Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

Snap-ant

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All she ever wished for was a Unicorn



She gives it a good 'in love with it's softness' massage

mhoc

Serendipitious wrote: »

God bless the Co-op.

Sorting out the gubbins in my bag and purse, I realised my Co-op card was missing. Thankfully their receipts have local numbers on them that actually connect you to the store, where the friendly manager told me that yes, they have it safe and sound for me to collect next time I go in.:)

Do you spend your Co-op pennies as you go along or do you save them to get something significant? I tend to use mine when I get a till spit MOC so it makes a totally free item.

I went today - mostly to see if the Wisemens milk is still £1 and it is - 90p after discount (OK its cheaper in FarmFoods to get 2 bottles but FF is a mither to park on and the Co-op we pass en route to other places plus I never come out of FF with just 2 bottles of milk)
Also I was getting the small Hippeas packs which are again free on COS :T - COS pay 99p for them, ignoring the discount so a small profit.

My till spit MOC today is 50p off cooked meat or pate products exp 12/04 - I am wondering what counts as cooked meats? I had a look to see if my store had something like salami or chiritozo if these count as cooked meats for about a pound but it didn't, might have to see if the bigger Co-op has a bigger selection.

Enterprise_1701C

Snap-ant wrote: »

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Thank you SarahSDSkint



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I avoided looking at the chocolate - really do not need more temptation in the house :eek:

mhoc

curl_girl wrote: »

Thought you would have used them the same way as S coupons? Iyswim.

Afternoon peeps.

Naughty I don't admit to anything!

I do have problems with sizing though so its quite common for me to swap one clothing item for another - this happened in March. I bought 2 bras from Sainsburys and one fitted fine, the £6 bra but the other must have been mislabelled as it would not even fasten. Oddly when I looked at my receipt before I went to CS the till boy had scanned the £6 bra twice at the till so it took some explaining at CS - I'd paid for two £6 bras instead of a £6 and an £8 one but my refund only needed to be £6. And fortunately I did find a substitute. And no triple points till spits or conditional spends were involved either to complicate matters .

If I had a few bits of cashback shopping to do alongside some ill fitting attire ... but I cant think of anything we are desperate for ... especially in view of the size of the Amex bill this month

Snap-ant

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

I avoided looking at the chocolate - really do not need more temptation in the house :eek:

Raffle prizes as dated Oct 18 (I did give one to a friend who ha just split from her Partner of 22 years )

mhoc

Incidentally I've got to do a Boden return - has anyone done these and if so how exactly does it work.
I used a £15 gift card and £17 in real money so would I get a gift card applied to my account or would they refund the money bit? Or would it be part credit and part refund...


I got a striped Breton top and pink jeans but the jeans are that weird very fine needlecord so they are going back

mazworld15

Heading out for some wine in a bit any ideas what;s likely to work please? Got the Diablo the other day quite drinkable none left

Savvybuyer

It turns out that I may have posted incorrect information again, as something I said after visiting my M on Monday appears to have been half-correct or arguably not even half-correct but not correct at all. I failed to account for my M not having a product that it now turns out is available elsewhere.

I didn't think there would be different versions of the product available in different places (or maybe even in the same place). I said or suggested something to the effect that M's White Potatoes 2.5Kg had gone back up to 2 for £2 and even criticised M for being too high compared to Aldi's Maris Piper Potatoes at 29p.

It now appears to me (and who knows, I may be yet again wrong in another way) that M White Potatoes 2.5Kg stayed at £1.15 and 2 for £2 throughout (that is BC ending 731979). However M White Potatoes 2.5Kg (BC ending 731962) are, today, now 20p. I suspect this may be the version that was on 50p and 3 for £1 offer before Easter.

As I write this the product that was 20p when I saw it around lunchtime today may now even be cheaper. My store with this version, which had a lot of stock, seemed to have all the stock on BB date of today. It is not whoopsie - although whoopsied items of stock may be available but is now the general price for the product (unless some other store has its systems coming back with a different price for the same BC).

It was therefore not the case, at least not fully, that M White Potatoes 2.5Kg had gone back up to 2 for £2. It could be said that, effectively, they had in my previous store as it seems only the stock that is on 2 for £2 is available there (having sold out of all lower priced Easter stock). However it now seems that BC ...731979 has been £1.15 and 2 for £2 for some time (as long as the individual price hasn't fluctuated) and during that time was "always" that pricing. Having been "always" that pricing, it never "went" to 2 for £2 on Monday at all - being 2 for £2 and therefore incapable of "going" to the same pricing as it was already at. This is a technical point, about technical wording again which makes my previous information completely incorrect and not even half-right at all.

It may well be that the price of ...731979 was always 2 for £2 up to and throughout Easter and is still at that pricing now, just that there may have been none being produced and therefore effectively unavailable during the period when ...731962 came into stores (if indeed it was never ever-present somewhere:rotfl:) at 50p and 3 for £1 or 50p and then 3 for £1 (never sure if for a brief period of a day or so it was straight 50p and it was apparently straight 50p online).

As for the chances of the APG picking up 20p for the White Potatoes, I would imagine (but may yet again be wrong) that the 20p (or previously 20p if it's gone down in the hours since I was instore) product was not 20p yesterday as it wasn't on its BB date then. That assumes that all stock on this BC is BB today, which might not be true although it seems to me it probably is. Again, I never know. You would not be getting 20p for M on the APG if I had anything to do with it, as all my stores yesterday, as far as I saw, on the White Potatoes, and it now seems they only had the other version, were showing £1.15 and 2 for £2.

For people who did not have BC ...731962 in their M earlier this week, it was incorrect to say that M White Potatoes 2.5Kg were now 2 for £2. Yet again, someone in another store may have been bemused by what I was saying as the White Potatoes, for them, were still on their Easter offer or they may have had some at 50p/3 for £1 and some at £1.15 and 2 for £2, in which case we'd expect two SELs above different stock wouldn't we? - "White Potatoes 2.5Kg ...731979 £1.15 Any 2 for £2" and "White Potatoes 2.5Kg ...731962 50p Any 3 for £1":rotfl:. Sometimes even staff in some stores get confused - I've had one situation of a SEL for an RTC product that was on a different BC being put up for the new version that was really on full price. It must be hard for them, and hard for me now not knowing the difference previously between M White Potatoes 2.5Kg and M White Potatoes 2.5Kg. I now think it's also possible that BC ...731962 may not be the only BC that, at lunchtime today, was 20p - there could be separate Scottish and Welsh versions around of the same product (potentially six, or even more BCs for all I know - three of them, one for a version in each nation, at 20p).

Anon

I traded in a P1xi 3 ... £33 :cool:.

I may be going back ...

Anon

pippo

braveheart60uk wrote: »

Just received my Co-Op members card, cost £1 to join.
With card came 2 x £1 off £5 spend on co-op food
1% of what you spend is given back to local community.
10% off for NUS Extra card holders (excludes certain items and Coop electrical)

You get 5% on your membership account far co-op branded food and services ALSO on selected C0-OP electrical items https://electrical.coop.co.uk/content/membership/member-offers/
As it is dated, it may change monthly.
Bonus to that is price match, https://electrical.coop.co.uk/content/terms-and-conditions/#20

20.8 onwards, seems to match against Argoose, curries, Mr Lewis and AO

Often get small value, but very useful vouchers too, like 50p off fruit and veg or dairy.