The supermarket savings thread

Great news! You can now check out Poundland's prices online at www.mysupermarket.com



They don't seem to have any cheap deals though:

 

Is it possible to split a shop between, say, Tesco's and Sainsbury's? I'm sure I used to be able to ... with the items from each shown as mini icons and then the ability to move any of them from one shop to the other, until the balance is optimised.

It only offered me to split the basket with one supermarket last time (Aldi I think? might have been Asda) and what I wanted was to split my Tesco's basket with Sainsbury's instead. I did it manually (which takes a while working out what is same-price (to bulk up enough for free delivery on Sainsbury) and what is cheaper / on-offer. We had a £400 shop to do for all the marauding hordes at Bank Holiday, I got £50 off with MySupermarket Swap & Save, and another £50 off by manually choosing cheaper items at Sainsbury. 25% saving just by "shopping around" seemed quite good to me (not an avid coupon Saver and Multi-reuser like you @Scrungee!!)

 

I've never actually shopped using mysupermarket, just used it as a price comparison website and input the prices into a spreadsheet to calculate

1) 'Cheapest shops' for essentials without any other way of getting the cost down.

2) 'Most expensive shops' to deliberately trigger the likes of 'price guarantee' money back when getting the cost of the shop up to achieve 'spend and save' voucher thresholds and buying 'Try me free' products where you get back whatever you pay but the supermarket also gives you back the difference between what they're charging and their competitors based over your entire shop, so you have to check out that everything is cheaper/not available elsewhere.

3) Checking where's the cheapest supermarket to use a money off coupon as some stuff can work out costing only pennies or you might even get more back than their price and get money off the rest of your shopping, plus checking where's the cheapest place selling stuff that has cashback as that can also reduce costs to pennies and sometimes there's also a voucher to use in conjunction with it, and sometimes 2 cashback sites will pay you for the same shop.

4) Combinations of 1 - 3 above plus other things. It only takes a few minutes, but we get massive savings from doing it.

Or maybe just to find who sells a specific product?

 

If you're a Quidco member you can now actually make a profit by donating cat food to the likes of Cat Protection, etc. as that cat food sold at Morrisons is now eligible for £1.50 cashback from Quidco https://www.quidco.com/clicksnap/de...s-in-jelly-6x400g/?ref=/clicksnap/offers/all/

The Quidco cashback expires 31st August.

 

I had that with a Tesco shop a couple of weeks back. They sent me an EMail, with a voucher, saying "Your shop was £20-something cheaper elsewhere" ... and then ... "So we've sent you a voucher for £10 (please note that £10 is the maximum voucher for this offer)"

If they had sent me nothing I would never have known ... now that they have sent me half of what they think I am entitled to I am incensed!!!

 

Hence the need to check out competitor's prices at mysupermarket (NB multisaves) and do 'split shops' making sure you include the requisite number of items adding (not sure if you can do this online) such stuff as 1 loose carrot, 1 banana, etc.

What's really funny is that you can include no end of reduced stuff and items with Tesco/other money off vouchers (including off the reduced stuff) and they take the full cost into account and still give you a 'till split' voucher for even more money off.

 

The trouble is that it's an art form @Scrungee ... we need to digitise you

 

We lose out here on this sort of thing as there's no competition!

 

Just wondering Sheal if you get the freebies that come with a lot of products, these seem to only be for the export market, e.g. my favourite colander was a freebie with Uncle Bens rice, also a nice glass salad bowl, whilst in Eire, and I noticed whilst in various other countries there seems to be a lot of "offers" for items.

 

No Pam we get none of that here, Tesco's doesn't do us any favours I'm afraid. Even B&Q have recently taken away our special discount. Because we weren't getting the offers here that are available on the mainland they extended our senior citizen's discount card to five days a week, that didn't last long! All these places would put it down to shipping costs, but that's a load of rubbish because they pass the cost onto us anyway. Everything is dearer here and the price of meat is extortionate!

 

Oooh, I've not been on this thread before. Must try out the discounted items at Morrisons...

 

Earlier this week bought 9 punnets of Morrisons tomatoes reduced to 19p/punnet, after the 3 for £1.50 multisaves came off we got them for free and £1.20 off our other shopping, not that we need rather tasteless shop bought tomatoes at the moment, so they got added to some pasta dishes and there were plenty left as hen treats.

 

Pork joints for roasting have been half price in Tesco's here for the last couple of weeks.

 

i think this is a fantastic thread we all love a bargain right?