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Useful things, pill splitters.

I now use ours for halving equal sweeteners when one's not enough and two is too many if a have a large coffee. :lol:

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Silly arse...I forgot the other bit. Instead of a 20x the points weekend they did two free cinema tickets to go with my bargains.

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Anyone else with a No Frills store near them, has your store been rennovated?

Yellow paint gone, fancier store shelving, looking more like a typical grocery store?

Our No Frills has been undergoing some renovations, the yellow paint is gone and some other additions that seem to go against the No Frills advertising, almost makes me think they are changing banners to one of the higher priced Loblaws banners such as Independent.

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They might be. Our No Frills were renovated a couple of years ago and are still yellow.

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Shoppers senior discount bday tomorrow!

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I am hoping I am wrong, but the changes don't seem to point to the store staying a No Frills.

They are also clearing out a lot of items, and completely moving the store around, new products, and overall seem to be "upgrading" banners.

Will be a shame if they do, there are no other close options for affordable groceries.

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Happy discount day :lol:
Shame it's not like Lawtons who do it at 55.

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Shoppers is 55. Well it is round here. Recall is 60

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Not according to their website https://www1.shoppersdrugmart.ca/en/...ry=seniors+day

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hahaha, well it used to be 55 when i started using it! I'm not 65 yet either

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Definitely 55. There was a sign saying 55 too. So I have my $44 savings.

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You spent a lot then. :ohmy:

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Oh yes. Electric toothbrush head replacements, bubbles, ladies things, make up, blah blah. The blah blah was pricey

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For a minute I was thrown by the need for one replacement body part let alone more than one. :lol:

I've never used an electric toothbrush. It wouldn't occur to me a replacement head was needed so that wasn't the head I imagined. :o

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The absence of a comma might have been a clue for you. I don't use the electric one but Batsman does. The brush heads are ridiculously expensive, $44 for two! His teeth better sparkle for that money.

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Of course not.. not having electric teeth. :lol:

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The same reason I don't use an electric hair dryer. :nod:

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I used to worry about gas lawn mowers, the tubing carrying the gas from the house might get cut and then things might go boom!

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On the bright side no more grass to cut. :thumbup:

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Bought 2 Nappa cabbage and a great big daikon radish, 2 bunches green onions, a fresh jar of chili flake and I already have the fish sauce, ginger, sea salt and sugar; I'm going to make my own kimchi.
http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make...at-home-189390

Since it's my Korea day I'm trying to watch The Interview on Crackle as well but it's a buffering thing.

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Has I Dare You written all over it, but I've been nibbling on the other half jar and I like it. :lol:
And so I'm making more, adding carrots to this one.

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new to Dollarama this past week 'Jaffa Cakes' $1/pkg 135g, dark chocolate covered, 12 biscuits in a tray, packaged like the originals in the UK, in two flavours - Orange and Blackcurrent. Product of Poland.

We bought a total of 10 packs, 5 of each type.

Really good

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Before they closed our Sears Bargain Centre it had a huge display of both Polish and English confections next to the tills; the Dollar Store in the same mall has biscuits from various countries, but not the English stuff. :( I was bad for the soft liquorice and the allsorts.

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Are those the "Pims" ones or Delicje? They are very good - I buy them whenever I see them on offer!

:)

http://www.lowellfoods.com/kraft.html
Pim's Biscuits

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Superstore have those very nice 99c lb smoked pork picnic things that are really hams. Also the Pork equivalents with a bit of crackling, same silly 99c price.

Best of all though,Prime Rib Premium Roasts for the outrageously cheap $4.77 lb. I bought 4 :o

They make my favourite roasts. :thumbup:

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Dominion (which is what Superstore is called here) have the same pork picnic pricing but the prime rib is a buck a pound more expensive. Clearly the costs of shipping that extra 1500 kms.:thumbdown: It's AA beef rather than AAA & I'm not generally impressed with their beef. Costco is way better.

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I’ve recently discovered, thanks to daughter, the joys of “price matching” offers from the local supermarkets. IF you can stand holding up the checkout line for what sometimes feels like far too long ;).

99c cauliflower was a “win” last week :).

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Recently discovered? It's not something I do (nor coupons either :frown: :lol:) but there was a discussion only a couple weeks ago and some people have apps for it.

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Turned out very well. Thanks for the cooking tips. :thumbsup:

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Recently for me - I haven’t been around these parts (BE) for a while other than sticking my head around the door briefly from time to time, so I’ve probably missed loads of discussions ;)

(My daughter has some app thingy :). )

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Flipp is the app I use..usually save $5-$7 most times on a $80-$100 visit. Other people bring paper coupons...not all stores price match and here in Ottawa the stores it searches for lower prices is quite extensive.

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I can't remember if I touched on this before or if I missed an answer, but there's a few things I wonder. Perhaps you have the answer.

If store A has several branches where something is, say, $5 but one branch has "this store only" @ $3 will the app or a price matching store B, compare their price to $5 or $3?

What about when store A has something @ $4 each or $5 for two, making it $2.50 each if you buy multiples of two.

Does the app/Store B make the comparison with $4 or $2.50?

What about size variations? Store A has a cereal 350g @ $4 or 700g @ $6 (more economical to buy the 700g)
Store B has the 350g @ $4.50 but their bigger size is 685g for $7.80.

The larger size in store B is still the better deal than their smaller packet but $6 for the 700g is the best overall price.

Presumably if store B does comparison, they won't price match with store A because the largest size isn't the same but they'lll sell you the smaller packet and you'll pay $4 instead of $4.50.

What happens if it's one of those weeks where there's an offer on the lower priced item, making it cheaper to buy a couple of lower priced items. Like in this example Store A charges $6 for the 700g packet but 2(x350) packets for $5, but only if you buy 2.

Will the app or B store compare their 350g price to $4 or $2.50. If you buy two, will they charge $5 or more?

Last one. A Buy one get one free. Cauliflower @ $3 in store A. BOGOF price equals $1.50 each but the official price is $3 for one.

If, at Store B, the price is $2 will they say "our price per item is lower" so you pay $2 or will they let you have one for $1.50 as the true cost in store A? Or will they match the bogof part and sell you 2 for the bogof price of $2?

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And this ^^^^ is why I let daughter mess about with apps and stuff and tell me if I can price match my precious cauliflower. Or Not.:p :rofl::rofl:

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:nod::nod:
I'm guessing that there are all sorts of conditions and that's even without getting into shopping on a different day because, say, the new flyer shows at a quick glance that a couple of things you can buy are so massively reduced that the saving on them alone is worth going on a different day. :cool:

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I’ll let you know :sneaky:.

I’m off to shop later on (at Walmart), clutching hard-copy IGA, Maxi & WM flyers because of super cheap specials on chicken & eggs respectively but better deals overall for the rest of my list at WM.

ETA: WM flyer small print specifically excludes BOGOF deals.

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Don't tell dbd33 :ohmy:

:lol:

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Wow...Bristol certainly has looked into this a lot (polite comment).

All I know is that the app searches flyers. You have to enter your location at some point and it searches the flyers within your area. In Ottawa it searches Maxi which is a QC chain not even in Ottawa but it has the lower prices at times which I've managed to benefit from. I think it only searches the chain wide prices not individual store location time sensitive prices.

I know that Costco or Farm Boy don't price match. Real Canadian Super Store is where I've used it.

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The one time I went to New France I drove into Montreal on Easter Sunday afternoon and was able to buy 6 cold Brador at the corner store cheaper than I could get a 6-pack in the liquor store in Regina.

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:rofl:
Not at all...it's just something that occurred to me. It really doesn't even need that much thought. You know, you see conditions and exclusions on these things all the time.

Shoppers DM will advertise bonus points but then it excludes prescriptions, lottery tickets, bus passes; Amazon does free delivery if over $35 but that's the pre-tax price and sometimes it's only a free delivery as a second item but only to certain first items; :blink: Other offers cannot be combined.

Then on the shelf in the store there's two sizes and one is twice the size but in a different store the bigger size isn't twice the size. Isn't all this the reason for the price per 100g label? Because people want to know?

I'm just converting that to how it may work on an app.

It's great that the app does it all for you and it's better than spending more than you have to. :thumbup:

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Reporting back: the price-matching on chicken & eggs was easy and fast: started to pull out flyers & explain, cashier nodded & waved them away and it was done. Much easier and faster (for me) than with daughter’s app thingie.

Walmart also had 3 in-store unadvertised specials that I took advantage of: turkey (with giblets) @10$ each, Oka & St-Paulin cheese at 3/10$ (usually 5-6$ each), butter @2$/lb.

Add apples, turnip & mushrooms from the “must get rid of today” shelves as well as everything else on my list and I emerged with a month’s worth of food for 98$. That includes ‘feeding the freezer’.

On a less self-satisfied note: They’ve removed half the checkouts and replaced them with 6 self-checkout machines :( The staff are clearly - and rightfully - not happy & worried.