Beat this for a bargain!
DB.
them to £1.79, but after checking them through the c/o assistant said
"That's 81 pence, sir". My immediate reaction was to say to him "Oh, no,
it's more than that!".
He insisted 81p. was correct, and showed me the till receipt.
Included were 2 punnets of strawberries each marked down from £1.49 to
20p. Though individually priced at £1.49 these had stickers saying "2
for £2.00". On reading the barcode twice the computer recorded on the
till-receipt "Multisaver (-0.98p.)". So these strawberries cost me 40p.
*less* 98p. - so in effect I was given 58p. for taking them home.
Beat that for a bargain!
--
DB.
Mungo "two sheds" Toadfoot
"DB." <dbirc...@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> I bought four items in Tesco yesterday. I had mentally totalled
> "That's 81 pence, sir". My immediate reaction was to say to him "Oh, no,
> it's more than that!".
> He insisted 81p. was correct, and showed me the till receipt.
> 20p. Though individually priced at Ł1.49 these had stickers saying "2
> for Ł2.00". On reading the barcode twice the computer recorded on the
> till-receipt "Multisaver (-0.98p.)". So these strawberries cost me 40p.
> *less* 98p. - so in effect I was given 58p. for taking them home.
> Beat that for a bargain!
>
That's why it's always worth looking for reduced BOGOF items especially.
Good innit? :O)
Si
Reestit Mutton
> "DB." <dbirc...@btinternet.com> wrote in message
> news:2g45p2F...@uni-berlin.de...
>
>> I bought four items in Tesco yesterday. I had mentally totalled
>>"That's 81 pence, sir". My immediate reaction was to say to him "Oh, no,
>>it's more than that!".
>> He insisted 81p. was correct, and showed me the till receipt.
>>20p. Though individually priced at £1.49 these had stickers saying "2
>>for £2.00". On reading the barcode twice the computer recorded on the
>>till-receipt "Multisaver (-0.98p.)". So these strawberries cost me 40p.
>>*less* 98p. - so in effect I was given 58p. for taking them home.
>> Beat that for a bargain!
>>
>
>
> That's why it's always worth looking for reduced BOGOF items especially.
>
> Good innit? :O)
>
> Si
>
>
On BOGOFs the tills always add the cost of the second item and refund
the FULL cost of one so disocunted BOGOF goods, if they're not
explicitly excluded from the BOGOF deal as they are in Safeway and
Sainsburys, can sometimes work out less than free.
I wonder when the supermarkets are going to fix this particular loophole
in their checkout systems?
RM
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Where can I find this deal?
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Lovegoddess (LG)
Golden wonder crisps multi pack = £1.89 BOGOF
2x golden wonder multi pks were reduced to 69p as they had that days date
on..........= £1.38
£1.38 - £1.89 = £0.61p profit !!!
they paid ME to buy them............
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Colin Reddish
"Reestit Mutton" <n...@this.address> wrote in message
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> On BOGOFs the tills always add the cost of the second item and refund
> the FULL cost of one so disocunted BOGOF goods, if they're not
> explicitly excluded from the BOGOF deal as they are in Safeway and
> Sainsburys, can sometimes work out less than free.
>
> I wonder when the supermarkets are going to fix this particular loophole
> in their checkout systems?
Isn't this simply a case of the till operator not following the correct
procedure? I assume because the items were "marked down" the operator should
have manually over-ridden the till generated prices and manually inserted
the mark down price for each item.
--
Colin Reddish
mrcheerful
> "That's 81 pence, sir". My immediate reaction was to say to him "Oh, no,
> it's more than that!".
> He insisted 81p. was correct, and showed me the till receipt.
> 20p. Though individually priced at Ł1.49 these had stickers saying "2
> for Ł2.00". On reading the barcode twice the computer recorded on the
> till-receipt "Multisaver (-0.98p.)". So these strawberries cost me 40p.
> *less* 98p. - so in effect I was given 58p. for taking them home.
> Beat that for a bargain!
>
> --
> DB.
>
My sister bought a trolley load of sample 2 tablet packs of dishwasher
detergent, each one cost ten pence, each had a 15 p voucher on it, her tesco
take any number of vouchers without quibble, so each pack was two free
tablets and 5 p !
mrcheerful
BigBird
Obviously the operator did do a price over-ride didn't he.
Colin Reddish
"BigBird" <big...@int.net> wrote in message
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> Obviously the operator did do a price over-ride didn't he.
OH yes. I had forgotten that the "Multisaver (-0.98p.)" entry is shown on a
separate line
--
Colin Reddish
Johannes H Andersen
"DB." wrote:
>
> I bought four items in Tesco yesterday. I had mentally totalled
> them to Ł1.79, but after checking them through the c/o assistant said
> "That's 81 pence, sir". My immediate reaction was to say to him "Oh, no,
> it's more than that!".
> He insisted 81p. was correct, and showed me the till receipt.
> Included were 2 punnets of strawberries each marked down from Ł1.49 to
> 20p. Though individually priced at Ł1.49 these had stickers saying "2
> for Ł2.00". On reading the barcode twice the computer recorded on the
> till-receipt "Multisaver (-0.98p.)". So these strawberries cost me 40p.
> *less* 98p. - so in effect I was given 58p. for taking them home.
> Beat that for a bargain!
>
> --
> DB.
