Our local Tesco has already started reducing turkeys, tenner off most including crowns, most were a third off. Obviously they will be further reduced tomorrow but a third off is a good start and saves the Christmas Eve battle tomorrow
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marineville
23 Dec 1526#19
i bl00dy hate the scrum during the reductions... i've come across them occasionally during a late evening shop from work and it's feral... there are gangs who park themselves right next to the poor junior staff member sticking on the final stickersof the day and they just rugby pass them out of their hands and into their trolley to sort out the ones they actually want around the corner... or you get the ones that fill their basket with slightly reduced stuff and then insist on walking around with them for a while until the poor junior comes around once more with the price gun to reduce the last bits on the shelves and then they get them to again reduce the stuff in their baskets too... there are families who seem to be there whenever i go, whatever day, week or month i go... like the ok corral but with elbows and wire trolleys instead of guns. i'd blame it on the chavs but they have them in waitrose too...
Phila4
23 Dec 1517#38
I remember seeing a scrum once where people were passing item after item over their heads along a line until the things found their way into one big trolley - really funny then seeing somebody else standing alongside that trolley discretely taking their pick of the best things (when the person turned their back to receive the next items) and deftly passing them behind to their wife who put them in her trolley. I sat back and chuckled as I watched this go on for several minutes until they couple at the back had filled their trolley and they casually walked away.
It was even funnier seeing the group of people that had grabbed everything stand looking at their trolley afterwards and clearly knowing something wasn't right - you could see they were thinking "Where the hell has that xxxxx gone, and where is the xxxxx??".
Serves them right.
norfolkbroadslim to franceshopkins3
23 Dec 1514#30
Does she keep getting smaller?
Uridium
23 Dec 1513#1
Lidl and Aldi turkeys were half the price of Tesco turkeys to begin with....
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Uridium
23 Dec 1513#1
Lidl and Aldi turkeys were half the price of Tesco turkeys to begin with....
norfolkbroadslim to Uridium
23 Dec 15#26
Are you being serious or are you horsing around?
retrogeezer to Uridium
24 Dec 151#57
no they were not....medium ones were exactly the same price - £11 and in Tesco you got a Bernard Mathews Golden Norfolk for that.
joneeboy to Uridium
25 Dec 15#78
And they have been 50% off since Tuesday.Turkeys take of a lot of shelf/freezer space, something that ALDI does not have a lot of, so they are clearing out to make room for their regular stuff. Everything needs to be cooked carefully to avoid food poisoning. I would have thought there are very few people who don't know that already.
Turkeys for sale in supermarkets have always 'expired'. If you want live ones you have to get them from a farm!
johnraggett
24 Dec 15#77
Got mine and loads of other stuff all 50% off in Aldi, happy days
anthony69
24 Dec 15#76
They were literally flying off the shelf at my local. Great deal if you got one!
dry
24 Dec 152#74
Turkeys were half price in Costco just before closing today (~£50 down to £25) and it was a very civilised affair. Chap came out with the good news and the few of us who were loitering took one each. Had a joke and laugh with the members of staff and wheeled our trollies towards the exit. Plenty to go round and not a bruised knuckle nor trolley imprint in sight.
eslick to dry
24 Dec 15#75
Have to get this comment before you get shouted down, even at Christmas, by the Costco moaners, as they just don't get Costco :smiley:
Oh come on it's not half price you need to pay for membership
marineville
23 Dec 1526#19
i bl00dy hate the scrum during the reductions... i've come across them occasionally during a late evening shop from work and it's feral... there are gangs who park themselves right next to the poor junior staff member sticking on the final stickersof the day and they just rugby pass them out of their hands and into their trolley to sort out the ones they actually want around the corner... or you get the ones that fill their basket with slightly reduced stuff and then insist on walking around with them for a while until the poor junior comes around once more with the price gun to reduce the last bits on the shelves and then they get them to again reduce the stuff in their baskets too... there are families who seem to be there whenever i go, whatever day, week or month i go... like the ok corral but with elbows and wire trolleys instead of guns. i'd blame it on the chavs but they have them in waitrose too...
