sainsbury's part 1 and 2
Did Pete write about the Sainsbury's at Bluebird closing? This happened last Saturday - our 'local' (we have shopped there twice since moving here) supermarket closing down at 2pm. At 1pm we popped in to see what kind of bargains we could nab.
All perishables at rock bottom prices!
Hummus 20p, cheeses, pastas, 12 chicken breasts for £3, apples, the last pomegranate, salamis, olives and more, went into our basket. The slightly drunk and depressed staff tried bravely to give out chocolates and red wine to the hordes of manic posh people pushing and shoving over the last pieces of 10p ham slices. Pete brazenly helped himself to any of the shop fittings he could stuff into my handbag, while tut-tutting with the store manager. He was obviously a convincing 'concerned regular', because he managed to wheedle 6 £5 and £2 off vouchers from the poor man.
Vouchers which needed to be used by the end of this week.
Not ones to miss out on a potential savings of £21, we decided to rent a car yesterday to better orchestrate our BIG SHOP (also known as 'a heavy shop' by carless people and students across the UK).
So off we trundled to Sainsbury's Cromwell Road. Now, due to some bizarre terms and conditions we had to use the vouchers for £2 off £5 and £5 off £20 shops on different 'visits'. To us this meant splitting up and going round 6 separate times - complete with never queueing at the same till twice and making repeat trips back to the car. We did however, stop short at changing into disguises.
The strategy was to go for storecubboard items; and we are now the proud owners of 6 tins of chickpeas, 12 tins of tomatoes, 4 bags of pasta, 6 packets of Ryvita, 24 rolls of toilet paper and lots LOTS more!
Now we just have to eat our way out in time to go back to work next week. I do like a challenge...
All perishables at rock bottom prices!
Hummus 20p, cheeses, pastas, 12 chicken breasts for £3, apples, the last pomegranate, salamis, olives and more, went into our basket. The slightly drunk and depressed staff tried bravely to give out chocolates and red wine to the hordes of manic posh people pushing and shoving over the last pieces of 10p ham slices. Pete brazenly helped himself to any of the shop fittings he could stuff into my handbag, while tut-tutting with the store manager. He was obviously a convincing 'concerned regular', because he managed to wheedle 6 £5 and £2 off vouchers from the poor man.
Vouchers which needed to be used by the end of this week.
Not ones to miss out on a potential savings of £21, we decided to rent a car yesterday to better orchestrate our BIG SHOP (also known as 'a heavy shop' by carless people and students across the UK).
So off we trundled to Sainsbury's Cromwell Road. Now, due to some bizarre terms and conditions we had to use the vouchers for £2 off £5 and £5 off £20 shops on different 'visits'. To us this meant splitting up and going round 6 separate times - complete with never queueing at the same till twice and making repeat trips back to the car. We did however, stop short at changing into disguises.
The strategy was to go for storecubboard items; and we are now the proud owners of 6 tins of chickpeas, 12 tins of tomatoes, 4 bags of pasta, 6 packets of Ryvita, 24 rolls of toilet paper and lots LOTS more!
Now we just have to eat our way out in time to go back to work next week. I do like a challenge...
