View Full Version : I feel ASDA are suckered
Blue_SV650S
06-11-07, 05:40 PM
... I felt a little suckered the other day when I realised my '3 for £2' only saved me 4p ...
http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=99096
Today however I feel ASDA have messed up huge ...
Ok Walkers 'Sensations' crisps ... £1.49 per pack or £1 for two :smt103 ... er ... how does that work :-k .... :smt044
Needless to say I picked up 2 packets, not one ... and sure enough on my receipt was a 'multibuy' saving of -£1.98 ... :thumright:
leemole
06-11-07, 06:22 PM
i 'may' have got brought some super manly moisturiser from superdrg the other day £5 each or 2 for £4.50 ??? it felt like i was stealing hahahahaha :) with my smooth face :)
Biker_Billy
06-11-07, 06:27 PM
... I felt a little suckered the other day when I realised my '3 for £2' only saved me 4p ...
http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=99096
Today however I feel ASDA have messed up huge ...
Ok Walkers 'Sensations' crisps ... £1.49 per pack or £1 for two :smt103 ... er ... how does that work :-k .... :smt044
Needless to say I picked up 2 packets, not one ... and sure enough on my receipt was a 'multibuy' saving of -£1.98 ... :thumright:
Saw that offer today too....the g/f wanted to get some, until I pointed out that we are supposed to be dieting....
...so I went to the beer aisle and took advantage of the 2 cases of Kronie for 16 quid....she was not a happy bunny...
Best one I ever heard of was a mate who rarely did the shopping had to do so for some reason.
Thinking he was clever he noted the 3 for price of 2 on baked beans. So he took one can out of a four pack - ended up buying 3 for the price of 4. Wot a prize plonker!!:rolleyes:
My mate borrowed my coat the other day and as mates do,he went through the pockets.
Glad he did ,because he found my Asda receipt and spotted that the robbing gits had charged me £32 for a tin of peas.
Marches straight back down there waving my receipt like a loon
My mate borrowed my coat the other day and as mates do,he went through the pockets.
Glad he did ,because he found my Asda receipt and spotted that the robbing gits had charged me £32 for a tin of peas.
Marches straight back down there waving my receipt like a loon
And you hadn't noticed? :smt118
And you hadn't noticed? :smt118
Naaa ,got loads of money.:)
To be honest though it was a monthly shop and yes I was an idiot
fizzwheel
06-11-07, 07:12 PM
Never heard of a loss leader then ?
Spiderman
06-11-07, 08:44 PM
Never heard of a loss leader then ?
Ah, at last one man who understands simple business and economics.
I was behind a guy in a petrol staion queue who was just buying a small bottle of coke. The guy at the till told him its only 10p more if you take 2...and the guy in the queue freaked out at him!!
Calling him a robbing git, said why should i have to buy a 2nd one? etc etc
Errrm, if you're never, ever EVER gonna buy another bottle of coke then fair point keep your measly 10p in your pocket.
but if you're only gonna buy another one later sometime then take the 2nd one you idiot!!!
Some people take good advantage of loss leaders, others get suckered in by them.....this guy was too dime to get it i think, lol.
TheDangerousQuietOne
07-11-07, 01:19 AM
Thats why i've got 2 MASSIVE 2kg tubs of margarine in the fridge, I only wanted one medium one but at BOGOF it means I dont have to buy any for about 2 months saving me a good few quid.
I shop at Costco, it's great but I have a spare bedroom full of toilet roll.
ASM-Forever
07-11-07, 02:24 AM
Blue now all you need to do is to return one of the aforementioned packets of crisps and then you will be in sweet, sweet profit. Oh and have a bag of crisps. :)
Its Asda.....the checkout chimps are bound to go for it.
lukemillar
07-11-07, 03:35 AM
I used to work in Sainsbury's and the one of the big flaws was when they put yellow reduction stickers over the 'buy-one get-one frees'. Because of the way the tills worked, if you bought 2 packets of tea at £2.00 each, (buy-1-get-1-free), then it would deduct £2.00 off the bill rather than take off the second item.
So, let's say the tea had been 'yellow stickered' to 50p a pack. Scan in 2 at 50p and it still takes £2.00 off the bill!! (it's the same barcode underneath - just with the reduction) Therefore, you get both items for free and £1.00 off the bill! Bonus.
