Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

TrulyMadly

I'm crazily planning how to take advantage of this Dulux paint offer.....some decorating needs doing but I was putting it off. I need bathroom ceilings doing too but you need 3 photos of walls in the room.
I think I will sleep on it and wake up with a solution

*need to work on Mr TM this evening*

TrulyMadly

LANGO1966 wrote: »

Shop from today, glitchy custard, Slopitize and COS

comparison Asda Waitrose
2x Ambrosia Devon Custard (400G) £1.94 £0.98
1x Bertolli Light Spread (500G) £1.00 £0.90
0.51x ASDA Grower's Selection Loose Banana (order by number of bananas or select kg) (PER KG) £0.34 N/A
1x Up & Go Nutritious Breakfast on the Go! Strawberry (250ML) £1.38 £0.69
1x Haribo Starmix (1PK) £0.10 N/A
1x Cif Power & Shine Bathroom Cleaning Spray (700ML) £3.00 £1.25
1x Loyd Grossman Tomato & Basil Pasta Sauce (350G) £1.00 £1.00
1x Barratt Flumps (12G) £0.10 N/A
1x Kellogg's Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes Cereal (750G) £3.49 £1.57
1x ASDA Whole Milk (4PT) £0.95 £1.00
Comparison total (compared products only) £12.76 £7.39
+£5.37 cheaper

Brilliant shop Lango......sloppy custard comes to mind:rotfl:

Savvybuyer

TrulyMadly wrote: »

bubbs.......we need to speak:o

ALL chicken wings are essential to a chicken:o


:rotfl:

It's not "Essential chicken wings" though, it's "Essential Waitrose". So the modified word is different from what you think (yawn).

Savvy being boring again obviously:rotfl:.

TrulyMadly

Savvybuyer wrote: »

It's not "Essential chicken wings" though, it's "Essential Waitrose". So the modified word is different from what you think (yawn).

Savvy being boring again obviously:rotfl:.

I beg to differ savvy:)

The "Brand " does not alter the fact that the wing belongs to the chicken and Waitrose is a secondary adjective:)

Put that in your pipe and smoke it:D:D

TrulyMadly

Anyway......bet your "arms" are not secondary savvy. I'm sure they are essential to you:D......

hornetgirl

scamps1966 wrote: »

Afternoon peeps.

Just got back from A's to look for the cheap toilet roll, didn't find any as it's only a small one.

On the way out, I remembered I had to get some tobacco. As I was paying the CS said 'anything else?' Normally I don't buy said I'll have a £2 scratch card. Scratched it on the bus home and I won £200.

Having a take away tonight.

Yay, well done :T :T :T

Savvybuyer

curl_girl wrote: »

Plus just checked apg and it thinks that I paid the £5 multi price!!

I am giving up on comparison shops and going to try setting up an account with W to try PYO as aau1 suggests! Will have to try home delivery though as W is a 22 mile round trip.

Thanks for replies.

:rotfl:Sorry. (I just read this and it was so funny.)
I've had that happen on me once before - it's just one of those quirks whereby they sometimes take money off of you - and, looking it at from afar and away from the situation of having lost the money, it is actually very funny:rotfl::rotfl:. :oI'm sorry though that you lost out. Not 10% cheaper:p. (Maybe a complaint would be in order as you lost out?:think: Or maybe, as we all benefit on other things, just let it go.)

I'm almost giving up on comparison shops myself as there's nothing much worth buying... and not many wombles it seems with fewer people shopping at A. They've lost a lot of market share recently. They're not really promoting the APG at all at the moment - wonder to what extent the two are related?

I had this issue with a BBC Radio programme decades ago. The programme was quite soon after cancelled. My complaint was that they started putting what I felt to be unpopular things onto the programme, because I felt they wanted an excuse to cancel the programme altogether, and, from my perspective, it worked. They took it off. Of course I wanted it not to work. I think they need to promote the APG - they won't now as they've changed tack - and it's obviously not working! - but, instead of doing the solution that I think they should do, like people generally sometimes they will misunderstand and misperceive the situation and apply what they think is a remedy that will, inevitably in my view because I am always right:p, fail. I think they might think the APG isn't working and cancel it altogether. But that's because they have sidelined it (whilst it's still, for now, available). Maybe it actually helps them to not be promoting it but still having it available:think: (means that fewer people will be using it and thus see A paying out less than before).

Anyway, even if they were to cancel it, it would hardly make any difference now - I'm buying mostly elsewhere (M, Aldi and Lidl) because it's just cheaper and doesn't require buying 7 unnecessary items. I'm buying at Aldi/Lidl even though they are not discounters - each of them is mostly the same price:wall: as everywhere else on a lot of things and, even sometimes, more expensive - but of course I am cherry-picking and buying only the few items on which they are better value! (People generally though, I tend to think, will assume that they are generally cheaper and do their whole shop there and end up paying the same price on most things. Compounded because people generally I feel may have this incorrect and wrong perception and assumption that those stores are discounters, reinforced by parts of the media that claim that they are "discounters" and give that perception, without challenge or question to that unsubstantiated opinion.):rotfl::rotfl: Laughing due to my own hifalutin argument again:rotfl:.

