What happens when you live with reduced food from Marks & Spencer for a week

For many buyers, grocery shopping at Marks and Spencer is not the most economical option for a weekly food store.

However, the supermarket giant gives buyers the opportunity to save a few cents by reducing the cost of their food products.

Marks and Spencer often lower food prices when their expiry date approaches, products are damaged or their production is interrupted.

Reduced foods include dry and chilled products, which should be consumed on the same date of sale.

A Hull Live reporter, Anna Riley, decided to test the reduced diet for a week to see how much she could actually save on her grocery store.

It is an account of the experience of Anna Riley:

There are three reasons why food is reduced at the supermarket: the date is short, it is damaged superficially or it is no longer sold.

I do not know the reduced sticker aisle of the supermarket, I'm always looking for a good deal if it is there, but I will not necessarily go out of my way to buy products at reduced prices, or to go to the supermarket at at some point to find a good deal.

But do not get me wrong, if you can freeze food or eat it the same day, why spend more on the necessary evil of shopping?

I tend to shop mostly at Aldi, which very rarely, if ever, cuts its food. Therefore, if it happens to me to go to another traditional supermarket with a well stocked clearance area, I am really curious to see if I can find something suitable.

Marks & Spencer is one of the places I have never bought food (unless the Percy pigs and the odd meal matter) because of the price. That's why I was asked to watch her reduced aisles to see what I could live for a Week, I was intrigued to find out what would be on offer.

Visiting Anlaby and Kingswood stores to do my shop, that's what I found.

Good deals are hidden

Unlike other supermarkets where there are sections dedicated to reducing the amount of stickers, at Marks & Spencer, all marked items are hidden among the food at full price.

In my opinion, he added more time than necessary to negotiate, because I had to keep an eye on the yellow stickers of each aisle.

It also made it clear to other buyers that I was only there for the good deals and I even felt that some people despised me for not wanting to put my hand in my pocket for the products to date.

Fortunately, the reduced stickers were on the sides of the objects, which made it easier to identify what had been marked without having to search the goods.

Maybe the food store wants to give their customers more excitement by seeing a yellow sticker among the rest of the food, or maybe if it were in a certain section, people would jump on it like vultures.

Who knows? This has certainly made finding bargains more difficult than necessary.

Do not always rely on the date of sale

All items had to be eaten the day I bought them based on the date of sale.

But, not wanting to patronize M & S every day during the week, nor missing a good food, I decided to buy fresh food that I could not eat the same day with l & # 39; hope that it would not happen.

Fortunately, the food, including salads, soups, fruits, meats and fish, lasted well and was almost as good as buying fresh produce the same day. I am therefore happy to have ignored the dates of sale.

Touch wood I did not feel sick eating two-day marinated Honduran shrimp for £ 1.12 less than £ 3.30 or stir-fried vegetables that were starting to wrinkle.

Most items can not be frozen

When I was looking for bargains, I was trying to find items that I could freeze so I could stock myself and have some items to defrost, rather than worrying about the fact that all my food was going to leave.

But from my experience, there was very little prepared food at the market downstairs, or meat or fish offered, which made the job more difficult.

It was a bit of a trek

Living in the Avenues and normally going to Aldi's on Beverley Road was out of my way to Kingswood and Anlaby and it made me think again that it was unfortunate that we lost our center. city ​​M & S.

So, even if I made savings by buying deals, it took me time and extra money.

I found Anlaby to be a better deal for the better and better deal. It was easier to get around and find the food with a yellow label.

I went around 7 pm in each of the shops and I always found that more and more had been tagged at Anlaby.

Only food was offered

I found bread that I could freeze, but other than that, the rest of the reduced food was in the refrigerators.

Unlike other supermarkets where I visited, products such as laundry detergents, cat food, soft drink cans and even beer are lowered, as well as other non-fresh foods, this n & # 39; 39, was not the case at M & S.