I had one woman buy about 48 avocado's once - all reduced to 1p. Avocado's were on buy-3-get-1-free, so for every 4p I added to the bill, it then deducted 89p or whatever a full price avocado was. When I was done her bill was -£15 odd quid! She then put the rest of her shopping through, which took the bill back into positive numbers again.
I think the supermarkets might have wised up to this now.
Blue_SV650S
07-11-07, 08:23 AM
Sure, you see lots of BOGOFs, you see lots of buy 2 for a little bit more than one (but less than the price of two), but where you get TWO for 2/3 the price of ONE??? ... that's just silly!!! :D
Luke, that's so cool, I need to shop at Sainsbury's, not ASDA then as the store managers are even loonyer at Sainsbury's!!! :D
gettin2dizzy
07-11-07, 08:35 AM
It's worth checking the BOGOF, quite often you'll only save about 5p!
Blue_SV650S
07-11-07, 08:51 AM
It's worth checking the BOGOF, quite often you'll only save about 5p!
Do you often buy 5p products then!?!? :D
I think you mean the 2 for £2 jobs when one is actaully 99p, not 'buy one, get one free (BOGOF) where you would have 'saved' 99p' ;)
gettin2dizzy
07-11-07, 08:58 AM
Do you often buy 5p products then!?!? :D
I think you mean the 2 for £2 jobs when one is actaully 99p, not 'buy one, get one free (BOGOF) where you would have 'saved' 99p' ;)
#-o
totally.
That's what we need up here - healthy competition for the Co-op.
Having just one local supermarket (next nearest is 40miles away and thats another Co-op store:rolleyes:) they can charge what the heck they like. Like £1.35 for a loaf of bread anyone? All the fruit and veg is ****e and meat prices are a joke.
They've made so much money out of us they built another bigger store and put the old one up for sale... with a clause to prevent any other supermarket buying the old warehouse. It's now a timber yard. Great.:mad: I see the media has cottoned onto this practice and them hogging land in the news last week.
Pedro68
07-11-07, 10:55 AM
I refused a second bottle of Lucozade Isotonic at a petrol station a few weeks ago, because I only wanted a quick drink, was on the bike with a rucksack full of stuff and couldn't fit a second bottle into the rucksack (as it was I had trouble getting the one I bought into the rucksack!).
Blue_SV650S
07-11-07, 11:11 AM
I refused a second bottle of Lucozade Isotonic at a petrol station a few weeks ago, because I only wanted a quick drink, was on the bike with a rucksack full of stuff and couldn't fit a second bottle into the rucksack (as it was I had trouble getting the one I bought into the rucksack!).
There would have been no way I would have walked away WITHOUT the free one ... even if it mean me making myself sick on the forecourt 'downing' it to get rid of it!! :D
Pedro68
07-11-07, 11:19 AM
There would have been no way I would have walked away WITHOUT the free one ... even if it mean me making myself sick on the forecourt 'downing' it to get rid of it!! :D
It wasn't quite "free" ... it was something like £1.45 for one, £2 for two.
I just refuse to buy stuff I don't need.
I don't mind purchasing these offers from time to time, and when the stuff will get used but ... my better half? OMG ... 8 boxes of Alpen she came home with one day cos "it was on special offer" ... 8 boxes of the stuff! I HAD to start eating healthier just to shift the damn stuff!! :rolleyes: It's not like we didn't have any other cereal either ... yes she is a serious cereal bargain hunter :rolleyes: LOL ... at the time we must have had ... 2 boxes of Optivia, a box of Cornflakes, a box of Rice Crispies, a box of Shreddies, 2 boxes of Fitnesse (or whatever it's called), a box of weetabix, a box of oats and a 2 boxes of Shredded Wheat bitesize/fruitful ...
So after she had cereally offended we now had 2 cupboards, half a shoe-rack and a utility room littered with boxes of cereal!
We finally ate our way through it ... just in time for the offer to return!
Thankfully she only bought 4 boxes this time :rolleyes:
Never heard of a loss leader then ?
I used to work in ASDA doing the reductions for the chilled stuff, amongst other things.
I was their primary loss leader.
I had mini-auctions with old people where bidding went up in pennies starting at 10p. They knew a bargain when they saw one, at 7:50pm when they all came flocking in to clear the reduction counters before it closed at 8!
I also worked on the checkouts where items without barcodes were clearly free, chilled items where the barcodes were smudged were free, and any fruit and veg that I couldnt remember the PLU for was er.... free.
That's Ooger price :smt098
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