Supermarket Special Offers - Never in Stock!

grayme-m

uktim29 wrote: »

You'd have to be pretty thick though not to understand the statement "while stocks last".

(not wanting to get into the flame war, but: )

I believe the OP does understand the statement.

However, unlike the more transparent 'shrinking' goods, you'll probably only find out they haven't got the advertised special offer when you're already in their shop. If that advert was why you went there, it is understandable to feel cheated.

Have you never experienced this?

hollydays

Wayne3765 wrote: »

I'm shocked , nine posts in this thread and not one "when I worked in retail " :rolleyes:

What's going on Tim ?

:rotfl::rotfl:

Wayne,now that IS what we were all thinking.

To get back to the original post,If car booters and traders get in first,that's very enterprising of them (perhaps they go to a 24 hour Asda at 5am after nightfill has been done)..If you are too slow to catch the bargain,that teaches you to be quicker off the mark next time .If you don't believe the offer exists,don't use that retailer again as a protest,it's your choice.

Is the OP actually mainly complaining that there is no limits placed on purchase? If they put a limit,it severely limits our chances of getting multiple bargains,I am against that! What's the betting many staff took full advantage of this offer?Good luck to them.

andyrules

dmg24 wrote: »

Oh my god, you'll be comparing penis size next! :rolleyes:

But as we are talking about how many thanks we have, feel free to note my thanks count ...

But you thanked tim for drawing attention to his thanks!:rolleyes:

fgs, don't put ideas in his head - the thought of it..:eek::eek:

ps wanna borrow a magnifying glass tim?:D:D

Brooker_Dave

StoptheRipOff wrote: »

Hi,
Could you answer a question for me please?

When a supermarket is advertising one of their mega special deals in the national press (in this particular instance ASDA - Gillette Fusion razors for £2 instead of the normal £7.48) and the offer is on for "4 days only" but they are totally out of stock after the first day, should they honour this with their "smiley vouchers"? Having asked for one of these I was told that as the advert stated "while stocks last" basically it was tough luck

You're suprised that offers like these sell out quickly??

Demand compensation in smiley vouchers!!!

Brooker_Dave

StoptheRipOff wrote: »

My point is that this happens with monotonous regularity - partly I assume because there is no limitation on the amount you can buy, enterprising boot salers and market traders buy up most of the available stock on day 1 of the offer to re-sell at a higher price. Surely this is some kind of false advertising if they hide behind the "while stocks last" statement - particularly as they give no indication of how much stock they are referring to, which in theory could be something ridiculous like 2 units per store!

Best advise to the lazy bargian hunter, get there on the first day of the offer.

C_Ronaldo

I dont know about other supermarkets but with sainsburys the offers start on a wednesday and could last from 1 week to maybe 3 or 4. The offers get tend to be put out on a tuesday afternoon/evening so the new plinths are ready with the new offers. If you look on the oblong piece of advertising in a plastic holder you will see a series of numbers in the left hand bottom corner and at the end will be 6 digits which represent the date of when the offer ends which would be a tuesday

uktim29

grayme-m wrote: »

(not wanting to get into the flame war, but: )

I believe the OP does understand the statement.

However, unlike the more transparent 'shrinking' goods, you'll probably only find out they haven't got the advertised special offer when you're already in their shop. If that advert was why you went there, it is understandable to feel cheated.

Have you never experienced this?

No, I never go shopping just for offers. I rarely watch TV so don't see the adverts. I know offers sometimes sell out so would not make a solo journey for an offer (to me that is common sense). If I were to do such a thing it would be combined with other general shopping so I wouldn't lose out.

Special offers and bogof's will sell out sometimes, thats the nature of them. I can't believe this is news to some people.

THE_LONE_RANGER_4

uktim is such a wise old owl im sure we would all love to be like him ,

Chrysalis

I think asda handle this ok on their substitutes policy, if you order something and they have to replace it with something else, they fix the price if the replacement costs more. But in general I sort of agree with you but it depends how bad it is, if an offer lasts eg. 4 weeks and 3 of the 4 weeks its out of stock and mysteriously reappears when the offer is over then yes I think its very immoral.

grayme-m

uktim29 wrote: »

No, I never go shopping just for offers. I rarely watch TV so don't see the adverts. I know offers sometimes sell out so would not make a solo journey for an offer (to me that is common sense). If I were to do such a thing it would be combined with other general shopping so I wouldn't lose out.

Special offers and bogof's will sell out sometimes, thats the nature of them. I can't believe this is news to some people.

All but one of your sentences uses the word 'I', what you do or don't do, what you think. Other people may think/do things differently so become irked by supermarkets 'duping' them through their doors.

Other people may see an offer and go specially somewhere they wouldn't normally (I'm sure I have at some point).

In these situations, I agree with Dave , Sunshine/Raincheck vouchers are fair compensation.