Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

Freewheeling

Hi everyone,

I've been lurking here for a few months now and thought it was about time I said hello. It took me quite a while to work out the APGs and I've experimented with a couple now, including the porridge one recently. I went for a wine shop today and thought I was being really clever by buying three different wines in one shop, until I got home and realised that it meant it only took the cheapest bottles off. Oops! Oh well, I think it still ended up being pretty cheap.

15 items (9 different) on your receipt qualify for comparison Asda Morrisons
1x ASDA Smart Price Instant Custard Mix (70g) £0.19 £0.15
1x ASDA Smart Price Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce (410g) £0.23 £0.24
3x Casillero Del Diablo Sauvignon Blanc (75cl) £18.00 £15.00
3x Barefoot White Zinfandel (75cl) £19.44 £15.00
0.29x ASDA Grower's Selection Loose Banana (order by number of bananas or select kg) (per kg) £0.22 £0.22
1x Catsan Hygiene Cat Litter (20l) £10.95 £10.50
1x ASDA Smart Price Chopped Tomatoes in Tomato Juice (400g) £0.29 £0.30
3x Brancott Estate Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc (75cl) £26.94 £15.00
1x ASDA Smart Price Spaghetti Loops in Tomato Sauce (395g) £0.14 £0.13
Comparison total (compared products only) £76.40 £56.54
+£19.86 cheaper

Freewheeling

Also I just wanted to say thank you for everyone doing all the research on these offers, it's so helpful. :-)

Anon

Freewheeling wrote: »

Also I just wanted to say thank you for everyone doing all the research on these offers, it's so helpful. :-)

Welcome! Once you get your head round how the different glitches and deals work it becomes easier, though some of us still manage to mess up now and again .

Anon

bubbs

Freewheeling wrote: »

Hi everyone,

I've been lurking here for a few months now and thought it was about time I said hello. It took me quite a while to work out the APGs and I've experimented with a couple now, including the porridge one recently. I went for a wine shop today and thought I was being really clever by buying three different wines in one shop, until I got home and realised that it meant it only took the cheapest bottles off. Oops! Oh well, I think it still ended up being pretty cheap.

15 items (9 different) on your receipt qualify for comparison Asda Morrisons
1x ASDA Smart Price Instant Custard Mix (70g) £0.19 £0.15
1x ASDA Smart Price Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce (410g) £0.23 £0.24
3x Casillero Del Diablo Sauvignon Blanc (75cl) £18.00 £15.00
3x Barefoot White Zinfandel (75cl) £19.44 £15.00
0.29x ASDA Grower's Selection Loose Banana (order by number of bananas or select kg) (per kg) £0.22 £0.22
1x Catsan Hygiene Cat Litter (20l) £10.95 £10.50
1x ASDA Smart Price Chopped Tomatoes in Tomato Juice (400g) £0.29 £0.30
3x Brancott Estate Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc (75cl) £26.94 £15.00
1x ASDA Smart Price Spaghetti Loops in Tomato Sauce (395g) £0.14 £0.13
Comparison total (compared products only) £76.40 £56.54
+£19.86 cheaper

Hello and welcome
You learn by your mistakes.....well some do, we are always learning:D
Best copying someone else's shop to start with

Serendipitious

bubbs wrote: »

Yes 5 stone and 1/2lb:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: dont forget the 1/2 thankyou x
Seen a neighbour this morning when i was t shopping centre, i usually only see her in the car this weather, so she not really seen me since the start of Autumn and she said i dont know you when i spoke :eek: i said you do its bubbs, from across the rd:rotfl: she looks blank , no i dont, her hubby goes yes you do, she said i recognise the face not the body:rotfl::rotfl:
I said well i have lost 5 stone
She is the 2nd person that has said the exact same words this week, i had never heard it before

Well done on the 5 stone - that's amazing :j:j

Savvybuyer

The receipt with the £16 gin, that I have been waiting ages on, did not need rescuing against M. They bought the gin on Wednesday when several 1L bottles had gone onto £15 since the last price collection. As the price collection is not updated on the day of the collection itself, I believe that Wednesday would end with Monday prices immediately before midnight so that any receipt checked dated on the Wednesday, even if checked on a later day that isn't more than 28 days later, would end up with whatever Wednesday ended with (if checked on the day itself, would end with whatever the system had at the moment of checking). In short, I think Wednesday shops, even if checked on later days, end with Monday data even if the prices had changed in M on the Wednesday.

