Supermarket 'Spend £x and receive a free gift

Linda's_Man

I am led to believe that if a supermarket e.g. Tesco offer a free product if you spend over a certain amount you can in fact get more than one of the product if you ask the cashier to do a sub-total at the relative point.
e.g. recently Tesco were giving away a jar of coffee free with purchases of £30 or more. We spent £90 on this occasion and received one free jar of coffee. We were then told by a friend that had we asked for a sub-total at £30 and £60 at the till we would have received three jars of coffee. Apparently this does work. Has any one else actually tried it? and I wonder if it works on the '5p off a litre of fuel for a £50 spend' offer if someone does a shop of £100+. What you do is watch the running total on the till display and when the appropriate amount is reached you ask for a sub-total. If the sub-total idea doesn't work then I suppose you can ask the cashier to stop and you pay for the first batch of shopping and then get him/her to continue with the next batch so it definately counts as two seperate shops, but the sub-total way would be quicker for those queuing behind you.

danger_mouse_2

in theory it would work, but generally theyll have some sort of small print relating to a max number 1 person can claim or similar

colmil

All you have to do is go around once, twice, three times, if you can be bothered!

annie12

Sheila's_Man wrote: »

I am led to believe that if a supermarket e.g. Tesco offer a free product if you spend over a certain amount you can in fact get more than one of the product if you ask the cashier to do a sub-total at the relative point.
e.g. recently Tesco were giving away a jar of coffee free with purchases of £30 or more. We spent £90 on this occasion and received one free jar of coffee. We were then told by a friend that had we asked for a sub-total at £30 and £60 at the till we would have received three jars of coffee. Apparently this does work. Has any one else actually tried it? and I wonder if it works on the '5p off a litre of fuel for a £50 spend' offer if someone does a shop of £100+. What you do is watch the running total on the till display and when the appropriate amount is reached you ask for a sub-total. If the sub-total idea doesn't work then I suppose you can ask the cashier to stop and you pay for the first batch of shopping and then get him/her to continue with the next batch so it definately counts as two seperate shops, but the sub-total way would be quicker for those queuing behind you.

We do this regularly at Tesco when they have the "5p off a litre of petrol"
The cashier once suggested it to us.
We've never had a problem.

adamhodg

i do this all the time, 3 seperate transactions £50 a time= 3 petrol vouchers.
Rather than the one £150 spend and 1 voucher.

dazzer68

yep i always do it, if you can try to put your shopping in blocks of say £30 pounds worth, put that through pay for the stuff,claim your free gift, then carry on to the next block of shopping same again. just tell the cashier your getting shopping for other people!:rotfl: , the coffee promotion i had 3 jars! in one shop, dont use it but gave it to my mum, she drinks it. same with fuel promo, put £50 worth of shopping through pay get voucher then carry on put the rest through!