Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

Savvybuyer

Just before I pop out, the "urgent" one from M yesterday seems to be Grzeski Chocolate Wafer Bar (36g) - they are 38p but given that there is a 10p more points offer on them until 11th September. But only if you are going to use all of the points and if you think the next price won't be better (and it might well be - although I think it more likely this item will stay at 38p but lose its points - I probably won't know though as I won't have any store with it on Monday:rotfl:).

Elsewhere, I have an item from Wednesday that I've discovered was no good because one store now reveals there was a points offer on it that expired on 4th September:(. That I've had no store before displaying for me. Unless the points offer has been continued but none of my stores now are showing it. This sort of thing has happened once before - that I discover an offer in M only after it has expired - and only then from an expired SEL when all previous stores I visited, during the currency of the offer, had never been displaying it. Never mind! I may delete the item off if it ever got onto the M list as, without the points, obviously it's worse.

If you are going to M, I'd have a look through your store's freezer area. It's the frozen items that now got some excellent RTC prices on. As you know, everything with me comes up in reverse order and irrelevant ones first. I'll be back fairly soon with the really important information. I said earlier that people will probably not find the now even cheaper RTC items in their store now. However, I've had a thought that perhaps it's the other way around - or most probably will be for some people - namely you've been unable to find anything I currently have on the list and instead perhaps these cheaper RTCs, new to me, are in your store:rotfl:. Another item I nearly moved to the lost list last time (or maybe I have already done so) - I will be putting it back (not very important though). Turned out one store had shifted it off to the RTC shelf and got loads of items cluttered up on that shelf (nearly all of them not very good though) so I think all of the items, including ones I've lost, will be in some M, depending on how the layout was and where they happened to put the stock - it does influence, to a huge extent, whether people have bought it or not.

For example, those Aunt Bessie's Roast Potatoes, taken off and reinstated on the list no fewer than four separate times, I eventually last found in a store, months on, and I suspect merely because, in that store, they happened to have been put on the lowest shelf with no RTC label and thus people didn't see them. Meaning the stock, of a freezer item, remained there six months later. I am finding it harder to believe that that product will still be there however, due to a reorganisation of freezer aisles in several other Ms since - which I suspect is likely to have been carried out at the remaining "Aunt Bessie" store for me and likely to have disrupted them and sold the product out.

I've no problem on the Pancakes though - I've had them continuously (and rightly!) on the list at 50p for months - and, most recently, I had lost them for some months but kept them on the list untouched (they will always be around!). They turned up, not from any of the stores yesterday, but in one of my 'own' stores I just happened to be in for my own shopping on Thursday:rotfl:.

The Walls Big Bite was also lost - appearing at one store for one day about ten months ago, then a different store on one day eight months ago, then another different one five months ago, another different one four months ago - that's how it works - and no trace since but completely left on the list: it's always going to be in at least one store out of the more than 500 so that M constantly has it - and, there we are, found one of them (the other will almost definitely be in some other stores) at one of the stores yesterday. So, they are still available in M - always kept on my list without amendment - and good to see that confirmed yesterday. I am right never to take them off the list!:D

I'm just popping out - see you soon:wave:.

They're not the freezer items I'm referring to btw. Instead it's things like - here we are, I'm revealing some of them...drumroll - the Low Low ready meals at least one has gone down to 50p:D, Sharwoods Chinese Chicken Curry 350g at 88p:D, M BBQ Sausages 1Kg 50p:), Twix Ice Cream Bars (4) now at 50p, M Chicken Korma & Rice 400g (old version presumably) - I think we had before - at 74p, Young's Cod:D Fish Fingers 10 per pack 280g, 50p:D:D (it's cheaper than SP/Savers, if you can ever find that - I don't know who ever gets these RTCs - I think you literally have to be in the store at the moment they are changing the SEL as they disappear within hours once they do that and people in luck there, who tend not to be us:(, are buying them out and not people that post finds on websites - I almost always have no stock when I have the RTC labels showing and have stock when the SEL is incorrect - yesterday tipped off on one of these items by a different item in another range being marked down further (and no stock!) in another store - purely the order in which I happened to visit the stores - and causing me to doubt that items on the "Reduced" shelf of the freezers in a store visited later on had been marked down properly - and, correct!, the £1.43 SEL item turned out to be quite a lot cheaper:D:D:rotfl:. So, I have details for you, purely from happening to visit the stores in this order. I think I would probably have managed to buy the Belvita Biscuits at 10p months ago as well had I not visited stores in the 'wrong' order that time. But, this time, by chance obviously as I don't know what I'm going to find in advance of doing so, I happened to visit in the right order!:T).

They may be others I haven't remembered right now, that are somewhere in my details so will get mentioned later. Away from freezer items, there's a Lindam Child's Car Mirror at £1 RTC. I have had no luck with that - I've had no stock in any of my nine stores yesterday (unless there was some in stores 1, 2, 3 and 4 that I wasn't noticing as only store 5 mentioned the product to me in the first place:rotfl:. So, for all I know - and it would be a useful item to have - it could be in stores 1, 2, 3 or 4, that I'm not able to visit again anytime soon, on the back of the shelves with no SEL:(:rotfl::rotfl:. So, I began looking only at stores 6, 7, 8 and 9, having had, of course, just a SEL and temporarily OOS - and of course you need to check that as sometimes there is stock elsewhere but on this time there really wasn't any stock - in store 4).

See you later:wave: (I think I said this some time ago:rotfl:).

Savvybuyer

Harris Dust Masks 3 pack 50p RTC in M.

Alright, I will go out now:o:rotfl::rotfl::p:rotfl:.

bubbs

diluvsdiscounts wrote: »

Guess what............

I'm going to be a nan:j

So I've got a travel cot, lots of baby grows and blankets from vertbaudet and nappies from superdrug so any baby related offers please give me a nudge

:T:T:T:Tcongratulaions, did they get the house?
Will keep my eyes open on hduk for you

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Mr TM just nearly knocked off his bike by a car driver.

Her excuse......"my car is full of wasps"

:eek::rotfl:

:eek: hope Mr TM is ok x
Afternoon all

bargainqueen8

just been to check i had no soap and glory stuff that may need using up and found these.:o.who remember these baby glitches from the past,would be handy for di now.:D

bubbs

Snap your x stitch are lovely xx

MKS

Following on from Snap..

bubbs

Brilliant MKS:T:T
I dont have the patience for doing it:o
Hope ds is improving x

bubbs

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Legette

bargainqueen8 wrote: »

just been to check i had no soap and glory stuff that may need using up and found these.:o.who remember these baby glitches from the past,would be handy for di now.:D

I still have a couple of these left! I gave one to our dietician as a leaving pressie a year ago. Hoping to see her again next week. And talk her into stopping DS2s awful catch up milk.

I use the bag things for make up. Perfect size for my 6 make up items!

MKS

bubbs wrote: »

Brilliant MKS:T:T
I dont have the patience for doing it:o
Hope ds is improving x

Thanks, bubbs. It is quite theraputic but these were done a while ago.
DS is improving, thanks. Just one crutch now.:j