Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

zippydooda wrote: »

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

1 bubbs 729
2 TrulyMadly 343
3 davemorton 338
4 marmitelovemehateme 316
5 mhoc 299
6 Savvybuyer 296
7 emerald21 235
8 Serendipitious 197
9 Anon 190
10 Snap-ant 186
11Enterprise 1701C 185
12 curl girl 166
13 3Dogs 155
14 pippo 144
15 Picasso7 136
16 gocat 134
17 braveheart60uk 126
18 tweets 123
19 Sunshinemummy 121
20 Sarahdol75 112
21 hampydoodums 109
22 zippydooda 107
23 michaels 96
24 Claire1972 93
25 mrsmac10 92
Tinyshoes 90

Blinking Heck, I'm getting talkative in my old age!!

zippydooda wrote: »

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.

Savvy I took a 14p hit oops a 12.6p hit on the parsnip compared to asda

Savvybuyer wrote: »

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

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:rotfl::rotfl:

My shop, on the Batchelor's, has worked but what a fuss that was that could have been avoided. A Heinz Lentil & Bacon would have caused no harm.

14 items (9 different) on your receipt qualify for comparison Asda morrisons
2x Batchelors Cup a Soup Golden Vegetable (82gr) £2.14 £1.50
1x ASDA Smart Price Salted Peanuts (200g) £0.48 £0.48:rotfl:
3x Candyland Black Jack Sweets (36g) £1.08 £1.14:(
2x ASDA Farm Stores White Potatoes (2.5kg) £2.30 £2.00
1x Ritz Bakefuls Sea Salt & Vinegar (5x19g) £1.65 £1.00
1x Batchelors Cup a Soup Cream of Vegetable with Croutons (122g) £1.07 £0.75
1x Walkers Prawn Cocktail Crisps (6x25g) £1.50 £1.00
1x Barratt Refreshers Sweets (34g) £0.31 £0.32
2x Batchelors Cup a Soup Minestrone with Croutons (94g) £2.14 £1.50
Comparison total (compared products only) £12.67 £9.69
+£2.98 cheaper

Triggers: Ketchup Crisps; Cadbury Buttons 14.4g BC ending 783794 (that isn't properly a trigger). No trigger needed for Batchelor's today but beware - M price is now £1.18 each.

However, what I gain with one hand I lose with the other: the Black Jacks and Refreshers have failed to pick up M's 4 for £1 mix and match on Candyland sweets:(. At least comparing from A's full price has meant the combination hasn't subtracted from the APG (except that it has in the sense it's not given what I would have got had I bought 4 Black Jacks). I can see that they have price collection stores that only have the Black Jacks and not the Refreshers, or vice versa, or have both items in some stores where they are displaying the mbuy only on one or other of them:( or the price collectors have both but have not put them into the same offer on the system or they may have put both into the same offer, correctly identifying it is a mix and match, but have been overruled as although the mix and match offer was the lowest price found (when qualified for) they have more places that show mbuys on one but not the other or which show no mbuys at all. So the risk I foresaw there has materialised:(.

On Black Jacks alone, they do pick up the mbuy (at least at the two times previously checked). They have at least equal number of stores that have the product and SELs for it (or were absent of the product very briefly but have SELs and haven't had no stock for longer than a week) that display the 4 for £1 to stores whose SELs just show the straight price. If it is equal number, then they are getting 4 for £1 purely as the "lowest price found". If it is more than that, then that is obviously the pricing that overrules anything else - and the same pricing found most often. However, some of those stores with the mbuy on Black Jacks might not have Refreshers and therefore there is no count for a mix and match between the items from any such store. This reduces the total number of stores returning mix and match pricing (if they have got a store displaying that situation at all and have picked it up) and is overruled by the stores that have straight full price on one or other of the products (the Black Jacks or the Refreshers) elsewhere. Or they may have stores with Refreshers displaying at 4 for £1 but not have the Black Jacks in those stores (or not in one or some of them, so can't get the mix and match to the numbers for the final results from there).

I think I have managed to explain what I was thinking of writing earlier but never had the time to do so now in a clearer way by using an actual example; shame it is my shop on which it has failed:(.

I did not buy any invisible trigger to the Batchelor's soups. They may work today, as the A prices have updated to a.com there is no need for a Heinz Lentil & Bacon trigger in respect of them (they appear to be being removed from the offer at midnight tonight - the offer itself is not ending today as other items are still in it on a.com). You could even try a Batchelor's cup/slim soup and the four Crosse & Blackwell soups that remain on 4 for £3 in M (and also, fwiw, in T):rotfl:. However, to get full price A on the comp., it has to involve items full price on a.com, as a visible trigger, such as the Batchelor's soups or the invisible Heinz Lentil & Bacon. Don't be trying both on the one shop:rotfl:! However, the M price for the Batchelor's soups may well increase today on the APG.

On the crisps, the usual trigger was bought. I could not find Baked Crisps Salt & Vinegar (which is Unavailable on a.com - if that really is unavailable from any A then it will not be able to bought or used as a trigger obviously but, if it is somewhere, then it may be invisible as an alternative) - I had to use Ketchup crisps instead.

My "trigger" (even though since I paid full price originally it was not that) for the sweets was Cadbury Buttons 14.4g BC ending 783794. There may be another Cadbury Buttons 14.4g that may also be an invisible item as I could not find any Cadbury Buttons 14.4g (or Cadbury Dairy Milk Buttons 14.4g, whatever they want to call it) in the offer on a.com. I suspect such other version of Cadbury (Dairy Milk) Buttons 14.4g, should it exist, may pick up the mbuy on the bill instore but it will be a no-show.

As this shop was very early today, I would probably have missed the KP nuts. I did not even pick up a bag of those instore at all. However, I missed KP nuts not because the glitch was most probably over by the time I did my shop. I figured that, even after the glitch on KP that had been running yesterday - and thanks for the information:T - the SP peanuts, whilst really expensive compared to 500g Monkey Nuts on 50p RTC in M after Christmas, still work out cheaper than the KP nuts:rotfl:.

As I normally get 50p Monkey Nuts (not available at this price at present) that are 500g bags and last ages, the SP Nuts (and all the everyday-equivalents) seem to me very tiny bags in comparison and not giving very much at all for not much less than the 50p price. They are very pricey nuts, the regular everyday prices.

(At £1.03 a bag - and even then having to buy at least two and pay over on each of them - then KP nuts, after the glitch, work out at over 76p per 200g:eek:. I have obtained my SP nuts for just over 43p and therefore, in that sense, despite still paying way over the odds compared to having Monkey Nuts 500g at 50p - that really do last and I wasn't having to be buying nuts again and again and paying more, like I always seem to do with SP due to them being only 200g bags - I am still saving money compared to glitched KP nuts:money:. Thanks for the glitch - it is still very useful information and helps provide us with all options:T - I just thought "why not just buy SP Peanuts?")