Whats the best supermarket reduced bin bargin you have ever found?

EastEnders-1105 · 15/03/13 - 04:44

Me and my family have picked up quite a few bargins via this method.

Capri sun original price £3.00 we bought for £1.30 and nothing wrong with it just the packaging batered.
Crumpets-original £1.70 we bought them for £0.55p

And we also get lots of good stuff arround xmas too

What is the best supermarked Reduced bin bargin youve ever picked up?

yorkiegal · 15/03/13 - 04:54

hovis best of both loafs for 3p on Xmas Eve. also trays of roast spuds in goose fat for 15p and a luxury trifle for 50p.

Watcher #1 · 15/03/13 - 05:03

Whole hot cooked chickens - 10p each

Miss XYZ · 15/03/13 - 05:04

Bought different types of veg and various cakes for 3p and 7p...

felixrex · 15/03/13 - 05:05

I worked in a supermarket years ago that got closed down. We had to reduce every single thing in the building down to 1/8th of it's original price. Employees got first pick of any stock and their usual 20% discount on top of that. There wasn't a drop of alcohol left in the building after the first day of reducing.

trinity2002 · 15/03/13 - 05:05

Fresh tuna steaks for 10p.

christina83 · 15/03/13 - 05:06

Olive bread for 10p.

Grabid Rannies · 15/03/13 - 05:07

Wheel of blue stilton in Tesco original price £12 something, marked down to £6 something but went through till at 18p, and checkout operator refused to re-scan it because it 'stank' lol

Watcher #1 wrote: »

Whole hot cooked chickens - 10p each

I've never bought a supermarket cooked chicken myself, but I do know that anytime I've ever been around someone who's bought one (eg mainly in the office, but once or twice at home), as soon as they open the packet an eye-wateringly farty miasma is released into the room

Caldari · 15/03/13 - 05:18

Sainsburys, a whole leg of lamb reduced from something like £21 to a couple of quid or so.

Tourista · 15/03/13 - 05:48

Family sized steak pies, down from £2.00 each to only 10p.

Large beef joint for 40p. Sadly, ASDA dont reduce as heavilly as they used to nowadays.

Watcher #1 · 15/03/13 - 05:56

Grabid Rannies wrote: »

I've never bought a supermarket cooked chicken myself, but I do know that anytime I've ever been around someone who's bought one (eg mainly in the office, but once or twice at home), as soon as they open the packet an eye-wateringly farty miasma is released into the room

People take a whole chicken into the office?

:eek:

These were from the Co-op and free from farty miasma

James Frederick · 15/03/13 - 06:01

I can't remember what we got but when I was about 12 I guess a shop (Mr Cool remember that) was closing down and when they only had about a half a hour to go everything left was going for something like 1p-2p as they would only have to throw it away after

Grabid Rannies · 15/03/13 - 06:37

Watcher #1 wrote: »

People take a whole chicken into the office? :eek:

These were from the Co-op and free from farty miasma

Well I don't know to be fair, either whole or else the bags they bring in are just parts of chicken taken off the whole ones you see them prepare on the rotisserie thing in the supermarket, like I say I've never bought one so not actually sure of the quantities you can buy them in etc... I just assumed

Either way supermarket 'fresh roasted' chicken does unfortunately always conjure a ripe fart type smell to me upon the packet being opened, or even not necessarily being opened - occasionally if I stand next to someone in the queue who's got some, I cop the same whiff

co-op must obviously do dainty ladylike fluff-free chickens lol

19Nick68 · 15/03/13 - 11:04

Some Wilkinson Sword Hydro Razor Blades, reduced to a £1 in Wilkinsons about 18 months ago, bought 3 packs for £3. usually £6-7 a packet.

I think someone had made a mistake they had a sticker on them saying 'No space on display - reduced'. They still sell them at full price.

[Deleted User] · 15/03/13 - 11:46

Safeway about 18 years ago - The random stuff bit - I got two sets of four Pasta bowls and one large serving dish for £1.99. To date both the large serving bowls are still in use and we still use the surviving six bowls from the original bargain buy. The pasta bowls are like soup plates and the serving dishes are great for salad if you are having a special sit down together family dinner.

Safeway again - a balti set with a great recipe book by Madhur Jaffrey . Cost about two quid - £1.89 or something silly like that

Guess what - Safeway ...AGAIN ! - This time it was a HUGE saute pan with a lid. This was about 15 or so years ago. This pan is the most used pan in my home. It cost less than a fiver - about £4.99. The ****ing lid got knocked on to the floor about 3 months ago and shattered.

I've not been able to find a saute pan as large.

The strange thing is - Safeway (where I live) didn't have these things on sale or anything like pots and pans on offer in the local stores. It was just food they sold. You could get a new small black handled sharp knife but there was no displays of pots, pans, or dishes. I only got my bargains in the random stuff/cut price/going cheap bit at the end of an aisle.

I miss Safeway

clm2071 · 15/03/13 - 12:01

Local coop regularly has Pieminster pies reduced from £3.49 to 49p which I usually snap up for the feeezer.

They often reduce their fresh chicken to £1 per pack from £4 too, most of the meat I buy tends to be from the reduced section!

Asda reduces a lot of its fish and its possible to get fresh salmon fillets for less than a quid.

Recently M&S has starting reducing in the hour before it closes, I got a Tuscan sausage pizza reduced from £4.49 to £1.25 and 2 trout fillets stuffed with crab for £2 from £5.99

fainéant · 15/03/13 - 14:50

ASDA can be very good for reductions if you happen to be there when they really slash the price and quite often have been told that they will half-price any already reduced item just by asking. Regularly can get bakery packs for 1p but best buy was packs of 3 extra large organic chicken breasts from the butcher counter for 10p each and got three packs which went into my freezer and used as required.

Ænima · 15/03/13 - 14:52

A barrel, but it needed scraping out.

Hugh Jboobs · 15/03/13 - 15:00

Ænima wrote: »

A barrel, but it needed scraping out.

I see what you did there.

[Deleted User] · 15/03/13 - 16:30

750g Lean Steak Mince in Tesco on Boxing day £1.40

kiviraat · 15/03/13 - 16:38

Whole cooked chicken for a penny. Salmon fillets for 3p. The Tesco where I live now is more stingy than the old one though. Pity

Somner · 15/03/13 - 16:41

I once picked up a packet of Tesco Value Angel Delight, reduced to 1p..

..from 2p.

Takae · 15/03/13 - 18:16

I can't remember which supermarket this was from, but got a massive white porcelain serving bowl (like this one) for 99 pence. While waiting at check-out, I realised it was a real bargain. I went back and got three more. Served me well all these years since, but I still didn't realise how lucky I was until I tried to buy a replacement after one got broken a couple of years ago. The current price was £30.

zwixxx · 15/03/13 - 18:29

My (friend told me about his) local Tescos MegaSupermarket which has a Restaurant place inside, and they give out free knives and forks to anyone eating there. Just buy a sandwich and pick up as many knives, forks and spoons as you like. Then once you've finished your meal you get to take them all home. QED.

[edit] allegedly.

tysonstorm · 15/03/13 - 18:32

I bought a Horse for £1.99

Well admittedly it was 00.02% of a Horse.

Somner · 15/03/13 - 18:50

zwixxx wrote: »

My (friend told me about his) local Tescos MegaSupermarket which has a Restaurant place inside, and they give out free knives and forks to anyone eating there. Just buy a sandwich and pick up as many knives, forks and spoons as you like. Then once you've finished your meal you get to take them all home. QED.

[edit] allegedly.

I think your friend is talking bollocks.

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