Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

Savvybuyer

I'm now removing items from the M list that may have gone from M (but I'm sure this will be me falling into error again and therefore they go to the 'lost list'). Maybe I need your help, as it's not as easy as may be thought.

I've now taken off the main list the Aunt Bessies 1.5Kg Roast Potatoes, despite vowing to keep them on the list until at least July of next year (the last BB date I had on the last remaining packs I saw). People may remember these went on and off the list no fewer than four times as, every time I took them off, I later found them a few weeks later when doing a trip around other stores. The last occasion I found them, at the early part of this year, it took me many stores to find them again and they were nowhere else at that stage. I had them in just one store and I think the only reason they were still in that store - and had gone from everywhere else for me - was because they were on a bottom shelf with no RTC label on them but just the £1.50 price and no attention being drawn to them.

In the summer, several Ms had a reorganisation of their freezers - freezer aisles moved around in more than one store - and, although I've never been able to revisit the store at which I last saw the Roast Potatoes, I find it hard to believe that this would not have upset the location in that store. It is now many months later and, at this stage, I reckon the freezers are likely to have been disturbed during summer and, now months afterwards, that these are very likely to have gone altogether. So, I have now removed them from the main list:eek: and they're now just on lost (they were already on lost as well) although I know that every single time I did so in the past I always later found them again! It is now over a year since the RTC and I think they were only in one store because of where they happened to be located on the shelf but that situation is likely to have changed some months ago and now enough time for them all to have been bought. I have seen no new stock anywhere.

Of course I will be wrong:rotfl:. If anyone does find them in their M, probably an M I've never visited and not even my last remaining one of early this year, please do let me know (although, given that no-one ever told me that they had them during the four times I removed them previously I don't see why they would:rotfl:.)

I've also removed some Bulmer's Cider that I haven't seen any indication of since I first saw it, about six months ago, but, like the Dove Men+Care that suddenly turned up on me three or four months later then was absent then appeared two months after that, I feel that the Cider will now be sure to reappear on me again:rotfl:. It's always difficult to know what has gone - the items never seem to!

I've taken off the own label Strawberry Ice Cream Cones (the old 4 pack version, not the 6 pack that is obviously a bit more pricey). I've had two hits on these (in over six months) - one when initially found in one store and then complete absence from there and everywhere else until, all of a sudden, months later one other store had them. That store is itself long absent of them now, once again, and I haven't seen or heard of them for months - they are an RTC that surely(?) will have gone by now but, I don't know, these things just can reappear at some time. Maybe some M has a secret stash that they are ready to bring out at any moment at an unsuspecting time:rotfl:.

I've taken the Cadbury Swirl Ice Cream off the main list (it was already on lost as, truthfully, I've lost it for months). Once again remaining in a single store ages after the original RTC (if I even ever picked that up at its outset). Freezer items can just stay in a single store for months if they happen not to get sold. Again, this is an RTC that I suspect, once stock has gone, will not have more stock (sometimes this can be wrong though and they have more to bring out - I just never know when they are gone but I assume this is more likely with non-freezer items, that they might just have in the back, rather than stuff that needs to be kept frozen and might be redelivered - which, I doubt an RTC like this would be. This is just my assumption and presumption though. It is probably incorrect.)

I think that, with months now past, the stock may have been bought and not restocked, so that it's probably gone. However, if anyone does have Cadbury Swirl Luxury Ice Cream in their M - it did take me a while to find a single store that had it months ago (and months after it had vanished from its random trips around elsewhere) - well, I've lost it for ages and let me know:).

