Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

hopefully getting the[STRIKE] prawns[/STRIKE] scampi in waitrose that foxy mentioned. £4.45 down to £1.60

now if sa permitting i will use my ood bg card and get them down to £1.15 a bag.
only one sa i really need to avoid on ss as he mentioned to me about how long i have left on the card. (still in date then) bet it goes wrong today and i get a deserved trouting.

usual 3 at the top with a surprising surge from marmite.

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13 3Dogs 155
14 pippo 144
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18 tweets 123
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The December full moon will approach the planet tonight for the very first and unfortunately last supermoon event of the year. (Or is it)

The spectacular rare sighting will see the full moon swell up to 14 per cent in size and grow brighter by as much as 30 per cent.

Nasa teased: "The weekends Full Moon is the Frost Moon, the Cold Moon, the Long Night Moon, or the Moon before Yule. In the Southern Hemisphere, it's getting warmer, so happy Strawberry Moon. And oh yeah, did we mention it's a Supermoon?"

The supermoon will rise in the Sunday dark afternoon hours over Manchester, kicking off around 4:30 making its path spectacularly across the night sky, before it will be seen bursting into a phenonemon known as the Blue Moon. Thousands are expected to see this last amazing event of the year. But, some people in Manchester will be seen with sad faces after this event is over....There will be other opportunities to witness this again as the next rising of this super blue moon can be seen in April of 2018 :rotfl:

hampydoodums wrote: »

Morning luvlies, re the Freddos, bought one in a shop last night as a filler and it DID appear on APG. Not price flashed, BC is 9945. Description on APG is

1x Cadbury Dairy Milk Freddo Chocolate Bar (18g)

There was definitely someone reporting earlier that they bought a freddo bar and it didn't appear on the comp.

Claire1972 wrote: »

1x Cadbury Fudge Chocolate Bar (25.5g) £0.25 £0.26
3x Dove Men+Care Ultimate Care Gift Set with Shower Tool (each) £24.00 £9.75
0.13x ASDA Grower's Selection Loose Banana (order by number of bananas or select kg) (per kg) £0.10 £0.09
1x Cadbury Dairy Milk Freddo Chocolate Bar (18g) £0.25 £0.26
1x Cadbury Curly Wurly Bar (26g) £0.35 £0.30
1x ASDA Grower's Selection Cucumber (each) £0.50 £0.45
1x ASDA 100% Pure Orange Juice Smooth Cartons (3x200) £0.69 £0.80
1x ASDA Grower's Selection Iceberg Lettuce (each) £0.49 £0.48

Bought the fudge as the trigger but also the caramel fredo I bought is missing

Ah, but that says it is "the caramel fredo", assuming there is one of those and not two or more (if there are two or more, it should be "a" caramel freddo and not "the" caramel freddo, but I am picking on a tiny word again:rotfl:. People generally aren't usually exact about words, but when we are determining which version of a product to buy and either do or don't want an appearance on the comp., we need to ensure we are specific over which one we are buying that is the correct one for the result we wish to achieve).

The version of Caramel Freddo, if indeed it was a Caramel Freddo as reported and I don't doubt that that was correct, that was bought on the above shop, if it is in the 5 for £1 offer instore, then it was a trigger and, if it was not on the mbuy but led to paying full prices, then it does not, strictly speaking, trigger anything and in my view was therefore not a trigger even though, for simplicity's sake, many people may call it one. For our purposes, since we get 5 for £1 either on the original bill or vs CS, both situations may be called a trigger.

It seems to me that, if it was correctly reported as a Caramel Freddo, the item that was bought was this one:

https://groceries.asda.com/product/single-bars-bags/cadbury-dairy-milk-freddo-caramel-chocolate-bar/910001946252

That is not however this item, which is also marked as "Unavailable" on the website:

https://groceries.asda.com/product/single-bars-bags/cadbury-freddo-chocolate-bar/910001452012

That is different from the product bought last night, which did appear. This isn't BC ending 9945. As well as a Caramel Freddo that doesn't appear, bought by Claire1972, which I suspect is 19.5g, there may also be a Caramel Freddo 19.5g which it seems may also not appear:

https://groceries.asda.com/product/single-bars-bags/cadbury-dairy-milk-freddo-caramel-chocolate-bar/910003083870

See, it is a different one, that although it has an identical description, has 30p flashed on the wrapper in the picture. This suggests that, like my Cadbury Buttons 14.4g early today, that were charged at 30p individual price (the SEL said 25p and Any 5 for £1), there may also be a version of Caramel Freddo that would, in overcharge terms, be even worse - costing 30p each and, if it follows the Buttons, also not getting the mbuy instore whereas the 25p individual price version may be on the mbuy instore but a no appear since it is "Unavailable" as well on a.com.

As regards 18g Freddos, if you want a no appear, you need to be buying Cadbury Freddo Chocolate Bar rather than Cadbury Dairy Milk Freddo Chocolate Bar. 9945 is the latter. I was going to say that perhaps the price flashed versions are the invisible products - if they are each 30p items that aren't picking up the mbuy instore then they are the technical non-triggers that people think are triggers - however there is a version of Cadbury Dairy Milk Freddo Caramel Chocolate Bar 19.5g that appears to be 25p individual price and which is on the mbuy instore and which it seems is properly an invisible trigger as it is "Unavailable" online.

To summarise the non-appearers, there is a Cadbury Chomp 23.5g which is price flashed at 30p and a Cadbury Chomp 23.5g which is unflashed, one of which doesn't pick up the mbuy instore and the other of which does, but both fail to appear, and we have possibly two versions of Cadbury Buttons 14.4g (there aren't any versions of Cadbury Buttons 14.4g that I can find online in the offer although there is one version on there that says unavailable and there is perhaps another version as well which doesn't even appear on the website at all so, if that exists, will also be a no-appear), plus two versions of Caramel Freddo that don't appear (each of them, as separate products with the same description on a.com, says "Unavailable") and one version of 18g Freddo that may also be a non-appear and which is not the one that was bought last night.

Cadbury Fudge Chocolate Bar (25.5g), bought on Claire1972's shop, wasn't a trigger as it did appear but there was a further item bought that might have been thought to have been in the 5 for £1 (whether or not that actually turned out to be the case) that didn't appear besides what was called "the caramel fredo". It may be that two Cadbury Fudge Chocolate Bars 25.5g were bought, but there were different versions of that product, on different BCs, one of which has appeared and the other did not. So you think you are buying two times Cadbury Fudge; however you may be buying one Cadbury Fudge Chocolate Bar (25.5g) and one Cadbury Fudge Chocolate Bar (25.5g) which, as you can see, are totally different from each other:rotfl:. Easy enough to get them mixed up I suppose:rotfl::rotfl:. I bet one significant difference is that Cadbury Fudge Chocolate Bar (25.5g) appears on the APG but Cadbury Fudge Chocolate Bar (25.5g) does not.

Good morning lovely peoples :wave:

Clear blue skies and sunny here - is it really Christmas this month?

Haven't put any decorations up yet - nor received a Christmas Card.

Thinking of you all