Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

Tinyshoes

aau1 wrote: »

Thanks, she's already got similar though

And she's waaaaay more than toddling. The 2 of them race each other all over the house!

Ah bless :A:A

I was tempted for Teeny but there are still xmas and birthday presents to take back to them at her BF's parents. They couldn't get it all in the car for the return trip even though they had offloaded all the xmas presents to all the various families. :eek:

Tinyshoes

Right I'm off to bed lovely people. :A

Goodnight

Tinyshoes

Oh and before I go Mystery bargain reds, whites and champagne all in stock.

aau1

Tinyshoes wrote: »

Ah bless :A:A

I was tempted for Teeny but there are still xmas and birthday presents to take back to them at her BF's parents. They couldn't get it all in the car for the return trip even though they had offloaded all the xmas presents to all the various families. :eek:

You should have seen them playing Star Wars with xmas paper rolls!

davemorton

Anon wrote: »

I don't feel left out ... my car is outside my house where I parked it .

Anon

Tinyshoes wrote: »

Well thankfully that is where mine is at the moment.

Tinyshoes wrote: »

Oh and before I go Mystery bargain reds, whites and champagne all in stock.

Thanks, but im more interested as to why your car is outside Anons!?"!?

gocat

Anyone having problems with wizards on APG tonight. Been trying to check a C&C but no luck so far

ETA The wizards must be reading here as no problem now :eek:

Savvybuyer

The prices have been taken for Wednesday and, this time, I now have two sides of paper (one sheet) to do:D:D:j:T:T. I think many of the small amount of changes are not in fact changes but are additional items that I didn't have in the entirely different stores used on Monday. There seem to be some changes - one box of multipack alcohol has I think gone up in price (several others have gone down, back to the price they were probably at a couple of weeks ago, but not ones I'm tracking as price no good in any event - bigger packs go to better prices per unit and regularly make it to the list), a couple of toothbrushes may have gone off offer and therefore back up - such as one of them was £5 and now back to £9:eek::rotfl: - that's if I even have them on the list at the moment: I've no idea what I have on there:rotfl: but I noticed they were showing me full price in multiple stores yesterday - and a couple of the Rustler's meat etc. products were "in the process of returning to full price due to stock available", whilst another two were going the other way and "moving towards becoming more stock on £1 BC offer" - they seem to have settled down and it's now the Quarter Pounder 190g and Hot Dog 146g on £1, in effect, due to the lack of full price BC version:T whilst the other two I had, I no longer have any £1 BC stock:(. However it seems to have become more clear for TBG purposes as at least both prices on each don't appear generally to be around now.

Last time I didn't have the "The Best" teacakes that had been 75p, down from £1. I do have stock and SELs in one of my stores now, and :(the stock no longer has the 75p labels on it and the SELs are now telling me £1.38, so it seems they may now be making up for having been on offer before. I have noticed this on other products before - such as fresh carrots and individual Tic Tacs. Each of those went onto an offer but, when the offers ended, the products then appeared to go to higher than I'd ever seen (and higher than what they had been before they went on offer).

I have had trouble finding the Dettol Hob & Sink wipes in stores during M having them at £2 and, when I've found them, around half the time I have had no SEL. I think it's the entire time I've had them on the list but I reckon they may have been available in M for at least two weeks before I even first found them and may have been absent from my list at the beginning when I had them in no stores! Unfortunately, I am going no trace now:( as I have again visited my last known remaining store and they've now vanished from there. I found them unexpectedly at £2 last week, as they were on £2 offer when the Bathroom wipes were on offer. When two others went onto offer, and the Bathroom Wipes went back up to £3.98, I expected the Hob & Sink to have gone to the same price - however, no, they scanned at £2! My lack of trace does not mean that I believe they're now unavailable in M. I think they will still be around somewhere, although they are likely to be rare. I can't confirm that M has them anymore, although I believe it's very likely that they do, and I can't confirm a price anymore but I think they'll very likely now be unchanged at £2. Nonetheless, I am having to go no trace myself on them.

I think there may be some changeover in the stockage of some Flatbreads in some stores: some now have full price stock but I reckon more have offer stock. Of course my perspective and my view could completely change yet again next time as different stores leave me with different impressions:rotfl::rotfl:. So, that's my current view - ready to be overturned yet again when I visit somewhere else next time.

It may have been noticed last time that I had a number of additional Granny Robinson candles, that have probably been around for months but only finding the right store in stock of them on Monday, but the Bloom Candles are now one entry. I had two entries for those candles before. I actually found a total of three different varieties on Monday - however, unlike the Granny Robinsons that are each on different BCs, the Bloom Candles share a unique BC - therefore the two entries have been conflated and are now just one entry. I recall before how I got details of a large number of plant varieties only, eventually, to decide that they were all just one product as the BC was the same on each. I'm now collecting details of a lot of different annuals - hopefully the BCs are different for each:rotfl::

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Top Gear 2017 Annual£2.00:eek: Maybe best to wait as this is first RTC?:rotfl:
Finding Dory 2017 Annual£2.00
Bing 2017 Annual £2.00
My Little Pony Annual 2017£2.00
Lego Official 2017 Annual£2.00
Justin Bieber Annual 2017£2.00
Yo Kai Watch Annual 2017£2.00
Dreamworks Trolls 2017 Annual£2.00
Thomas & Friends Annual 2017£2.00
Disney Frozen Annual 2017£2.00 I assume:rotfl:.
Dandy Annual 2017£2.00 Probably.
Beano Annual 2017£2.00 Probably.
Unofficial Minecraft 2017 Annual£2.00
Minecraft 2017 Annual£2.00
The Secret Life of Pets Annual 2017£2.00
Paw Patrol Annual 2017£2.00
The Gruffalo and Friends 2017 Annual£2.00
Peppa Pig The Official 2017 Annual£2.00 I do not pretend that I have got all of the annuals:rotfl: - my feeling is that my stores are still missing some of them for me!
The Bloons 2017 Annual 2017£2.00:rotfl: Do I think I've now got them all? I think probably not:rotfl:.

