Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

Dizzy_Ditzy

To those with a Co-op membership card, it's worth logging in and seeing if you can join in the digital trial - you get to pick two offers a week - I had 50p off any Cadbury dairy milk 40-200g bar and 50p off £4 spend. Not earth shattering but it's something different the money should come off at the till as you swipe your card

The chocolate is useful because they do 2 for £1.

mattswife

Dizzy_Ditzy wrote: »

To those with a Co-op membership card, it's worth logging in and seeing if you can join in the digital trial - you get to pick two offers a week - I had 50p off any Cadbury dairy milk 40-200g bar and 50p off £4 spend. Not earth shattering but it's something different the money should come off at the till as you swipe your card

The chocolate is useful because they do 2 for £1.

cant see anything about this

Dizzy_Ditzy

mattswife wrote: »

cant see anything about this

It *might* be selected areas maybe. Only might though

zippydooda

fuzzgun19 wrote: »

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

im too embarrassed to get them in mine, if i pay you by pp and cover the postage, can you get me 4 boxes. of the pink ones

pandoraskids

fuzzgun19 wrote: »

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

:eek:

Savvybuyer wrote: »

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 grips 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.

I would return any item that had gone off before the bbe date

Savvybuyer wrote: »

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.)

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

davemorton

Emerald, have they looked into hiring one for while they are away, may work out cheaper

pandoraskids

zippydooda wrote: »

im too embarrassed to get them in mine, if i pay you by pp and cover the postage, can you get me 4 boxes. of the pink ones

Ok, I'll get you some :rotfl: :rotfl::rotfl:

Savvybuyer

pandoraskids wrote: »

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I would return any item that had gone off before the bbe date

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I know - that's what we should always do and not doing so is not MSE, but I fail and sometimes just don't want to make a fuss and it seems not worth the bother. I fall into the trap of inertia that most people fail into especially when it seems a 'low value' item:(. I moan on social media instead, and then on parts of it that fewer people bother with:(:doh:.

"my current grips" should be "my current gripes" btw. Hopeless aren't I?:rotfl:- I found no fewer than three typo errors in a single sentence of one of my posts recently that, once I spotted them, I had to go and correct. I think my keyboard's letter "t" wasn't pressing down properly - I knew how to spell the words, but I'll blame the keyboard. I hink ha was he problem anyway:rotfl:.

bubbs

Evening all

Tinyshoes

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

Can she recall the name of the company and go straight to them, was it Hastings?

I did try going on live chat and they were not budging they said they couldn't honour last Wednesdays quote.

But I cleared all cookies as suggested and went through Moneysupermarket and got it bit cheaper same details still with Hastings. :eek:

Original was £670 mark, had gone up to over £800 earlier starting today, changing to tomorrow before I cleared cookies brought it down to about £780.

Finally got the quote down to about £750 and that is with both of us and her BF as named drivers for your info savvy. No idea if her BF put the price up any, he is over 25 but she wanted him to be insured as well just in case of emergency.

DD is a bit miffed she won't get Meerkat movies etc. but hey ho c'est la vie. Once we got a lower quote I wasn't mucking around anymore just in case they started to go up again.

She is also bit disappointed she couldn't go and pick it up today too...

Thanks everyone for the help, think I have gathered best time is about 3 weeks before to start looking!!