Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

henrik777

miss_corerupted wrote: »

They are extremely bullying and tried to get rid of the unions before we were set up. Fortunately they are idiots so haven't managed anything yet. 2yrs notice before we set up and almost 4 yrs in and they have managed none of the changes

Make sure you keep notes and record anything you may need. When the crap hits the fan it's too late to gather evidence and colleagues often fear losing their job by helping.

Also if you need to make your point without confronting someone, always make sure you know who the brown nosing grassers are

Savvybuyer

gocat wrote: »

A vs M
1x Plenty The Big One Kitchen Roll (each) £1.50 £1.00
1x ASDA Grower's Selection Braeburn Apples (6pk) £1.40 N/A
0.14x ASDA Grower's Selection Loose Banana (order by number of bananas or select kg) (per kg) £0.10 £0.10
0.14x ASDA Grower's Selection Loose Onion (order by number of onions or select kg) (per kg) £0.11 £0.10
1x Heinz Beef Ravioli (400g) £1.00 £0.60
1x ASDA Grower's Selection Apples (500g) £0.50 N/A
0.23x ASDA Grower's Selection Loose Bramley Cooking Apple (Typically 200g) (per kg) £0.28 N/A
1x ASDA Extra Special Belgian White Chocolate Cookies (200g) £1.59 N/A
1x ASDA Baker's Selection All-Butter Madeira Cake (each) £1.20 £1.07
1x ASDA Whole Milk (6 pint) £1.45 £1.45
4x Heinz Spaghetti Bolognese (400g) £4.00 £2.40
1x Always Discreet Normal Medium Size Incontinence Pants (12pk) £7.50 £6.49

Note the pants TM Used a £6.50 voucher for them from Victoria.co.uk :rotfl:

So, the pants better than free:D. I was wondering whether the kitchen towel would work as they were a new one on me last time I saw them in M - they seem to spring half the items on me from nowhere so I didn't know whether this item would work which is a sure sign that there was no problem:).

M's own label 600g bag of Dry Roasted Peanuts have finally (though they might have already have been this price for a few weeks?) gone to £1:T. Does this mean that the Salted Peanuts are also now £1? I don't know, as I don't have any of those:rotfl:. I had a long date on my Dry Roasted ones - last year (I managed to find both!) they were end of March but this year some of them run through to the end of May. They may not be around in the usual nuts aisle by now but are sometimes out with the fresh fruit & veg. or in one of the alcohol aisles, presumably so that people buying expensive alcohol can have some cheap nuts (probably that they didn't intend to buy when they went to the store) whilst those that go looking for nuts, in the usual aisle, can overpay there, on the nuts found in the normal aisle, instead.

There is way too much from M now yesterday for me to be able to mention much more. Thankfully I was unable to be specific about the Nuby products that I saw on Tuesday at 50p RTC as, if I could have given you what I had, I would have been magnificently incomplete. I have got a few more now, I don't know of course whether I now have them all although I think probably I now have, although, by now, the information is scattered everywhere so I still can't retrieve it immediately and best just have a look in M to see what you can find, if anything, at your store. Mind you, I now think I was incomplete on the 50p mugs that I mentioned last time. It seems there are at least three more that are also most probably 50p - I do not have any SELs but the placement in my store is leading me to think they are also 50p. So, it was no good me mentioning what I had as it seems I was incomplete:rotfl:.

Regarding the own label baby products, I can now see what is happening as it looks like the Little Big products are being replaced by the Nutmeg brand, versions under which have now appeared in one of my stores at full price. It's the old 'Little Big' products that people want, left around on cheap RTC. I also think that the NuMe products are being replaced by Eat Smart, so that the old NuMe ones may be cheaper. I should of course know every one of them:rotfl:.