I'm keeping Dr. Beckmann washing machine cleaner (250ml) - despite removing months ago one of the RTC Fairy WULs?!?:huh: - on the main list. My store no longer has a large RTC shelf to store these sorts of items and so the Beckmann product is long gone from there or anywhere else for me, but somehow I am envisaging that somewhere has this long-old RTC item, despite the fact that, when I think about it, maybe the chances of the Cadbury Swirl being around are greater than the cleaner?!?:huh: I don't know - I think I'm wrong since probably Swirl Ice Cream will be somewhere but Dr. Beckmann has gone:rotfl::rotfl:. If anyone has either (or both!:D), can you let me know?:o:o:rotfl::cool:

And, as for these:

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Annabel Karmel Disney Yummy Raisins12mth+ (12x14g)£1.69 84p I think not.
Hipp Organic Fruit & Pieces Apple & Strawberry 7mth+ (4x100g)£1.50 £1.00 I think not.
Heinz Apple & Banana Fruit Pot 4mth+ (4x100g)£1.00 £1.00 As above.
Heinz Apple, Banana & Apricot Fruit Pot 4mth+ (4x100g)£1.00 £1.00 As above.

I'm deciding that the Annabel Karmel is to go but the other three will be kept:rotfl:! On what basis I have no real clue...:D:rotfl::rotfl:

I don't know (yet again!:o:p) - I can just 'feel' that the Hipp Organic and Heinz Pots will be on some RTC shelf somewhere, all three of them together, whilst the Annabel will have gone from main shelves, hasn't been seen in any stores I've visited since I first found it, and somehow won't be around. However, truthfully, probably a single unit of stock is at the very back of someone's crowded RTC shelf, whilst the fruit pots are available on someone else's somewhere. I think my deletion of the Annabel is going to be wrong but somehow that the fruit pots are still around. This is despite the fact that the last time I saw them was already months after they had gone for me from nearly everywhere and the lingering on in one store has probably itself now gone, so maybe they aren't around at all:rotfl: . (In short, the retained fruit pots may be gone but the Annabel, being deleted, is probably still around:rotfl::rotfl:.)

What else? I will keep the Nature's Nest bird products on the list, that got deleted as a job lot before and then one of them turned up so I put the whole lot back on - until I can revisit the store that I last had them in and see if it's still there or not: I think it probably will be. I am probably deleting some of the RTC alcohol cans by now, as although one did turn up again, they've probably now gone tbh. I am if'ing and ah'ing about the 47p baking products - I haven't seen those in any stores for some time now and they are all but gone. I don't know about the Joe's and Seph's sauces - has someone still got one of those on their RTC shelf months later? (And someone else got another version of them?) Maybe the Lazizas are gone - I will get rid of those, in the danger that someone will still have them!(:rotfl:) They were from even before. I'll keep the Our Little Secret meals on there, as they are not too long ago, even though I have them nowhere now and, if they are somewhere, they are likely to be rare. Again - back of RTC shelf though?:think: Or one store, in my imagination, still hasn't put the RTC label on, so has stock on the very bottom shelf of the normal aisle where no-one has noticed it.

The (now very cheap) frozen item RTCs for buy in M that I have on I will largely keep on the list, in case someone has them somewhere. It's not long since I saw one of them with higher incorrect prices on the packs. However, I will get rid of the Quorn Sausage Rolls that, once again, has gone through several periods of me losing it completely - each time waiting a longer time until I found them again. They appeared - probably near the beginning of the RTC - in several stores, went out of the stores, disappeared on me totally, were found elsewhere a few weeks later, disappeared, came back after a month elsewhere (so still around), disappeared, then it took me months and trips through dozens of stores and one of them still had them, this now absolute months after, but now not been seen ever since and, over six months now on from that, I find it hard to envisage they are still around. They probably clean are:rotfl::rotfl:. Again, if anyone has them, but I think they are more likely gone by now (big mistake to think this:eek::eek::D):rotfl::question: :rotfl::p:rotfl::rotfl::A.

I'll remove the Coffee Filters - again, they are likely to be on someone's rare RTC shelf aren't they though?:doh::think: (I have lost them, for quite some time now though, so they are correctly being put onto the 'lost list':cool:. Watch me move all your store's items to there:(:o:rotfl:.)

bubbs

Just looked on ebay and as the story telling santa is classed as vintage:eek: bids on one finishing in a few hrs is at £62:eek:

Tinyshoes

bubbs wrote: »

Just looked on ebay and as the story telling santa is classed as vintage:eek: bids on one finishing in a few hrs is at £62:eek:

Oh no bubbs, was it beyond rescuing?

