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Tinyshoes wrote: »

The maple syrup is the huge 500ml one Savvy it's usually around the £5 mark so it is a good price. 180ml is £1.98 in Ts at the moment. Maple syrup is expensive.

Yes it very much is. I did notice it was 500ml, but was just taken by the possibly being 20p later on comment;):D.

If 180ml is £1.98 in T at the moment (which it is), I would treat that as being a price of about 99p as £1.98 is the full price which we would never buy/compare against, most things go onto half price (or better) at some point, so 99p is the realistic price of that!

I just have a different way of looking at things:
Supermarkets - normal price is the full price and half price is the special offer.
Me - normal price is the half price and full price is a ridiculous price that I would never obtain it for!

Tinyshoes

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Yes it very much is. I did notice it was 500ml, but was just taken by the possibly being 20p later on comment;):D.

If 180ml is £1.98 in T at the moment (which it is), I would treat that as being a price of about 99p as £1.98 is the full price which we would never buy/compare against, most things go onto half price (or better) at some point, so 99p is the realistic price of that!

I wasn't sure if you had noticed. Yes I would only expect to pay about a £1 for the smaller bottles too.

Trouble is with the "SALE" stuff in Sainsbobs sometimes it does actually sell out before it reduces that far as I have found out before. Bt I don't actually need maple syrup at the moment, but I will be there Wednesday morning after price changes to see if this one is in my store further reduced.

Savvybuyer

Maple syrup wasn't a good example to pick for a product that is "normally" half price. According to msm's graph, it looks like the 180ml has been £1 for one week only in the past year everywhere - early this month as it happens - it is therefore normally near or at £2:eek:. However, there are lots of other products that seem to be half price around half the time, so probably could be called normally half price.

hornetgirl

Tinyshoes wrote: »

I wasn't sure if you had noticed. Yes I would only expect to pay about a £1 for the smaller bottles too.

Trouble is with the "SALE" stuff in Sainsbobs sometimes it does actually sell out before it reduces that far as I have found out before. Bt I don't actually need maple syrup at the moment, but I will be there Wednesday morning after price changes to see if this one is in my store further reduced.

Is Wednesday your normal day for getting bargains in S? The only time I've found anything for 20p in there it was well over a year out of date :eek:

Tinyshoes

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Yes it very much is. I did notice it was 500ml, but was just taken by the possibly being 20p later on comment;):D.

If 180ml is £1.98 in T at the moment (which it is), I would treat that as being a price of about 99p as £1.98 is the full price which we would never buy/compare against, most things go onto half price (or better) at some point, so 99p is the realistic price of that!

I just have a different way of looking at things:
Supermarkets - normal price is the full price and half price is the special offer.
Me - normal price is the half price and full price is a ridiculous price that I would never obtain it for!

Guess when I last bought it or rather DD did, when it was £1 It was a pancake day offer I think.

Tinyshoes

hornetgirl wrote: »

Is Wednesday your normal day for getting bargains in S? The only time I've found anything for 20p in there it was well over a year out of date :eek:

Yes prices change over so Wednesday morning is the best time to look for them. I usually take note in my store of what has been on second reduction on the "SALE" SELs the week before, these are the ones that usually go to 20p but not sure how long after the second reduction that happens.

squigs

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Savvybuyer

Tinyshoes wrote: »

I wasn't sure if you had noticed. Yes I would only expect to pay about a £1 for the smaller bottles too.

Trouble is with the "SALE" stuff in Sainsbobs sometimes it does actually sell out before it reduces that far as I have found out before. Bt I don't actually need maple syrup at the moment, but I will be there Wednesday morning after price changes to see if this one is in my store further reduced.

:think:Could you hide some of the stuff in some random location in the store, well behind a load of other stuff, to see if it can be kept in the store for a bit longer? Will probably sell out from the proper shelf and then the SEL be removed entirely so you'd never know whether it had gone lower.

In M, sometimes they wrongly have "temporarily OOS" labelling when it's simply the case that stock of the product is elsewhere on the shelf but the staff member who put the "OOS" label on hasn't noticed it - I do keep trying to move stock to where the label is to encourage them to take it away! And sometimes it works!:D

Meanwhile, similar positions to what I find in M seem to exist in my As - whereby every store has a different range and same is likely true of S, T and all other supermarkets too.

Many thanks to bubbs I believe for the BE Crispy Chicken Dippers 24 pack at 50p in A. I managed to get a single pack:( at 50p:T, so it clearly is/was not store-specific. So no expensive SP Chicken Nuggets instead. To be fair, one pack (of the cheaper BE) was all that I could fit into my freezer - however I did have a freezer arranged at another house that I could borrow and use for up to 6 further packs.

The situation I found in my As is that I found one pack only in one of the superstores which was wrongly mixed in with the 42 pack stock. I found several 24 packs (although not completely overflowing stock) in the other superstore but they are showing and scanning at £3.25 there:(. I have checked again today - still £3.25 SEL:( and that is what they scan at in the store that has £3.25 on the SEL. No more have appeared in the store that had "[Strike]£3.25[/Strike] 50p reduced to clear" SEL yesterday. Indeed, today, I found they have now moved the stock of the 42 pack around to where the 24 pack empty shelf was yesterday and there is now no evidence that the store had ever had the 24 pack at all. I checked on the off-chance that they may have restocked but never held out any real hope of that ever happening.

I found no evidence of them in one supermarket yesterday. In another supermarket (I use the term to refer to the small supermarkets as distinct from superstores), they were £3.25 and scanned at that. So they are available in supermarkets, but may be just dependant on whether they have the price at 50p on the SEL or not. In a further supermarket, no evidence of it ever being stocked there - it may be that the supermarkets that have no indication at all of ever having the product may have had it at 50p, that it sold out completely as soon as it appeared and the SEL has now been removed and the stock of other items now been shifted around. They manage to stock what I consider some pretty obscure BE products in the supermarket though:rotfl:. I combined my trip to one of the supermarkets with a visit to Aldi which is very nearby, so no wasted journey there! The other one is right near the house where the freezer is so I also popped in visiting yesterday, so again no wasted journey, and the other one was on my route back so also not wasted!

I may check every day to see if the £3.25 store ever puts 50p up - but I suspect my chances of catching it are slim - if it ever does get put up, I suspect the stock will all go nearly immediately:(.

purpledonkey

Think I'm alright for lunches for a while. I love my job :rotfl:

3Dogs

squigs wrote: »

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