Disappointingly predictable… There were a number of items I had saved on Amazon (the site you love to hate, but use anyway), popular electronics, home goods etc. I made note of their prices from about 2 weeks back to compare with Black Friday (technically today, but unofficially running all week)… Not a single price decrease, however, prices have gone up, and by a fair amount !
I’ll give it another week or two, and I daresay the prices will drop again.
Best to track from considerably longer ago. Immediately before a supposed price reduction period prices may well peak and for more than two weeks.
I track year round and different products/brands have different price evolution periods and patterns. The items I am watching can have massive prive drops but the biggest are away from any promo period.
I watch across .fr .de and .co.uk currently, not same items much across countries but some, and each country has a different aoproach to '“price evolution” overall ss well, it seems.
Starting to watch amazon,it for some products too - the advantageous ones in each country may not be what you’d expect for that country.
You can use a Wish List to track.- I am sure you addimg the product to a wish list indirectly affects pricing as it shows demand, but it might get you a better price in a certain cycle time tbey’ve defined for that product (or not). But it makes rechecking prices easier as you just scroll your wish list and i’m sure that doesn’t create the same ding, as a new Search for it would. So more information easier without imcresing demand by Searching, going into a price algorithm.
https://fr.camelcamelcamel.com/
Is quite handy for tracking prices and alerting you when it drops below your target price.
Thanks Karen and John.
I have been aware of Hagglezon and CamelCamelCamel for a while. I have on very rare occasion bought from Amazon Germany, but typically with the additional shipping costs, there’s rarely a saving to be had.
I often find from the Camel site that most low prices tend to be around summer time.
Unfortunately for me I need to make the purchases shortly; I wish I’d purchased them prior to Black Friday.
Thanks for the Wish list trick, I will give it a whirl.
I find .de works out best overall. Shipping cost outweighed by pricing improvements and very considerably better choice. Provided you stick to items fulfiled by Amz ie sent by them. This keeps costs down overall when you get to the basket (ignore before) - and ideally choose items also sold by them where possible. Run the numbers and you’ll find the numbers work out OK even with relatively small orders.
Shipping costs from Amz Uk went bananas early this year even if no customs fees or admin needed - absolutely bananas - so I transferred my business to Germany. Relatively little of what i need is available on Amz.fr so Germany wins in many categories. I miss Amz UK only for specific foods.
Can you not get bananas where you live then? 
I have Amazon Prime (UK) as I buy a lot from them so don’t notice shipping costs, but it doesn’t surprise me to hear that it’s expensive to ship from UK to EU and vice versa.
I used to buy motorcycle gear from German suppliers like Louis Moto but rarely do any more as the £135 duty-free limit and the shipping usually makes it not worth it.
Did my weekly shop at Super U today including Jules’ tins of sardines. Spent some time searching for the right ones and then found what he liked in the right quantity. He needed 5 tins today so I picked up 3 separate ones plus 2 in a lot taped together.
When I got to the cash out, as usual I presented one tin and indicated the others stacked in the basket where she could see them all. She said no those aren’t the same and pointed to the 2 coupled together, so I handed them over as well and asked her if they were cheaper, I wasn’t too bothered and missed the answer but I assumed that they would be cheaper.
Just checked out of interest and the 2 taped together are €1.64 each and the 3 separate ones are €1.58. 
Weird or what? I think in future I will rip the tape off, what a con. 
Not wierd at all. I noticed this many years ago. It is the French interpretation of how retail is done. Buy more, pay more. No such thing as buying in bulk to get a better price. Also a good idea to check pack sizes, ie. price per kg. Often it is cheaper to buy two smaller packs than one large one.
Agreed. OH always buys the same coffee and he warned me years ago that a double pack can be more expensive than 2 single. 
This is useful information.
I’m finding sardines (for me: if I had hair, it would have a lovely sheen) surprisingly dear.
Same in Sainsbury’s in Blighty. It can be that the “deal” isn’t actually one. And whenever I buy anything that’s available in two sizes I check the “price per kg”.
They also sometimes put a discounted price on the shelf label but don’t amend it on the computer, so unless you are aware you will pay full price. Especially if like me you use those hand scanner things for a faster checkout.
Ditto Pets at Home. I went in to get some flakes for our goldfish, and the smaller pack was on offer but the big one wasn’t. So I bought two small packs, which are normally more expensive per kg…
I was pleased to read in the recent Press that Michel-Édouard Leclerc advised everyone to always check the price per kilo when out shopping! I have been doing this for years now (in whatever country).
Sometimes/mostly a “special offer” does work out cheaper, but not always. 
Casino used to do that trick all the time
Stockomanie here always seems cheap but if you look closer to the sizes and contents, they are often smaller that the big supermarkets for the same product which in turn works out dearer- Sanytol being a good example.
This thread is an absolute revelation to me, never noticed this trick, I used to compare many years ago but now my pressing need is for speed, get in and get out, rather than saving a few cents, but from now on I will rip those tins apart if I can’t find single ones, just because it is so lousy of them. Trouble is I have to read all the labels because I will only give Jules fish in tomato sauce or olive oil, don’t think the spicier stuff would be good for him.
I discovered years ago that buying 2 x packs of 12 loo rolls in super U worked out cheaper than buying a big 24 roll pack - figure the logic in that one!
This of course is how the pound retailers in the UK, and their Euro cousins in the EU work. Poundland was a mighty titan of the UK high street for a time but was faced with the fact that to keep it’s £1 price point for the vast majority of SKUs it was having to reduce sizes rather dramatically, 300ml of fairy liquid instead of the standard 700 or such, which in turn would cause negative feeling and a downturn in sales, so they decided to switch to a £1-£5 format meaning they could sell the full size, but for £2 or whatever. Seemingly this strategy also went down like a lead balloon so they’re now with a new owner and back to £1 wherever possible.
So, the two pack was €3.28 for the two? If so, there must have been a different bar code on the two pack. Be careful about splitting multi-packs for this reason.
For toilet paper, the price per sheet is usually quoted somewhere in the pricing… worth checking when seeking the best value.
You pay more for same weight of tiny sized Toblerones compared to bigger bar in Action.
Toblerone Tiny
200 grammes
€3,49
17.45 €/kg
Toblerone
200 grammes
€2.99
14.95 €/kg
Various other sweets had a similar pricing structure.
You might think it’s only a few cents, but buying sweets for a family could easily add 3 or 4 euros to the bill. Oh, it’s only a few Euros…well make it in MY favour.
AND Intermarché has been charging €1.14 for fresh milk marked at €1.05 for weeks now. I don’t complain because I now expect it…and it’s only a few cents 