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Perranlady

Morning All,


Another wine for the list, not quite as cheap as some, but a good buy!
Brancott Estate Marlborough Sauv blanc £9.00 in T's £6.50 in A's - so works out at £4.25 a bottle


HTH
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diluvsdiscounts

Perranlady wrote: »

Morning All,


Another wine for the list, not quite as cheap as some, but a good buy!
Brancott Estate Marlborough Sauv blanc £9.00 in T's £6.50 in A's - so works out at £4.25 a bottle


HTH
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Mmmmmmmm :beer:

Serendipitious

Good wishes to all students with results due out today.

Very clever system, whereby you know at 8 am simply by logging in whether you're in the university of choice, I only heard about it today on morning radio.

Savvybuyer

The 2 for £1 milk deal a month ago at Farmfoods had done the trick:(. It got me buying milk from them at 2 for £1.20 later, because that still worked out cheaper than elsewhere.

I've been to Farmfoods today and the milk has increased to 2 for £1.50:eek:, so that is the end of that - not having milk from there for now. In effect the 2 for £1 deal was never available for me anyway, as I bought two times 2 for £1.20 so it was really 2 for £1.10:( (I managed twice when the shelf price said 2 for £1).

Nonetheless Farmfoods still win some of my custom - and money:(:rotfl: - I noticed a 15 pack of apples at £1:T. They are proper sized apples too and not kids size. (I don't say "fun size" as they are not:p.) It makes A's 68p for just 5 apples, 6 if you are lucky, seem positively expensive, with Aldi now being 83p:eek::( and T continuing not to play ball on apples at the moment.

A's bags at 68p equate to £1.70:eek::eek: for a bag of the same number as Farmfoods - and that's assuming you can get six apples from A each time. And, to get six, the apples at A are smaller:( as they are supposed to be by weight. So they are really almost [Strike]fun[/Strike] kids size.

I should have stopped this post at this point as the rest is just tempting.

I also saw Farmfoods have 8 pack Clubs (Honeycomb) at 69p (6+2), Rocky Caramel 10 (8+2) at 69p, Rocky Chocolate 10 (8+2) also, presumably, at 69p (no SEL in my store for that:p), Penguin 24 pack at £1.69 (the £2 expired price for M, or even £1.99 for T from time to time, will never appear on a list again!), Penguin Orange 8 pack at 59p, Fox's Galactic Snacks at 39p and Yorkie Biscuits 7 at 29p:D.

I think they are trying to sell a packet of Yorkie Biscuits with every shop because, when I bought my shop (I'd managed to avoid them!), I was asked if I wanted a pack. So really I am just being a mouthpiece for Farmfoods here now:(:(:p.

You could have spent an absolute fortune on chocolate bars and quite a lot of money in total beyond what you had planned:(. It's therefore not money saving at all, although it is if you would have bought them elsewhere later at a more expensive price but let's face it - no-one really needs them - they are not essentials - and therefore not buying them ever really saves money.

The above is all from memory as I didn't take a pen with me or expect to find anything - I just went for the milk that I didn't get:rotfl: - and I'm doubting myself now about whether the Yorkie is a 7 pack - I could therefore be a bit out but I probably have remembered it correctly.

They also have some Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles 4 pack at 49p. The ones I saw had BB the end of September though. But this is the trick, or so I thought - even at these prices, I thought the tubes usually turn out to be much lower weight than bags and end up working out more expensive! The Dominion Fruit Pastilles (230g) in Aldi were 49p but they went up to 55p and are currently 59p:(. However, I've looked at the Rowntree's tubes and four are a total of 210g. This is 54p (rounded up) to equate to 230g. So, they are in fact cheaper than Aldi's current price for the Dominion, and cheaper than the previous price, although Aldi would have worked out cheaper (same price for 20g more) some time ago. However - here's the benefit (supposedly!) - they are separate tubes so, hopefully:D - I can wish!:mad::(:(:rotfl::p:rotfl: - my family will just have one tube and not take a whole 230g bag and consume the whole lot (or at least far more than half) in one sitting!:mad::mad: So, they will work out cheaper won't they as four times the use?:D:rotfl::mad::mad::(:rotfl: (I can see them opening pack after pack, not satisfied with the few sweets in one pack...)

There's also some Cocoa Sugar Puffs cereal 450g (300+50%) at 69p in Farmfoods, but avoid it again as it seems just a tempting and unhealthy cereal, chocolately and sugary no doubt. However, it seems better than the 500g Mornflake Chocolately Squares (that go to £1:eek:) as they seem even worse! So, in the end, I went for it:o:o (even if not as good as the prices of cereals I got yesterday) as we'll need a period of unhealthy cereal at some point in the next year and it is cheaper than the 450g £1:eek::eek: price for regular Sugar Puffs in A of a while ago (and Poundstretcher now - was also Poundland before - do they not still have it? - are so expensive:rotfl:).

