Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

Savvybuyer

Right, I'll make a nice attempt to be succinct:

Store specific whoopsied/RTC shelf items in M as of yesterday:

Derby
Border Perennial Leopard's Bone plant 29p

Leicester
Savers White Tissues (225 pack) 35p I suspect they're probably gone by now though - there were only three packs, unless they have some more that they may bring out.

Swad:D
Sunsweet Humzingers Summer Selection Fruits - Strawberry, Raspberry, Cherry & Tropical (10x13g) 13p
M Wholenut Milk Chocolate (200g) 55p (they'll be gone! Or maybe they won't... Fwiw, BC ends 412, not to be confused with completely different product M Wholenut Milk Chocolate (200g) on BC ending 334 available elsewhere - different pack design. Fwiw, totally irrelevant to mention it so I did:doh::rotfl:! Relatively short date (10 days - will last beyond) - BC information is fwiw and irrelevant as if you find they are still there, they'll be the right ones!)
Heather potted plant 75p:eek::rotfl: (who knows if these sorts of things change every day anyway?)

Chapel-en-le-Frith
Bird's Trifle Raspberry Flavour Mix (141g) 69p (lots)
Jacob's Cheeselets (125g) (which of course M doesn't have:rotfl:) 29p (lots)
Barilla Integrale Wholewheat Fusilli (500g) 29p
Paxo Stuffing Thyme & Leek (190g)29p Obviously this has gone onto RTC in M without me being aware of it as it's saying £1.00 and OOS online. I have no idea of what general RTC price (which will be below £1) it will be if my hunch is correct as I have seen no store with it - however this store specific price is most probably better than any 'national' one.
I'm bemused as I also have some packs with purple label design in M Chapel - what are those - are they the same product or different? They also appear to be Thyme & Leek and 14 stuffing balls for chicken. (The above description on msm appears to relate to the green label design ones.)
Also a pack of Walkers Tear 'n' Share Thick Cut Crisps - Lightly Salted (150g) 49p:eek::rotfl:

Chesterfield
Maped Study Compass 25p:) (lots)
M Armbands 15p

I suppose, on all these stores and items, it's just if you happen to be there already and need them - then may take a look to see if they are still there. HTH.

M Armbands also 15p at Coalville M start of last week - RTC shelf right at the back of the store.

Savvybuyer

In M more generally, there's not much change except all the items I didn't have in my stores on Monday (was never going to have them in those stores!) have gone up in price:rotfl:. So, I delete them soon off the list as they've already expired (which was why it was essential to catch up with them fairly soon and why I needed to check them in the store I did yesterday).

Of course I am Mr Incompletist again as there turn out to be additional variants of a product line that are also on the RTC - you'll notice them later as the rest will go back into normal text and the ones newly found will be added in bold, and you'll wonder why they were apparently not at those prices on Monday when they seem to be the same prices as the others that were already on the list:rotfl:. I think they will have been on on Monday - I just didn't get a store that had had a more comprehensive selection in the first place.

Otherwise, the Typhoo 80 plus 40 extra free that was v.good £1 price on Monday (Poundstretcher £1.79!) is now £2 in M:(:(:mad: - so, it was on the list for all of two days and, if you didn't snap it up, you missed it - was obviously too good for them to keep it at £1 price:(. (It could well have been £1 over the weekend before - some suggestion in some of my stores on Monday, due to empty shelving, that maybe it was on offer then - but I only found it on Monday's collection date and there was sufficient stock in some stores with £1 SELs. It's scanned at SS now at £2:(.)

The Chicken Drumsticks and Chicken Thighs (each 750g) are in the move from £1.57 to £1.84:(. Old stock still available in some Ms on old BC at £1.57 but I think it won't last very long, such as is there. New BC is £1.84, so that the old BC stock will get sold out and replaced by the new BC in effect meaning the price has increased (even though technically it's not as they are each two different products both of identical description).

Same situation happened earlier in the week on the Kids Pears packs - stock of £1 may be be very hard to come by now - new BC is £1.14. You may be lucky to find an M with old SEL still up if only the new stock (which doesn't have price stated on the pack) is there. I think it's likely most places now have only the stock at £1.14.