As regards some of the changes on Wednesday, again, products that I have just removed I am putting back on - such as Tuc Crackers, Jacob's Cheddars Cheese and Cheddars Bacon. The Maoam Pinballs and Stripes will now never reach the list from this time as they look already back at 97p full price - it seems I picked up an offer that was ending the day before. So the only hope on those would be a quick "beat the price update on the APG" shop and hope they had them on Monday at 74p. Not that anyone would find it worth bothering:rotfl:.

The Fox's Rocky Caramel and Rocky Rugged Chocolate 10 packs at are 60p in M but, if I tell you that one of the versions had some packs available at 39p on store-specific stickered markdown... I won't tell you where, as they disappeared during my time at the store:(. So, that's 39p I saved:rotfl:!

The Plenty Kitchen towel is part of a cleaning 'event' in M which is due to continue through the first week of March. This is now the time for the Parazone bleach twinpack, which has usually been £1 whenever I've taken note of it before, to be £1.57:eek:. So, that one, which I had at £1 on the list from previously, will be deleted as it has gone up in price. I did have one store showing £1 on the SEL and the SA at the till told me, on seeing it, that it was £1. I think she thought she knew the price and therefore wasn't going to scan it. However, the facts speak louder for themselves as the product is £1.57 and not £1: I took it to the SS later and it scanned at £1.57.

I never know the prices even when I am seeing them online - I have Dettol Lime & Mint Wipes 84 pack, that I have had a suggestion that they are £2 from one store but I think that, although they are the aisle end there, they have gone up to £3.97 and that that's an incorrect SEL. I have £3.97 everywhere else and I now notice £3.97 online. So, I am deciding they are full price and that it's the Dettol Pure & Power Bathroom Wipes 80 that are £2. I have just looked and now noticed that online is on the same hymn page as me. I mention this because I think online is not always up-to-date - I have the McVitie's Digestive Nibbles - Milk Chocolate Digestive (200g), which have been showing £1 online, showing me 50p RTC before instore and indeed, now, I have scanned them and they are 50p.

I am nearly finished on this week's price collection, just another few stores to check later today and then I will be ready to update - it will take me ages to update the information as there are currently 16 sides of paper from Tuesday and Wednesday and maybe a further couple of pages after today.

Savvybuyer

The 9 pack Chocolate Ice Creams I mentioned last time are available in more than one store as I have managed to have them again and, once again, quite a lot of stock:rotfl:. This time I have a 10p SEL - I found it out the hard way last time. They have quite long dates in the stores I've seen.

Also, Bird's Eye Light & Crunchy Breaded Chicken (4 per pack - 360g) are around at £1. I found them, typically enough, at one of my stores miles away and unable to get them home:(. I did come across them again though, this time without a SEL which might have kept them for me to purchase except that, again, too far away - or, more to the point, not my last store so not going straight home - I suppose in theory I could get them home if I was going straight back. Fortunately I had the luck of managing to have them in my final store however - so, I found them in half of the stores I tried on Wednesday:rotfl:, or three out of eight if I include Tuesday, that may be going up to three out of eleven or twelve later today - but :(the downside is that they are BB end of February 2017, at least in some stores, maybe all I don't know as I didn't think to check until I bought them. So, I didn't get as many packs as I would otherwise have wished.

If anyone uses M at Sheldon, you could find that they have gone onto cheaper store specific reduction later today. A member of staff does now know that the store has several packs of stock that are due to expire shortly.

Savvybuyer

I thought, when I got back, with no time to get to my nearest 24 hour A before midnight, that it may have been a big glitching day. I noticed however there were only about five pages of posts, so clearly it wasn't. For the sake of some Mullers though, that I'd still end up spending money for, I'm not bothering going out between now and 4am. I don't even know if such a thing would work and I'm not bothered with them anyway:rotfl:. So I will see you later:wave:.

Savvybuyer

Um, they are online, so available to all and sundry to see and no need for me to go to M to find this out at all:rotfl::rotfl:.