livreg to marineville
23 Dec 15#20
I've seen this in a local tesco store and it is unbelievable. When they see that discount sticker gun they literally run and push people out the way whether they're kids or elderly. Same people time and again I wonder what they do with all that food theres only so much you can eat/freeze.
sandrabear to marineville
24 Dec 158#40
I don't see how purchasing heavily reduced items makes people chavs. I pick up reduced things and sometimes pick up plenty, I am on a very low income and have friends and neighbours whom I buy things for who are also having financial difficulties. I I take stuff I know they'll eat and some things can be frozen to use at a later time, they settle up and are thankful because they can spend less on food and avoid problems with paying their bills. Sometimes I end up picking up a little more than I have money for, resulting in totting up around the corner to make sure as I feel embarrassed and returning items to the shelf that I cannot afford.
I often get half price items such as Lidl's meat or reduced meat or fish items, I pick up for others and sometimes when I cook I give 3 elderly neighbours a dinner who are recent widows and/ or have disabilities and conditions which make it hard for them to cook a proper meal for themselves.
If that makes me a chav, so be it.
Jayo to marineville
24 Dec 15#73
Agreed!! I think the staff member in my local supermarket invites his family/friends down when he is about to start doing the reductions and they block him in with their trollies and take everything..... Plus the reductions seem to be extra generous. The same people are there all the time in their scruffy tracksuits that look like they've been worn for two weeks without seeing the washing machine and smell like an ash tray!
Shonk
24 Dec 15#72
not sure why people go mad for turkey every christmas
unless your really carefull it ends up drys as a bone
people avoid it all year around for a reason
Why do people go for Turkey when Goose is so much better!
Duelling Duck to Hero878
24 Dec 151#70
I like it but loads don't. And it's fiddly (which I like). The Johnny Family Buckets of today don't want to have to navigate a knife between a thigh joint. That large breast requires only a sawing motion. If you could get a turkey already sliced which would fall open onto plates when you pulled a ripcord and came complete with a can of squirty gravy then that would be their epiphany.
amycr
24 Dec 15#69
Half price Reading.. £25 down to £12
nickycook0
24 Dec 15#68
half price in leatherhead - quite a few left!
suduck68
24 Dec 15#67
now half price in store
. :man:
Neil49
24 Dec 15#65
Was in my local store at 10a.m this morning. Not only was it not very busy but if you were hoping to get a turkey at a discount you would be very disappointed unless you were prepared to buy a top of the range one. Even then, there were only 2 or 3 of those left.
julieallen
24 Dec 15#64
Same in Newcastle all fresh turkeys, full and crowns were half price, if theres any left the guy said at around 5pm they will be 75% off
oldskooltattoosuk
24 Dec 15#63
Portsmouth all half price this morning on fresh turkeys, ducks and crowns
bold_guy
24 Dec 151#46
Don't mean to sound racist BUT you tend to get loads of groups of Asians hanging round the meat I thought they were only allowed halal or do they know so,etching we don't ??
Kearns to bold_guy
24 Dec 153#49
... and the award for most pointless comment on hotukdeals 2015 goes to...
Shard to bold_guy
24 Dec 15#52
"or do they know so,etching we don't"
Out of interest what do you think about Donald Trump?
tempt to bold_guy
24 Dec 152#62
Yeah but not all "Asians" are muslims. They could be Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Atheists.....and surprise surprise Christians too.
gbooth
24 Dec 15#61
I am holding out untill the last half hour i am been mpre carfull this time ended up with nothing last time.
smugjojo
24 Dec 15#60
Yup! Just checked online and it is closed. :smiley:
smugjojo
24 Dec 15#59
My local store is closed on 25/26th. Best check b4 u go.
karlos1964
24 Dec 153#58
I got a large turkey Crown (approx 3-4kg) at Smithfield Meat Market this morning for......£3....and i was offerred two for £5..! lol
zippedup
23 Dec 15#29
Hate to say it....... but my son works on fresh produce...... and turkeys are all gone in at least 2 stores near me.
pineapple12 to zippedup
24 Dec 15#56
Dont leave it too late for a turkey. I have been to Morrisons, Sainsburys and Lidl this morning and I noticed they have all sold out.
drasim
24 Dec 15#55
Ours is a bit more refined. The people who are always there for vegetable reduction every day talk to eachother ( know your enemy). Most of the time the bakery reductions are taken to the front of the store so everyone can have a look
mintypeas
24 Dec 152#54
the store was empty they had missed them so they would of thrown them away and all my family now have their christmas turkeys that they would have bought anyway so I saved them money which is a good deal and helping my family save some pennies.
bold_guy
24 Dec 15#53
Trumps a joke. But look what's happened at heathrow with the Asian family being turned back the irony.
