BOGOF on reduced items - they pay you!

evacymru

I don't know if someone has posted this before - please delete if it's old news!

I went to visit some friends over the weekend and they told me about some reduced price products at their local supermarket (think it was Sainsburys) that ended up them being paid to buy them! It was a case of buying some sausages from the reduced price shelf - they had BOGOF on them. When they got to the checkout, the cashier explained that, although the items were reduced to half price, the BOGOF on the computerised till insisted that the refund on the second pack was for the full price! This meant that they got two packs of sausages and a refund on top!

It's worth looking out for BOGOF items in the reduced shelves, then.

rsykes2000

Don't think this works in the Sainsburys I go to, the tills just reduce the bogof price to the reduced price, ie if the 2 items were both reduced to 29p, you would get 2 for 29p. The buy 2 save xxx pence does work though, and is excellent after their second wave of reductions.

calleyw

A lot of supermarkets I believe have closed this loop hole.

I have in the past be been paid to take away things like bread.

Not tried it recently but as I just about to get a huge chest freezer. Need to find something to fill it with. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Yours


Calley

davidriley

This has worked for us in Sainsbury's very recently. (and has done for years)

Goes like this.

A product with a "special" (eg BOGOF) is actually a discount off the second item dependant on the "special" - so, a BOGOF is a discount off the second item to the value of the item when purchased in its own.

EG - packet of sausage @ £1.99 BOGOF = 2 X 1.99 - 1.99 = 1.99

So if you see some in the reduced area for £1.00 - it goes 2 X 1.00 - 199 = 0.01!!!

calleyw

Well I know in Somerfield it does not work like this. Bought two reduced items on BOGOF and rather than having the full price deducted from the second item I got the reduced price deducted.

Item was £1.99 BOGOF. Both items reduced to £1.39 so I got £1.39 deducted from my bill not the £1.99.

Yours

Calley

LesD

Could there be a difference where the stock system price HAS been updated as opposed to where the operator has to override the till and enter the reduced price? Presumably, in this case, the BOGOF reduction will still be done at the system price.

RufusA

The other week I was in Sainsbury's and a guy in front of me in the queue bought a lot of items off the chilled reduced to clear shelf at the end of the day. Every item was reduced to just 10p (and he had a few items which IMHO he may have "PUT" 10p stickers on as they had either long dates or looked like very fresh fruit). However as there were a few BOGOF items the total on the checkout was -42p (i.e. Sainsbury's owed him 42p).

The checkout girl was flumuxed, and called over the supervisor. The supervisor printed off a receipt, checked no items had been missed then stated "If that's what the till says, that's what you must do otherwise it won't balance".

So the man was handed his shopping, AND 42p from his till. He couldn't understand/believe it, and after arguing that it couldn't be right admitted defeat over the all powerful till, and went home richer, and with 3 brimming bags of shopping!

Rufus.

expressman33

Some stores now use a machine to put a new bar code on the reduced item.This stops the till from deducting a further discount

sarahluv

sainsburys staff manually override prices for reduced items. i've seen it happen with fresh chickens when they've been on 2 for £5. They have been reduced to 50p each but the till has also taken off the promotional discount.