Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

TrulyMadly

Jeremiah_T_Stone wrote: »

Whilst holding/massaging Harriet's front paw as she was sleeping this afternoon, I noticed one of her paw pads was like a flap. I rushed her to the vet thinking she may need stitches

Upon examining her, the Vet said it was nothing to worry about, it was a piece of sticky poop she had stepped on. Embarrassing or what?

I'm definitely not sniffing that paw:rotfl::rotfl:

Evening all

Or is it afternoon......?

Savvy will know:rotfl:

pandoraskids

At the top of my A receipt

**** Win£1,000! ****
Tell us about your visit today to enter our monthly £1,000 prize draw

Is this something new? Or have I just not noticed it before? :rotfl:

TrulyMadly

Savvybuyer wrote: »

That's falling into the line of thinking that it is free. In reality, it's probably not 10% cheaper Weetabix and not 10% cheaper cat food either. The cost is the loss of that - the currency, having had production discontinued, has now been devalued before all of it expires in the next month, as now more of it has to be used to make purchases like this and none of it gives any more currency back, so costs more. I assume you mean standard Weetabix cereal. There appears to be no Weetabix cereal in A that is 10% cheaper than every of the four supermarkets, the 12 pack is cheaper at Poundstretcher and about half the packs are cheaper at some other of the four supermarkets than at A. They seem to be overpriced Weetabix on all of them compared to previous 10% against somewhere else on a specific targetted shop against the other place and overpriced outright on half of them that can be bought straight from somewhere else for less than the price in A.

My total loss so far is... arguably four pence, because my plasters that, wherever they compared were (and still are) much more expensive elsewhere, used to be 40p in A but have since gone up to 44p. That's just an A slight price rise in the last few months on an item that couldn't have been compared to anywhere not 10% cheaper than... and certainly nowhere else cheaper. I am all set by what has existed in the recent past:rotfl:.

(The trouble is you can hardly put your APGs against much else, as I think there is almost no grocery item worth buying in A when so many of them have now, in effect, had their price increased - and sometimes now very greatly - for us in A, at least until or unless A brings its price on straight from the store down. There seems almost nothing worth buying elsewhere, as every supermarket seems expensive on nearly everything except what it has on good offer.)

I would have made a greater loss if I had bought Milk & Cereals Breakfast biscuits instead of another flavour, as Aldi has its own Milk & Cereals at 75p. However, as I wanted a different flavour that Aldi doesn't have, A seems best price on that as its own current "stayed back" price of 84p.

I shall doubtless make more 'losses' by not being able to get 10% off anything, such as price-matched items that are £1 elsewhere whose price in A has gone up for me from 90p net. However I might previously have sometimes bought some of them by themselves anyway, and lost the 10p of 10%, so won't be losing anything more than I was before and I'm not buying what would have been enough items anyway. I shan't be having to buy any more 10p Haribos so I will be saving their cost there. I might get instead tempted into buying 6 of them at T:o; however as that is now 5p (I know - all of 5p, small and rather trivial:rotfl:) more expensive than A could have worked out at, I may be more hesitant about that - which may be clever on A's part as, if we go elsewhere, we'll have to pay more anyway (than the 10% cheaper net. previous obtaining from A) so might be more reluctant to pick them off a competitor's shelf - and, after our vouchers are used, A have got rid of us, that were taking money from them anyway.

It was free savvy...paid for with a womble:D

But my bad....I always use Weetabix generically:o

It was actually the Asda own brand 48 pack at £2.49

Anon

pandoraskids wrote: »

At the top of my A receipt

**** Win£1,000! ****
Tell us about your visit today to enter our monthly £1,000 prize draw

Is this something new? Or have I just not noticed it before? :rotfl:

Not new, it has been there for a long time. Maybe we all make a point now of feeding back and commenting how they are more expensive without the APG ... every time we shop .

Anon

TrulyMadly

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Did you actually spend less on your parking because of this? The cost of wombling of before:rotfl::eek:.

Also - no need to buy (go to the extravagance of buying) eight items - quicker shops there too:j!* (Would have been two jump-arounds but removed one as not too good due to the loss of the APG.)


