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tweets wrote: »

:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p is all I am going to say on that matter

You haven't actually said anything - you've just stuck your tongue out 11 times. However, that itself says a lot and speaks volumes. Gestures or actions, or inactions, like pictures, can 'speak' more than words. And, anyway, the tongues-out weren't all you were going to say - as you've actually said the words "is all I'm going to say on that matter". Or you've not said that as you've just written it instead. It depends what you mean by "say":rotfl:.

Anyway, it's been a good price collection today in the sense that it didn't take very long, although I have dozens of items missing and therefore "bad" in that sense - however they are the items that many I can be almost certain are still available somewhere at the prices on my list. I've probably lost a couple of items that I could have done with seeing.

I've also lost several of the yogurts and mousses that I had on Monday, although I now have an additional one I didn't have before. I've lost the Twinpot Chunks that I now assume by their absence are available on RTC somewhere. Not particularly good, as it's standard 50p rather than 2 for 78p but it was just to let you know! Absence speaks more than words:rotfl:.

I think some RTCs are becoming particularly dodgy, if they were not always that way. Nonetheless, I think they should still pick up the Onken RTCs from a set of six stores. Nonetheless this is just my stores. I've had the same ones across several stores, although I've now lost them in one as well as the Bonne Maman products that I happened purely by chance to have only in that store. I have only seen two stores today however. I never had any stock anywhere in the first place on Monday but just the SELs that enabled me to obtain the details.

My stores are particularly dodgy on the fresh ready meals - I don't mean the Chicken Korma/Tikka/Madras, instead I mean the Enchiladas and the Beef Burritos. I have to imagine that they are still on offer as I have full prices in my main store and one of them I only ever knew is on £2 because I scanned it, on the basis of the other one being £2 in one place but not in another, and then take it that that is on £2 until the same date. I've lost the Sizzler Chicken but it will still be around.and on offer. This is just my stores though - I know other Ms are clear, but this is what I have to do each time with my own, imagining and implying that they are on offer. Which they are (I believe).

I think not much has happened - the Weetabix Weetos offer, as expected, seems to have ended. I say "seems to" as I still have them showing £1 in one place but not another in one store:rotfl: but clearly they've simply changed the price in one part of the store but not yet got round to removing the offer label in another part of the store. The price that they have changed is now showing new pricing and telling me that it's on offer until sometime in June. It's consistent with the pricing now in the other store. Of course, was £1, now £2 and 2 for £3:(.

Other than that, that's not much change. I have the Seabrook Big Bag Sea Salted Crisps (50g) at 5p RTC. Of course absolutely no stock and they don't exist at all at my other store.

If the individual packs of 3 Sesame Snaps still have the 10p More points offer, then they are now 'paying us to take away' as they are scanning at 3p:D. These being the individual 3 pack Sesame Snaps on BC 5099 1716, in case there are any other individual 3 pack Sesame Snaps anywhere else:rotfl:. However, I think they don't have the 10p points offer on them anymore? I don't know - I no longer use my M&M card or collect any points at all - but it does not say "you could have collected..." x number of points on my receipt so I assume this means they don't have a points offer on them?

So it seems like they've gone from being a net. of free to paying 3p each for them.

I never had any personal experience of there ever being any points offer on them and I've never seen any points label in any M - however someone told us they did have a points offer and it stood to reason to me that they could have such an offer because they are a type of product that M has had on points offers. So, when I say that I think they are not "still" on points offer, I'm going from the hearsay of what I've been told.

Of course I only ever saw these in one store and haven't seen them since for over two months:rotfl:. Until suddenly, today, when they appear in one of my stores:huh: and, fortunately, just with a 10p label and no indication that they are RTC at all so not drawing as much attention to themselves:T. It's kept them in stock. I bought them when I first found them, at 10p and without points, as that didn't seem that bad at the time. However, I felt that I did not buy nearly enough of them. I'm going too extreme on the money-saving and resisting buying more sometimes:rotfl:. For me, therefore, who has not had them in M at any time at which they have been on the points offer, they are alright. I picked a couple up - that I should have bought months ago when I last had them in any M - and then found that my bill was increasing much more slowly than I expected. Very little I ever buy scans at the price on the shelf:rotfl:.

KTC tins have gone onto 4 for £1. So have the Savers Tomato tins, separately (in other words, I think there's no mix and match between Savers and KTC).

