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smartie1976

Problem is that if you buy two x6 egg packs, the tills will deduct 2 x 6 pack from the store inventory.
If you put them thru as a 12 egg pack the store stock inventory will show 2x outstanding 6 pack not sold, and -1 on the 12 packs.

It doesn't balance the books.

The correct way to do it would be to reduce one of the 6 pack to make the equivalent total of the 12 pack. (so 1 6pack at 1.03, and manually override the price the other at 77p).
However they were obviously not open to this suggestion, and there is no legal requirement for stores to honour any offers not available.

joenoflow

smartie1976 wrote:

Problem is that if you buy two x6 egg packs, the tills will deduct 2 x 6 pack from the store inventory.
If you put them thru as a 12 egg pack the store stock inventory will show 2x outstanding 6 pack not sold, and -1 on the 12 packs.

It doesn't balance the books.

The correct way to do it would be to reduce one of the 6 pack to make the equivalent total of the 12 pack. (so 1 6pack at 1.03, and manually override the price the other at 77p).
However they were obviously not open to this suggestion, and there is no legal requirement for stores to honour any offers not available.

I appreciate the logic from their point of view, I was just annoyed that the focus was, this is inconvenient to us. I think a revolution is needed. More people need to get more uppity about penny related issues in this country!

Seriously though, if I was ultimately charged 26p for slightly more cardboard in my eggs, then how many other people has this happened to? Across the country as a whole it could easily be adding up to significantly higher profits for no extra effort. It might even be a policy! Maybe eggs are just the tip of the iceberg?? Maybe within this problem somewhere lies the answer to solving the needs of the poor the world over. If each person in the world who goes to a supermarket doesn't get overcharged 26p and that 26p then went to the starving millions, world hunger probably would be a thing of the past.

Thanks to all for their advice, though. Big help. Keep sticking it to the man!::wall: