Do special offers really save you money?

Storck

Surely it is up to the customer to check to see if they can buy stuff cheaper. It isn't always cheaper to buy multi-packs. It is always worth checking the offers.

jack_of_all

They're full of tricks, don't know if its the higher price or the insult to the customers intellegence that winds me up most. I get Asda's own yoghurts, they crept up over the year 79p then 88p then 94p then when they put them up to £1 they put a massive red £ sticker to suggest it was some kind of offer

Lexxi

And then they will put it up at the higher price and bring out the exact same product costing the original price in differnt packaging. They did it with their dark chocolate. 2 prodcts exactly the same but different packaging means they can charge two levels of prices

maman

JennyP wrote: »

Can we forget the assistant...I was simply trying to warn people about this! Wishing I hadn't bothered now!

I understood exactly where you were coming from. I have done exactly the same in Asda and met with the same sort of response. Of course, I understand that assistants can't change pricing policy but they should take a customer's comment to their line manager or whoever. Even if it just means that the supermarket knows we're getting wise to their tricks and it's time to think up another one:rotfl:

richardw

Higher price should only be quoted when the product has been sold at normal or higher volumes at the higher price, if not then it just simply isn't relevant.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

when i worked in woolworths for a very short time years ago,

they used to have stuff in purely for the sale. but to justify the reduction to call it a 'sale' item, as long as the items were advertised for sale in a store at the 'normal' price for 28 days, then they could sell it for a sale price.

they never sold that item at a normal price( as it was never in stock), as long as it had a sel in one store, then it was being advertised for sale...

Shelley84

I work in a store selling dvds, among other things. We had a routine visit from Trading Standards (as we had only been open for a month or two). We had a sale on the dvds which was 10% off all of them except new releases. The trading standards guy said you can increase the price of an item and then put it on sale, but the item has to have been at the higher price for at least 28 days.

So a dvd normally at £9.99, we could raise the price to £12.99 for 28 days, then put it in the 10% sale.

KimYeovil

Shelley84 wrote: »

So a dvd normally at £9.99, we could raise the price to £12.99 for 28 days, then put it in the 10% sale.

That would be a 23% off sale, though. £11.10 would be the original price if you wanted to sell it for a tenner. (0.9 x X = £9.99 so X = 9.99/0.9)

geordie_joe

KimYeovil wrote: »

That would be a 23% off sale,

Assuming the sale price is also £9.99, and all we can do is assume as the sale price has not been mentioned.

What would be the sale price if the shop normally sold the DVD at £9.99, then increased the price to £12.99, then knocked 10% for the sale.

maman

At £11.69 or £11.70, it rather proves the point about special offers!