Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

silvercar

1 ltr bottle of malibu is reduced to £14 in T, from £21.

mhoc

OH has this offer on his Marks sparks as well £2 wys £10 and I have until Sunday to think of something (order to collect)
He has this last week as well so we just got the big bag of chicken breasts - you get 6 and they come plastic wrapped
So not too bad for £8 in real money - paid for with credit notes as usual

But I wonder what this £6 traditional meal deal is ???

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Just found a £2 off wys £10 at Marksies. I'll combine it with a £5 off mymail e voucher to get £10 worth for £3.

I won't even need to spend cash as I have a gift card.

Now what will I buy?:)

scamps1966

nettiebobs wrote: »

Anybody who's been shopping at @'s last couple of days noticed just how many receipts you could have wombled? :mad::mad:
Bet @'s aren't clearing the trollies at all now.

Fricken loads. I had to tell myself to stop looking for them.

Hard habit to stop after 8 years!!!

I went to my local A's today to spend the last of the APG's that I got the other day, and I still couldn't help myself from looking in trollies for reciepts.

Old habits die hard.

Savvybuyer

nettiebobs wrote: »

Anybody who's been shopping at @'s last couple of days noticed just how many receipts you could have wombled? :mad::mad:
Bet @'s aren't clearing the trollies at all now.

I could still have done so, but it would have been useless. I am trying not to notice them. But - did anyone notice how many were available to be wombled on each day on each of the three weekends leading up to the closure of the APG?:j At least people had started coming out in the run up to Christmas - I wonder where they are though all the rest of the year.

I'm getting used to it, though the pain of paying cash to anywhere for everything next month has not yet hit me. I was already shopping away from A for more and more essentials and paying cash for those as A weren't the best place to buy from. I still caught myself looking towards the bottom of a trolley momentarily to see if a receipt was there, even though that would now be hopeless. This is something psychological with being at Asda, as I didn't do it anywhere else when the APG was on; somehow I have become trained to do this automatically with doing it for so long. I don't do the same at Morrisons - I ignore the trolleys there. Instead I get the urge to write down the prices and will probably still do that when I am next there:rotfl:.

I am actually keeping away from there as A is, it seems, more urgent and so far I haven't run low on anything that needs to be purchased elsewhere because it's not, or is no longer, good value at A regardless of how it was paid for. If anyone has been in Morrisons though, as I am currently completely out of touch, and has noticed what the price of Savers Jaffa Cakes is there, I'd be grateful to know as I'd want to be assured the SP ones haven't gone down in A simply to match the prices now available elsewhere or have Aldi's version now gone down to 27p? I can assure you, even if I have wombles, if I find a place is now the same price as A, I am likely to buy at the competitor rather than A and save my womble value to something that I can draw out of A, like teeth, on which they are actually cheaper (and more than 10%!). I have already decided, in buying from other places than A even with an APG existing, where A never compared against the item at a competitor because A didn't have an equivalent or the other place from A was not one covered by the APG, that whether it is voucher or cash is all cash as using voucher values on items that are a bit more expensive in A (or worse in A, even against other major supermarket prices before, than at a non-APG store) will then see me spending more in cash on other things. Whereas using my voucher values on items good value in A will make the vouchers go further and also save me cash as I won't have to be spending cash on the same type of items away from A when they are best value in A (if such a thing still exists - it does, but much less often - without the APG).

An exception to going and using cash elsewhere when I could use a voucher for the same price at A is if using the cash elsewhere risks the voucher expiring and losing all its value. I am nowhere near that stage yet though. I also wouldn't buy from a competitor if they have just put their price up to match A's:mad::(. In that case, I wouldn't buy the item at A either and wouldn't buy the item at all, unless it is an absolute staple essential, such as potatoes and those items I am already buying away from major supermarkets: the place that was previously cheaper but puts their price up to match will see me shopping at the competitor whose price they have just matched. There is no difference to me but I am not going to 'reward' somewhere that has just put its price up because somewhere else has and can't continue to offer the item cheaper. I am not rewarding a price increase, at least not if I can help it. If only everyone across the land shopped the same way as me. (Even if it sees me going into a shop, seeing the price has increased, frowning and walking out with nothing and going onto the competitor for the item next time I am there. With good planning, I will not have run completely out of the item I needed but will have just enough in case I need a slight delay of purchase until my next normal visit to the other place.) This plan will develop and change as prices in supermarkets change during the rest of the month and I am not buying just yet items on which I think A's straight price might just go down; though it it doesn't, then I shall make decisions as to where I am going, what I am buying where and what an APG voucher ends up being spent on.

Tinyshoes

curl_girl wrote: »

I know some won't approve, but just put the off cuts of pork fat out for fox and it weighed 1.1lb. My joint was £3.35 so definitely over half wasted!

Evening peeps.
Can I open the wine yet?

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If there is any wine left could do with a glass here please to steady my nerves as first time in my life I'm sleeping on a top bunk :eek: Feeling a bit sea sick :rotfl:

Freewheeling

TM ..12.freezers?!?!

I've already been on the wine thanks . Off to bed now.

davemorton

Greenalls gin is only $#15 a litre in sainsbobs at the moment

Anon

nettiebobs wrote: »

Flumps?.....Bagsy me for them...

Their sales will slump :eek:. Their sales over the last 8 years shot up in A but now, no more . Their marketing/sales team will be wondering why ... was it the new packaging? Change in recipe?



Anon

Anon

Freewheeling wrote: »

TM ..12.freezers?!?!

I've already been on the wine thanks . Off to bed now.

Nah ... she was saying 12 for dramatic effect as a dozen doesn't sound like bragging.














It will actually be more .

Anon

Savvybuyer

Oh. Iceland is same offer as A on the Spaghetti Sausages. I might put £20 on a bonus card and buy a small number of multiples of three from them. That's one option. There's no benefit in buying in A, if wombles are paying about 66.7p as opposed to my preferred offer, in the absence of any glitch which I think is now improbable anywhere - don't know though, maybe should wait to see if any overlapping offers happen in T? - as spending, eventually, £20 in A (on some Spag. Sausages and then some other items when needed) does not give me a further £2.

Besides, Iceland's Cottage Pie, 500g which serves two (despite saying it is for one), even though it went up from 89p to £1.00 a while ago, is surely better than buying 400g SP Cottage Pie at £1 with a womble and then only one person using it. There may be some cheaper cottage pies in T these days, from "The Hearty Food Company" (a "company" of which I can find no trace at Companies House:rotfl:) - not sure if I like those ones. The change of name of the range is said elsewhere to have been to make it more "appealing". Yuck - anything that is more "appealing" to the general public must surely be a worst possible option that is unappealing to me. The image I have of the word "Hearty" is like beef heart and nastiness and fat. Obviously it must strike an emotional chord with the majority of the public that doesn't mean anything to me. Apparently, it is now just the Toad in the Hole at 65p and it looks like the cottage pie, having drawn people in, has now gone up to £1.20:eek:. I may be wrong, but I thought msm was saying 65p for cottage pie in several past weeks. Whatever the case, £1.20 for 400g pie at Tesco so Iceland frozen is cheaper.