*But don't go buying a small number of high-priced items to spend the higher value APGs:(. Need to get as much as you can at cheapest cost:money:.

pandoraskids wrote: »

Up to 2 hours parking is refunded by A by spending £5 or more but there was just no need for more than 30 mins today :rotfl:

No, just a few bits from the reduced counter and some milk, just over £5 total, paid for with APGs

But there is a downside:o

What are we going to give the halloweeners if we have no 10p sweets to give them?:o

Anon

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

We last had our windows done about 15 years ago.

We had a couple of bigger companies to quote and a couple of local ones.

With the bigger ones, one of them took 4 hours of our time, started off with a massive quote which was promptly cut in half if we would sign there and then, was very unwilling to leave without a contract until we threatened to call the police. Can't remember who it was, think I have blocked it out, The other big one was Brackenwood, this annoyed me more. I made the appointment, explained that my husband would not be available and was told that would be fine. Come the appointed time the rep arrives and absolutely refuses to do anything without my husband. Told him that was how it had been arranged but still would do nothing. Threw him out and refused to make a further appointment as they requested. They will NEVER get any business from us.

The local ones were great, they came at the appointed time, measured up, showed us the options, drank tea, left us the quotes that were far less than the big companies, we went with the one that had the shorter timescale,

I think if we are still here when they need replacing again, we will be going nowhere near the big nationals.

Mrs Anon had that a few weeks ago - she has been taking quotes on her own and told them that she would be on the phone. When the sales guy turned up, he said he could not quote without me being there :huh:. Why? She was perfectly capable and she can spend our money better then I can . Mrs Anon was very annoyed :mad:. Either sexist or misguided, we won't be going with them and they are off the list.

Anon

Anon

TrulyMadly wrote: »

But there is a downside:o

What are we going to give the halloweeners if we have no 10p sweets to give them?:o

You will have to buy some ... :eek:.

Or sit with the lights off .

Anon

simone10

fuzzgun19 wrote: »

Looks like you’re right.
I used a subway account that only had 50 points on (so 250).
Bought meatball snack, and they just came off as normal.

I did actually try the nachos yesterday - not impressed!

I have had the subway app for ages but never used Subway. Today I decided I'd walk to a newly opened Subway during my works lunchbreak. It was only a 12 min walk there and a further 12 min walk back, but I was 20 mins in the Q!

I can't say I was impressed with the pack of Doritos they opened and tipped onto greasproof paper, added a smidgen of cheese, popped it into a 'microwave' to melt the cheese. having melted the cheese they then tipped it into a paper box taking it off the greaseproof which left behind the cheese on the greaseproof. So I effectively queued for 20 mins (7 mins was after they'd put mine in a box and it was sitting on the side waiting the till person to catch up having to serve the 3 customers in front of me) to get a bag of Doritos!

On the plus side at least I didn't part with cash and got a free carrier bag and a pack of Dorritos and didn't waste petrol driving there. They hadn't got the deal loaded onto their till so they had been instructed to just give the customers the 'nachos'. This would also mean I could have gone back after work and got some more..........but it really wasn't worth the petrol for the 1/2 mile journey.

Anon

£1.90.

That is how much my Gweggs latte cost as the stupid app wouldn't work, then when it did eventually work (with a queue behind me) it said I had already redeemed it when I most definitely had not :mad:.

Anon

Anon

simone10 wrote: »

I have had the subway app for ages but never used Subway. Today I decided I'd walk to a newly opened Subway during my works lunchbreak. It was only a 12 min walk there and a further 12 min walk back, but I was 20 mins in the Q!

I can't say I was impressed with the pack of Doritos they opened and tipped onto greasproof paper, added a smidgen of cheese, popped it into a 'microwave' to melt the cheese. having melted the cheese they then tipped it into a paper box taking it off the greaseproof which left behind the cheese on the greaseproof. So I effectively queued for 20 mins (7 mins was after they'd put mine in a box and it was sitting on the side waiting the till person to catch up having to serve the 3 customers in front of me) to get a bag of Doritos!

On the plus side at least I didn't part with cash and got a free carrier bag and a pack of Dorritos and didn't waste petrol driving there. They hadn't got the deal loaded onto their till so they had been instructed to just give the customers the 'nachos'. This would also mean I could have gone back after work and got some more..........but it really wasn't worth the petrol for the 1/2 mile journey.

We added Mrs Anon's card to a new app account, but the 200 points aren't showing . I guess it must be for those who already had the app activated rather then cardholders only? Or selected accounts?

Thanks

Anon