Can't beat that, so sour grapes there. Got Tesco's 1 Litre dishwashing
liquid today for 13p and it doesn't go off! Unfortunately, it isn't edible.
Mr Cellophane
I once left Tesco's with a load of oranges (string bags) and £5 or so in cash, operator telling me I
can't give cash when you have paid nothing over! why not I asked get cash. Gave most of the oranges
away, far too many of them for me too eat.
Safeway no longer allow this too happen nor do Somerfield but Sainsbury's and Tesco do.
Mungo "two sheds" Toadfoot
"Colin Reddish" <creddish@(removespamblock)freegratis.net> wrote in message
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>
> Isn't this simply a case of the till operator not following the correct
> procedure? I assume because the items were "marked down" the operator
should
> have manually over-ridden the till generated prices and manually inserted
> the mark down price for each item.
No, it's a system thing. If the computer is told to take, say, 98p off a
multibuy it will do so whatever the price.
This can't be stopped because people could end up paying *more* for
something that's been reduced. Example: An item costs £1 normally and it's
on offer at 2 for £1.50 (75p each). If the stock is reduced to 80p and the
offer is stopped because the item's been reduced then you're paying 5p more
per item than you would if you had bought them under the offer.
Si
Major Error
wrote:
>Mungo "two sheds" Toadfoot wrote:
>> "DB." <dbirc...@btinternet.com> wrote in message
>> news:2g45p2F...@uni-berlin.de...
>>
>>> I bought four items in Tesco yesterday. I had mentally totalled
>>>them to Ł1.79, but after checking them through the c/o assistant said
>>>"That's 81 pence, sir". My immediate reaction was to say to him "Oh, no,
>>>it's more than that!".
>>> He insisted 81p. was correct, and showed me the till receipt.
>>>Included were 2 punnets of strawberries each marked down from Ł1.49 to
>>>20p. Though individually priced at Ł1.49 these had stickers saying "2
>>>for Ł2.00". On reading the barcode twice the computer recorded on the
>>>till-receipt "Multisaver (-0.98p.)". So these strawberries cost me 40p.
>>>*less* 98p. - so in effect I was given 58p. for taking them home.
>>> Beat that for a bargain!
>>>
>>
>>
>> That's why it's always worth looking for reduced BOGOF items especially.
>>
>> Good innit? :O)
>>
>On BOGOFs the tills always add the cost of the second item and refund
>the FULL cost of one so disocunted BOGOF goods, if they're not
>explicitly excluded from the BOGOF deal as they are in Safeway and
>Sainsburys, can sometimes work out less than free.
>
Not in Asda they don't, that loophole was fixed long ago!
ME
Robert Holdford
use it to your advantage if you can.
Bob
"DB." <dbirc...@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> I bought four items in Tesco yesterday. I had mentally totalled
> them to Ł1.79, but after checking them through the c/o assistant said
> "That's 81 pence, sir". My immediate reaction was to say to him "Oh, no,
> it's more than that!".
> He insisted 81p. was correct, and showed me the till receipt.
> Included were 2 punnets of strawberries each marked down from Ł1.49 to
> 20p. Though individually priced at Ł1.49 these had stickers saying "2
> for Ł2.00". On reading the barcode twice the computer recorded on the
Alex Butcher
> So these strawberries cost me 40p.
> *less* 98p. - so in effect I was given 58p. for taking them home.
> Beat that for a bargain!
I remember Sainsbury's were running a loyalty-card voucher for a while
that gave something like 2GBP off any "Swiffer" product (obviously
intended for the starter kit, which was something like 8GBP normally). I
used them to buy the Swiffer cloth refills (without ever having any
intention to use them as anything other than anti-static dusters) priced
at about 1.60GBP. Result: they paid me about 1.20GBP each visit to take
three packets off their shelves... I think I've still got a couple left,
years later!
Alex.
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Stevie Boy
for it. Only a few actually end up with change in their pocket.
It also encourages people instore.
A friend bought a bucket load of reduced yoghurts on BOGOF just to get the
price of a DVD they wanted down in price. Eventually they walked away with
the DVD at less than half price and the checkout operator didnt mind a toots
hoot about it.
When they got home they threw almost all of the yoghurts away!
Steve
Tim Morley
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Yes, noticed Morrison's have cottoned on to this one and not print new
barcodes for the reduced items which then do not qualify for the deals
(maybe for example £1.40 each or 2 for a pound) I was caught out with this
the other day and paid £2.20 for 2 milkshakes with 1 day left, where I could
have bought 2 fresh for £2!!!!! Thought I would get a negative amount for
2!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bummer
Hywel
says...
That's simple to fix in the code that does the calculation, though.
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steeler
> "That's 81 pence, sir". My immediate reaction was to say to him "Oh, no,
> it's more than that!".
> He insisted 81p. was correct, and showed me the till receipt.
> 20p. Though individually priced at Ł1.49 these had stickers saying "2
> for Ł2.00". On reading the barcode twice the computer recorded on the
> till-receipt "Multisaver (-0.98p.)". So these strawberries cost me 40p.
> *less* 98p. - so in effect I was given 58p. for taking them home.
> Beat that for a bargain!
>
I once had a similar thing at sainsburys. If the item is scanned through
and not corrected to "quick sale" or whatever -the computer applies any
multisave deals.
I got short dated minced steak 500g. BOGOF Ł4.99 down to 49p.
(49p + 49p) - Ł4.99 = +Ł4.01 for 1kg of steak mince.