Things I learned today

Did you know that on mysupermarket.com there is a function that shows you how the price of a particular item has fluctuated over the last year.  If you are interested in a particular item then you click on the picture and you will get the price in all the stores and a little graph at the bottom that shows how the price has risen and fallen.

This is one of the best tools ever.  It will show you if the item is a real bargain or a fake bargain.  I was just looking at Heinz soup.  Father likes it, and to be honest no other soup will do for me either unless it is home made.  However I don't like the price.  Tesco were doing three for the price of two on four packs of certain soups, so I bought some.  It worked out at around 65p each instead of the normal 89p.  Today Asda are doing them at 50p each, so it wasn't a brilliant bargain, but it wasn't a bad one.  The price of these soups seems to have stayed quite level.  I checked out the condensed tomato soups, which I use a lot of and I am starting to come to the end of my stash.  Apparently they are at their lowest price for twelve months at 2 for £1.50.  I looked at Walker's Crisps 20 pack (DH prefers them) and interestingly they were not marked as on offer but the price was definitely lower than the yearly average.  The Walker's 6 pack was marked as on offer but was on a higher than average price compared with the rest of the year and was actually a lot cheaper a week or so ago.

I am always going to check the graph now!

The second thing I found is there is a site called camelcamelcamel which tracks prices on Amazon.  I am a bit unsure about it.  I will be playing with it over the next few days to try and work out how to track the price of a freezer which I am considering thinking about possibly in theory getting.  It looks like it is good if you have your heart set on a particular item and know you will get it from Amazon.  I am more likely to get the freezer from somewhere who I can talk to on the phone about my delivery requirements.  They also have a section for biggest price drops.  I haven't worked it all out yet.  Amazon is where I impulse buy normally.

I thought I would share.  I suspect most people reading will know this anyway, but just in case.