Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

mrsmac10

pandoraskids wrote: »

DD used to like to add these to casseroles



:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

I have noticed that all my choices of toothpaste have gone up in price in A so bought Colgate Cavity Protection Fresh Mint 100ml 69p in Home Bargains yesterday

Did you not get enough to last years and years when the glitched last year I don’t like some of them, the one with blue particles springs to mind. They seem to stick to the basin :rotfl:

Gave lots to some charity that help kids coming out of care

curl_girl

Morning all.

Been in sd this morning, inspired by TS.
Loads of body lotion but didn't buy any.

Atkins chocolate chip crisp bars, box of 5, 60p, these are originally £6.50. :eek:

Slimfast 7 day challenge kit £1 from £10.99. With a £1 coupon inside. It's the box with Alexandra Burke on the front, as if.........:D

curl_girl

mrsmac10 wrote: »

Did you not get enough to last years and years when the glitched last year I don’t like some of them, the one with blue particles springs to mind. They seem to stick to the basin :rotfl:

Gave lots to some charity that help kids coming out of care

Son has been using that one!
Sink looks like there's grit everywhere, towels are stained and the bits burst dye when you try to clean it up. :mad:
Horrible stuff.

Picasso7

pandoraskids wrote: »

Quids - nothing but 2 pde for me today

Norton
Debenhams

https://www.quidco.com/guess-2-win-september-2018/

Also, daily entry for these done

https://www.nectar.com/competitions/autumn

https://www.dorsetcereals.co.uk/collect-and-win/spin-to-win/

10p for me! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Picasso7

pippo wrote: »

oh, serviettes and oven bulbs, I[STRIKE] need[/STRIKE] want those! Off to M's tomorrow

Oh good! I am glad to have been helpful and hope you find them. I picked up fairly bland paper serviettes but they had loads of nice 'teatime' ones and another sort too which I decided wouldn't quite go with my tablecloths.

Picasso7

Jeremiah_T_Stone wrote: »

I did DM = a few weeks ago, and I was a bit disappointed. After all the time and effort into making it, expectations were high, but it tasted like a good supermarket cheddar
To be fair it was only 6 months old, so I've revealed it and put it away to mature further.

Have you tried making any yet? When I get time, I must try making something a bit more adventurous

I think that making cheese is very adventurous! :T

diluvsdiscounts

aallank wrote: »

Well i've definitely made a dent in the freezer this first week of Froctober. But still finding i'm needing to buy fresh veg, lunch box snacks, milk etc so this first weeks spend isn't as low as i'd hoped, but hopefully going in the right direction

I've bought loads of veg, my take on it is that I still buy what we need but use things I have when it is possible. Well done on your first week.

pandoraskids wrote: »

Happy to help, I am off on my hols tomorrow though so may not be able to do it for the next week/10 days

Erm I'm not sure thats a good enough reason :rotfl:

Picasso7 wrote: »

I think that making cheese is very adventurous! :T

I agree, very jmpressive, and it's not any supermarket cheddar its JTS cheddar:rotfl:

pandoraskids

mrsmac10 wrote: »

Did you not get enough to last years and years when the glitched last year I don’t like some of them, the one with blue particles springs to mind. They seem to stick to the basin :rotfl:

Gave lots to some charity that help kids coming out of care

Sadly not, I must have missed that one :eek:

I didn't come on here much last year as my sister was very poorly

Savvybuyer

pandoraskids wrote: »

DD used to like to add these to casseroles



:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

I have noticed that all my choices of toothpaste have gone up in price in A so bought Colgate Cavity Protection Fresh Mint 100ml 69p in Home Bargains yesterday

Obviously people are better than me as I pay more for the same quantity:(. I bought an Aquafresh tube of toothpaste for £1 when they were still comparing shops and they didn't even compare. (Possibly too new an item in M at the time so wasn't picked up by the price collectors from M.) Since no comparison was available, it made me think of even buying another tube from A now as I 'wouldn't have lost anything':wall:. However I decided that I'd only need the number of tubes I have already got (of various toothpaste) in the time any new tube would have before its expiration.

Certainly the places that aren't supermarkets (or aren't thought of as supermarkets) seem often to be cheaper ways of shopping. The problem for me is that Home Bargains isn't on msm, meaning I can't easily see its prices. Maybe I should do collections there or spend time there more often:rotfl:.

Their Potatoes went up in price:(. They matched a higher price at Heron Foods. I then went to Heron Foods (I am not rewarding price increasers that put prices up to match other places), only to find they had gone up there and were now even more:(. I saw that, frowned and walked out with nothing:money: and then had to go back to HB to buy their potatoes:wall:. I am not rewarding them now, as, unfortunately, they were the cheapest place for me (without me spending long hours of time trying to find whoopsies elsewhere or being at the right place at the right time of day - inevitably during rush hour journeys or at teatime when I need to be here - on limited hours on limited days and then ending up with it being fruitless and finding none available cheaper).

