MSE News: I bagged £60 of shopping for £2.55 with yellow-sticker discounts'

Browntoa · 18 July 2017 at 10:03AM

I find the best tactic is not to gloat about it all over social media

I get a steady stream of reduced YS items at around 75% off but would never say at what store or /and at what times as I've seen the feeding frenzies in supermarkets where people are basically snatching stuff out of the poor staffs hands as its stickered and it almost coming to blows.

last weekend managed 2 x beef stroganoff meals for 95p each and 2 x chicken meals for 45p each , stuck in the freezer at work for my meals on nights , so that's £22 of food for £2.80

Ken68 · 18 July 2017 at 1:17PM

The best ever deals I had was with Tesco "Double the Difference".
Asda was selling meat at £4kg against Tesco £8kg.

[Deleted User] · 18 July 2017 at 2:58PM

Nipped across to the centre about 3 minutes walk from my front door last night to poast a birthday card and popped my head around the door in the Tesco metro, lady was rducing TTD red onion quarter lbs b'urgers to 38p from £2.50 so I had a pack but left the rest for the other chap who was there, four is more than enough for me as I would only have one with some new potatoes and salad for a meal They all got decanted into clingfilm to my freezer, thats four meals with sides at about 50p each all inclusive

:). very rarely am I out at that ime of night it was about 9.00

System · 18 July 2017 at 3:27PM

I think if anyone is abusive to customers and shop staff should be banned.

I have friends that work for supermarkets and there is at least two people that have been banned from the stores they work due to agressive behaviour around YS.

One of them was the owner of an Indian restaurant with buying meat - chicken and lamb and certain veg - spinach, mushrooms, tomatoes and aubergines.

None of us knew which restaurant he ran and he's also banned from the other stores of the same chain within the county and neighbouring ones.

Chris25 · 18 July 2017 at 4:10PM

I picked up a loaf and a pack of english muffins which had been reduced, only to be aggressively confronted by two men standing at the bakery counter who were waiting for them to be further reduced. I told them I was happy to pay whatever it was for them and they weren't pleased at all.

I'm sure that's happened to someone else on here too.

I do feel sorry for some staff as I've seen them followed around by people wanting stuff to be reduced even more and brandishing items in front of them demanding they knock more money off.

Midnighter · 18 July 2017 at 4:59PM

robin58 wrote: »

In my town the shelves are usually stripped before the YS gets anywhere near these prices.

Same here. We've got most of the big supermarkets locally, and pretty much everything's gone by 5pm.

System · 18 July 2017 at 11:00PM

karlie88 wrote: »

The best of YS shopping is over - I remember the times you could buy 2 x 10p items that were on a BOGOF offer and the original price came off. Co-op and Tesco were good at that. Used to get £100+ shops for pennies (which included lots of full price items).

Ah the memories.

What annoys me with some supermarkets with YS, they reduce the goods to a price that it works out MORE expensive buying them in the reduced. Give you an example - £3.50 each or 2 for £5. So buying them with long dates, it works out £2.50 each. The YS items are £2.65.:mad:

Pollycat · 19 July 2017 at 7:33AM

ScarletMarble wrote: »

What annoys me with some supermarkets with YS, they reduce the goods to a price that it works out MORE expensive buying them in the reduced. Give you an example - £3.50 each or 2 for £5. So buying them with long dates, it works out £2.50 each. The YS items are £2.65.:mad:

But not everybody wants to buy 2 of something, not everybody has room in the freezer for 'cheap stuff'.
So even though the reduced price might be higher than the "2 for £x" price, it can still be a bargain for somebody.

dekaspace · 19 July 2017 at 11:50AM

What I have tended to notice and we don't know the financial background of the person is people often who bought YS sticker items were ones who wore good clothes and drove off in nice cars and often were regulars who at each place I have been when I spoke to the staff they called "vultures" Worse was M+S where this guy came in every day and grabbed things out of staffs hands and blocked other people off and grinned and said "too slow" or "first come first served" to everyone but then would kick off whenever someone else got something first complaining about preferential treatment, oh and he wore expensive trainers and you saw him drive off in a newish BMW!!!

I remember going in with a few quid to last a week and people emptying reduced shelves not even caring what they picked up.

vitamin_joe · 19 July 2017 at 12:35PM

My local store is pretty good. Before I moved here, I lived near that Tesco that made the national news because someone got crushed in a stampede on Black Friday. The final reductions time was violent, pretty scary, a bit like karlie88 describes. A group of people would wait for twenty minutes, half an hour, and then it became like a scrum. I love a bargain, but I had to stop going, it was too stressful.