I spoke to the reducing lady and our tesco aren't reducing until boxing day, as they're all dated the 26th :-(
norfolkbroadslim to franceshopkins3
23 Dec 1514#30
Does she keep getting smaller?
smugjojo to franceshopkins3
24 Dec 15#50
Tesco are closed on 26th......????????
smugjojo
24 Dec 15#48
Greedy, or what?
jimmyw566
23 Dec 15#3
Any idea of the rough times that they will be further reducing these & other joints tomorrow?
smugjojo to jimmyw566
24 Dec 15#47
The price of my joints only ever goes up.......
getmore4less
24 Dec 15#45
we got fed up with the regulars at Tesco pushing and shoving got realy crazy the last few Xmas eves.
Now go reduced shopping at Waitrose, Not as much available but often better price/quality ratio than T.
The meat counter guy will negotiate a bit more off when you help him out by clearing stuff, Sun/Mon best normal weeks and some good stuff leading upto Xmas, large Lamb rack yesterday, hope for Beef and Pork today.
Reading1800
24 Dec 15#44
For anyone with a Makro card, Turkey butterfly's were £3.99 a kilo, short dated reduced to £2.99 per kilo. Given Asda and Tesco were charging £6.95 there's a fair bit of profit margin there...
Uridium
24 Dec 15#43
I bought a 6.4kg Turkey in Lidl for £16
marineville
24 Dec 151#42
and maybe chav is misdirected ... what i meant was selfish, greedy types... chavs was just generic name-calling. and i'm sure that those that conduct themselves like this don't give a stuff what i call them or how they conduct themselves...
marineville
24 Dec 153#41
don't take it to heart, dear heart. i have no concerns about short date stock... have even picked a few up myself in my time but when you get types who shovel the stuff into a trolley over and above what they need and prevent anyone else from sharing the perk (and i see that there are plenty), then they deserve some opprobrium... you don't need to justify your actions to me as i'm not the judge and jury on these matters. doesn't stop me intensely disliking those that push little old ladies, men or anyone else out of the way merely to hog the perks.
zyany
24 Dec 15#39
Thanks OP.
As others have mentioned, I think it's a case of being the right place at the right time. I can see these turkeys going fast.
Phila4
23 Dec 1517#38
I remember seeing a scrum once where people were passing item after item over their heads along a line until the things found their way into one big trolley - really funny then seeing somebody else standing alongside that trolley discretely taking their pick of the best things (when the person turned their back to receive the next items) and deftly passing them behind to their wife who put them in her trolley. I sat back and chuckled as I watched this go on for several minutes until they couple at the back had filled their trolley and they casually walked away.
It was even funnier seeing the group of people that had grabbed everything stand looking at their trolley afterwards and clearly knowing something wasn't right - you could see they were thinking "Where the hell has that xxxxx gone, and where is the xxxxx??".
Serves them right.
mintypeas
23 Dec 15#37
I got 2 large 3 smaller ones so have kept one and given others to family. I was very shocked I found them!!
hooray henry
23 Dec 15#23
Its mostly chinese at my local tescos. They take the lot and then put back what they dont want. they even haggle to get the bread loaves reduced to 10p .
veedubjai to hooray henry
23 Dec 15#36
That's a first one I've ever heard, haggling over price on bread loaves.:confused:
Babbler
23 Dec 15#35
Meh. Will be less than a tenner tomorrow at 3.
caroltaylor2601
23 Dec 15#34
Just paid full price at tesco Warrington to avoid possible scrums tomorrow. All dated 26th. Really CBA with all the hoo ha.
