FabSwingers.com forum: Supermarket Offers

By *edhotminx OP Woman
over a year ago

Turn left at the Singing Ringing Tree

I'm wondering whether I'm the only one that has been caught out on offers - today I bought 3 bags of sweets on offer for £2.00. When I checked my till receipt the total saving for doing so was a massive 4p! wow.

But the best offer I spotted today, in Tesco, was for Lindt Truffles or Lindt Bunnies. I was so impressed that I pointed it out to a sales assistant and commented that I had best get myself another trolley so I could stock up before they all went. Her reply was that the bunnies were in the seasonal aisle with the eggs.

The special offer was 'normal price £3.50, special offer - buy 2 for £7.00'

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden

I like bogofs on bird's eyes.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Must admit that often supermarket specials are always all that and can often get the item in the pound shop, so a much better bargain

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By *oantrimcpl2010Couple
over a year ago

Lisburn

Yesterday at our local tesco's there where union jack cups on sale for £1.25 or buy 2 for £3.50. Go figure lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i wish that items were half price rather than bogof... i dont always want two of the same item..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Has anyone seen that peoples supermarket the amount of food waste households waste is amazing. Bogoff I tend to go shopping with a friend from school and we go halves and split the difference. And has anyone done the asda price check.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'm wondering whether I'm the only one that has been caught out on offers - today I bought 3 bags of sweets on offer for £2.00. When I checked my till receipt the total saving for doing so was a massive 4p! wow.

The special offer was 'normal price £3.50, special offer - buy 2 for £7.00'

bargain

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The special offer was 'normal price £3.50, special offer - buy 2 for £7.00'

lol as a manager of a largest retale chain in the world, i can answer you why that happens

Because i bet if you looked at the items the items have been knoacked down they was probably £4.00 each at some point and the offer was 2 for £3.50, (just random numbers made up), you them get breifs come in weekly tell you whats going on offer and what items have been rolled back, so if this item was on it would have been rolled back from £4.00 a item to £3.50 a item making the multi save offer not longer applicable, unfortunately not all the shop floor workers have the common sence to take the offer labels off when the items rolled back there for you have situations like this, and in some cases you may see offer that say £2.00 a item of 2 got a fiver

because the items may have started off at £3.00 before they was rolled back but the offer labels have not been taken off after

If you ever see it again i bet if you looks the items as an individual have been at a hight price previously, and buying the two items at the higher price would have made you a saving if you bought two

I feel such a geek lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I walked into asda, flopped my cock onto the counter and said "lets see you roll that back!"

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By *edhotminx OP Woman
over a year ago

Turn left at the Singing Ringing Tree

"I walked into asda, flopped my cock onto the counter and said "lets see you roll that back!""

Ah the very rare shy creature called 'the trouser snake'. Did they faint at the sight of it, or just hit it with a shoe to kill it?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Let's see who's a savvy shopper. Which is the better deal:

Buy one - get one free

Half price

40% extra

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden

"Let's see who's a savvy shopper. Which is the better deal:

Buy one - get one free

Half price

40% extra

Are we in Heron or Iceland? It affects the answer.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Oh i can smell a good bargan, when they have pepsi max on offer im always working out which is the cheapest way to buy it. You have to be careful. Yesterday though i got packs of pampas baby wipes in wilkinson usually £2. something for 42p from the bargain bucket. I wasnt greedy and only bought three. Im miss bargain hunter me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Must admit that often supermarket specials are always all that and can often get the item in the pound shop, so a much better bargain

I LOVE THE POUND SHOP they do branded cold and flu remedies for a pound which RE AT LEAST 3 QUID IN MOST SHOPS IF U LOOK FOR THE BRANDED GOODS U CAB GET SOME REAL BARGAINS ...also bought a great travel adapter in there before i went on holiday just as good as a #10 one .i love a bargain

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The special offer was 'normal price £3.50, special offer - buy 2 for £7.00'

yeah they had me on that one too i thought it read 3 bags for the price of 2

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By *umourCouple
over a year ago

Rushden

We have done the Asda price check and a couple of times we have had vouchers, but only for under a pound. We always check My Supermarket and virtually shop there first. Once stuff is in the basket, you can swap between Waitrose (ouch) Sainsburys (bit better) Tesco (crap meat loaded with water and dearer than... Asda (always the cheapest!)

We have just had a Tesco Express open about half a mile from us, but we go two miles and shop in Asda!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

always support my local butcher and farmers markets at weekends. just my personal preferance but do believe the butcher meats better and eggs i get do sctually taste lie eggs etc

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By *ouplefunukCouple
over a year ago

North Bristol

This makes me laugh. You see the 2 for £xx offers and you know damn well they've been offered at a lower price until the week before the offer starts when the price is then inflated to make it look like a great offer.

I'm savvy enough now that I can walk into any supermarket now and know what price a product is in any other supermarket, to know what a good price is. I've also noticed recently that a lot of the branded products are on better offer than the supermarket own brands but most people wo't bother checking that.

*Her*

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"always support my local butcher and farmers markets at weekends. just my personal preferance but do believe the butcher meats better and eggs i get do sctually taste lie eggs etc"

You'll know, but others may not, that Queen's Park is today (Saturday)19th March and Partick is next Saturday 26th March.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Let's see who's a savvy shopper. Which is the better deal:

Buy one - get one free

Half price

40% extra

Are we in Heron or Iceland? It affects the answer."