It seems I was wrong in what I thought about the M Cat Milk. As far as I know, there are two different versions, each on a different BC. However, each of them scans separately at 4 for £2. I do not know whether there is a mix and match between the two versions, although I assume there is. They are 52p individual price and of course I have only the straight price on the shelves in my Ms, but they are still on mbuy. Or, more accurately it seems, one new version is on mbuy from the outset whilst the other BC, the older stock, is still on mbuy. They are on the mbuy until 15th May, according to a single M that I saw with a label to that effect over a week ago:rotfl:. Thank goodness there is no equivalent from A, as mbuys in M aren't showing very widely for me. The Toplife cat milk could have worked out better, with the 10%, when they were on 2 for £1 - I believe they aren't anymore - however, given that there were Ms that didn't show that for me, that may well have failed so M Cat Milk at 4 for £2 now I see as quite a good price, even if the individual price is not far off and it's not that much saving.

I also have to reinstate the Zebra Print Lever Arch File, that is on RTC price (I assume 78p) from way way back and probably available in so few stores now. I had M Ring Binder at 75p, which I thought from several other stores was a Lever Arch File as the M Ring Binder 75p label was directly underneath that stock. However, it seems that M Ring Binder on 75p is 5 010251 592273, which is more like a single plastic folder, rather than M Ring Binder, which is M Circus Ring Binder, a lever arch file that is just called M Ring Binder on the sticky label on the stock, on BC 5 010251 620686, and which has gone down from £1.50 to £1 RTC. Therefore, M Ring Binder 75p does not seem as good as it might have been as it's not the substantive lever arch file but some other product that, for me, is inferior.

However, with two different BCs on quite a few different stationery items, it does seem that even the staff of M are becoming confused:rotfl: and are sometimes putting cheaper RTC labels on shelves against products that are not the correct BC in their store but are other products, with identical descriptions, that they have that scan at higher prices. Therefore, there may be scope for getting these real-higher-priced items at the cheap RTC prices and indeed I've already managed successfully to get three separate items, one each in different stores, at the lower prices because the shelving had those prices but the items seemed to be scanning incorrectly. It's quite legitimate as it's leading to incorrect SELs being put up against other products that we can then expect, from the SEL descriptions, are those prices. On two of these occasions, I have not found the real item which I suspect exists at some other M (as indicated by the label in the store I've actually seen) and is on some other BC than the stock I have. There are different BCs and, with items being identically described, sometimes staff in a store are putting the wrong SEL up that applies to the version that their store does not stock.

It's possible you could get M Circus Ring Binder, which is just described as "M Ring Binder" on itself, for 75p, if, like a number of my other stores, there is the offer label for 75p, that says M Ring Binder, underneath it - even though, judging by the other store I've now seen in which M Ring Binder has a £1 RTC label, it will scan at £1. M Ring Binder at 75p is actually another product, a plastic folder:(.

Finally, I've now got M Grow Your Own Pepper Unicorn at 78p. I note this is on a different BC from the tomato products and therefore I will add it as a separate entry to the list. I've already conflated the products on some other plants as they are all on the same BC and therefore now using generic descriptions for them on the list. The list no longer tells you all the different plants that are on what I have now found to be the same BC. It never did anyway as it was always missing something:rotfl:, although previously it made an attempt to do so. On this occasion, I had only M Grow Your Own Tomato Tumbler before. This was because I only had a single other store that had it in and no other Grow Your Own items in any store at that time. (I think I have had, in the meantime, a "Grow Your Own"... item from another store, not visited today, but it wasn't any good as it was £1 RTC - and this is a completely separate thing.) However, one of my other stores, today, now has the Grow Your Own Tomato Tumbler, plus another Tomato version - Tomato Legend - both at 78p and the Pepper Unicorn at 78p. I suspect there are further ones:rotfl:. However, the two Tomato ones share a BC, so I will put them into one entry relating to Tomato - but the Pepper Unicorn is on another BC, so will get its own entry.:) (Of course I am still missing what I haven't seen elsewhere:rotfl:.)