anigan
23 Dec 15#33
Giggling to myself
norfolkbroadslim
23 Dec 15#32
Yeah, I wouldn't admit that too readily either.
norfolkbroadslim
23 Dec 15#31
How many crowns do you have?
norfolkbroadslim
23 Dec 15#28
Big families - share the cost with relatives, cafes etc.
norfolkbroadslim
23 Dec 15#27
So that the member of staff can reduce the items in relative peace, and more quickly depending on the number of items to be reduced (even allowing for loading and unloading the trolley), rather than being surrounded by a rugby scrum of people trying to jump on them for the sake of some reduced sausages. :wink:
jimmybo
23 Dec 15#25
Well done! :confused:
captainbeaky
23 Dec 15#24
Never a good idea to freeze your giblets.
julieallen
23 Dec 153#22
I don't get why they don't take them out the back, reduce them, then bring them back, rather than reduce them on the shop floor causing this type of thing!
marineville
23 Dec 15#21
while i appreciate that the shops are happy to get rid of this stuff to save on waste they surely know the bad impression it causes on the reputations of their shop to see it turn into a refugee scrum for UN emergency rations, never mind the trauma on their poor little juniors... they must occasionally need counselling!
franceshopkins3
23 Dec 15#18
I didn't think it was good to keep meat in the freezer after 6 months?
googley2
23 Dec 151#17
Got to be expiring before xmas be careful with the dates, turkey must be cooked correctly to avoid food poisioning
benjammin316
23 Dec 151#4
Will they keep until next year?
paneds to benjammin316
23 Dec 15#9
chuck it in a freezer and keep till next year no probs
livreg to benjammin316
23 Dec 152#15
Easily. Just wrap them well. I normally carve them up raw though and cook them throughout the year.
snowflake75
23 Dec 151#14
always buy last minute!!
perrioli
23 Dec 154#13
it's a deal that will be gobbled up
jakeyboy4398
23 Dec 15#12
I just got a turkey crown at tesco £6.70 tescos finest too. Bargain 1.9 kg medium.
Dave_dave69
23 Dec 1511#11
I hope this isn't a wild goose chase :smiley:
The Ghostbuster
23 Dec 15#10
Got my M&S Turkey which was £30 labeled on it for £10 at my local moy park factory shop well chuffed also grabbed 2 similar priced Turkey for parents and friend
AzNDeals
23 Dec 152#8
Damn it, I've already bought both a lobster AND a chicken for this year; well might as well knock it out of the ball park this year and grab a turkey too..
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It was even funnier seeing the group of people that had grabbed everything stand looking at their trolley afterwards and clearly knowing something wasn't right - you could see they were thinking "Where the hell has that xxxxx gone, and where is the xxxxx??".
Serves them right.
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Everything needs to be cooked carefully to avoid food poisoning. I would have thought there are very few people who don't know that already.
Turkeys for sale in supermarkets have always 'expired'. If you want live ones you have to get them from a farm!
Oh come on it's not half price you need to pay for membership
I often get half price items such as Lidl's meat or reduced meat or fish items, I pick up for others and sometimes when I cook I give 3 elderly neighbours a dinner who are recent widows and/ or have disabilities and conditions which make it hard for them to cook a proper meal for themselves.
If that makes me a chav, so be it.
unless your really carefull it ends up drys as a bone
people avoid it all year around for a reason
will be enjoying my beef and ham tomorrow
can imagine something like this
. :man:
Out of interest what do you think about Donald Trump?
9 til 6 on the 26th.
Now go reduced shopping at Waitrose, Not as much available but often better price/quality ratio than T.
The meat counter guy will negotiate a bit more off when you help him out by clearing stuff, Sun/Mon best normal weeks and some good stuff leading upto Xmas, large Lamb rack yesterday, hope for Beef and Pork today.
As others have mentioned, I think it's a case of being the right place at the right time. I can see these turkeys going fast.
It was even funnier seeing the group of people that had grabbed everything stand looking at their trolley afterwards and clearly knowing something wasn't right - you could see they were thinking "Where the hell has that xxxxx gone, and where is the xxxxx??".
Serves them right.
Goddamit HUKD!