Where's Heron? and how many Tesco Expresses are there in Rekyavic???

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oh i can smell a good bargan, when they have pepsi max on offer im always working out which is the cheapest way to buy it. You have to be careful. Yesterday though i got packs of pampas baby wipes in wilkinson usually £2. something for 42p from the bargain bucket. I wasnt greedy and only bought three. Im miss bargain hunter me"

We've realised that dishwasher tablets are always on special offer and we used to bulk buy them but we don't have to now there's no point. We do take advantage of coffee deals though as it's not always our brand that is on specials, so when it is we buy loads of it. We like two finger Kits Kats and it works out much cheaper to buy the triple packs than the single or double ones.

I tend to go for the double points offers too plus I always check the end aisles and the damaged goods shelves.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Let's see who's a savvy shopper. Which is the better deal:

Buy one - get one free

Half price

40% extra

Half price, assuming that you don't want more than one in the first place or a larger helping.

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By *umourCouple
over a year ago

Rushden

"We've realised that dishwasher tablets are always on special offer and we used to bulk buy them but we don't have to now there's no point. We do take advantage of coffee deals though as it's not always our brand that is on specials, so when it is we buy loads of it."

Dishwasher tablets are one of the biggest cons out there! Finish are grossly overpriced and anyone who buys their dishwasher cleaner is just mad! It does what the tablets are supposed to do!!!

Lidl do 30 Dishwasher tablets for £1.72 and they are a "Which Best Buy" We have used them for about 5 years now...

Tend to buy coffee in the sticks like used in hotels. 200 for £9.99 in Booker Cash and Carry so just 5p per cup. And they stay fresh unlike an opened jar of coffee...

Not at all interested in the points, cos it would mean I have to shop at Tescco! Meat full of water (try it on a forman grill!) and pricing not as good as Asda... Along with the big brother aspect of loyalty cards...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"always support my local butcher and farmers markets at weekends. just my personal preferance but do believe the butcher meats better and eggs i get do sctually taste lie eggs etc"

theres a great farmers market at loch lomond shore. I like going there. I know exactly what you mean, the meat and produce always tastes better when it comes direct from the source rather than a third party, so to speak.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Loch Lomond Shores always looks like it could use a guid dicht of paint.

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By *arambarMan
over a year ago

swindon

Does anyone else get suckered into buying more of a product than they intended to simply because it's on a three-for-two deal?

That used to drive Mrs Carambar absolutely batshit mental when I would nip to the supermarket to pick up something like a loaf of bread and then I'd come home with 3 loaves because I'd "saved" £1 by buying 3.

I ain't stupid and I know that really I've wasted £1 (and 2 loaves) rather than saving £1... but I'm a sucker for a bargain, and sometimes I just can't help myself.

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By *histler21Man
over a year ago

Ipswich

Caveat emptor. Every time.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I tend to go for the double points offers too plus I always check the end aisles and the damaged goods shelves."

I do that especially in Morrisons, got a pack of 40 slices of chicken for packed lunches for 49p instead of £1.48. Asda sold off a tins of tomatoes at 15p ea, thats half the price i pay for my normal ones

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How much are 10p crisps these days?!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"How much are 10p crisps these days?!

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

"Does anyone else get suckered into buying more of a product than they intended to simply because it's on a three-for-two deal?

I ain't stupid and I know that really I've wasted £1 (and 2 loaves) rather than saving £1... but I'm a sucker for a bargain, and sometimes I just can't help myself.

errrrrrrr if you could see inside my airing cupboard lol.

Ive got about 12 bottles of bubble bath

About 9 packs now of baby wipes

About 10 shampoos

About 12 toothpastes

and the list goes on and on, i got my own branch of wilkinsons in my bathroom lol

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By *arambarMan
over a year ago

swindon

Hahaha - you're my kinda lady!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Does anyone else get suckered into buying more of a product than they intended to simply because it's on a three-for-two deal?

I ain't stupid and I know that really I've wasted £1 (and 2 loaves) rather than saving £1... but I'm a sucker for a bargain, and sometimes I just can't help myself.

errrrrrrr if you could see inside my airing cupboard lol.

Ive got about 12 bottles of bubble bath

About 9 packs now of baby wipes

About 10 shampoos

About 12 toothpastes

and the list goes on and on, i got my own branch of wilkinsons in my bathroom lol"

I found their reduced aisle, hidden away at the side of the store, debated on the posh bubble bath stuff at 50p but decided it wasnt worth it, not much else was worth it either

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just shoplift....it's cheaper.

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By *arambarMan
over a year ago

swindon

"Just shoplift....it's cheaper. "

...said Richard Madeley to the judge.

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

BEN N JERRYS ICE CREAM 2 QUID A TUB AT MORRISONS....stay away from the chunky monkey..its mine

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By *mumaWoman
over a year ago

Livingston

do what I do. get really poorly and have your dad buy your shopping on his credit card. win win situation

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"BEN N JERRYS ICE CREAM 2 QUID A TUB AT MORRISONS....stay away from the chunky monkey..its mine

You keep it mines phish food frozen yoghurt yummy

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

"BEN N JERRYS ICE CREAM 2 QUID A TUB AT MORRISONS....stay away from the chunky monkey..its mine

You keep it mines phish food frozen yoghurt yummy"
ooooooooh BB likes Phish food ice cream.....

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