Hovis is a bread brand here. A few weeks back, we saw that some Hovis loaves were reduced to clear at 13p (about 20c) each so we bought 2 loaves to freeze and use. Not only were the loaves super cheap but they also had a voucher on each that entitled us to get 30p off our next purchase of a Hovis loaf. Dwayne used the 2x30p off vouchers on full price loaves (so 1.25 reduced to 65p for the two). So far - 4 loaves at 91p... We thought that was pretty good but it didn't stop there... I was walking to work last week and saw that people were carrying super-large Hovis loaves and tracked them back (not far!) to where they were giving them out. And, would you believe, they stuck another 30p off voucher on the free loaf of bread! The next day they were again handing out the super-size loaves so I got another one - with another voucher. We then used the voucher from the first of the free loaves to buy - you guessed it - a loaf that was reduced to 29p! (we actually made 1p on that buy). We still have the second voucher to use at an opportune moment. Hey we may even use it on a full price loaf if we have to! TOTAL: 7 loaves of bread @ 91p (with 30p voucher remaining on stand-by) --> 13p per loaf
It's not the bread that's expensive in London.
Sunday 25 October 2009
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Hovis is a bread brand here. A few weeks back, we saw that some Hovis loaves were reduced to clear at 13p (about 20c) each so we bought 2 loaves to freeze and use. Not only were the loaves super cheap but they also had a voucher on each that entitled us to get 30p off our next purchase of a Hovis loaf. Dwayne used the 2x30p off vouchers on full price loaves (so 1.25 reduced to 65p for the two). So far - 4 loaves at 91p... We thought that was pretty good but it didn't stop there... I was walking to work last week and saw that people were carrying super-large Hovis loaves and tracked them back (not far!) to where they were giving them out. And, would you believe, they stuck another 30p off voucher on the free loaf of bread! The next day they were again handing out the super-size loaves so I got another one - with another voucher. We then used the voucher from the first of the free loaves to buy - you guessed it - a loaf that was reduced to 29p! (we actually made 1p on that buy). We still have the second voucher to use at an opportune moment. Hey we may even use it on a full price loaf if we have to! TOTAL: 7 loaves of bread @ 91p (with 30p voucher remaining on stand-by) --> 13p per loaf
It's not the bread that's expensive in London.
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Dwayne has corrected me - of course the 2 loaves he bought could not have been 1.25! they were 1.26 and the vouchers he used were only 20p each - so the final result should read 1.12p for 7 loaves. Still, 16p a loaf ain't bad.
ReplyDeleteOh, and since then, we have sourced TWO vouchers that entitle us to TWO MORE free loaves, so that is about 12p per loaf (and still counting...)
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