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Anon

zippydooda wrote: »

i think the normal danepak is a lovely thick bacon, will buy again (if the price is right) only gripe is the resealable pack is rubbish

It was reported earlier that it is bogof in coop so if you get unsmoked and smoked on CoS - 2 packs in total (not CS or TCB as different stores listed) it will work out free (check the apps for the correct varieties).

Hth

Anon

Anon

aau1 wrote: »

apparently it's £1 in Co-op with £1.70 cb :money:

Shame CoS is only at M as could get a couple then .

Anon

Savvybuyer

purpledonkey wrote: »

The Cake Angels decorations are still 96p in my local. The 31p ones I found, were a 12 pack of 4 animals, 12 pack of big purple and pink flowers with yellow centres and the 24 pack I used on that cake containing 12 yellow flowers/12 pink flowers. Just checked and they don't state the weight on them. Still a cracking price though considering they go out of date in June 2018

No, Cake Angels decorations are 31p in M. (Unless you have some unusual store I have not seen.) Are you sure you have got the right ones - maybe your store doesn't stock any of the 31p ones? (I think you may be talking about other Cake Angels products that are at 96p.)

But that's what I've suggested just before - people would see me deleting items 'from afar' before, that were in their Ms and would be bemused as to why. Obviously you're bemused about me mentioning some 31p Cake Angels that you don't have in your M:rotfl:. (Not laughing about you not having them available to you - instead about the bemusement of me mentioning something and because they're not in your M not having any clue. Just like me having no clue about lots of items I've not seen in any other M before:rotfl:.)

I know the M own brand (or the versions of them that I've seen:D - I'm not ruling out the possibility that I still haven't seen all versions of them that M has anywhere:rotfl:) don't have the weight on them - I checked, in order to try to resolve my query, but could not find any.

EDIT: I'll check your descriptions, btw, to see if I've got all the ones at 31p that you have there:rotfl::rotfl:.

zippydooda

Anon wrote: »

It was reported earlier that it is bogof in coop so if you get unsmoked and smoked on CoS or CS it will work out free (check the apps for the correct varieties).

Hth

Anon

already eaten mine
was it you that asked about tassimo earlier.

in store there was no milky ones in the offer

Savvybuyer

purpledonkey wrote: »

The Cake Angels decorations are still 96p in my local. The 31p ones I found, were a 12 pack of 4 animals, 12 pack of big purple and pink flowers with yellow centres and the 24 pack I used on that cake containing 12 yellow flowers/12 pink flowers. Just checked and they don't state the weight on them. Still a cracking price though considering they go out of date in June 2018

Well...

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Did you find all four (maybe there are more?:think:) M own brand, plus the Cake Angels - three versions of those plus any that Savvy hasn't found:p:rotfl: - all each at 31p? Thank you - I think you may have resolved a query I had from my - clearly hopeless - Monday collection - I had one of the M own brand at 24g:huh: yet they appear to be 15g or 16g - but it seems one of them must be 24 per pack. Rather than either 24g as printed on the SEL or else that was transcribed by me incorrectly.

All four.:) [EDIT: Actually :doh:that's only three isn't it? I have more!]

Let's see...

Savvybuyer wrote: »

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Buy in M

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M Choco Fancies Sugar Decorations (15g)[Strike]33p[/Strike] 31p
M Chocolate Pastel Blooms Sugar Decorations ([Strike]15g[/Strike] 12g)[Strike]33p[/Strike] 31p:eek:
M Chocolate Jungle Buddies Sugar Decorations ([Strike]15g[/Strike] 12g)[Strike]33p[/Strike] 31p
M Chocolate Spring Flowers Sugar Decorations ([Strike]15g[/Strike] 24g:huh:)[Strike]33p[/Strike] 31p I think the new weight is a misprint on the SEL.

I thought the weights had gone down on some of these slightly:(, unless - it turns out - what it is is slightly different exact wording on the SELs from different stores. (I've obviously had 15g from somewhere before, but I now think my more recent store(s) have "12g" on the SEL when it means 12 in a pack.) I go by exact wording on the SEL - in order to ensure that I have exactly the same product when seeing it later in another store (which, the way things sometimes go, could be one miles away - I could have something only in two or three stores nearly a hundred miles apart). I go by the exact description on the SELs and I am - quite pedantic - unless they is stock of the product actually there and it adds some extra words, from the package etc., into the description - in order to be as exact as possible.

It's why I usually give exact descriptions including weights - apart from the fact that I go into detail whereas most people just have a general overview - and when I mentioned the Red Salmon at the outset, I mention it as "Princes Red Salmon (213g)" and couldn't even omit the weight off as, although people knew, maybe it needed to be more specific as other weights are available and I envisaged someone going to M and looking for "Princes Red Salmon" and then coming back and saying "What do you mean? There are several different sizes and I can't find which one you mean!" I was doing that fuller description - apart from the fact I just couldn't leave it at "Princes Red Salmon" but had to write it, almost habitually, as "Princes Red Salmon (213g)" - because I was foreseeing that situation and wanting to avoid it and also probably because I am just exact about things and, actually, in a way, it is a better approach than most people have because then we know exactly what we mean. No room for doubt under my way of doing things. If only ever 'normal person'-produced signage was specific like me and left me no room for wondering whether it meant one thing or meant another thing, and what exactly is in that offer. I do things too well really - sometimes - and all sorts of things, that any single word may change things and cause me to think they mean something else.

It's rare that I make a mistake - I sometimes do, and usually (it seems) it arises from a misleading picture being given by the stores. I don't mean "misleading" in any sense of deliberate - but that the stock of products a store happens to have, because they are only some of what M in total stocks, gives an incomplete picture about what M stocks and I may get an impression from visiting even four or more stores that something is the case when in fact, as is clear from some other store, it's not and the actual situation is something else!

Very occasionally, I fail to write something down or even write something incorrect down - or usually my writing at one point turns out to be so bad I cannot read what I've written (but that's due to having sometimes to scribble things down, without being detected, in stores) - and then I usually fudge it some way on here - example is the current 'inaccurate' description of the "M 8 Lobenia Trailing Plants" on my list. My information did not say "Plants" but I was struggling to read what I'd written. It turned out to say "Bush" - thank goodness I used one store that also had the product in it today:rotfl: - and I will put it right on the list soon. The worst ones are where I have information from some faraway store and can't read what I've written and the product isn't stocked in any other store I've seen:rotfl:. I then try to remember - but with so many items I see in so many stores in a day I can't recall - and, in the end, I just make something up that looks similar. Occasionally it turns out it was wrong - and none of it is material:cool: - as I then do come across the product somewhere else (in some store several stores down the line) and then can correct it to what it technically should be.

There will be the odd one or two errors on the list (ignoring even all the A prices that I never get chance to update), usually perhaps arising from incorrect or out of date SELs in stores. Did you notice the ones that existed for several months until the other day? Two of the incense sticks have been £1.98 for a while (according to msm - but I wasn't going from there and didn't check online these items that I don't see in many Ms) - I had them as £2. It seems that that arose from an out of date SEL in an earlier store. However, I came across another store that had the Incense Sticks last week and then noticed the £1.98 price had 'changed' and - it turns out - msm has it at as £1.98 for several months before. So, those prices were slightly wrong (by two pence:p)!:D If you see anything that you believe to be an error on my list (obviously not in the period between updates - that doesn't count, unless I fail to update it even after supposedly "completing" my update), feel free to let me know!

purpledonkey

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Well...



All four.:) [EDIT: Actually :doh:that's only three isn't it? I have more!]

Let's see...



