Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

Sunshinemummy

chocaholics wrote: »

Hi SSM I rang the number on the back of the card, options 1 and 1 I think but dont hold me to that. I did actually ring the other day about the three refused amex shops and the guy I spoke to said I would have £10 credit for them even though there were three but they didnt appear on my account, so when I ran again I told, this time a lady, what the guy had said and she immediately said I was not actually entitled to any credit for them, but after going through names addresses etc of each one - 5 by now in total she said this time I will give you £25 for these shops but in future amex will want to see receipts as proof of purchase. I said OK by me, thanks very much.:cool:

Thanks I will try tomorrow.

Before a friend comes to my house, I am I am just/desperately trying to put together a list for Nottingham for tomorrow x

Dizzy_Ditzy

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

So, who else is watching Paddington tonight

I would be if misery guts hadn't pointed out that it's on until 8pm:eek:

The film isn't that long even with a "normal" amount of adverts

bubbs

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silvercar

Picasso7 wrote: »

Hadn't realised it was on. Thank you. But all the ironing is done and I need to do cards, so will have to give it a miss. Does Channel 4 do catch up please?

There is a ch4+1 and also ch 4 has a good app on tablets.

bubbs

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silvercar

A little reminder for those doing the Amex small shop. If you want something that is £9.99, buying a 5p bag is the cheapest way of getting over the £10 barrier.

Savvybuyer

diluvsdiscounts wrote: »

Thank you yes it does.


I meant the Richmond shake and bake I'm not sure what you mean by them ones with red on be a i cannot find the caramelized ones on m.

Thanks bubbs it is a bitmof a minefield isn't it!

As far as I know

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Richmond Shake & Bake Classic Sausage Casserole (440g)£1.50
Richmond Shake & Bake Italian Tomato (440g)£1.50

there are two in M - these were marked "new" on the packs and I hadn't seen them before. I'm not confident that I have got all of the ones that M has - I was lucky to have even these I felt - just one in a single store and the other one in another single store only. I was going to say I will have a full sweep, in every store I visit, tomorrow to see if there are any more that I have missed - however these were only on offer until today so I will be deleting them next time unless M extends its offer.

They are on 'buy in M' so, if the offer ends today, that may now be over at least for now.

I have looked at a.com for the Richmond Thick Pork. That seems to be Richmond Perfect Bake not Richmond Shake & Bake. The only Shake & Bake ones that I have, in M, are 440g but the Perfect Bakes are different weight. I do not know that A has any Shake & Bake products - if they are not online they will not appear on a comp. and thus will not compare. Even if they were available and if they appear, they might not compare at the moment if this really is a "new" item. I have those two in M (there could be more but, in any event, with there being only one online, I have done better than msm:j) but the M offer price is due to end today.

You're lucky - under my old approach, of stores I used to visit, I would have had one of them only (the one that is online) and be unaware of the other Shake & Bake at all as I have picked that up this week from elsewhere. Indeed, under my original approach, of the one store I used to use, I would have, at this stage, had none of them at all! I said that I am now using twice as many stores as before. It occurs to me that that's now incorrect - in fact I was generally using 3 (or sometimes 4) stores, and the same ones on Monday and Wednesday, whereas, this week, I have 12 different stores (6 on each day as they were two completely different sets of 6 stores and none of them overlapped) - so, in fact, it's three or even four times the number of before!

I would need more stores to see 'everything' though - and, even there, I think I would now need at least three stores additional to the further stores I thought I would need - I forgot that I would need the store that has the pound shop and all its items in it. Generally, elsewhere, a random one may be found in a single store I visit and that will happen about once every three months or so:rotfl: - usually nothing at all in any of them - I need the store that I now know of that exists elsewhere that has the full range (even assuming that that is the full range). I'm just assuming for now that these items are still there and, being in the pound shop, are still £1. I would also need a store in Wales to pick up some Welsh items - there is a fairly new range (unless it's been elsewhere without my knowledge for some time before:rotfl:) of pies and pastries specific to Wales although the price was no good for them to get to the list when I saw them. I'd also need a store in Scotland to pick up the Scottish version of the milk and other such items. So, not just the six(?) extra to get additional items/ranges that I don't have, even from 12 stores, so 18 stores, but at least three more as well and that's when I am excluding local newspapers from the items I get. If there is a store that has all the ranges that M has, I have yet to find it. I don't think that visiting every store in a big conurbation would necessarily pick everything up (even if I exclude all the much older RTC items) - and there is one item that I have only seen recently in two quite small stores (one of which I did have again this week).

So, how do I manage with all these missing items? Well, there are items, shall we say, that I could do with seeing (others that I don't have each time, but may have every other week, from visiting other places, are just taken to be continuing on offers that I already know about, from having them before) - and six stores sometimes gets everything that I need to see or, if not, there are one or two items, or only a handful, that I don't end up with even after that and I make my own judgements about them. So, not too bad.

zippydooda

carling and a few odd bits that may be of interest.

comparison Asda Tesco

1x ASDA Smartprice Dish Cloths (5PK) £0.73 £0.75
1x Jacob's Treeselets (280G) £1.50 £1.50
1x Carling Lager (4X440) £3.50 £3.00
1x Blue Dragon Light Soy Sauce (375ML) £1.00 N/A good price
1x Jacob's Cheesonal Mini Cheddars Original (260G) £1.50 £1.50

so carling gives 80p towards apg

bubbs

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bubbs

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