Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

Savvybuyer

Savvybuyer wrote: »

[...]The problem is you need to trawl through an entire store to see what's good [...]

Well, it's not "trawling" through a store, it is just walking through, which is a bit easier, but it sometimes feels like trawling.

What I'm also saying is that it is necessary, or seems necessary, to walk through a whole store first, to find and know the offers, and then go back and do the shopping afterwards. Plus competitors offers need to be found to make sure the first place really is the cheapest place.

I shall probably start at Morrisons, and then try Tesco (and be shopping at both for the next weeks and months etc...). I shall be appalled if I manage to buy something that turns out cheaper elsewhere. We are aware of the strategies they use however and are equipped to deal with them, even if the rest of the public are not. Forums like this, on which we can share deals, will hopefully help us all choose the best place we can - mysupermarket is good but it doesn't show a lot of offers as the best things to be found are sometimes RTC items which are found when items are no longer online and are only instore.

Savvybuyer

I think milk is possibly currently cheapest from Tesco-owned Jacks, available for the relatively few people among us that have one of those stores realistically available to you.

Westvleteren

Tesco ditches best before dates on fruit and veg

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45786012

Edit: it is not the end of yellow stickers though.

braveheart60uk

Quick reminder, tomorrow and Wednesday are O3 Nerd coughee days, so clean mugs to the fore.

Just for fun, I have worked out how many days a year I work. Taking into account public holidays and my holiday entitlement, works out to be 194, so I work 1.063 days and get a day off. Looks good on paper, wish it felt like that lol.

Savvybuyer

I already shop at Morrisons (and Aldi and Lidl and Home Bargains...) - it's just that a lot more of my shopping will now be coming from there, now that A have become a place that offers a much poorer deal on lots of items for me, unless they really reduce prices and become better.

I suppose I go into Morrisons and I don't really feel ripped off. I feel Tesco in particular is always trying to make me spend more on the few occasions I go into there. But maybe Morrisons could be, secretly, more successful if it really has the same aim as it would be making me feel it isn't and would yet still be doing so. Really though they are all the same as Tesco staff are drawn from the general public, that have happened to get a job there, as are Morrisons staff of people who have ended up working for them. It isn't as if there is any different change between different staff and how I feel is just how I happen to feel about things at times, which is illogical, when really any supermarket is the same.

The staff pr more so security in Morrisons, some of them, will think I am going there to be up to no good for them and trying to take down prices:rotfl:. They and other staff may be shocked to wonder why I am suddenly buying lots of stuff from the place:rotfl::rotfl:.

fuzzgun19

Didn’t find anything in SD today apart from this.

Savvybuyer

Westvleteren wrote: »

Tesco ditches best before dates on fruit and veg

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45786012

Edit: it is not the end of yellow stickers though.

I thought of posting a link to that about a couple of hours ago, but you've now done it:T.

One of my thoughts was "I'd like to see the staff training material":rotfl:. Staff, it says, have been trained as to which items to reduce. I expect we will see items that are perfectly good, probably much better condition, that would have been several days yet away from their BB had they had one, being reduced whilst stuff that would be on its last day may occasionally be left to be purchased by an unwittingly customer and end up not lasting very long at their home:rotfl::rotfl:.

Mind you, I was not really happy with my recent Smartprice loaf of wholemeal bread (that I bought at full price and BB was still four days away). I don't mention this because of my current gripes with A, as I have had the same thing happen elsewhere before (and I mention that below too). The loaf I picked, BB several days off, seemed to be starting to go mouldy a day or two later when it was still before its BB - whereas the white bread I get from Morrisons (someone else refuses to eat wholemeal:wall:) and wholemeal from Aldi/Lidl is still good to eat a few days later. Tbh, I've long felt that SP Bread from Asda wasn't very good bread. However I did have a similar experience with Sains. quite a time ago - probably five or six years ago - when one of their Basics breads didn't last on me and had to be put into the freezer sooner that I wanted. I think it is because their bread did not use a preservative. However, that means it doesn't last and therefore I need the preservative in there. It's strange as the A SP bread does have the preservative as one of the ingredients. Maybe I was just unlucky, even so I think I prefer Aldi/Lidl bread (as M do not have Wholemeal) although the white bread seems best at Morrisons - although it's lower weight (means they aren't consuming as much) it has more slices in it than the other supermarkets. I should, of course, try any other brand on whoopsied price and then use the freezer.

This brings us to yellow stickers, whereas before I have usually not timed things right. There is a link on that BBC page to a previous BBC article and someone there finds the best time to be 5pm-7pm. Truth is it varies in different stores but, like I suggested earlier, 5-7pm - bang into rush hour/teatime:(. As long as the yellow sticker bread isn't mouldy, and it won't be, then it is absolutely fine.

EDIT: :eek::eek::eek:That was close! My post changed to complete blank again, after I pressed a key on my computer that managed to wipe the whole lot, but just after I had posted it. So I just had to amend the post again, removing a line of space as this website for a while now seems to insert two lines of nothing in between rather than one. Edit again - just had to delete the duplicate line of space above this edit paragraph.

mattswife

won another 10p today!!!

managed to find the butterkist grab bag finally! also Mr Ts have the Bol pots down from £3 to £2 so £1 after cashback on Shoppy, unless youre one of those that has eleventy billion referral credit then i believe theyre free. referral credit is up to £6 on there too but i have no friends interested so is irrelevant!

pacifica9

Good evening Elite.

Hoping everyone is warm, happy and well. Hugs to those not so.

Savvybuyer

fuzzgun19 wrote: »

Didn’t find anything in SD today apart from this.

What, you found a Nicocigarette at £6.95?:eek:

And nothing else?!?

Oh, there's the 60p Pleasure Vibes and the £1.50 thingumabobs:cool:. You're right - Superdrug sells nothing else!

(Actually it does sell, loads of other things to muggles:(. But - it's those 'overpayers' (the vast majority of people at more times I hope than any of us) that allow cheap items for us.)