And, finally, finally, SP-equivalent Mandarin Pieces I think have gone down in M to price-match the prices of A and T - therefore may become an Avs M item - although hardly much good given cheaper prices on other tinned fruit that we have seen! Very dodgy relying on a single M having its price at 35p and no trace of it elsewhere:rotfl:. I've had to do that today though - just two stores and back to the old way of largely going from SELs I see - a third store could well have revealed both have incorrect price on some items - however it's a Wednesday of limited resources today, in that I have limited time and other things arranged for today, so I've had to go by two stores (and found much I needed really to see anyway). The Princes Red Salmon is confirmed as now being still stubbornly at 50p:rotfl:. For those of you that think that the 25p Hot Dogs are not available anywhere, I saw them only last week:rotfl:. Although I have no Mackerel Fillets in my stores, I suspect they will be somewhere around although very rare to find them now! Either one is straight in your store (I suspect the one that they didn't change the SEL on and have no SEL on) or the vast majority of people won't have any of them in their stores at all and therefore, in that sense, they are hard to find. But, experience is they are in some M - and they will remain on the list. The Princes Red Salmon is definitely in some M today. Nonetheless, I have now lost the V-Kat Schnappes from the store that had what seemed to me to be an incorrect full price SEL on Monday - now completely vanished from there and no trace for me! They will I think be in some M at the offer price they have now been on for some time. I hope they source the detailed information for me as soon as possible:rotfl:.

bubbs

Nannylala wrote: »

Good afternoon ..French Windows open as very warm and it has stopped raining for how long that is anyone's guess even the birds are singing :)Been to the Dining Club for my dinner and craft afternoon and the cook made a big Bread pudding :Tand gave us all a couple of pieces to bring home ..I know what I shall be having for me tea

Hi Nanny :wave:
We have had terrible rain again:( oh i like bread pudding not had any for years

Mumto2monkeys wrote: »

Good afternoon lovelys.

Hope everyone is well.

I'm so excited my new kitchen is being delivered tomorrow:j it's taken along time to save for.
Hope it worth it when it's done.
I've been trying to write a meal planner as I will probably only have access to the hob for a couple of days and no work surface-prep area then it will be microwave only :eek: that and the mess fill me with dred!!
So far I've got 2 lists, first for hob only, 2 nd for when I've no cooking facilities...


Tuna Pasta
Chicken stir fry and noodles

Soup if it's cold...
Beans on toast
Cheese toasty and salad
Picnic- sandwiches, sausage rolls, salad etc

Anybody got any fab ideas? Please and thankyou My brains on shut down today...

Cottage pie, curry make now and freeze, use tilda rice with curry and can always use tin veg with cottage pie

cjj_2

Confused with mullers. Do we need 1, 2 or no peanut flavour at all ?

Am I right in thinking 12 in total ? Tia xx

mrsmac10

Can I ask for a little help?


I have an friend whose son has had his nursery time reduced to an hour a day The son has been diagnosed with autism which causes the problems highlight by the nursery


Is there any way my friend can challenge this


Friend will not claim benefits. I looked on disability forum but it was mostly about money so did not ask there but will look into it again


Thanks

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Bananababe

mrsmac10 wrote: »

Can I ask for a little help?


I have an friend whose son has had his nursery time reduced to an hour a day The son has been diagnosed with autism which causes the problems highlight by the nursery


Is there any way my friend can challenge this


Friend will not claim benefits. I looked on disability forum but it was mostly about money so did not ask there but will look into it again


Thanks

There are lots of support groups now Mrs Mac and help. But autism is so different from one person to the next it will take her a while to get him the right help.

Its so much better than it used to be. Lots of posters on here with experience of bringing up kids with this condition and are a lot more versed on it. They will maybe push you in correct direction.

The service that diagnosed him should be able to help also x

savvy_sal

cjj wrote: »

Confused with mullers. Do we need 1, 2 or no peanut flavour at all ?

Am I right in thinking 12 in total ? Tia xx

Yes 12 in total.If you want a mixture of flavours then you need to include one peanut trigger.They best compare to Saintsbury.

If you don't mind 11 of one flavour and one other then you will not have to include the peanut one.In fact it would be best not to include that one.

Tinyshoes

Good afternoon. Off for a read back.

Chrisv

cjj wrote: »

Confused with mullers. Do we need 1, 2 or no peanut flavour at all ?

Am I right in thinking 12 in total ? Tia xx

1 peanut will act as an invisible trigger, so any mix of 11 more comparable flavours will compare at full price.

If no peanut available, you need to buy 12 same flavour, or 11 same + 1 other.

Edit - Sal types faster than me

Tinyshoes

altojack wrote: »

Well I was coming on to say hi to someone but last post 10.28pm:eek: Has everyone left the building :rotfl:

I was tucked up in bed AJ. It was either sleep or eat. 4 days into diet and I have lost couple of pound already. :j