The one in bold was added after a new store on Monday gave it as an extra one beyond what my previous stores had. I had felt I was missing some. And do you think that gave me all of them? What do you reckon?:rotfl:

Oor Willie 2017 Annual£2.00
Match Annual 2017£2.00 I reckon:rotfl:

So, indeed, I did not have them all last time, as I did not have these two and I can't guarantee that I have all of them even now. I'm having to assume that the Match Annual is £2 due to the location of the copies found instore (I have now found it in two stores:huh: and it happens to be on the RTC shelf in each - merely "happens to be" as I have found annuals in other places in stores with £2 RTC SELs - but the location on RTC shelves in two separate stores, next to or on top of other ones that are on RTC, does suggest it's £2 like the others - I am unable to scan everything!). I think that all 2017 annuals in M are on £2 RTC, and am assuming that some found with them also are, although that could be an incorrect conclusion. Actually, I can take Dandy and Beano from "Probably" to £2 now, as I now have £2 RTC labels for them both.

There are some additional bowls, plates and side plates at 50p and we don't want M Gravy Boat at £1 - we want M Christmas Frost Gravy Boat instead at 75p:mad::mad:. I think the Wrapping Paper that I now have, once I add it, will then have to remain an illustrative list (and only just constituting a "list" as that has to consist of at least two discrete items) of wrapping paper as I now only have two versions at 10p in one of my stores and nothing elsewhere. I think it's highly likely that all Wrapping Paper that was 50p in M - of course I took no details of any of it back then at that price as that was always a non-starter and the items were bound to fall in price - is now 10p. I think many places will now have nothing at all and some places, that do have Wrapping Paper, will have almost nothing. I am therefore going to have to put the two versions I have onto the list and leave them as illustrative examples as, no doubt, some other version is 10p somewhere rare else. This is even though I saw some SP wrapping paper at 4p in A two years ago:rotfl:.

Elsewhere, I think there are some offers in M that I am unaware of. I just feel my 24 stores in the past two weeks do not have the products. This is because I now have an offer on a product that I didn't have in any of my previous stores, so every new store adds more. There are things therefore I think I am still missing. I have looked at hotdeals and seem to have nearly all the things on there. However I have an additional 500ml alcohol bottle at £1 yesterday, but I think some regional alcohol bottles which I don't have may well be £1. I am going to add one on, on the basis of hotdeals a couple of weeks ago, that reports it was £1 - it's probably still £1 but could have gone back to full price now. However, it's not just things like this. There will be other items I don't have and of course I've no idea what they are, but I have certainly got more now than what I had at the start of the week.

Three of the Wingman multi gels are each still on £1 RTC. I have four stores on Wednesday with them and all four of them showing £2.50 - they may appear to be trying to confuse me (in fact I think it's just that all of the stores have not got round to showing the RTC yet) - however I scanned one of them at random at my final store and it is £1!

And - perhaps this should have been mentioned first - there is Stagg Barbecue Chilli with Potato Wedges (380g) tin at 25p.

https://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Stagg-BBQ-Chilli-With-Potato-Wedges/295431011?from=search&tags=%7C105651&param=stagg+barbecue&parentContainer=SEARCHstagg+barbecue_SHELFVIEW

"Out of stock
This product is not available. Please check back soon for more info"

The website was saying this when checked on Tuesday night and, on the basis that it's been saying this all throughout yesterday and now into today, this is a blatant lie (unless by "not available" it merely means "not available online") as I had stock of it in one of my stores on Wednesday afternoon.

As for more RTCs, I have (with or without stock) items including The Best Ardennes Pate 240g at 50p, Bounty Cookie Mix 180g at 50p, The Best Poultry Gravy (chilled) 500g at £1 and, lastly, The Best Cranberry Sauce (300g) (chilled) at 50p although I found some stock at 45p due to short date (UB 12th January) at M Newcastle under Lyme Town Centre. The Bounty Cookie Mix may be found in the cake mixes shelving - however I now think the two Snowman cake mixes I mentioned last time were probably indeed £2.24 as I have them in some of my stores now, on the actual shelving - and I can now see they are marked as "New" (maybe there are some old versions somewhere that are much cheaper?:think:) although I have RTC stock (very slightly damaged packs) in one store, on RTC shelf, showing £2.24 as the old price and now slightly cheaper, so that suggests that they are generally indeed £2.24 and that this price, that I was given at the till on Monday, was correct. So, I no longer suspect that these could be real cheap RTC price (at least not "new" ones). I thought they could be old clearout stock from Christmas with a name like "Snowman" but it seems sadly not. I doubt there are old versions, maybe slightly different weight, although you never know.

So, it's the usual - corrections, clarifications, changes and additions, to be done later - enough to be done but not a lot! That's it for now - see you later:wave:.

elainemn

Good morning everyone. Have a lovely day

streetlights

Good morning everybody, I hope you are well and have a fabulous Thursday.
Happy shopping.

bubbs

Morning all:D