Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

lisabouba

Plz can anyone update me in this?
Am not new to couponing but k ow little on glitches ty

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

Interesting that we have noticed all these items (various ones) that have gone up in price, shortly before supposedly "even lower prices".

So far, I have just my Jaffa Cakes (3p lower) and Cheese Slices (10p lower, but not their best price that they have ever been in A in the past recent years), everything else it seems is not 10% cheaper!

Okay, they can say "we don't offer it anymore". In that case, however, the prices for me have gone up (other than obviously the couple of items that for me have gone down a bit and don't make up anything at all for the effectively more expensive of everything grocery else - on which I have already 'lost' far more than my Jaffa Cakes/Cheese Slices saving).

Items that were, and still, cheaper elsewhere are now having expensive unchanged Asda shelf prices, for example the so-called "Smart Price" Pork Pies that went up from 90p net vs Morrisons for me to £1.20 Asda shelf. They are still £1.20 now, into their fifth day afterwards, just an example I am using, that I keep loudly shouting about on this thread. That should be taken to the till here with Savoy Cabbage and other items and with a loud "Morrisons is £1.00!" being shouted across the store. Even if don't buy Pork Pies often and, as long as this situation continues, any future purchases will be made from Morrisons - other people are still continuing to pay £1.20 in Asda and we haven't seen any lower price, let alone even lower price, on them just yet. I think people should put these points in entries to the £1000 draw on the receipts. Be interesting if any of us won:rotfl: - what would we buy in what seems such a now generally more expensive retailer than before?!

"Smart Price" maybe, for them not us, just like some people think "Every little helps" at T means that every little helps themselves and doesn't help the shoppers. "Helping you spend less at T" - by having us go elsewhere when we find they are more expensive on something. (I'd say everything they do is about trying to get us to spend more rather than less.) You can always twist every advertising slogan around. Mind you, perhaps it doesn't matter with A as they don't save us money every day anymore. What is it now? Save money live better? Save money - by shopping elsewhere (and then you'll live better, according to them - clearly, they are saying it themselves - so, save money - shop elsewhere!). The one at Sainsbury's is good - live well for less. In other words, less money in our pockets if we shop there!

Cherrytree Chorley Cakes are in the same position as Pork Pies as £1.20 in A and £1.00 also elsewhere. Again, 90p APG price gone up to £1.20 A price (and staff discount holders, if they were to buy based on £1.20 and 10% off that, would still be paying more than competitors). Don't buy them in Asda!

mrsmac10

lisabouba wrote: »

Plz can anyone update me in this?
Am not new to couponing but k ow little on glitches ty

Hi. You have missed the main glitches, as far as I know. All the main supermarkets have closed their price/brand matches

Best at the moment may be to go with the cash back site but stick around and you will learn quite about the way others shop which may help

pandoraskids

Savvybuyer wrote: »

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).

As Home Bargains is, for me, on the way to Tesco, I have started to pop in more regularly. I find some of their toiletries & cleaning products more reasonably priced than in the major supermarkets. I also picked up sugar which was 50p for 1kg

curl_girl

pandoraskids wrote: »

As Home Bargains is, for me, on the way to Tesco, I have started to pop in more regularly. I find some of their toiletries & cleaning products more reasonably priced than in the major supermarkets. I also picked up sugar which was 50p for 1kg

Savvy.

I agree with Pandora.
89p for 4 pack of pink lady apples.
89p grapes.
Cheap for veg, biscuits etc.
I went the other week after A but noticed tuna, rice, oranges, carrots etc all at least 25% less than I had paid in Asda.

Savvy I think you need to change your supermarket shopping to one or more of the discounters?
That's what I will be doing.

Savvybuyer

pandoraskids wrote: »

As Home Bargains is, for me, on the way to Tesco, I have started to pop in more regularly. I find some of their toiletries & cleaning products more reasonably priced than in the major supermarkets. I also picked up sugar which was 50p for 1kg

Good:cool:. Though I thought you were talking about Tesco (as opposed to A) at first rather than Home Bargains.

Sugar went up - and has now effectively gone up again in A last Wednesday night. Everywhere you look in A (all grocery shelves, prices have gone up)...! 2Kg Silver Spoon was vs M for a long time at 88p, then M rose to £1 and later rose again (to its current £1.10). As between A and M, M are now "cheaper" - A rising effectively again, to its 'own' price when the PG ceased to be available - even a colleague discount card at A isn't now gone to get as "cheap" (which itself it isn't anymore) as M's generally available price. Asda staff would be better shopping for it at Morrisons, as would we all - at least better than A - but still we can get better than this. With M being so expensive and even previous Avs M becoming no good, I ended up looking in Poundstretcher although, given the tactics of M (that I have seen there), that I think are very likely to be employed in any retailer, I still couldn't take it for granted that Poundstretcher's "Special buy" was the best price on sugar available in the store and still had to check the regular shelves first before I committed just to make sure there was no sugar on price price per Kg. there. Avs M would have been (even against £1.10:eek:) technically a shade cheaper than Home Bargains 50p - although hardly noticeable. Now, buying in M is noticeably dearer than HB (even if only by 5p per Kg. - still, it's real pence being lost each time we buy sugar - and further pence on every other item we buy potentially - it can add up).

pandoraskids

Savvy You have me reminiscing now :rotfl:

During the late 80's & early 90's I worked for a large DIY chain. One of my weekly duties was to do a price check on a certain competitor's items. At that time, this used to involve getting in the car, armed with a list of items from the Marketing Director, my A4 pad & clipboard. If there was a major TV advert planned then I would be given a shopping list of items to purchase. As it was only the receipt that was required, I was allowed to keep all the items I had purchased. I once came home with a whole suite of flat packed bedroom furniture

Savvybuyer

curl_girl wrote: »

Savvy.

