Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

rose28454

Lots of Xmas biscuits and gifts at 50% off in W and Xmas cakes half price in T. But I drove to T and my car is still there as it wouldn't start. But OH coming later to start it. Locar love your gammons well done!! All the ones in mine dated January.

Anon

Check you Mcblip codes if you won any - mine said it had already been applied to another account .

Anon

tweets

Poppy loved destroying her Christmas present



Poppy after destroying having a doggy nap :A

Savvybuyer

izzeyb wrote: »

Morning.

Wonder if Waitrose will have any Xmas reductions today (they were closed yesterday) or may be tomorrow. Not noticed anything posted yet here or HotUkD mentioning Xmas reductions.

Couple of multis ending today, U Jedrusia Pierogi, £1.45 each of 2 for £2.00. Should compare to Tesco £2.90 v £2.00

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/Shopping/FindProducts.aspx?Query=u%20jedrusia

And Muller Light 6 pack yogurts. These were on 2 for £5.00 but they won’t glitch as the price has already been dropped to £2 each, so it's cheaper to buy them when not on offer :mad:

Hello all! So that's me getting rid of the Virtu Dumplings etc. from the list if this works.

It very often is - the others that go to £1 go between £1 and 2 for £4 and back to £1. I don't think I've ever seen them on 2 for £2. Why have people buy one when you can have them buying two - or some other mbuy number - and, preferably, paying over the odds for each one? And, if people miss the mbuy when it's on and then just get one, they'll pay even more! Win-win situation for the supermarket whichever way you look at it.

It seems most mbuys are either more expensive or, if not, they are the same price as before or after - I keep highlighting a number of examples, such as several of those RTCs from M yesterday that are the same as the previous mbuy price. I think it will be the same in other supermarkets - I can't imagine M is the only one with this sort of pricing. Of course, the mbuy has an even higher individual price and it allows the supermarket to use that crossed-out price when showing the new price that is lower than it - when, in fact, if people had bought the mbuy offer before (which the supermarket does not have to show), they would have paid the same total price.

There are items that seem to continue on the same base price regardless of what 'offer' they are on. Either way the supermarket wins - there is either an mbuy offer and people buy the offer (or else pay even more!) or the product is on offer at the straight price and people buy that offer. Whichever offer it is on makes no difference - the mbuys are good (from the supermarket's POV) to get people to buy more and spend more and the 'same individual price as the mbuy' 'offer' (with higher crossed out price) is good too as people think they are making a saving. An mbuy that offers a better price than the item when on it's straight offer price is unusual and seems relatively rare. It seems to me probably only about 10% of mbuys are actually a better price - that's just the impression I get - the vast majority are either same price, or more expensive.

So, whilst A claims it's "unusual" for somewhere else to be cheaper on the APG - which is usually because people buy according to what looks at a good price when shopping in A - it's actually unusual for an mbuy to offer a better price (than a straight offer). So, if we see one, we might say "That's unusual!". Such as the Patterson Shortbread Fingers mbuy in M which is one of the few I can think of that's actually better than its individual price - I can't think of any others that were. Although, as soon as the Shortbread Fingers go to 75p, which I've not seen, that will then invalidate any mbuy being better.

There is a reason for this and I've linked to a page about it before, which, although it's an example in America is I think still valid for us in our different country - I can't just find where that page is now but the essence is that of 'why have them buying one when you can have them buying ten?'. And it works - put a product on a 10 for £6 offer, and... :doh: people buy ten!:D:rotfl::rotfl: Even when the price was straight 30p before:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:, which is obviously much less profitable for the store and no good (unless perhaps - Savvy cynic - it is being used merely to get people into the store and have them also buying more, on other items that are not so good-priced from the interests of the customer). They have to make their money somehow, and that's how they do it. So, maybe a large number of items that look like they are on special offer (as in 'was £2 now £1') were in fact on an mbuy offer that worked out at the same price before ('£2 - buy one get one free' or, as I say, pay twice as much for the first one) - and they go from those 'offers' onto the mbuys and back again, making no change to the price whichever offer is taken up.

I shall start using the phrase "that's unusual!" if I see any mbuy that represents better value:rotfl:. Better value than its straight offer price (which of course it is not now on when it's on the mbuy). And I will say "that's unusual" because... it is!:D

diluvsdiscounts

tweets wrote: »

Poppy loved destroying her Christmas present



Poppy after destroying having a doggy nap :A

She's a little tinker isn't she :rotfl:

davemorton

mhoc wrote: »

did you sort out your night before hotel dilema yet?
I think a travelodge sale started on Boxing Day and there is the new Travelodge close to the middle of town.

Thanks for that MHOC, but checked and the voucher does not work for the days I wanted, the swines. And they are wanting £90 :eek: no way would I pay that for a travelodge.

Just had a look on premier inn and I can get their Southampton Airport hotel for £31 which seems a cracking price.

Does anyone know if there is a pub next door to it, and also is it walking distance from the Airport train station? TIA

tweets

diluvsdiscounts wrote: »

She's a little tinker isn't she :rotfl:

Only safe toy is her black Kong. Cant believe the things she chews through. Toys that have indestructive on them.

I wish she could be a doggy toy tester that would be fun :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Savvybuyer

Ah! There will be some change on 2nd January (which I will miss), I think. The £15 1L alcohol bottles in M I note are due to end on 1st January (according to online). Not that you should rush out and buy them as they (or various ones of them, somewhere) are regularly at the £15 price. No urgency:rotfl: - supermarkets undermine their own offers, somewhat, by having them regularly at those prices.

(They are not the "regular prices" in the Sains. sense of the word. However, they are not infrequently at £15 somewhere or another and therefore in that sense it is quite a "regular" thing to see. And when did we ever think that the Mr Sains' view of what a word meant was ever the one we should take up?:think:)

bubbs

altojack wrote: »

Good morning Elite :santa2:

I'm off to a slow start today, not caught up yet, not dressed yet

Lovely bright start to the day but quite a chill in the air, glad I'm not going out :cool:

Enjoy shopping if that's your thing today, otherwise just stay cool and chill at home. Off to catch up xx

Hi AJ :wave:
ope you are ok after your mis hap but you didnt tell us what you did:p

miss_corerupted wrote: »

She just likes girly whereas i like nerdy, she left the room when we started playing LOTR Trivial Pursuit. My sis used to be really girly but is getting nerdy now. All her kids are love her, she doesnt get it at all

AHHH i see:D if we were all the same would be boring:rotfl:

rose28454 wrote: »

Lots of Xmas biscuits and gifts at 50% off in W and Xmas cakes half price in T. But I drove to T and my car is still there as it wouldn't start. But OH coming later to start it. Locar love your gammons well done!! All the ones in mine dated January.

I ought to go out but cant be bothere, loads to do , done s0d all:eek::rotfl::rotfl:

bubbs

Galaxy Collection 6 pack Was £6 now £2.00 reduced to clear at Tesco
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/galaxy-collection-6-pack-was-6-now-2-reduced-clear-tesco-2586911