By going to Marks and Spencer at 6pm tonight to try and get a bargain. Shall we play who's got the best Christmas bargain today??!!

[Husbandrippedmeoff]

Who's in?

Why are they heavily discounting butter? It’s hardly going to go off before Friday.

100% worth going to M&S, although I'd say I should have got there at about 5.40pm, rather than 5pm (it closed at 6pm).

I bought:
Luxury shellfish platter £18 (original £50)
2 x Dressed crab £1.90 each (original £9.50)
2 x King Prawns £1.99 each (original £5.00)

Spent just under £25 for £80 worth of seafood, we are going to enjoy Christmas 🎉🎉🎉

It actually has a BBE for today! I’ve popped one in the freezer and the other two will go to family members as I’m sure they’ll get through it over Xmas.

Lucky lucky you - that was an amazing tree (and they normally charge £20 for delivery so such a bargain......)

Research purposes only 🤣
what are the dates on these?

Oh, how much did you get the salmon terrine for? I was going to buy one of those but we've already got too much in for the next few days, but if I'd seen it reduced I wouldn't have been able to resist.

I think it's dependent on the store, my local one heavily discounted the fresh turkeys, fresh desserts & pre packed vegetables. The fresh fish was still at full price at 5:30pm and was hoping to get a discounted large side of salmon.

We used to get massive bunches of undelivered roses on Valentine's Day too

£2! I’m not sure if I’d have paid £9 but maybe it’s delicious and totally worth it.

also, this is the large food hall at Loudwater if anyone is local - they close at 7 and the shelves were still quite full when I left.

Waitrose

mostly about 20% of original price
pork chops, steak, veal, mince, fresh fish, smoked salmon, a 4 fish roast, cakes, bread, and the nice lady reduced some things I had in my trolley which had been marked down further in my wander round.

last year they brought out boxes of meat that had been pre-ordered and not collected, and Id picked up a huge joint of pork for £12, but I left by about 5 today, so that may have happened after i went.

I have 3 course dinner for 4 of us for about £10 for this evening, and the rest is going in the freezer. I think timings are all important. When I first arrived things were only reduced a bit. Before I left they had done a second, serious, discounting.

They said that anything dates 25th and 26th will be marked down today, the later stuff will reduce, along with all the Christmas 'theme' stuff, on the 27th when they open again

Why on earth are they reducing bottles of white wine ?
It's not like it's going to go past its sell by date ....

@JustMyView13 the luxury seafood platter and dressed crab are BBE 26/12/24, however the King Prawns are 27/12/24.

Think they must have marked down the King prawns by accident in their haste as the shop will be open again by 2712/24 but I wasn't complaining 🤣🤣🤣

@Husbandrippedmeoff I am on tenterhooks! What did you get?

Some insane person is going to get a steal on a whole fresh mirror carp! I kid you not. Who the Fluff is buying this? Don’t even fishermen throw them
back?! There was a fridge full!

I think carp might be a Hannukah thing Hannukah starts tomorrow too

Which shop was this please?

Our local M&S is open till 10pm tonight and open 7.30am to 10pm tomorrow!! Doesn’t close at all.

So I got a turkey crown and a rosemary stuffing with pigs in blankets from booths £61.95 shelf price paid £20 tgtg bag

Aldi got 2 punnets of cherries, 1 raspberry snd blueberry puunet, 3 sandwiches, pineaplle crema cheese, some bread , a quiche and some other stuff for £3.30 tgtg bag

Thanks to OP though as never normally go in M&S but got profiteroles £3 down from £15 and some salmon parcels £2.68 down from £6.75

My dad would be proud.

My local.M&S had the garlic baguettes by the pasta section for 60p ...got a few of those and stuck then in the freezer.

Got the Brussels sprouts gratin for £1.70..normally £10.

Lots of turkey reduced to £33. But I don't eat it.

There was a while duck reduced down to £20.

Fish cakes reduced ed down to £1.20..again easy to freeze.

They had cherries reduced down to £1.20

This was at 1pm.

Maybe next year I'll go later as they had whole chickens with end date of 26th but hadn't yellow sticker them yet

I was in Tesco about half 4. They still had 15p white potatoes and 15p carrots, so I stocked up for post new year as those things will keep for a bit!

Then went to M&S. They had heavily discounted gammons and something else, but a plague of locusts descended and the bastards grabbed the lot. There was one fat fucker who had at least 8 in his trolley which thereafter magically disappeared while he continued to hang out for more. Every member of staff said something different about whether more was coming! (it wasn't me asking!)

The one guy I did ask said it hadn't been decided whether to discount or donate to charity so I hope to hell the stuff went to people who need it, because I am pretty damn sure none of the vultures actually did!

I gave up around 5.50pm and as I left I overheard fat fucker tell someone he was waiting for turkeys as "some people asked me to get them some"!!! Did they fuck at 6pm on Christmas bloody Eve!!

All is not lost though. I met a friend there and she went back later, and she's picked me up a half price turkey with the trimmings set!

I guess to do with the arla boaver scare going on at the moment. Arla make Lurpak, lots of people have been boycotting it

Yep, I went to the village free food stall to get bread for my bread sauce this afternoon, and the Lidl fairy had been. Lots of happy neighbours! 😊 I got some nice flowers, houmous, salsa, cheesecake, broccoli...

Not everyone celebrates Christmas so for some it will be a day like any other.

Hope everyone got some bargains