Savvybuyer

Perhaps, elsewhere, we should go to A now and try haggling - even if for a worse deal that would have been available to us this time last time but now one that can't be bettered anywhere else. After all, the prices on the shelves are, at least for customers who shop at the staffed tills, invitations to treat. We don't have to accept them, but we can go to the till and give them our own price, which they can then choose to take or leave. (If they take it though, we would be committed to buying the item at the price we have offered. Perhaps some careful wording such as "If I was to make an offer to buy this item at ..., would you accept it?") Take a basket of shopping (or, maybe even better, a full trolley) to the till that has only items that are cheaper at Tesco (we don't want any already price-matched on the shelf price items). Take each item and point out the price at Tesco, loudly enough so that other customers can hear. Go through the entire trolley and do the same - saying how much cheaper Tesco is and asking whether they will sell it to you for the same (otherwise you are off to Tesco shortly). If they say no and we have no price guarantee anymore (surely every reason to be haggling as we can't now claim any difference), hopefully other customers behind you, that have any of the same items in their shopping will now be wanting to put them back. If you then spot anything else in their shopping that is cheaper at another place, point that out loudly enough to the shopper as well, stating the price elsewhere and commenting (loudly enough for other to hear) how expensive Asda are on these items. If the store won't sell the items to you for the cheaper competitor prices, abandon all the items in the trolley at the till and leave the store. Their job to put them all back. It would be chaos if several people did it at a store at the same time, especially if a nice busy period was picked.

If we become too disruptive (and certainly don't go committing any public order offences), they may want to ban us from their stores. However, such a thing plays into our hands as we won't be shopping at Asda anymore. Perhaps try this just after all our APG vouchers are gone. In fact if we were to be banned, for any or no reason, that would just then give an opportunity to create greater publicity, to the wider world, about how unjust you think a ban is and about the items cheaper at the competitors. The customer is king: it would also help make other customers more generally aware of how much they are overpaying compared to a competitor on some items and provide the information to them that is so lacking and is why they make poor purchasing decisions. After all, they cannot now challenge Asda through the PG if they thought something they were selling was a little expensive (as the per the lady quoted in the Stoke Sentinel article to which I linked a few days ago). (I wonder what, without a PG, they are to do now, if they think in future something is a little expensive? Still buy it from Asda?:wall:)

I look forward to taking a Savoy Cabbage price marked at 55p to the till and pointing out Morrisons are only 50p. I have been mentioning items, in public on here; however, sadly, most of the public don't see this webpage. I think we need some vastly different priced items to make Asda sound really expensive, as expensive overcharging as possible, to other customers in store. That man at the till yesterday, albeit that he didn't have what would have been enough items, was buying some alcohol pack at £12.50:eek:. I think it is only £7 elsewhere [EDIT - bear with me: just off to get my facts right]. He saved a bit on the 3 for £1 offer on Heinz baby foods that are sadly cheaper in Asda on that offer at the moment.

EDIT: It looks like it's now £8 in A today online, although I saw something go thought the till yesterday at £12.50. So he may have bought something on the wrong day and would have saved if he'd bought today. It's now got competitor price of £12.50 - I don't think £7 is available anywhere. So that's not a good item for an example - he may have got a different packsize that was more expensive. However, we know that there are some items on which people do pay several pounds more expensive prices than the price elsewhere and are therefore significantly cheaper elsewhere.

A can say (as can other supermarkets on other items), see, we are good value after all! We have picked a biased selection of items that are cheaper and much cheaper elsewhere, just as each store can pick its own biased selection of items it has on offer for its advertising. However, the point is that, before, we could get all those "Tesco cheaper" or "Sainsbury's cheaper" in the same one place without having to visit the competitor stores. Now, to get that, we have to visit Tesco and Sainsbury's and can't just do shops at Asda. They are wasting our time, which is valuable, in having to visit other stores in addition to them - which is far less than than they wasted by putting us to having to check a receipt number online rather than having those items on the shelf that we could straight buy priced at 10% cheaper than the competitors. Indeed, we may as well, after any protest, just visit the other stores and not bother with A at all as it seems to me their shelf prices are rarely cheaper and other stores are usually cheaper (the same being true in every other store of items other places than those have on offer). A may have other offers, such as rollbacks - that may often not be as good as half price offers on those items at other times available elsewhere. So Asda's lowest shelf price hasn't always been as low as competitors and we had to use the PG before. If we see 'even lower prices', on items that were through the PG effectively cheaper than those prices for us before, I doubt they will often be as low as 10% cheaper and will likely be price-matched to the competitor:( (just like many of the shelf prices rather than APG prices have been in the past - in fact I would say almost always as I've rarely seen it be 10% cheaper - maybe these 'cheaper in Asda' items in the past have passed me by). I think they are most likely, if they do lower some prices, simply to become price-matched on the shelf - after all, that is "in step" with the competition:(:(:(. Meanwhile, there are all those items cheaper at Morrisons, Tesco, Sainsbury's and Waitrose - and at other places and non-supermarkets possibly a lot better than supermarkets.