Spent far too much at Farmfoods and more than what I would have spent on milk had it been 2 for even £1.20! I should have exited the store with nothing, so it's worked:(. But I needed some apples and the apples bag could not have been missed (I'd have spent less if I'd bought just that though:p) as I would have had to be buying apples more expensively elsewhere. Really people should just get the apples bag and avoid everything else:rotfl:.

Someone will tell me that the 15 pack apples in Farmfoods are always the £1 price:o - or that they've been cheaper before and have gone up.

Savvybuyer

I bought some milk at £1.29 in Aldi later:wall:. But the Farmfoods ones at 2 for £1.50 work out at £1.2857... per 6 pints so I've actually not saved at all:(. I've more or less paid 2 for £1.50:eek: - if not a bit more! Aldi and Lidl and M and T and everywhere are all so expensive! The only 'cheaper' option now (bar going down coupons and the A2 overage route - I'm just no good at that:( and would involve buying another item beyond what I needed) would be buying A's 6 pint milk and hoping that my nation's variant always picks up the M price, but that would involve buying further items than just the milk and work out more expensive if I did not already have those items to get. The trouble is that another item I needed is same price at T and does not compare against M, so that would need two separate shops and buying at least 12 different items beyond what I need! They would doubtless lose the 13p on the milk or make it so pointless as not to be worthwhile (as well as requiring a special journey out to A as Farmfoods and Aldi are near each other) - such a fiddly eight item shop simply to try to get milk cheaper and probably end up spending more (could I really get seven different items at 1p each?:think:). So, I just bought the milk and the other item I needed (on which T are same price in A) in Aldi at roughly the same price anyway:(:cool:.

Roughly same prices everywhere, surprise surprise - it makes no sense for any of them to be cheaper than elsewhere for very long (and they all need to be roughly the same price so that people can't get the items any better elsewhere) as the shops need to get the most money that they can by being high priced enough but not so that people can get them any cheaper elsewhere! And they can only make the most money by us paying more.

And any way to get things cheaper - they all want us to buy more and everything they do is aimed at trying to get us to buy more and spend more money!

Nannylala

Good afternoon
Scamps so sorry to hear your news re your ankle bless you :Ait surely must be a worry for your with your doggies and needles to say very painful and_debilitating:(
Have been busy getting sorted for my trip to Weymouth ..hair dyed .and heard the weather is going to be turning Autumnal:eek: so having to rething what I shall pack ...very lucky though little Sis and I are the same size and even though I am 14 years older our taste in clothes is the same ...will be raiding her wardrobe I can see ..:T
Right lunch break over so back to getting the chores done ..

Tinyshoes

Flying in to say check your sparks offers I have bonus one for box of free ice creams if you buy pizza. :cool: you do have to activate it.

Also noticed on Hukd this offer


http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/italian-meal-deal-with-wine-for-10-m-s-2497434

Someone has already wondered whether can be used in conjunction with sparks offer. Sorry not got time to try myself. Real life busy busy this week.....

Savvybuyer

It reminds me I asked at PC World once about their price guarantee (or, probably, their price guarantee as it was back then and not the one that it now is) and was told that I wouldn't find the item cheaper elsewhere. And I wouldn't. They all check each other's prices regularly to try to ensure that I don't:mad:.

I did find something that was cheaper at Argos than Currys once. I was trying to make the most of a Currys voucher that I had. Sadly it was available only at a Currys 50 miles away from me (my local Argos had it of course:mad: as did others!) so I ended up just buying something that was cheapest in Currys with the voucher. Not able to get this 'Argos' item for cheaper and then something else:(.

That was when they had 10% - I now notice it's just a price match, so it seems totally useless from our POV:(. (The only 'use' seems to be for something for Currys to include in its marketing to persuade consumers to buy from it, on the off-chance - highly unlikely - that if a completely identical item turns out to have been cheaper elsewhere and if the customer themselves happens to identify that to be the case within the timeframe and meeting all the conditions, they will be 'protected' as they'll get the same price. And, as the customer clearly didn't do their research properly in the first place (if it is that a competitor is cheaper), I hold out little or no hope for them researching and finding out afterwards:doh: :wall: that it is cheaper elsewhere.) I also see that it's a match of the price of the product and not things like delivery charges so, if Currys has a delivery charge that the competitor doesn't or has a higher charge, you could end up paying more:(.

And then of course there's things like this from a while ago:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/19/high_court_backs_currys/

So I suspect they ended up paying £40 more, for an item without a vent kit, plus presumably thousands of pounds more in court costs (of 'our' money unfortunately as it was a local authority and all money ultimately comes from the public). But then if Currys had lost and had to pay costs, that would have come from 'us' too as the public is the source of Currys money through its sales.

[EDIT: I'm never sure on these sorts of things whether further appeals were pursued later in which cases went the complete opposite way, as I just land on the page on a website from back whenever and not on any update. But as far as I'm aware it didn't get overturned later. Actually that article also suggests that, on a civil basis, a case [I]could[/I] have been won. So the customer, in this case the Trading Standards Officer, could have had a civil case for breach of contract although probably wouldn't have won there as they would be bound by the contract. So they end up with the machine at the price they paid to Currys and presumably no recompense as the machine wasn't faulty.]