Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

MKS

fuzzgun19 wrote: »

Thanks, I’ve made a claim on Slopimum for all 3.

Today’s shopping was a bit of a let down. Traveled to another T, no bbq crisps, and the jobsworth on ss was awful “only one per transaction” managed 3 packs.
I did get 5 tuna though, thanks to op on that one.

Then on to S, only did one transaction which gave another 500

So I’ve spat my dummy out with S. 11 transactions 8x 500 and 3x 200. No wombles either. Disappointing:(

You are welcome, glad that you managed to get some tuna.

Savvybuyer

It's a good job I don't work for the benefits agencies assessing any claim (as and when needed to be made) from someone like my relative as I'd been questioning why someone had a diagnosis of both schizophrenia and Asperger's when that was "impossible":rotfl:.

Fortunately the admin. staff don't know medical stuff either. If the question ever came up - which it would not - the answer would be that the "schizophrenia" isn't schizophrenia and the "Asperger's" is really Asperger's either:rotfl:. "Then you've got nothing... claim rejected:mad:". "No-oh..., another misunderstanding again:p:):wall::cool:"

MKS

P2TKL wrote: »

Does anyone on here write reviews on trip advisor? I do and keep getting awarded points. However I haven't a clue what you can do with these points. Does anyone know please ?

Think that it makes you 'more' credible. Not all points lead to stuff. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

MKS

For anyone near the Br0adwater superstore, there is plenty of tuna there on the end of the aisle opposite the bakery. sel says £3.50 but they go through at the reduced price. I saw a chap looking at the tuna in the main aisle where the sel is £1. I asked him if he was looking for that tuna. He said, no I want it in sunflower oil and picked up a single tin. I said that the 4 packs were at the end of the aisle for a few pence more. His response? I only have one tin a week!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I said that the tins are dated till 2022. His reply? Oh well, might as well, it will save me buying one next week. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Can't help some people.

karlie88

P2TKL wrote: »

Does anyone on here write reviews on trip advisor? I do and keep getting awarded points. However I haven't a clue what you can do with these points. Does anyone know please ?

A side story to Trip Advisor...

...someone created a fake listing for a restaurant in London with the sole aim of getting it to number 1 in the rankings by writing fake reviews.

The restaurant was called 'The Shed at Dulwich' and after a few months was ranked number 1 out of 18,000 restaurants in London. :rotfl:

It got to a point where he opened up his 'shed' for one night and served frozen ready meals:

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/434gqw/i-made-my-shed-the-top-rated-restaurant-on-tripadvisor


And let's not forget the Sainsbury's supermarket trolley tunnel that's ranked 3 out of 27 things to do in Bude, Cornwall:

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g190804-d12865329-Reviews-Bude_Tunnel-Bude_Bude_Stratton_Cornwall_England.html

Savvybuyer

Oops:doh:, another long post there:o (not really, I'm not embarrassed by such a thing:p, I'm not, I can't pretend to be!:p:D:rotfl:). Sorry. I just kept writing. However, at least I was talking about supermarket visits (at least towards the end), so - sort of - money-saving related. I think avoid them as best you can:rotfl:. Except for crisps coupons and the excellent deals with have on here:T.

Actually on that, now I've gone into detail and off on a tangent, the person who said about spending £3 in travel to get some crisps. My thought is it might not be worth it if you get to a store and find it only has one pack left. Some of my stores have been OOS, on weekends certainly, by now. They will get new stock in around mid-morning during the week, I hope. Just depends on whether you are lucky with wherever you pick to visit - could find lots of stock and then your journey would have been worth it maybe or could find nothing and then it wasn't. So, at any event, I wouldn't be travelling, personally, but this is just me, if it's £3 petrol on a weekend. As stores likely to have empty shelves where baked crisps should be at this time. I might try Tuesday morning to see if my store has stock (just giving them another day, Monday, to still have no stock and then get some in - my timing might be out again though - of course that's what I may have tried last week, but we now have the expiry date of the coupons running up against us as well).

I think I'll now put the rest of what I was going to say (which was to have been the main subject of this post until I started talking about something else, namely the crisps) onto a separate post as the above would now have been lost if I went on about something else. Which is to be the fact that I don't have problems with supermarket visits, but other people do. (In fact, although I don't want you to, you might as well ignore my next post now as that one last sentence basically says the gist of what I am going to be saying and you get the point from it - but the detail may appear for anyone who is interested in it.)

pippo

mrsmac10 wrote: »

Good morning all

Dh was at a "boys" night out Pals 65th They got heckled by youths on their way home Next time they go there are staying in a TL/PI in the toon Its only just over an hour by car but its 2 trains and a bus/taxi home

Well froctober did not really happen in terms of using up much stuff Too many good buys to pass up on Out for a little shopping today :rotfl:

tweets you will appreciate this The dog is standing on one of my feet , practically glued to my leg destroying/ chewing some plastic toy

I will put the kettle on as Pacifica seems to be having a wee lie in :A :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Enjoy your day

Strangely it was grumpy one's 65th night out yesterday, we had a great time!
Froctober went well until 3 days ago, but sainsbugs has made up for when I went awry! Will up date after the rtc'd thai chicken curry mix!

P2TKL

MKS wrote: »

Think that it makes you 'more' credible. Not all points lead to stuff. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

As long as I'm not missing out on anything 😂😂

mattswife

got a few Sainsbobs vouchers 500 pointers but didnt get one in store coz it was just a bottle of absolute, got £2 back on it though COS, then went to Mr Ts and got the martell for £20 (7.50 off) got £2 back from cos and only spent £20 on groceries i needed anyway and used my £8 off a £40 on the last day boooya! went to the big yellow and blue box and got £5 off a £40, used a gift card for £5 that they gave me for giving me incorrect info in store, which they then gave me incorrect info online re the smart bulb, gateway etc so now theyre sending me the remote to work it all after three employees told me i didnt need one. fun

Jeremiah_T_Stone

Good evening shipmates :wave:

Hope everyone is well - shiver me timbers, it's brass monkeys outside!

Put kettle on, still warm from the oven - banana loaf cake

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