Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

Savvybuyer

I remember someone I know was really happy when they bought some product on what looked like really cheap offer in T many years ago. They thought it was a fantastic offer!:D:D:D (That's their gushes and grins btw.)

:wall::wall:I pointed out(:o:o:rotfl:) that I had been buying the very same product the week before, when it was more than twice the price in T:j:j and A were on the same price as T now was, and as T were briefly doing the DTD Price Check, it worked out better than free for me!

Not a fantastic offer at all once T's shelf price (where stores had changed SELs correctly) went down - it was now a very poor offer, not only because DTD had gone but the price in A had risen so the just the difference was now a negative figure. Even if they had happened to buy items in T on which they had overpaid compared to A, they would not therefore get the full difference in price for those back as they would also, on entering their receipt, even if there was any difference left at all, lose their "fantastic" offer on the item they thought was great and end up buying it for A's what was then much more expensive price than T.

I think I stopped myself from saying all this actually, as I didn't want to ruin their 'fantastic' offer or feeling they had bought well - either that or I think, during my explanation, they fell asleep:rotfl:.

michaels

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Northumbrian water offer lower bills if you are earning under £16,100

Our water comes form Affinity but Thames Water take it away. This seems to have resulted in us having inflation busting price increases recently when there was supposed to be a near freeze because Affinity have increased supply prices whilst reducing sewerage charges and Thames Water have done the opposite so that if we were a customer of one or the other we would have seen little change but instead we have seen double digit increases for both.

We also somehow qualify as low income for affinity who go on taxable income but not for Thames who go on income after benefits (go figure) but I think there is a different scheme we will need to try and qualify for once we are metered (the meter was fitted 18 months ago, no objection was allowed but we will not get charged metered for the first two years unless we choose to be).

Tinyshoes

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Oh I forgot to post this yesterday:o

There were quite a few items RTC at 25p but all the shelves were empty.

I think aau had posted about them a few days ago saying they were making space for Christmas stock

Look out for the little red labels

I remember him saying now. what a donut I am was in DDs M&S foodhall on Friday only looked at the chillers.

bargainqueen8

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Giants Sue?



I would try 20 and 16 :rotfl:

Or put a big cardigan on:rotfl:

the giants are fantastic but its a you have to be there thing to appreciate them.:)

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/gallery/31-breathtaking-pictures-giants-last-15249117

Savvybuyer

Picasso7 wrote: »

Thank you very much. I need to visit T tomorrow and will scout around.

I have been sorting my stash and the number of tins of peas is testimony to the number of planned APGs I have done, though a lot went to the food bank too. It's very sad that it is all over.

Mind you, I did well in the rtc section of Morries this morning with pacs of 20 paper serviettes for 25p, some oven bulbs reduced to very little and some pencil cases reduced to 32p and perfect for shoe boxes.

Oh goodness, I've got lots of tins of peas - garden peas for some reason as well. I would have bought another tin:o today, along with a not 10% cheaper tin of carrots (that I actually do need more of) so lose 2p again, as that fitted my voucher value but ended up changing to something else as I have got too many peas. (I also have lots of frozen peas due to buying them before M's price went up - they were never compared Avs M in recent years as far as I saw.) The food bank is a good idea. I just don't like losing on the tinned carrots. Or the peas - 21p also at M (went up from 20p a few months ago, should have bought even more then:rotfl::rotfl:) so lose another approx. 2p. It's adding up - by the end of it, I will probably have lost several pounds of my APG value, so the true value is less than what it looks. I will need at least three milks so 13p or so on each of them (probably at least five in total by the end of October, the final ones left as late as possible) and have already lost about three times 10p on £1 items from A that weren't 10% cheaper or wouldn't have been 10% cheaper against a price-matched competitor at another time (but unable to buy them at another time as 10% off has gone and my vouchers are time-limited - moreover, waiting to a competitor's offer later on will likely be price-matched and no further).

