Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

Savvybuyer

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Oral B Stages Power Star Wars Gift Set£10.00 This was brought in for pre-Black Friday at £15! So, clearly, once again, better to have waited until the whole thing was over:doh:!
2xOral B Complete Clean 40 Toothbrush - FirmAny 2 for £3.00
2xOral B Advantage Plus Complete Clean 35 Medium BrushAny 2 for £3.00

The Star Wars gift set is available in A at £15 (assuming the SEL is correct, I have seen it today) - however I think it's not on a.com so it won't compare against M:(.
The above Oral B toothbrushes - unusually the mbuy price is a better price than the previous just straight price. However, one of them is available in T at £1.50 so no need to buy two there but obviously do not target M if going down that route! As the single individual price elsewhere (in other words at a competitor of M) is £1.50, I can therefore see these going 'down' in M to £1.50 straight next time. They are not giving you any better than T's offer price for them - and are requiring you to buy two to get that price. And why would they (or any other supermarket) give any better than a competitor really? Unless it was simply to get you into the store in the hope that you spend on buying much more.

The Star Wars gift toothbrush is not as common overall as it was last week, but it is still around if you are in the right store. There is also a Disney Frozen version at the same price. I've lost that this week - it was never as plentiful as the Star Wars one for me in the first place - but I'm sure that it will be around still somewhere (someone may even have loads of Frozen but no Star Wars in their M:rotfl:).

Picasso7

mhoc wrote: »

also nipped up to sainsbobs.

Aldi no longer seem to be stocking the lemon mayo - must be a summer only item. Ive been looking for weeks now trying to find another brand that does it with no success. But I struck gold in Sainsbobs - Hellmans lemon reduced to £1.13 so I got the last 4 bottles to last me through until Aldi stock it again

(aldi chicken gougons taste yummy dipped in it )

so I put these 4 bottles through the Ss machines, one at a time as Ive got another of these Nectar offers - swipe nectar card 8 times and then months afters after a long struggle you might get 100 point bonus but only after you have emailed and spent half an hour on live chat :rotfl:

each transaction gave me a till spit - spend £25 on Tu clothing and get 8p off fuel and once spend £15 on Tu get 8p fuel valid until the 29th so now I have 4 of these.
I might need to get some badly fitting clothing

I went looking tonight but no lemon mayo for me. Will look for them at Aldi in the summer as I've not had it for years but loved it. Only one till spit for me and I have to spend £30 on Tu for my fuel voucher but I also paid for four items one at a time.

Heinz fancy light mayo in a glass jar reduced to £2, about 700g. Check the dates -- some 1 Jan but others October 2017.

Picasso7

MKS wrote: »

I think that there was a 40p one off of some sort of milk, towards the end of the mag.

Thanks MKS, if I get a chance in the morning before catching my train, I shall rescue them from the recycling bin!!

Picasso7

Savvybuyer wrote: »

I think you have overpaid here. M have the Little Dish Beef Chilli at £1.50. I think the N/A may be due to T's three stores being inadequate to pick up every version that M has. I have a store that has only one of them and even then it's not one of the 200g ones. However, M do have the full range elsewhere. I think that, despite T claiming "never pay more", you have paid 50p more on the brands than buying them in M.

I'd ring up T HQ CS and complain - the Little Dish product is even on m.com so it is quite clear that they have it at £1.50:

https://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/getSearchProducts.do?clearTabs=yes&isFreshSearch=true&chosenSuggestionPosition=&entry=little+beef+chilli

It's 'only 50p' - but they may well, should well, offer more to you than just this for having unknowingly overpaid. The whole point of this is that they should do - and claim to do - the legwork for you, checking the prices of brands at M so that you never pay T more, but their system appears to have failed to do this and, indeed, you yourself have now been made aware you've overpaid on the Little Dish Chilli Beef.

I'm not convinced about that whole comp. though (I never am convinced, by anything:rotfl:!). I think the whole shop needs to be taken through several Ms to try to establish which of these items M does in fact have and what the comparison should be. I'm not convinced about the Ocean Spray products as I do not know that M does not have them - I'd need to check this instore and it could turn out that they are more expensive in M:shhh::silenced: or they might indeed not have them (although that could never be established without visiting all over 500 stores and, even then, they could have been there at a different time of day to when visited). I don't think M have the C&B Tomato soup and, as far as I'm aware, I don't recall seeing any Up & Gos in M.

I have these in M - from Avs M:


And from buy in M as not believed to be on a.com:


I have just the Shepherd's Pie in italics. I don't have the Beef Chilli in italics (to indicate Tvs M) - this was because I couldn't see the product in T online at the time I checked but this shouldn't matter as products should be compared if they are bought in T even if they are not on t.com. The product is on t.com but, for whatever reason, the TBG collectors have not got it for M.

Thanks Savvy. Given that I used so many mocs, I am not sure how wise it would be to raise my head above the parapet! (And shopmium will give me my money back too I hope.)

Picasso7

Serendipitious wrote: »

Yes, 40p off something called a2 milk valid till 5 Jan page 143

Hth Picasso

That helps a lot, thank you, Seren. I got that milk when it was going free but not sure it is worth paying the extra for it. So one job less tomorrow morning!

Savvybuyer

curl_girl wrote: »

Smart price tissues 65p v 80p T.
That's a lie..... one of many.

Unfortunately it's true (as far as I see it):
http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=271842251

Should be versus M (outside Northern Ireland) at 65p though.

While I'm now got onto the matter of SP items, note that SP Peaches tin equivalent in M - you won't see this from online - has gone up to 40p (it seems, going by the SEL I have). It's now A 35p vs T 35p. Mind you, it should only lose 1p if put onto vs M under new price but won't gain 3 or 4p. Hopefully they will not round T's price up by a penny with T being 1g lower weight:(:rotfl:.

SP Mozzarella - was good vs M at 43p - is now either Avs M or T at 47p. A still isn't 10% cheaper, but it's now by a fraction of a penny:(. Hardly worthwhile - may as well just buy it at straight A price if it's the only thing you need (rather than buying 7 more unnecessary items). However, if Avs M or T is being done, and you need it, may as well count as one item on there:cool:.

The 'lie' is that M don't have Chicken Hot Dogs. However, in one sense, it is not a lie as the N/A just means that the "price collectors haven't found it". So, in that sense, the 'lie' is probably truth (I am not aware of the full facts to be able to say it is truth and me doing that would itself be a lie). I have however caught the price collectors quite correctly, I believe, on this as I'm the truth again!:) No good though:(, as it doesn't matter if M or anywhere has it cheaper if their system says no.

Picasso7

Anon wrote: »

Panic over, JL coffee and cake voucher arrived today (small window in January to redeem).

Anon

mine too and at the front a free biscuit -- reindeer shape or something?

Picasso7

Night everyone. Too much to do before I can sleep and an early start tomorrow.

Savvybuyer

Isn't it terrible being right all the time?:rotfl::rotfl::o:o

I'm not btw - I just claim to be right more often than most people and, certainly, much more often than not. Which are both probably true:D:D:p:o:o:rotfl::p:rotfl::rotfl:.

I'm right probably 98% of the time, and 1% of the time I know that I was wrong so am now right there, and probably 1% wrong. If you believe that (personally I don't:rotfl:):rotfl::rotfl:.

Snap-ant

rhosynbach wrote: »

now my next problem going to essex next week for nephews wedding, train booked
taxi booked
room booked
pressie brought
cover at work organised
dress brought. no wait a minute i knew iforgot something , no dress:rotfl::rotfl:

Are you travelling down our line or going across to Chester?