The Kinder surprise egg that I found at 50p on Monday is now 77p and any 2 for £1:wall:. It looks like it's gone on (not very good) mix and match with other items, including 43g Milky Way. (I do not know but it could be that that has gone up in price too to be on an mbuy that is either more expensive than or makes no saving compared to the previous price.) So, a price increase for you on the Kinder egg (I had one store that still hadn't changed from previous straight 60p) and an mbuy on it that is the same price as before but they want you to buy more:(. Two Milky Ways for £1:eek: - I'd expect a full multipack at half that price! (In my dreams - multipacks are usually £1 of course. May be some reduced stock is the way to go, they all come around! But paying for two individual:wall::eek: bars at £1?!?:mad: EDIT: Maybe it's four. Looks like there may be two in a pack. But, anyway, it wasn't good enough for me to take any accurate details:rotfl:.)

In good pricing news:D, but may be available to relatively few people:

M Tuna Pasta Bake (400g) (frozen) RTC earlier, has now gone even lower, gone to 50p:).

You are lucky that I changed my final store at the last moment (would almost certainly not have had it in my original planned final store which I have visited before) - I needed a "Hollands Pie" store so had one I knew as my final store, but store 5 came up with one of the Hollands Pies anyway (and they turned out still to be on full price:() so I didn't need my original final store for that and went to a different one. Turned out they had lots of Hollands Pies:rotfl:. Tuna Pasta Bake marked with 93p RTC SEL - I suspected it would be wrong and, what a surprise:rotfl:, it scanned at 50p!

I think the (fresh) Seafood Selection is £2.17 in M - I thought it was on Monday - 3x £2.17 vs 3x £2.00 but just "felt" like it had gone up:( - I now have it showing £2.17 in all stores that have stock (got it at £2 offer label in a store where they was no stock but, on this occasion, I didn't trust it). I now think even more that they have gone up.

Elsewhere, there are a small number of items that have gone on further reduction for example M England Car Wing Mirror Covers now gone to 20p, they will get updated "soon". As usual, they are now very rare for me (hence why I've not found them at 20p before now) - they go to best prices in the fewer stores in which they haven't sold out. I think I've found some lost items too - but they turn out to be on full price and no longer on reduction anymore:(.

I've lost stock of Soreen Fruity Five Loaf now, but may be just the stores I checked. I have SEL in one store only. May be becoming thin on the ground and could go N/A on APG. I have two SELs of £1 for the Pasquier Croissants but no stock - I'll keep it on the list (even though last BB date was 12 September) as may compare on TBG for up to 7 days if they have those stores with SELs but no stock. Unlikely though I think - most probably N/A (probably no trace in all three collection stores, I have no idea where they are).

I've lost the Heinz Beanz Slice completely - I had only a SEL and no stock in just one store in the first place. I also have not got the Heinz Ketchup Slice that I have never had at all but suspect, if M had evidence of Beanz Slice, it would probably have the other one somewhere. Someone will have it in their store and wonder what all my trouble is about:rotfl:. I think this is like the Soreen Apple & Sultana Loaf that has appeared, just with SEL and no stock, in a couple of stores for me over time but I've never physically seen anywhere - probably in other stores (there are over 500) at some time and me just getting an indication of it and never anything more:(.

Despire 6 more stores, I have not found the Heinz 4 pack Tomato Ketchup Pork Sausage Rolls again. They vanished for me last week - I still maintain that some store has got to have them into this week but they've gone from dozens for me now, if they were ever there in the first place (and they were certainly in some). I also haven't seen or heard of the 4 pack Fridge Raiders at £2 that initially appeared in a store for me at the outset of me finding it - and I haven't had anywhere since (including vanished from the original store as I have revisited it).

I am having trouble on some chilled items. I have no Frijj 4 pack milkshake yesterday but it will be in the store that didn't have the SELs on Monday - or else some other M!

I've been trying to find if M have the Nestle Mix-in with Aero - but all I can see is Kit Kat, Smarties and Rolo. I also can't find the Munch Bunch Huge Tubes Strawberry - only the Assorted Strawberry & Raspberry version. I can't currently find any Muller Kids Corner Toffee Hoops 4x135g in M, only the Limited Edition version (which is Trackstars) and Gymtastics. The Gymtastics version looks to be a different one to the Seasonal version in A. I've searched for Frubes 9 pack Banana & Strawberry but all I can find, at present, is Strawberry and Strawberry Peach & Raspberry. As far as I am aware, M don't have Banana & Strawberry. That means nowt though - I couldn't find a variant of a wine in several stores recently but it turned out that M did have it. I've tried to find Pot Noodle Chilli Beef individual pot, but not found it and it seems to me possibly M doesn't have this one - however I will keep an eye on any new store in case it turns out that they do.