Morrisons Dry Roasted Peanuts (600g)


£1.00 16.7p / 100g

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Except that I did need to find them in M to be able to buy them:cool:. I have found these very good before at £1, as they work out cheaper than 200g value range peanuts and I find these 600g bags last a long time. I suspect it's luck as I have them in only one store out of eight from Wednesday and Tuesday and I'm thinking I won't have them in further stores but we shall see. (I bet they are not at my local stores as, when items are these good prices, they never are:rotfl:.)

EDIT: They are on hotukdeals from a couple of days ago - I bet bubbs has already brought them over and, as usual, the entire world knows about everything before I do! People on there suggesting they don't like the nuts and they're "not up to standard" but, as you know, I'm not bothered with that and they are good enough for me. They are 569 degrees though, so can't be too bad. That said, probably we should look at the colds for the good deals:rotfl:.

EDIT 2: Ah:j:D! They mention that the Jumbo Salted nuts are also £1, so I can take that one as found now:T.

See you later - goodnight:wave:!

izzeyb

Ending today, individual tins/pouches of wet cat food, 50p each or 10 for £4.00

The small gourmet tins are 40p in Sainsbury’s (supposedly everyday new price) should compare and give a small APG £5.00 v £4.00.

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/asda/bundle/819369_1701559.html


The Peanut & Caramel Light and the Pumpkin Latte Mullers worked as triggers last time, even though the Peanut & Caramel actually showed on Asda website.

Then there was the Turkish delight flavour which had an identity crisis and showed as something else, I can’t see that in the offer now it has updated.

Anyone going to Asda, might be worth a look if there are any "Limited Edition" flavours (that's how the Pumpkin Latte appeared last time).

https://groceries.asda.com/promotion/10-for-pound300/ls88048

purpledonkey

bcw123 wrote: »

Evening all planning to take grand son to the science museum in London tomorrow can any one let me what underground line from Victoria station and what stop to get off at also do children 6 years have to pay on the underground we are coming up by train to london which the lad has to pay. thanks

From Victoria, take the district/circle line heading west to South Kensington (2 stops away). Once past the barriers turn right and follow the signs (I bloody hate that tunnel! :rotfl:)

Under 11s can travel free when accompanied by an adult.
https://tfl.gov.uk/fares-and-payments/travel-for-under-18s/travelling-with-children?intcmp=25255

Hope that helps and have fun!

Serendipitious

Good morning all

purpledonkey

miss_corerupted wrote: »

got 28 of the new ones so far

:j so addictive isn't it? :rotfl:

I've caught/hatched 47 so far and I'm 1km off a Togetic finally, so up to 190 now. I will say Greenwich is crap for hunting though!

braveheart60uk

Morning all

CoS
Yeo valley semi skimmed milk 1Litre 50p Off at Waities, price £1.10, net 60p expires today
Mountain Dew 500ml 50p valid TS&M only shows T for me £0.99, net 49p 6 claims, 5 days left.
Mountain Dew 1 Litre half price/ 75p Off at T&S both £1, net 25p ?? 6 claims 5 days
Can someone confirm that it is only when an item is free that they adjust CB to match the amount paid?

Simplee 330ml drink free at S, £1.65, expires today, 1 claim.

Various Quorns 50p off, valid A, valid 5 days, 2 claims each, APG with T’s 3 for £5, so possible net £1.00 each after APG

Hovis Bread 800g 50p off valid at TSAM for 5 days 1 claim A £1.45, T £1.35, so a possible net using APG of £0.72

Warburton thins 50p off at T, 5 days, 11 claims, net 50p each

SoBe water Pom & Blackberry 500ml FREE TA, T £1.45, A £1.00 1 claim 5 days left possible PROFIT using T BG of 45p

CS
Yeo milk, Mountain Dew, SoBe, Hovis & Warburtons all seem similar, remember these companies are linked so you cannot use same receipt for both..

Any errors in these are purely your fault and NEVER mine :cool: