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  • Savvybuyer
    Savvybuyer Posts: 22,332 Forumite
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    edited 14 April 2017 at 9:27PM
    Sorry x


    Qty Item Description Tesco Asda Sainsbury's Morrisons*
    1x
    SOBE V WATER POMEGRANATE & BLUEBERRY 500ML
    £1.45 n/a n/a n/a
    1x
    ORIGINAL SOURCE VANILLA &R/BERRY SHWR GEL 250ML
    £1.80 £1.00 £1.10 £1.00

    Looks like the SoBe water is £1 in A according to msm, so people who buy in T pay more on that (even if their overall comp. is 'best' vs A) at least where they haven't got it as part of T's meal deal (I don't know what price would then be said to be apportioned to the water).

    EDIT: Possibly £1 price (so same as A but no matching £1.45 vs £1) per item on the meal deal would be reasonable if the main items or equivalents to them can be found on £1 offers at other times although they are full price £1.50/£2 at the moment. Which is pretty expensive IMO as the snacks at 60p individual are effectively then being put up to cost £1 when bought on the deal (if we treat the 'worth' of the main items as the £1 offer prices that they are currently not on). Chicken Subs, for instance, or Chicken Sandwich, could reasonably be £1 if we treat as equivalent to Rustler's-type items that are regularly on offer somewhere at that price. Or a bottle of 500ml Lucozade at £1:eek:! (Should be offer £1 for 1L bottles, not 500ml - and, in any event, 6x380ml Avs M should work out a cheaper price for Lucozade at the moment.)

    In any event, on both this and my immediately previous post on the other matter, the message may be the same: it's no good making a saving on some item you're buying if you're then paying what might be said to be over the odds on something else in the basket/trolley. I don't much go for this idea of getting something cheaper but then paying more on something else - I prefer to get everything cheaper!
  • MKS
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    Tinyshoes wrote: »
    Fantastic glad I posted. :)

    I looked at one of them and nearest was Weymouth and then I thought do I really want to put away for 4 years if I managed to find any. :o

    Although DGD is 6 in a couple of weeks time, she takes after my side of the family and is tall for her age. She is very skinny but in age 7-8 clothes. She was over the moon last week. She visited a tourist attraction in Spain and was asked if she was 8 (free entry for under 8's:rotfl::rotfl:) She replied (in Spanish :j:j) that I am 5 but my birthday is in four weeks and I will be 6. Bless her.
  • MKS
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    Tinyshoes wrote: »
    I left at 2.30pm and got back at 8pm I did one short loo and drink stop on way.

    Only took me 3.5 hours to get there...

    Know the feeling well.
  • MKS
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    TrulyMadly wrote: »
    Bumping for TS:p

    Thought that you liked the reductions, TM. :D Hope that all is good with you and yours. x
  • MKS
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    Tinyshoes wrote: »
    :eek::o:eek:

    I can't post the reply that came into my head. :p

    Wish that I could do the finger wagging emoji. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
  • MKS
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    TrulyMadly wrote: »
    That's a shame as I had the reply ready to your reply.

    Poor Lango. He'll need a cold shower:rotfl:
    :eek::eek::eek::eek: Treat him gently.
  • bubbs
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    MKS :wave:
    Sealed pot challenge number 003 £350 for 2015, 2016 £400 Actual£345, £400 for 2017 Actual £500:T:T £770 for 2018 £1295 for 2019:j:j spc number 22 £1,457Stopped Smoking 22/01/15:D:D::dance::dance:- 5 st 1 1/2lb :dance::dance:
  • MKS
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    mhoc wrote: »
    And look a bit further out for the night before hotels, not just ones on site, might be a bit cheaper, plenty of places within an hours drive of Manchester - depending on the time of your flight - look at Travelogue and Premier Inn or Accor websites to start with eg Macclesfield or even Nantwich is only a 45 min drive from the airport.
    In fact you could make it part of the hols - stay someone totally new and unknown

    Check out a certain hotel group that offers free if........:D
  • Savvybuyer
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    We have a quandary, a holiday we are looking at seems to be £300 each cheaper if we go from Manchester airport .............

    Our normal choice is Gatwick or Heathrow.

    How much more does it cost to get everyone that is travelling to Manchester rather than to Gatwick or Heathrow?
  • Savvybuyer
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    edited 14 April 2017 at 9:47PM
    Cashback shop using wombles as wanted to try the ginger beer whilst so cheap

    1x V Water Pomegranate & Blueberry Drink (500ml) £1.00 N/A (COS £1.00)
    1x Mattessons Chorizo Pork Meateors (80g) £1.00 N/A (COS £1.00)
    1x Primula Original Cheese (150g) £1.00 N/A (SM £1.00)
    1x Country Life Salted Butter (250g) £1.50 £1.50 (TCB 30P)
    0.15x ASDA Grower's Selection Loose Banana (order by number of bananas or select kg) (per kg) £0.11 N/A
    1x HiPP Organic Creamed Porridge Breakfast (125g) £0.72 N/A (SM 72P)
    0.01x ASDA Grower's Selection Loose Ginger (per kg) £0.01 £0.04
    2x Crabbie's Original Alcoholic Ginger Beer (500ml) £4.04 £3.00 (SM £2.02)
    1x ASDA Grower's Selection Extra Trimmed Leeks (550g) £0.20 N/A

    Thanks for that. See, they do have SoBe V Water at £1 in A:rotfl:. The 550g Leeks at 20p are technically cheaper even though Aldi is 19p for 500g, but the 'saving' (A works out at slightly more than 18p per 500g) is not much relevance if people have the same number of meals but simply consume, in total, 50g more - if that's case, people simply pay a penny more unless buying with wombles or the travel cost of getting to Aldi is more expensive than getting to A etc. Or some other situation I haven't thought of. Are the Leeks non-comp. against everywhere, in particular are they safe to go onto the M list? (I wouldn't want them to compare against much more expensive individual price for M and then put that up even more due to M being lower weight.) TIA.

    I'm not completely confident that M do not have SoBe Water - even though I think they do not - as that was not an item/price I was looking for. Which probably means it was something good I've missed:rotfl: - have the price collectors managed to find that M does have it? Otherwise it might be found much more expensive in M rather than a hoped-for £1 or is it available as a filler (N/A) against M? I don't think M have it - but I'm not sticking my neck out on that as it will get shot off.
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