The SPAR flyer, 10 to 23 September: 16 pages across fourteen days, and it does not start until the day after tomorrow

This SPAR flyer holds 16 pages and runs from 10 to 23 September. Today is 8 September, so it has not taken effect yet, and that is the most important difference between it and everything else running now. Seeing the next cycle two days early is useful, but only in one way: it is for planning, not for shopping today. Walk into the shop this afternoon and the shelf prices still belong to the previous cycle and have nothing to do with these sixteen pages.

• This flyer: 16 pages, valid 10 to 23 September 2026, fourteen days. (source 1)
• Start date: Thursday 10 September, two days after today; until then the shelf prices belong to the previous cycle. (source 1)
• For comparison: the two short HANOS flyers run 7 to 20 September and intersect this one for the eleven days from 10 to 20 September. (source 2)
• Density: 16 over 14 is 1.1 pages a day.

The first sum is the wait: start date minus today is the number of days left. 10 September minus 8 September is two days. For those two days these sixteen pages do nothing for shopping and everything for planning: mark what you want now and go on Thursday.

The second sum is the intersection: the days on which two flyers’ windows overlap are the only days you can price one against the other. This one runs 10 to 23 September and the two HANOS flyers run 7 to 20, so the intersection is 10 to 20 September, eleven days. Across those eleven days prices from both belong to one period and subtract directly; from 21 to 23 September SPAR is still running while HANOS has turned over, and those three days can only be read on their own. On density this flyer is 16 over 14, or 1.1 a day, half as tight as the 32-page HANOS flyer at 2.3.

A Hokimi field note: a flyer that has not started yet is the easiest one to misread. Note the start date before deciding which day to shop, and do not walk in expecting the new prices the day before they apply.

Retailer

SPAR

Valid

Fourteen days, from the tenth of September to the twenty-third

Pages

16