Fortunately they bought a gin that has not gone to £15, so that it makes me feel better about it. In fact, the gin in M appears to have gone even worse so that I feel even better. However, they should have bought a bottle that is £15 in M, has gone £15 price for M on the APG and should have bought that after the prices were updated and should have bought it with as many items as possible that were as high price as possible at A and with M at the lowest prices that are as high as possible difference. Basically the difference between the A prices and 10% lower than the comparing M prices should have been £100:rotfl:. And that ought to be the case - or else the same position against at least one of the other competitors - on every receipt that anyone else ever leaves for me:rotfl::rotfl:. Of course that will never happen. Meanwhile, the gin they bought is now showing £19 on m.com, although I do not know whether that was Wednesday's price in M or not as it appears to have gone from a high price that I wouldn't notice to another high price that I wouldn't notice - also, even if I had SELs for a price on Wednesday I still wouldn't know whether the price on those SELs was the real price).

7 items on your receipt qualify for comparison Asda morrisons
1x Tilda Coconut Basmati Rice (250g) £1.00 £1.00
1x Greenall's The Original London Dry Gin (1l) £16.00 £17.00
1x Patak's Rogan Josh Cooking Curry Sauce (450g) £1.00 £1.00
1x ASDA Wholemeal Baps (6pk) £0.65 £0.72
1x ASDA Sweet & Salty Popcorn (100g) £0.79 £0.88
1x Patak's Dopiaza Curry Cooking Sauce (450g) £1.00 £1.00
1x Tilda Brown Wholegrain Basmati Rice (250g) £1.00 £1.00
1x ASDA 4 Mini Garlic & Coriander Naan Bread (4pk) £1.00 N/A
Comparison total (compared products only) £21.44 £22.60
cheaper +£1.16

Fortunately, S has the gin on £15 so the best comp. was against S although, as usual, it didn't quite work out giving anywhere near the 10% value off the price of the gin as some of the other items compare somewhat more expensive at S.

6 items on your receipt qualify for comparison Asda sainsbury's
1x Tilda Coconut Basmati Rice (250g) £1.00 £1.00
1x Greenall's The Original London Dry Gin (1l) £16.00 £15.00
1x Patak's Rogan Josh Cooking Curry Sauce (450g) £1.00 £1.80
1x ASDA Wholemeal Baps (6pk) £0.65 N/A
1x ASDA Sweet & Salty Popcorn (100g) £0.79 N/A
1x Patak's Dopiaza Curry Cooking Sauce (450g) £1.00 £1.80
1x Tilda Brown Wholegrain Basmati Rice (250g) £1.00 £1.50
1x ASDA 4 Mini Garlic & Coriander Naan Bread (4pk) £1.00 £0.90
Comparison total (compared products only) £21.00 £22.00
cheaper +£1.00

This doesn't mean, if all the prices for S have disappeared in the last couple of days, that this will work against S now. There may have been an error on S's website or the website could have been down at the time the APG tried to take a scan so that nothing compared against S.

MKS

bubbs wrote: »

Thankyou x

Glad you MIL is doing well HG x
She is just back:rotfl::rotfl:


Thanks , no 1 1/2 lb to go:rotfl::rotfl:

Off again in 39 days.

Freewheeling

Thanks :-).

Yes I have been watching and (attempting) learning! I had been intending on buying the wine over 3 shops but then had the 'brainwave '. I bought 18 bottles over 2 shops this morning so I'm hoping they taste good . I'm hoping for some red wine too at some point but then you can't be greedy! Although I do now have 2 enormous APGs to use up.

bubbs

Serendipitious wrote: »

Well done on the 5 stone - that's amazing :j:j

Thankyou x but there are other people that lose more:D

bubbs

MKS wrote: »

Off again in 39 days.

:j:j:j:j dont blame you x