As regards A, I'm doing yet another shop where I'm just buying a couple of items without technically getting any 10% from off of them, since I have a low value APG to spend. I haven't got many APGs at all at the moment - and the ones I have of relatively low value that, even if there are any items 'worth' getting for a significant APG, A's price is so inflated in the first place (compared to current elsewhere) as to have to have a lot more money to spend in the first place in order to get anything much worthwhile back - and I just haven't got the amount of APGs to put there in the first place. So, I may as well just buy the 'value' items that are same price as elsewhere - at full price:eek:, but hardly pocket-shattering, and not have to pay any real money for them as just getting them with an APG.

Of course I avoid potatoes and the like from A as they are more expensive:rotfl:. Just better to get everything at its cheapest place and not even bothering with APG itself much these days. Whilst I'm at A, I may pick up one of the few wombles that are there, if any are there, and thus have probably a very low value amount that I can spend next time I'm there on an essential value item and that's then been got from there without the real money required elsewhere for the same price. (It can't be beaten, and the 10% is a few pence so is hardly worthwhile. Of course it can be found elsewhere more expensively - such as almost everything at Sains.:rotfl:!)

I just get the low cost items off RTC shelves in M that they aren't mentioning on any tannoys:rotfl::money:.

Crunchy Nut corn flakes vs W is tempting - but at £3.49:eek: in the first place, I just haven't got the amount in APGs to spend there (would be giving out real cash!:laugh: - in order just to get the same amount on an APG back - probably paying £1.70 out in real cash on top of an APG spend in order to be able to spend the initial amount) - and I recently bought a 500g pack (sigh - I know, it will be used up way too quickly!) at 50p in M (damaged pack, product complete and fine inside). So, unless there's any trickery or any further discount beyond the APG available on that, it's worked out much cheaper to get the whoops box in M than 10% off £1.57. (Of course the M price is not always available - in fact it is very rarely available - and just depends on what they happen to have on the reduced shelf. It just goes from item to item to different item for me though - allowing me to purchase more of my shopping - and saves money by being much cheaper! So, hurrah for damaged boxes!:T:rotfl: As long as the package inside hasn't been opened and lost some of its contents, the damaged box is fine! If it has lost some of its contents, then the amount remaining has to be weighed against the price now being asked (obviously not precisely and scientifically:rotfl::rotfl: but just able to do a general guess in my mind as to roughly how good or not it works out to be). And of course I avoid anything that hasn't been really reduced and is instead being offered on the RTC shelves for a few pence off full price:wall: but offer prices go to much cheaper. Best buying stuff reduced at offer time, as long as further deduction from offer price.)

Things in Aldi or Lidl on special offers (Super6 for example) can be significantly cheaper than elsewhere - but, I feel, much of everything else is just the same price. And why would it not be? It makes no sense to be offering something at undervalue compared to the general market and therefore not to be making as much profit as you can on it - unless you are using it as a loss leader to stimulate other sales and thus make more profit that way. It does make sense to encourage the perception that you are generally significantly cheaper though or that you are a discounter and, I feel, both of these supermarkets have been, and are, very successful in that! If they have something significantly cheaper than elsewhere, then okay they may get more sales (but that assumes that people always shop at the best place rather than overpaying massively elsewhere, which is not true - people, all the time, pay twice as much (or even more) as elsewhere on some items in their shopping) but clearly shops, even if they sell more as a result of a cheap price, would not want a price that means every unit is a loss for them - selling more of that would surely lose even more? (I don't know as I have no experience of running a business.) It may get more custom in and thus help as people tend to buy, at same or expensive price, everything else at the same time in your store! Of course, for us savvy few, the loss leaders are good - but they should, in our case, just be a "loss" (for them) and not a "leader"!:D I like to buy things that are "loss..." [word "leader" censored] rather than "loss leader":rotfl:. Just make the loss leaders pure losses:rotfl::rotfl: (:money: from our POV).

Sarahdol75

Evening all, been lovely and warm in north wales today.

bubbs

TrulyMadly wrote: »

bubbs.......we need to speak:o

ALL chicken wings are essential to a chicken:o


:rotfl:

Thought it was quiet:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

scamps1966 wrote: »

Afternoon peeps.

Just got back from A's to look for the cheap toilet roll, didn't find any as it's only a small one.

On the way out, I remembered I had to get some tobacco. As I was paying the CS said 'anything else?' Normally I don't buy said I'll have a £2 scratch card. Scratched it on the bus home and I won £200.

Having a take away tonight.

:T:T:T:T well done

bubbs

Sarahdol75 wrote: »

Evening all, been lovely and warm in north wales today.

We have had a couple of showers today but very muggy:eek: