Our Jewel cards (Jewel is a chain here in Chicago) usually does the “buy one get one free” type stuff. They also run specials on milk-2 gallons for card members at reduced price. I do use the coupons they spit out at me-IF it’s a brand or product I need (I’ve noticed they tend to be for stuff I’d never buy anyway). One HUGE bonus of the loyalty card is I get a mailed to the house set of coupons: $10 off your next purchase of $160 or more. Since I shop weekly and spend between $160-$200/week, this is a very nice perk to have. I use them as much as I’m given them.
A penny a pound? WTF? They could at least make it a shilling for every 2 pounds or something… :eek:
There is no way I’d buy bread from the used bread store. The first thing that comes to mind with used bread is not very appetizing. 
OK, it was the expired bread store (aka Freihofer’s outlet) but the parents had to have a little fun with it.
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Yes, but beef mainly comes from steers, not cows.
Usually only poor quality ground beef is made from cows, and even then it often has fat from steers added to it.
A shilling?
We don’t have shillings any longer, or groats for that matter 
I suppose I should say that every month those pennies they so generously give us are totted up and I usually receive vouchers for about £4-£5 every quarter
You can exchange Clubcard points for other goods and services, such as dry-cleaning and magazine subscriptions, at a favourable rate. For example, it’s possible to get £40 worth of dry-cleaning for what amounts to £10, giving you 4p in the £. This is much the best way to use these points.
On the subject of price rises at Tesco, seedless raisins* recently increased from 98p to £1.48 per kilo. Not only that, the new price was accompanied by a sticker bearing the legend EVERYDAY LOW PRICE!!
I queried this state of affairs, possibly describing the sticker as bullshit, and suggested the wording should be amended to read EVERYDAY HIGH PRICE!!
The response I got was that £1.48 is an EVERYDAY LOW PRICE!! because it compared favourably with the cost of raisins in other supermarkets.
This explanation failed to satisfy me, so when the customer services person disappeared into the rear of the store I removed the sticker and put it in my back pocket. It has not thus far been replaced.
*I buy about 100 kilos of raisins per annum to feed the garden birds.
Hmm, didn’t realize Branston did beans!
Well colour me stupid but I never realised that the garden birds would be partial to raisins :smack:
I have a 1lb bag of sultanas that I’ve had for yonks. It’s unopened, would it be OK for the birds?
Yes, sultanas should be just as appetising as raisins to the average avian.
Blackbirds are particularly fond of such items.
But they don’t get drunk off their asses on them like they do on the fermenting fruit left on the shrubberies.
(Or the drunk squirrels. By the way, the voice in that video is how I imagine all the UK Dopers talking. :D)
I was curious about this, as I’m about an hour north of Harmonious, so I checked prices when I was at our local independently owned grocery:
Sargento cheddar slices (there wasn’t a comparable Kraft product):
$3.23/8 oz. (11 slices; 29 cents/slice)
Kraft American singles:
$5.15/lb (24 slices; 21 cents/slice)
IGA (store brand) American singles:
On sale 4/$10 (24 slices each pack; 10 cents/slice)
$11.25 for the 3-lb. pack (72 slices; 16 cents/slice)
Kraft seems to have gone on a price raising binge. Sargento and Kraft sold for about the same for a while. Not that they were good prices in this town. Kraft now is astronomical compared to other brands. I can buy my favorite cheeses in Madison for less than any of the Kraft stuff. A year ago Kraft American cheese was about $3.50 a pound. as opposed to the $6.09 for the same package in the same store.