Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

mazworld15

Morriebobs

18 items (13 different) on your receipt qualify for comparison Asda Morrisons
1x Maoam Giant Strawberry Stripes (1pk) £0.10 £0.10
1x Diet Coke Bottle (1.25l) £1.00 £1.00
6x Brancott Estate Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc (75cl) £53.88 £54.00
1x Barratt Flumps (12g) £0.10 £0.10
1x ASDA Shades So Soft White Toilet Roll (4 roll) £1.75 £1.75
1x ASDA Greek Style Fat Free Natural Yogurt (500g) £0.80 N/A
1x Cadbury Dairy Milk Whole Nut Chocolate Bar (120g) £1.00 £1.00
0.45x ASDA Grower's Selection Loose Conference Pear (order by number of pears or select kg) (per kg) £0.90 £1.04
1.45x ASDA Loose White Baking Potatoes (order by number of potatoes or select kg) (per kg) £1.45 £1.45
0.32x ASDA Grower's Selection Loose Banana (order by number of bananas or select kg) (per kg) £0.24 £0.24
1x ASDA Grower's Selection Loose Lime (each) £0.30 £0.28
1x Maoam Pinballs Bag (140g) £1.00 £0.97
1x Maoam Stripes Bag (140g) £1.00 £1.00
1x ASDA Grower's Selection Loose Lemon (each) £0.30 £0.30
Comparison total (compared products only) £63.02 £63.23

pacifica9

Good morning Elite.
Hoping everyone is warm, happy and well. Hugs to those not so.
Found a reduced shelf full of A5 and A4 spiral bound notebooks with luminous yellow/orange/pink covers in Wilko 20p each.

mhoc

pacifica9 wrote: »

Good morning Elite.
Hoping everyone is warm, happy and well. Hugs to those not so.
Found a reduced shelf full of A5 and A4 spiral bound notebooks with luminous yellow/orange/pink covers in Wilko 20p each.

oo these sound good - pity they would be too big for the Christmas shoe boxes ...

Possibly if someone is doing party goody bags

izzy65

Serendipitious wrote: »

So, the sugar tax levy starts today.

Which from my limited and biased point of view, means that a very high number of drinks will now default into sweetener instead, and those who avoid them will have to check the ingredients panels carefully.

I've done just that with the Robinson's Fruit Creations, and they have sweeteners in them.

On the plus side, the Coop accepted mocs with no problem. I noticed on the receipt that it says '£1 off any Robinsons' so tomorrow I'll experiment, if I can find any without sweetener.

Also on the plus side, it let me print a couple this morning.:)

Good morning, I am in the no sweetener camp, cannot stand the after taste, I have always read the labels though as my ds is diabetic, the other day I asked for a coffee with two sweeteners in the bakers for him and the girl said we don't have sweeteners will brown sugar do :eek:

mhoc

Snap-ant wrote: »

Sheets in the wash & bathroom mats

Hoping TM's DD is settling in :A

Fourp has blurred vision in his left eye so he is going to go & ask about it

oh dear he has been in the wars

Possibly a reaction to the new medication? Assume he has had his blood pressure checked as that can affect vision?

Anon

I have replaced my iPhone screen without a hitch, following YouTube instructions and all went well :cool:.

I am not sure where they got the 30 minutes from though ... it took me an hour or so . The screws are so small when transferring everything off the old screen to the new and you need a steady hand not to break cables or lose anything.

I was ready and was extra careful by keeping the screws laid out logically on a piece of paper so that I could put them back without having to guess, as they have different sizes :A. In the end it was only £15 for a refurb original screen (plus my time!) rather than a copy or £70 in a local shop/more from the Apple store.

... and yes I have put on a gorilla screen protector this time

Anon

mhoc

Anon wrote: »

I have replaced my iPhone screen without a hitch, following YouTube instructions and all went well :cool:.

I am not sure where they got the 30 minutes from though ... it took me an hour or so . The screws are so small when transferring everything off the old screen to the new and you need a steady hand not to break cables or lose anything.

I was ready and was extra careful by keeping the screws laid out logically on a piece of paper so that I could put them back without having to guess, as they have different sizes :A. In the end it was only £15 for a refurb original screen (plus my time!) rather than a copy or £70 in a local shop/more from the Apple store.

... and yes I have put on a gorilla screen protector this time

Anon

Errant son had to replace the screen on his ipad after he dropped it - he took it out of the gorilla case to read from, bad mistake. I had a brief look to see how much replacement screens were and then on you tube to see the process. I was gobsmacked at how intricate they are and all of the layers underneath the screen and the size of the screws. So rather than risk doing it ourselves as its virtually un- replaceable (for sentimental and monetary reasons) we found a local firm to do the replacement

mhoc

Back on the subject of potatoes I got the barcode from last months Morrison wonky potatoes out of the bin and it is the same as this weeks barcodes so the 2 sets of potatoes are the same.

And then I checked my emails and mysupermarket sent me a price update - Wonky potatoes for 87p - as you said yesterday.

Then I checked my receipt from yesterday (yes it should have been uploaded and I would have noticed) and yes we were charged 87p and not the 2 for £2 as the SEL said.

The moral of the tale is check your receipt before leaving the store - have a post holiday woolly fluffy brain is not an excuse. And don't believe SELS especially in Morrisons and def not in the small Morrisons

Savvybuyer wrote: »

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).

Ellsey

Many thanks, I have just printed one so will try my small coop when passing. We drink too much fruit juice in this house, so squash would save me a fortune. Thanks again x


On the plus side, the Coop accepted mocs with no problem. I noticed on the receipt that it says '£1 off any Robinsons' so tomorrow I'll experiment, if I can find any without sweetener.

Also on the plus side, it let me print a couple this morning.:)[/QUOTE]

mhoc

Picasso7 wrote: »

Thanks Hampy and good morning all.

Nectar has 1000 points for Virgin trains again.

OH has no offers - not had any since February.
I've only got a 500 points offer - still worth it for very little effort. My last train trip was booked mid March so I am still waiting for those - not sure if it was 500 or 600 points last time.
Dithering now if I ought to wait until March bonus points are live so as not to confuse matters when I have to contact FB - expiry date is may 1st so plenty of time.