Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

izzy65

mrsmac10 wrote: »

He has indeed and some else deciphered it


How are you ? Hope all is as well as possible Any snow yet?

Hi no snow just sleet, but white mountains all around, it's soooo cold, having an off time, had a tooth abscess and although it was no fun the anti b's floored me, am at the stage now where I just cannot tolerate any of them even tried three different anti sickness tabs with them so that also triggered ibs, honestly I need a new body this one is capoot 😳

aau1

Anon wrote: »

I have installed Google Play Store using the instructions here:
https://www.howtogeek.com/232726/how-to-install-the-google-play-store-on-your-amazon-fire-tablet/

It is worth doing anyway to be able to install your favourite apps and I have been meaning to do it for ages . Really quick to do too.

I managed to install Android Pay but unfortunately fell at the final hurdle - it only works with stock Android roms (Fire OS is an adaptation). I am just deciding whether I will change my Fire to Android ... hang on, I have a Samsung Tab too, will try that first .

Edit - I installed Android on my Tab ... but it doesn’t have the chip for using instore (I can apparently use to pay in selected apps though - but there don’t seem to be many and there doesn’t seem to be any you could do small spends

Anon

I got as far as you did with the Fire tablet and then gave up

pacifica9

Nellie35 wrote: »

If I remember correctly you have to pick one up in store and then register it online. I know I had to ask at a till as they were not out on display hth

Thank you Nellie.

aau1

mhoc wrote: »

Best thing is not too look at your nectar account until next week and its all settled back again.
I've just wasted 5 mins trying to figure out what happened yesterday as on the website it looks peculiar.

I converted 8000 to get a £40 clothing voucher so its showing as 8000 redeemed but then they add 4000 nectar and this shows as a bonus - so that is how double up works

But my 80 points for the Lurpak has gone on as customer management :T

If you took out life insurance when they had the bonus 14,000 points on you might want to check. My points were added today (my 5th qualifying instalment of £5 was at the start of this month)

:money: _party_

Picasso7

aaarrrggghhh wrote: »

Enjoying all the coupons at T at the moment, I'm eating for pennies!

Breakfast - tin of Princes fruit - FREE
Lunch - bowl of New Covent Garden soup - 17p
Dinner - Ristorante pizza - FREE

I have dozens of tuna fillers in reserve for when the NCG soup runs out.

And as I'm picking up Dr Oetker baking cases at 60p, I have 40p overage with the £1 coupon, leaving me with 23p after the NCG soup. One day I pick up a 50p pack of rolls to have with the soup, the next I pick up a couple of litres of fruit juice. Averages 88p a day :T

This is a new one on me. Where are you getting the £1 coupon please? I didn't spot it in the last T mag I got which had the yoghurt coupons in it?

aaarrrggghhh

bargainqueen8 wrote: »

Is it you having all the mags in our t's i havent seen any in there for months.:rotfl:one of the assistants said they dont get as many in now.:(

Not me any more - I live in Salford now and have done for 12 months. Must be some other 'professional shopper' there (will explain this when I catch up)

Picasso7

I messed up big time in A today, doing a shop in a hurry I was trying to compare against M and failed entirely.

18 items (9 different) on your receipt qualify for comparison Asda Tesco
2x Alberto Balsam Blends Smooth & Sleek Shampoo (300ml) £4.00 £3.00
6x Nivea Raspberry Ros! Lip Butter (16.7g) £12.00 £6.00
1x Alberto Balsam Blends Damage Repair Conditioner (300ml) £2.00 N/A
0.15x ASDA Grower's Selection Loose Onion (order by number of onions or select kg) (per kg) £0.11 £0.11
3x Nivea Hand Cream Anti-Age Care Q10 (75ml) £9.00 £9.00
2x Alberto Balsam Blends Smooth & Sleek Conditioner (300ml) £4.00 £3.00
1x ASDA Smart Price Garden Peas in Water (300g) £0.21 £0.21
0.24x ASDA Grower's Selection Loose Carrot (order by number of carrots or select kg) (per kg) £0.14 £0.14
1x Alberto Balsam Blends Damage Repair Shampoo (300ml) £2.00 £1.50
1x ASDA Whole Milk (4 pint) £0.99 £1.00
Comparison total (compared products only) £32.45 £23.96
+£8.49 cheaper

But did we know that the hand cream doesn't work any more?

13 items (9 different) on your receipt qualify for comparison Asda Morrisons
2x Alberto Balsam Blends Smooth & Sleek Shampoo (300ml) £4.00 £2.00
6x Nivea Raspberry Ros! Lip Butter (16.7g) £12.00 N/A
1x Alberto Balsam Blends Damage Repair Conditioner (300ml) £2.00 £1.00
0.15x ASDA Grower's Selection Loose Onion (order by number of onions or select kg) (per kg) £0.11 £0.10
3x Nivea Hand Cream Anti-Age Care Q10 (75ml) £9.00 £9.00
2x Alberto Balsam Blends Smooth & Sleek Conditioner (300ml) £4.00 £2.00
1x ASDA Smart Price Garden Peas in Water (300g) £0.21 £0.23
0.24x ASDA Grower's Selection Loose Carrot (order by number of carrots or select kg) (per kg) £0.14 £0.14
1x Alberto Balsam Blends Damage Repair Shampoo (300ml) £2.00 £1.00
1x ASDA Whole Milk (4 pint) £0.99 £1.00
Comparison total (compared products only) £22.45 £16.47

I'm now wondering if I should try to return the lip balm and the hand cream or just take the hit.

But the Benefit sets worked against T so thank you, whoever worked that out, and especially 3dogs for the wonderful list.

mrsmac10

aau1 wrote: »

If you took out life insurance when they had the bonus 14,000 points on you might want to check. My points were added today (my 5th qualifying instalment of £5 was at the start of this month)

:money: _party_

Wow you are so good at this

aaarrrggghhh

So, where did 'professional shopper' come from?

Back in the days of DTD and beyond at Tesco, I was ripping them off daily with £100+ coupons (as I'm sure we all were in 2010/11). My brother worked at the same store I did 99% of my shops.

They held a team meeting in the warehouse in April 2011, just before DTD ended, whereby a manager informed staff there were four 'professional shoppers' ripping off the store and these people needed to be stopped. My brother managed to keep a straight face throughout.

This was also around the time when a supervisor used to greet me with the words, 'Have you come to rob us again?' in a really loud voice. On one occasion, she was going for a break as I was loading my trolley with DTD toothbrushes and she shouted down the aisle, 'Oi, you, stop bloody robbing us'.

I tell you, I almost dropped my £100+ coupon in shock.

:cool:

Picasso7

Sadly I didn't know about coupons then. I came late to that party, a short while before it ended.

My shop was very odd. I bought 6 Alberto Balsam which I thought were on 342, 6 Nivea lip balms, also on 342, and 3 Q10 hand creams which were also on 342. But I just got £10 deducted as multi buy savings. Shouldn't I have had £4 back from the shampoo, £4 back from the lip balms and £3 back from the hand cream?

I am very confused...!!