I thought the weights had gone down on some of these slightly:(, unless - it turns out - what it is is slightly different exact wording on the SELs from different stores. (I've obviously had 15g from somewhere before, but I now think my more recent store(s) have "12g" on the SEL when it means 12 in a pack.) I go by exact wording on the SEL - in order to ensure that I have exactly the same product when seeing it later in another store (which, the way things sometimes go, could be one miles away - I could have something only in two or three stores nearly a hundred miles apart). I go by the exact description on the SELs and I am - quite pedantic - unless they is stock of the product actually there and it adds some extra words, from the package etc., into the description - in order to be as exact as possible. It's why I usually give exact descriptions including weights - apart from the fact that I go into detail whereas most people just have a general overview - and when I mentioned the Red Salmon at the outset, I mention it as "Princes Red Salmon (213g)" and couldn't even omit the weight off as, although people knew, maybe it needed to be more specific as other weights are available and I envisaged someone going to M and looking for "Princes Red Salmon" and then coming back and saying "What do you mean? There are several different sizes and I can't find which one you mean!" I was doing that fuller description - apart from the fact I just couldn't leave it at "Princes Red Salmon" but had to write it, almost habitually, as "Princes Red Salmon (213g)" - because I was foreseeing that situation and wanting to avoid it and also probably because I am just exact about things and, actually, in a way, it is a better approach than most people have because then we know exactly what we mean. No room for doubt under my way of doing things. If only ever 'normal person'-produced signage was specific like me and left me no room for wondering whether it meant one thing or meant another thing, and what exactly is in that offer. I do things too well really - sometimes - and all sorts of things, that any single word may change things and cause me to think they mean something else.

I think I need to check another Ms. There are 4 quite easily accessible to me, except one which I haven't ventured in since I got a parking eye fine, many, many years ago :rotfl: *goes back to new crochet project*

frequent

zippydooda wrote: »

i think the normal danepak is a lovely thick bacon, will buy again (if the price is right) only gripe is the resealable pack is rubbish

Tight git cook it all at the same time :rotfl:

frequent

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Savvybuyer

purpledonkey wrote: »

I think I need to check another Ms. There are 4 quite easily accessible to me, except one which I haven't ventured in since I got a parking eye fine, many, many years ago :rotfl: *goes back to new crochet project*

Now that you mention it, I actually ventured into an A that I left not in the best way many months ago. It ended up with a threat to ring the police if I used an APG again - this was later clarified, via CS, to mean that they would merely check them more thoroughly and it wouldn't be a matter for the police. Apparently they circulated my photo around that store and one other. They didn't ban me. Nonetheless, I haven't been to that store since - or the one other that I suspect they sent it to. I must be right since I have had no problems since - and in fact I'm doing nothing wrong but just don't want issues to be raised at tills and then delayed.

I turned up yesterday, all of a sudden, in the dead of night, and bought something with an APG. We ran out of milk and had to go and get some - I figured it would be a struggle trying to get it during the day and fortunately I had a glitchy Easter eggs APG of nearly £1.30 to claim, so I did so, printed it off and sneaked in when no-one was at the security or SS and fortunately the SS machine took it straight away without raising any problems.

As for Ms, you're getting like me:eek::rotfl:. In fact, no-one could get quite like me!:D:eek::rotfl::rotfl::o:):cool:

Savvybuyer

D'you know - I always like Thursday mornings, because that means all the business from M is over with and I can then relax until the weekend! At least just the collection business, I can then work on the information I've got safely collected.

I don't think I'll immediately go out to M today (for more 'faraway stores'). But I might go tomorrow (Friday) or Saturday, after I've planned a route, to see if there is anything more to find. It's not Leamington Spa - I have a couple of other routes in mind first, for other stores I've not visited before.

You'd think maybe I should go to Leamington as that is the biggest store and I would then surely have everything. Instead of trekking around several other, smaller stores and trying to piece it together from there. However, I reckon Leamington will still have a lot missing that is only to be found across several stores from elsewhere!

I also wonder now - with some really good value versions of products only being available in some Ms - for instance I found the Savers Mixing Bowl that was much better value than any other version found elsewhere - and no other stores had the best value Savers version instead had the more expensive M version only - whether this is because M wants people to do all their shopping in the one M they are in and therefore will only pick up some of the offers and will have to spend a bit more on some other items (than the best value version that is only available elsewhere). So, no-one (unless they travel around) will get best value of everything - it certainly won't be in one store - and different lines will be best in one and different ones best in another. It has people spending more on some items in one store, although getting good value on some others. And other people spending more by having to get an item other than the best value one that is only in the other store although getting good value on the item that the people in the other store couldn't get and would have to spend more on something else equivalent instead. Or maybe it is, like I said yesterday, just what happens to have sold out of various stores, what happens to be replaced or not that more determines the range of each store.