Buying Groceries on Yellow Sticker

[ufkacbln]

We have friends use to shop at the end of the day for this very reason, and could halve their shopping bills. It was also convenient as all the prices were reduced at the small time about an hour before the store closed

It is now a 24 Hour store, so there is no standard time and items are reduced almost at random

They were most unhappy with this

 

[Reynard]

I did similar, not on boxing day because I was working, a few days later.
I'm not a veggie, I share with the cat
@Reynard my favorite 2nd of January activity is going round the major supermarkets to buy all the reduced stuff

I share with the cats too - they kind of expect it... They rather enjoyed their share of my £1 boxing day duck. Some of the other "regulars" are highly amused that I buy meat and fish for the girls, but hey ho, it works out cheaper than their pouches...

Hope you had a good festive season haul @Pat "5mph" - I managed to get some most excellent mark downs on Lindt and Thorntons choccies and now have a year's supply stashed away. Most are dated till about October time, but they'll still keep a good bit beyond that if kept in a cool dry place. Here, the good days are xmas eve, boxing day (chocolates) and new year's eve.

 

[Reynard]

I can't be doing with the descending pack of crows around the reduced bin, the normal rules of polite humanity go out of the window for the sake of a pound off some rather ill looking produce.

You can't tar all the yellow stickered produce with the same brush... The majority of the stuff is perfectly fine and of good quality. There are items that due to the nature of the beast will be past their best, but if it looks manky, I simply don't take it. If there's not much marked off, the reductions are pretty civilized, but I will admit it can get a wee bit rugby scrum-ish if they've knocked 90% off

 

[mjr]

It depends on how many of the veg you get in the bowl and the state they are in.
Sometimes a few off ones will be thrown in to bulk out the deal.

It varies. There's two greengrocer stalls on the local market that do £1 bowls. One is doing it as a way to get rid of old stock but I'm pretty sure the other is just weighing out the regular produce.

I rarely look to the market or butchers or farm shops for discounting as they tend not to be priced high enough to give much scope for it and the stock tends to be fresher so they sell most of it well before it gets discounted for being too old.

 

[Gravity Aided]

As we have no canteen at work,I have to deal with all my lunches for workdays. I often eat yellow(well, actually orange over here) sticker meat and fruit, as it's often so much cheaper and rarely less quality. A bag of apples for $1, meat about 50-60% off, sure I'll go for that. In the States, there aren't as many cheese aficionados as grocers would hope for, so you may be able to get anything from Manchego to Brie for a dollar or two when no one buys it.

 

[jonny jeez]

My butler has usually left for the evening by the time the yellow stickers come out.

I cant think of anything worse Than leaving my food shopping to my butler...what would chef say?

 

[jefmcg]

I remember (a long time ago and on the other side of the world) when shops shut on Saturday afternoon and didn't open again until Monday, that on late-summer Saturday afternoons there would be a knot of Italian grandmothers hanging around in the the produce section. They were waiting for the tomatoes to be marked down and then they would pick up a case or two for a pittance.

I always imagined their resentful grandchildren being forced to spend a warm Saturday evening peeling and cutting tomatoes for the sauce production line.

 

[srw]

So everybody (except @User482) goes to the supermarket to get bargains? I won't say no to a marked down product at a supermarket, but nothing there compares to market sellers. If I walk past a street market veggie stall, I will fill a bag with the "every bowl £1" bargains they are getting rid of. These are so much cheaper and better than what's at the supermarket, with less waste too. Maybe lash out and get something "full price" with the money I've saved.

Those of us who [usually] work full time and don't live and work in the same large city don't have a huge amount of choice. The greengrocer around here is open 9 - 5 and specialises in shiny but flavourless, and the market stalls arrive once a week after commuting time and are gone by lunchtime. And specialise in shiny but flavourless. Fortunately a "little" branch of the British Middle Class's favourite supermarket opened here a couple of years ago. It's never knowingly undersold, sells fruit and veg which is neither shiny nor flavourless and is open seven days a week, until well after home time on weekdays. And has a very good line in reduced stock.

 

[Reynard]

As we have no canteen at work,I have to deal with all my lunches for workdays. I often eat yellow(well, actually orange over here) sticker meat and fruit, as it's often so much cheaper and rarely less quality. A bag of apples for $1, meat about 50-60% off, sure I'll go for that. In the States, there aren't as many cheese aficionados as grocers would hope for, so you may be able to get anything from Manchego to Brie for a dollar or two when no one buys it.

Neat!

Last Christmas I picked up a kilo wheel of Brie for 50p - that's about 75 cents US... It was absolutely delicious, but was about 10 months before I was ready to tackle another piece of Brie Actually, cheese crops up regularly in my local Tesco on YS, so I always seem to have a good selection in the fridge. I got a job lot of Roquefort just before Xmas this year as well.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Actually, I was incorrect, our stickers at Kroger are yellow, with red, and also say Woo-hoo. The orange stickers designate eligibility for food stamps/wic, a Department of Agriculture program for the disadvantaged.Today, I got 2 -14 ct. packages of bourbon barbeque chicken nuggets(2.50) and a large tub of gourmet chipotle salsa (1.00). But a kilo of Brie for 50p, that's the stuff legends are made of...
Well played, sir.

 

[Gravity Aided]

@Reynard ,I was looking for old images of Red Fox Grocery Stores, but couldn't find any. I don't think they are around here any more, but it used to be Red Fox and IGA were about the only stores in many small towns around here. Favorites of the touring cyclists.

 

[PaulSB]

I saw one woman filling her trolley with yellow price stuff, just grabbing it and flinging it in her trolley leaving nothing for anyone else at all.

I get a guilty feeling about that as well. I was in our local Booths at 4.40 NYE and all the qauality bread was down from £1.50 to 30p. I seriously considered taking all 14 loaves before settling for 5 to avoid being greedy and hopefully leaving some for others.

Booths, a fabulous northwest secret, has some very, very good YT offers. Often worth the trip just for these. I'm not saying when, locals can work it out for themselves!!

Local markets are often even better. £5 will buy two boxes of mushrooms, enough to make 6 months soup, £5 sack of potatoes lasts two months at least, 28lb sack of carrots made 6 months soup plus blanched and frozen carrots.

Sick of soups

 

[Reynard]

Actually, I was incorrect, our stickers at Kroger are yellow, with red, and also say Woo-hoo. The orange stickers designate eligibility for food stamps/wic, a Department of Agriculture program for the disadvantaged.Today, I got 2 -14 ct. packages of bourbon barbeque chicken nuggets(2.50) and a large tub of gourmet chipotle salsa (1.00). But a kilo of Brie for 50p, that's the stuff legends are made of...
Well played, sir.

Last time I looked, the plumbing was very definitely female

The yellow stickers in Asda say "Whoops" on them as well, so some people refer to it as looking for whoopsies. On a couple of occasions I've been in the situation where I've been *paid* to take groceries away, usually if said items have been on promotion as well e.g. 3 for 2 or bogof.

 

[Reynard]

Local markets are often even better. £5 will buy two boxes of mushrooms, enough to make 6 months soup, £5 sack of potatoes lasts two months at least, 28lb sack of carrots made 6 months soup plus blanched and frozen carrots.

The market here isn't so good, but as we're bordering on the east anglian market garden territory, there are good offers to be had by the side of the road. For instance a 25kg sack of carrots for £1.50 if you're that way inclined. They're sold as pony carrots, but there's nothing wrong with them, just too big / too small / too misshapen for the purposes of supermarkets and other establishments.

 

[User482]

Those of us who [usually] work full time and don't live and work in the same large city don't have a huge amount of choice. The greengrocer around here is open 9 - 5 and specialises in shiny but flavourless, and the market stalls arrive once a week after commuting time and are gone by lunchtime. And specialise in shiny but flavourless. Fortunately a "little" branch of the British Middle Class's favourite supermarket opened here a couple of years ago. It's never knowingly undersold, sells fruit and veg which is neither shiny nor flavourless and is open seven days a week, until well after home time on weekdays. And has a very good line in reduced stock.

There are other options: we sometimes have a veg box delivered.