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Special Offers Highlights

Roll up roll up, read all about it....herewith my modest opinion on the supercalifragilistic and well, not quite so special, special offers. Valentines fever has well and truly gripped the grocery stores, although I'm not so sure about the paying customers - has anybody yet recovered from the shock of their...

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Supervalu’s Special Offers – Until 19th February

Supervalu's not to be outdone on the special offers front, with Valentines offers of half price choccies, deals on wine and beer, and a nice Valentine's breakfast of rashers, saussies, eggs & loaf for €5. Not quite a Lidl value brekkie, but getting there. The dozen roses begin,...

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Dunnes Special Offers: Until 14th February

Dunnes Stores is not to be outdone in the Valentine’s race, matching Lidl’s price of €3.99 for a dozen roses! Is it just me or is anybody else baffled they can go so cheap?  It was only a few Celtic Tiger years ago that a dozen...

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Lidl Weekly Specials

Lidl has laid down the gauntlet. A dozen roses for €3.99. Seriously. They’ve undercut Aldi’s version by a euro.  Now that’s some going, but not unique – Dunnes also has a €3.99 bunch, in store now. Other Valentines offers this week include champagnes from €22.99 (although their Saturday specials include...

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Superquinn Special Offers: Until 22nd February

Well, Superquinn are putting it up to Tesco and coming out very well in some respects - their offers this week include  half price chicken, which at 1.7kg for €3.74 well outweighs the Tesco 1.5kg 2 for €10 offer. Similarly, in the sirloin steak...

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Tesco Special Offers: Until 13th Feb

Tesco have the usual dizzying array of special offers, interestingly only on offer up until Sunday - if you're planning on nipping in to buy some half-price champagne (Taittinger, €49.99 down to €24.99) on Monday, don't bet on getting them at that price. Other Valentines specials include...

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Aldi: Thursday Special Buys

The usual predictable array of Valentine-ish products are dominating the Thursday specials at Aldi, these are some of the highlights; Some seriously great value flowers; yes, I realise that by the time 10am on the 14th comes around won't look half as pretty, or indeed alive, as in...

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