SP Rice Pudding has vanished in all my As:(. Sometimes it feels as if things like this are deliberate, the same as when one of my As in particular seemed conveniently to have no stock left of anything that was on a really good APG comparison. Obviously inconvenient to me but just conveniently that one item that was really good, whichever one it was at the time - no stock! Next time, a different item was good - that one item, now no stock. Probably lots of the other item now its comp. is no good. I reckoned that store obviously read this thread and pulled anything off the shelves if it was on here - otherwise I could find no explanation as to why regular shoppers would all of a sudden be buying this item at full price but somehow leaving stock available for me, when I didn't want it, when it was on rollback. (I had a similar thing in M - shelf is bare but the item has gone up in price?!? Perhaps, though, there was no stock because it had been sold out when it was just before on offer.) It sometimes feels deliberate, but it is probably just a stockout at the moment. I can't find any explanation as to why there would have been such a run on SP Rice Pudding at this moment - there seems no reason to me why people generally would be buying it more than before. The equivalents at the other major supermarkets went up in price and left A more than 10% cheaper and losing out on all but an Avs W comp. As I did so few Avs W comps., and there was nothing worth comparing against W in the final days of the APG that would allow me to use Rice Pudding on the shop, I didn't buy it - and using Rice Pudding then was a waste as SP Carrots at the same price were then comparable for 2p off vs all the other shops - my 20p was best going on those (unfortunately not enough and it only counted once in a shop).

Now that SP Rice Pudding would be a "good" purchase - it doesn't lose out on anything I would have had last week and is well more than 10% cheaper than any place against which it could have been compared at that time - although more expensive than what it was years ago but still A the cheapest of the supermarkets - I can't actually buy it as I can't find stock:(. I have decided to put it off for now, as who knows it may come down in price, and if I can't get it from A before the end of the month, then I think Lidl is same price anyway. I do need more Rice Pudding:rotfl:. Unfortunately - a testimony to the APG - I have very little of it, as it started losing out against three places on the APG, I very rarely bought fewer than eight items and got rid of an APG as that was a waste, getting nothing further back, and W was generally so expensive I rarely did shops against there. (:rotfl::rotfl:As if most people shop the way I do.) If only I could find it - it would be a beautiful way of spending some vouchers and I wouldn't have to buy it in Lidl for cash later. I have replaced it with Carrots tin once (lost 2p!), I may replace it again as that's about as many Carrots tins as I need (may as well buy them anywhere else though at same price) but I don't want to lose more than 4p on them.

I just don't know where items go in stores. One day, shelves and shelves of stock - the next, when I want the item - completely empty shelf. I find it hard to believe that it could have suddenly vanished in the space of 24 hours, especially when, under the APG, I was trying to find when it was full price. I suspect more difficulty for the next few weeks, when I am trying to find a few items on cheap price.

aau1

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Oh I forgot to post this yesterday:o

There were quite a few items RTC at 25p but all the shelves were empty.

I think aau had posted about them a few days ago saying they were making space for Christmas stock

Look out for the little red labels

I sure did. I got loads of stuff and even did well with evening whoopsies. I have no idea why I haven't been spending more time in m&s! Makes me wonder what else i've missed out on in there before. All because i was overly loyal to A's :doh:

simone10

Tinyshoes wrote: »

If you find any skin care RTCs in superdrug don't forget to pick up the free skin care kit if you are lucky to find 3 items.

The MIXA body lotion was reduced to 65p each so this little lot only cost me £1.95 :money:

https://ibb.co/b2NuM9

Not in the photo, but also got 3 of the kids hair slide packs too

Tinyshoes

simone10 wrote: »

https://ibb.co/b2NuM9

Not in the photo, but also got 3 of the kids hair slide packs too

:T:T:T

Even better bargains

Savvybuyer

aau1 wrote: »

I sure did. I got loads of stuff and even did well with evening whoopsies. I have no idea why I haven't been spending more time in m&s! Makes me wonder what else i've missed out on in there before. All because i was overly loyal to A's :doh:

You were right to be in A at that time though. Well done on the M&S whoopsies.

Tinyshoes wrote: »

:T:T:T

Even better bargains

They are excellent. Clearly we need to be away from the supermarkets now to save money. Sadly there is never anything in my Superdrugs whenever I check. Maybe I should be in them more often. (Obviously there is stuff in them:rotfl: - but never any of these really cheap items at the times when they are really cheap.)

TrulyMadly

aau1 wrote: »

I sure did. I got loads of stuff and even did well with evening whoopsies. I have no idea why I haven't been spending more time in m&s! Makes me wonder what else i've missed out on in there before. All because i was overly loyal to A's :doh:

I spotted currys in sachets and tubs and other stuff I can't remember now. It was all dotted around the grocery section