I agree with Pandora.
89p for 4 pack of pink lady apples.
89p grapes.
Cheap for veg, biscuits etc.
I went the other week after A but noticed tuna, rice, oranges, carrots etc all at least 25% less than I had paid in Asda.

Savvy I think you need to change your supermarket shopping to one or more of the discounters?
That's what I will be doing.

That's what we're all doing - I don't need that advice! (But I welcome it anyway.) I had already switched some of my shopping to between what people call the discounters, because even A versus was more expensive, there being no supermarket of the five supermarkets (including A itself) that worked out as low. (However, the discounters have very expensive items too - last time I saw some pouches going through to make several pounds total that should be on 10 for £1 guide price - though maybe I imagined that somewhere.) With A now versus nowhere, no 10% cheaper, that's now a non-starter!

I'm just (in fact I am not "just", I am doing more that that but anyway that's a pedantic quibble over a word again) moaning about A, being not happy that the cost of our grocery shopping (which is most of our shopping) in general has now gone up.

4 Pink Lady Apples have been 69p in Home Bargains (they may still be). I thought that was too expensive and only bought them on the one or two rare cases to get a wider mix of apples that I needed:rotfl:. I had been going with £1 for 1Kg packs (the many apples in some of those packs make 69p for 4 others dear, but careful as some of the apples in some 1Kg were too big and there weren't many apples in them and sometimes the range available to me was diminished in my store). When I can find apples I haven't got a lot of and enough in the packs, I am still buying 1Kg from HB to some extent, except I went for A's expensive 75p rollback that now applies to all except staff that still can't now get vs 47p Tesco price. Tesco was actually 6 apples in my packs and a different variety of apples instead of the several more apples that I managed to get in my A packs and three different types (though I did have to use two A stores). The reason I don't know whether HB is still 69p, but they may well be, is because I bought enough set of potatoes (at 10p more expensive each:eek:) last time so that I did not have to keep revisiting them, and thus cut down efficiently on having to make special trips to them. I bought apples in A last time due to the vs T comp. but won't be doing so again if they don't go down in price (I see no sign of...). I've also been getting a further variety of apple, by using lots of apples from the apple tree in my garden - that type of apple cost me nowt!:money:
The offer in Tesco is still on until tomorrow. BUY IN TESCO!!:j:j As the comparison is no longer available, the product can't be compared against T and for me has now gone up from 42.3p to its now expensive looking 75p that I walk past thinking is expensive every time I am still in A! They are still, just about, providing much of my food and drink shopping for the rest of the month whilst I still have APG vouchers.

pandoraskids

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Good:cool:. Though I thought you were talking about Tesco (as opposed to A) at first rather than Home Bargains.

Sugar went up - and has now effectively gone up again in A last Wednesday night. Everywhere you look in A (all grocery shelves, prices have gone up)...! 2Kg Silver Spoon was vs M for a long time at 88p, then M rose to £1 and later rose again (to its current £1.10). As between A and M, M are now "cheaper" - A rising effectively again, to its 'own' price when the PG ceased to be available - even a colleague discount card at A isn't now gone to get as "cheap" (which itself it isn't anymore) as M's generally available price. Asda staff would be better shopping for it at Morrisons, as would we all - at least better than A - but still we can get better than this. With M being so expensive and even previous Avs M becoming no good, I ended up looking in Poundstretcher although, given the tactics of M (that I have seen there), that I think are very likely to be employed in any retailer, I still couldn't take it for granted that Poundstretcher's "Special buy" was the best price on sugar available in the store and still had to check the regular shelves first before I committed just to make sure there was no sugar on price price per Kg. there. Avs M would have been (even against £1.10:eek:) technically a shade cheaper than Home Bargains 50p - although hardly noticeable. Now, buying in M is noticeably dearer than HB (even if only by 5p per Kg. - still, it's real pence being lost each time we buy sugar - and further pence on every other item we buy potentially - it can add up).

Maybe only a small monetary value but 5p per kilo is still 10% dearer

Savvybuyer

pandoraskids wrote: »

Maybe only a small monetary value but 5p per kilo is still 10% dearer

Yes it is, though I was just trying to just trying not to look trivial over a saving of 'only' 5p. I think it's actually 11.11111...% dearer - that's what we have lost as well on the dropping of the PG.

Those 5ps can add up when they are for every individual item we buy on every shop we do.