The home baking stuff at 47p - I don't know, it may compare on the APG. From six stores, I'm generally picking it up - however it's possible some individual items may have been OOS for too long in collection stores and now be N/A even though M has stock elsewhere. Also, I have incorrect full £2.03 RTC on some of the Dr Oetker Easy Swirl products that are at 97p. I had £2.03 on Monday - and just one version of them but, given that the other stuff had gone down, I had to scan that to find it was 97p. Now I have one of the versions I didn't have on Monday, from using six all different stores on Wednesday, at 97p SEL but no stock, and the other two at incorrect £2.03. I assume incorrect on one of them as I have no stock and unable to check and wasn't the one I scanned in the store on Monday. I don't think the one I did scan has gone back from 97p to £2.03:rotfl:. I would - indeed did - have all three from Monday at 97p as I scanned the one I had, found it was 97p and therefore took it that the other two I didn't have would be 97p as well. I'm doing well with my implications and assumptions:rotfl:. So I did, by chance!, already find they were 97p on Monday but would have known that on Wednesday at the latest as one of the stores I visited showed it - on another version. I'm getting there before I really know:rotfl:. I think it's possible they may have lost one or two of these on the APG collection stores and therefore, as the prices of the 47p items mean that any 10% is much lower - the lower items go at a competitor, the less 10% we get, for the sake of 5p - and given A's much much more expensive prices on M RTC items - and I'm sure M are really expensive on items that A happen to have on clearance - really I'd say these were 'buys in M' although some may struggle to find some of the items in their M now - as usual, they will go much more at these prices and they've got to them in Ms which have them left and haven't already cleared out (so, again, best prices in practice available to fewer people - you just get what you get in your store!).

I do not know what price has happened (if any has changed) on the Jumble Bee Tropicals that went to RTC. I've lost them completely and not got either of them in any of the stores I've checked in the past month. If they are somewhere (they will be surely!?!) I suspect they may be lower price than what I have them at. So, I'm N/A really but, if anyone has them still in their M, they may be better price than my list... Of course, I will not remove them. M never truly clears out of absolutely every store:rotfl: (perhaps not 100% literally but largely true). I may find them at some stage - I do not know how or which store (and don't have any further stores planned immediately) - after all, I have found the M Tuna Pasta Bake again (I'd not seen that for a number of weeks) and now found it has gone onto even better price:D.

Savvybuyer

You may wonder why RTC information from 4 stores from Monday, although six were visited and why now information from 5 stores when again 6 visited. Wasn't anything good in two of the stores on Monday and the one of them now:rotfl:.

Savvybuyer

M Tuna Pasta Bake (400g) (frozen)
50p


Goodnight/good morning:wave:.

marmitelovemehateme

Good morning sleepy heads...Tea is ready and hot butter crumpets with marmite are on the go....

:coffee::coffee::coffee::coffee::coffee::coffee:

SweetnSavvy

Morning Marmie,

Ooooooooh, long time since I've had crumpets. And yes, with marmite.:j:j

SnS

elainemn

Good morning everyone

Serendipitious

Good morning all

Morning Marmite.

Happy Thursday from me too!

TrulyMadly

Sarahdol75 wrote: »

Oh Underperky, you do make me laugh.
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


I was just coming on to say is anyone still waiting to get their tumble dryers repaired, I am still waiting, I was told at christmas I would get a phonecall, and still waiting.

I have just sent an email to them but its been returned saying address not known.

Has anyone got an email address, as the one I am replying to is not working:(

My machine is brand new aswell, so not impressed.:(

Hasn't zag just had his repaired.....he might be able to help Sarah:)

See you have just posted zag.......morning paw sniffers.....

curl_girl

curl_girl wrote: »

Just popping on to say about the Free Canvas print.
Great timing for me, ordered one for mum, should have cost £15 plus £4.95 postage. Canvas size is 30cm x 20cm. :money:

Sorry if I have repeated someone's post as have not caught up today yet!

Morning peeps.

The British Gas free canvas is for all customers not just for switchers! Great for Christmas.

I am though going to look into Martin's switch offer later today as i am on standard tariff as i prefer to pay quarterly by credit card but if I can save hundreds I may take the plunge!