To think the reduced section is the best place in the supermarket?

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I know this is sad but I so love my bargains. My local supermarket has suddenly started reducing things to 25% of original selling price on the day they're due to go out of date.

Haven't bought full price meat or fish in months. Several pizza express pizzas in freezer. Tonight's chicken quesadilla and salad meal for 5 costing about £4.

Anyone else as sad as me?

@Crawley65 where did you get your Higgidy feta and pepper quiche from ? I havent seen any of their stuff for ages .

My local tescos isnt much good at reductions either but there isnt much near by competition either.
That said I only tend to go on a Saturday or Sunday early afternoon so there probably isnt much call for it then.

My enormo-Tesco does decent reductions, I buy virtually all my meat from their salmonella corner (as it's known in our house).

It's quite random what time of day you find bargains though. I just check any time I'm in. It's effectively our local shop so I'm in several times most weeks.

My best bargain last year
Bottles of suntan lotion were £6 each
Reduced to 45 p each
The day before going on holiday !

Have had some great bargains in Mark's. Rotisserie chickens for £2. Filled wraps for 30p did my tea nicely. Have a pork loin roast in freezer 1.80 instead of 6.00. Potato croquettes for 25p. Had a lovely quiche chorizo and pepper for tea yesterday reduced from 3.50 to 1.52. Also a large round brie reduced to 60p. Eaten over a week and it was fine. Some things get reduced quicker than others. It is tempting to leave things to see if they get further reduced but then you could go back and find them gone. It is an art form in ways.

I always check the receipt when i buy these ticket items, cos in my local Lidl they quite often don't put the discount through (usually 30% orange sticker). It's a real pain going back to the till as they can make you feel as if you're being petty while you hover at their till while they finish serving another customer.

I've had some stunning bargains at our local Waitrose recently. In one evening I got two packs smoked salmon reduced from £7 each to 10p each, two packs of packed salmon fillets reduced from £5 each to 10p each, a trifle from £3.50 to 35p, a couple of ready meals and some bread for the freezer. In total that haul was £42 of food for £1.55

At the other end of the scale I also picked up a rack of venison prime cutlets for £26 reduced from £85

Waitrose can be brilliant for reductions, although not as good as they used to be, especially on the fish counter. OH has a built in radar for a reduction, it gets a bit embarrassing when everything's reduced in our trolley!
When he was still teaching we were in an Asda and he picked up some reduced items, the woman marking them down took them from him and said Oh, Mr Trotter, I need to reduce those, and she took another 50% off them!

DH often walks down to the high street for a supermarket sweep and comes back with a bag of bargains from the CO-OP, they have a policy to sell cheap rather than waste it. I pop into Sainsbury’s and buy yellow stickered fresh bakery bread like the sourdough for half price. Our freezer is chockablock.

The m & s by mine does great ones

I hunt for the big red, stickers, at Aldi. 50% off! Just yesterday, I got a basted, pork loin, for £2. Thrilled

Belfast Tesco Metro must be the worst. 28p reduction on something costing £2.50 and out of date that day. Not a one off, this is a regular occurrence.

I also think my yellow sticker habit has made me a better cook. I buy stuff I wouldn't ordinarily choose and then have to work out how to cook it. Things like guinea fowl or whole rain bow trout.

Also in Waitrose after burns night picked up some huge mcsweens haggis down from £9.99 to 79p.

Yes, I agree. I like it because it encourages me to try different things - I tend to go automatically to the same things during the main part of my shop, but the RTC section is a hotchpotch of goods I've often overlooked, and if I see a good bargain, I'll try it.

Our freezer is full of yellow stickers but we just buy things that we will use vs anything that’s on there - we buy loads of cheese and butter if we see them reduced and cooked meats for dh lunchbox. Part of the reason we both look forward to Christmas is the yellow stickers on Christmas Eve before M&S shut and reductions afterwards - we filled out chest freezer last year with turkeys and ham joints . This year I’ve included a meat slicer on my Santa list so make even more use of the inevitable bargains

Just back from shopping actually , tonight I’m having a piece of lovely haddock (86p from £3.19) pan roasted on a bed of French style lentils - cost will be about £1 total

Coop do some absolutely great reductions and, quite often, the stuff has another day on it.

I bought my adult son a vampire t shirt from Tesco today. I thought it was going to be £4.50, it scanned at 4p and because it was 25% off I got another penny off it The man serving me queried the price but the supervisor said it was correct.

Does anybody know why you dont get stickered items at aldi? Where does all the left over food go?

There are 50 percent off stickers in Aldi

Agree completely. I got a pork loin joint for £2 (reduced from £9) at Waitrose this week. It’s currently in the freezer beside the £1.50 lamb chops I got last week. Like most people who choose to shop at Waitrose I could afford to pay full price, but I still like a bargain. Doesn’t everyone?

Depends upon the supermarket. Tesco is shit - why would I buy a punnet of strawberries that are already getting furry for the sake of 7p off the full price? Waitrose is often a good place, as when they do reduce meat, it's by a good margin, as is the Co-op (although DP tends to buy things and shove them straight in the freezer, meaning we have to defrost and use enough food for 4 days at once because it's welded together, rather than portioning it out and freezing separately).

The only things I always refuse to buy stickered to clear is fish/seafood. I've seen somebody have a severe reaction to prawns on their final day, which means they were probably out in the warm shop before being RTC.

I'd definitely like to be able to get to a dark store, though - but I don't live near enough to any online bases.

I very rarely pay full price for meat. Have even got a second freezer in the garage for the bargains.
Once got a pair of kids jeans from Tesco for 6p!

I've had some wonderful bargains in Waitrose, I can't afford to do all my shopping there but it's the only milk and bread shop in walking distance so gets regular visits, at least three or four times a week. I did get angry when there were rotisserie chickens at 99p each, I joined the queue, and the lady in front of me proceded to ask for all six that were left saying with a tinkly little laugh that they would do wonderfully for her dogs. I'm proud to say I announced very loudly that I had been hoping to buy one to feed my children with. She turned round and went scarlet when she saw not just me but three more hopefuls queuing behind me. Then said to the assistant that one would do and scuttled off without making any eye contact with any of us . And changed direction every time she saw me in any aisle afterwards too!