Savvybuyer

I just can't do it! I can't bring myself to do it!:rotfl: I will keep the Coffee Filters on the list:D, because I just have this feeling that removing them is going to turn out to have been wrong. I haven't seen them anywhere - dozens of stores - for a few months, but whilst I'm thinking they are gone, I'm sure this will turn out just to be in all of the stores I've visited so far and that there is a single RTC shelf out of over 500 stores in the country that will have a single unit of stock. I can just see it - I am not going to risk the removal:o:o:rotfl::rotfl:.

bubbs

Tinyshoes wrote: »

Oh no bubbs, was it beyond rescuing?

Yes , was saturated and mouldy, also stunk:eek: its gone now in the bin:(

bubbs

Like this, this picture is not very good , but you put the littl books in santa's hand and he read the story
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Avon-Story-Telling-Santa-/222332694701?hash=item33c40fb0ad:g:FbwAAOSw44BYQHeV

TrulyMadly

I hope I can post this redfox....I heard the Sunday Times were taking down their paywall so everyone can read the great man's final words

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/more-life-with-your-kids-more-life-with-your-friends-more-life-spent-on-earth-but-only-if-you-pay-d7lwpht3j

auto.armadillo

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Item Description



Tesco



Asda

Sainsbury's

Morrisons*



1x

T. READY TO ROAST ROOT VEG CHIPS 500G
£0.36 † n/a n/a n/a

1x

TESCO SWEDE & CARROT GNOCCHI 400G
£0.28 † n/a n/a n/a

1x

MINI STUFFD MUSH RED ONION & CHEDDAR 168G
£0.36 † n/a n/a n/a

1x

BROOKSIDE DARK CHOC SFT CENTERS BLUEBERRY 198G
£2.50 n/a n/a n/a

1x

APPLE DOUGHNUT 5 PACK
£0.33 n/a n/a n/a

1x

MINI BABYBEL FULL FAT SOFT CHEESE 120G
£1.85 £1.84 £1.85 £1.00

1x

MINI BABYBEL LIGHT CHEESE 120G
£1.85 £1.84 £1.85 £1.00

1x

MINI BABYBEL CHEDDAR 120G
£1.85 £1.84 £1.85 £1.00

1x

TESCO EDAY VALUE CHICKEN FLAVOUR INS NOODLES 65G
£0.20 n/a n/a n/a

1x

TESCO EDAY VALUE GRAVY GRANULES 200G
£0.20 n/a n/a n/a

1x

TESCO CHOC BISCUIT ASSORTMENT 450G
£2.00 n/a n/a n/a

1x

LITTLE DISH 1YR+ FISH PIE 200G
£2.00 £2.50 £2.25 £1.50

1x

LITTLE DISH 1YR+ COTTAGE PIE 200G
£2.00 £2.50 £2.25 £1.50

1x

LITTLE DISH 1YR+ PASTA BOLOGNESE 200G
£2.00 £2.50 £2.25 £1.50

Tesco comparable total £11.55 £11.55 £11.55
Competitor shop total £13.02 £12.30 £7.50
The difference -£1.47 -£0.75 £4.05
cost more cost more cost less

Picasso7

redfox wrote: »

I don't see any problem with that as long as other rules are adhered to

Thank you, RF.

I have not found any shops which are not working on Amex, but if anyone wants to share any, RF has given the go-ahead, folks.

curl_girl

Evening peeps.

I popped over to the money savers arms last night as i was awake late for me.

They were discussing how quiet their forum is now, i gate crashed and they commented how my posts (from the elite) have loads of thanks and their posts have hardly any..... They thought I was a comper!

As they hosted the elite when we were closed down I wondered if a few peeps would pop back in to say hello?

Off for a catch up.