (750G) £3.70 £2.00
1x Ben & Jerry's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream (500ML) £4.00 £2.50
1x Chicago Town Takeaway Chicken & Bacon Melt Classic Thin Crust (495GR) £3.75 £3.90
1x Ben & Jerry's Cinnamon Buns Ice Cream (500ML) £4.00 N/A

A v M
1x Chicago Town The Takeaway BBQ Pulled Pork Pizza (635G) £3.75 £3.87
2x McCain Lightly Spiced Wedges (750G) £3.70 £2.00
1x Ben & Jerry's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream (500ML) £4.00 £2.00
1x Chicago Town Takeaway Chicken & Bacon Melt Classic Thin Crust (495GR) £3.75 £3.87
1x Ben & Jerry's Cinnamon Buns Ice Cream (500ML) £4.00. £2.00

Savvybuyer

So my shops earlier were successful and each had a full comparison against M. The price collectors in M picking up more than what online gets for Sains:rotfl::eek:. As I mentioned, I'm a bit near-exhausted tbh although (or perhaps because?) I've had an evening out after M as well in between coming to here! And it's all like... one thing to another. So, my shops (done much earlier!) were a success and I'll probably get to posting the full comparisons in five days' time when the glitch is long gone:rotfl:. However, all three Actimel Kids worked vs M and Zesty Lemon (it was actually on another comp. on here earlier) Activia Intensely compared too vs M and you already know the other ones were doing so as well (starting to speak in past tense:eek::( as it's gone midnight so it is probably over now). I didn't bother with the Muller Greek Corner 4 packs as I thought :o(sorry to anyone that did buy them) they still worked out more expensive than buying the individual ones on the mbuy in M. 84p I think I saw earlier for the 4 pack yoghurts. Is more than 20p per pot so I thought buying 10 for £2 in M would be better - and having to buy 10p sweets to get up to eight items is just making them more expensive?

squigs

An old favourite appears to be glitching again. Quorn!!

Multi looks to be ending etc, etc.:)


350G


2 FOR £4.00Quorn Meat Free Mince(4)

£3.00

Should compare to T. at £2, so after apg the cost should be £1.60 for 2.:)

Not tested!

squigs

Another Quorn!

350G


2 FOR £4.00Quorn Meat Free Chicken Pieces
£3.00

Will need to buy 6 of these as should compare to T. at 3 for £5, so after apg the cost should be £3 for 6.:)

Savvybuyer

I think my decision to go to an "unusual" store (for me) for part of the price collection has ended up with me getting details of a freezer item that I didn't have before:rotfl:. So, that will go onto the list later if it turns out to be additional:T:T. I never know what's on my list and what isn't these days - obviously I see things that I know I already have but I end up writing down items that I haven't seen for a while or didn't think I had already and then it turns out I already do but it's a rare sighting in a different store to where it was first found (and isn't in my usual stores) so it is providing confirmation every few weeks of unchanged prices on items that I am unable to get every single time nowadays. So, the list is being kept roughly up-to-date:T. It now takes half an hour just to go through my list and check I haven't got any major items outstanding when I emerge from my first store (other than ones that aren't able to be checked in any of the stores I'm using that time) - used to take 15 minutes!:eek::rotfl:

I've just remembered I need to check that the Beer Batter Fish has been removed from my list - I think it went off a week ago - as that is no longer £1 but is now £2.81!:eek::eek::rotfl:

The Steak Bakes and Cheese & Onion Bakes (also Creamy Chicken Bakes but I don't think those are comparable:() have gone onto 4 for £3 in M - that's about the only main change. I may eventually start using up items in the freezer and have enough space for four of those - we use them a lot! - and hope that mbuy gets picked up in due course (and, more to the point, that it remains on in M for enough time for me to take advantage of it! No idea of any expiry date for that as it's not stated on the offer labels that have been put up in two stores I've seen on them).

Savvybuyer

Danigrace wrote: »

A v Tosco
Cinnamon ice cream N/A against T

13 items (11 different) on your receipt qualify for comparison Asda Tesco
1x Chicago Town The Takeaway BBQ Pulled Pork Pizza (635G) £3.75 £3.90
2x McCain Lightly Spiced Wedges (750G) £3.70 £2.00
1x Ben & Jerry's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream (500ML) £4.00 £2.50
1x Chicago Town Takeaway Chicken & Bacon Melt Classic Thin Crust (495GR) £3.75 £3.90
1x Ben & Jerry's Cinnamon Buns Ice Cream (500ML) £4.00 N/A

A v M
1x Chicago Town The Takeaway BBQ Pulled Pork Pizza (635G) £3.75 £3.87
2x McCain Lightly Spiced Wedges (750G) £3.70 £2.00
1x Ben & Jerry's Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream (500ML) £4.00 £2.00
1x Chicago Town Takeaway Chicken & Bacon Melt Classic Thin Crust (495GR) £3.75 £3.87
1x Ben & Jerry's Cinnamon Buns Ice Cream (500ML) £4.00. £2.00

Showing OOS on msm. Which suggests it has disappeared off t.com at around the time when the APG's separate scan was done and is returning N/A. T are beggars for removing stuff from their website:mad:. Seems a bit like the Lemon Zesty Activia that was showing OOS for Sains. and the APG also doesn't have for S either.

We need to rely on those price collectors in M! Glad they're doing a good job for us here (sorry Northern Ireland). But at least N.Ireland can now take part in the meal deal on some careful selections.

Savvybuyer

Back to M (sorry again Northern Ireland) and the Surf 45 washing powder (yes, that £9.00 one that I bought earlier that failed against T:mad:) - I reckon that that will be likely to pick up the price for M and compare where it failed against T. Don't quote me - and don't rely on me - though I do things its chances are a lot better than the risk I took (and lost) vs T several weeks ago. (Only the Surf Tropical obviously.)

If I hadn't already got it, then I would be personally going for it against M:eek::eek::rotfl: - but that's because I'm reckless sometimes. In fact, rationally I've no idea why I bought it against T earlier when I thought it might not work. I don't have the same feeling about the attempt at comparison (slightly better price) against M now - I reckon that is quite likely to work, I'd expect it to do so (I expected the T comp. to fail - and it did:() and it probably will compare against £4.43 for M.