x for £y offers

CupcakeLisa

tesco's done this with biscuits in my local store recently. they had a whole end with 3 for 2 offer with biscuits so my partner picked 3 different varieties but all went throught at full price. when queried we were informed that the promotional display was three different 3 for 2 offers. my other half would never read the small print so would get caught out everytime.

CupcakeLisa

JackieO wrote: »

what grates with me is I get sent coupons from Tescos (last week as it happens) and one of them was for Special k with Honey at a £1.00 off My local tescos have all of the Special K range on sale at £2.00 a box insted of £3.00 but none of the honey ones .Strange that

this happens to me all the time - always seems to be for a brand of cheese they dont stock at my local store

moonrakerz

Middy wrote: »

I work for Sainsburys and we never do this.

Anyway, if £35 bottles of whiskey were on the 2 for £20, they would be sold out!

You are missing/trivialising my point: If 0.75L bottles of whisky were on offer at "2 for £10" and these bottles were replaced by 1L bottles at "full price" of £9.99 each - the customer has paid £19.98 for two litres of whisky as opposed to £10 for 1.5L - not such a good bargain !!

lilac_lady

The tuna offer mistake happened to me too - in my local Co-op. When a mistake is politely pointed out to some staff they seem to resent it and take it personally and an apology is rare.

Bowling_4_Gold

moonrakerz wrote: »

Another variation on this theme (Sainsbury's again) is when a particular size item is on offer. They sell out of the offer sized item, then fill the shelf with a different (non-offer) size of the same product and leave the offer sign prominently on view. Then plead ignorance when you point it out to them !!

Sainsburys are absolute swines at doing this!

I bought some sausages (which were 69p on the SEL) and was charged 99p. Went to CS which of course only had 1 person on it, so had to wait for the 2nd CS person to come and monitor the desk (taking no less than 2 store-wide announcements) before my assistant took a leisurely stroll around the store to find the offending display. Came back several minutes later to do a bit more searching on the computer before saying the SEL was advertising a discontinued item and I had picked up the larger, more expensive pack. Argued my case, that the SEL was directly below a full line of the larger pack, then the chillers manager was called to appreciate the mistake. A bit longer passed, then the CS assistant finally gave me the 30p and my (now gently warming) sausages back, right after conveniently losing my receipt!

dadachu

I agree Sainsburys are past masters at this trick..... huge sign "Kettle chips all varieties BOGOF" so i pick up a couple of the vegatable variety, which are adjacent to said sign..well you know the rest! Then there is the huge sign on the middle rail above the spud bins and below the the Rooster spuds again BOGOF or similar i think its Roosters but no there is the smallest of small arrows pointing downwards to the generic white spuds. But what really gets my goat is the attitude of the CS harridans who talk to you as if you are stupid and you're trying to rob money out of their own pockets !
PS I did also get done by the 3 for £10 wines at ASDA where they said someone had loaded the wrong wine onto the offer shelf. But fair play to the lad on CS he honoured the 3 for £10 (and also gave me my £2 gift card without having to ask...which was a first!!)

faganswife

GRRRR ! Happened to me last time in S'Burys . Bought some cheese and tomato ravioli above a SEL saying SALE £1.00 . Bought one and double checked because Ive been caught out before and as others have said there are some CS staff who make you feel like a crim when you challenge the price . Anyway went through at £1.69 so I queried it . CS said its the wrong flavour, you should have picked up the sundried tomato and cheese variety ... of which there were none , but plenty of the other cheese and tomato variety . So I said to CS bloke where is the SEL then for the variety I picked up ( having already looked - there wasnt one ) . I dont think Joe Public moved them , I think Sainsburys staff filled up shelf with the wrong product . I did get 69p back though .

Middy

Everytime I go to a supermarket, I always READ the tickets/promo blurb to see if the product on the shelf matches the product on the shelf. Sometimes, its a supermarket worker unable to read the labels themselves as when I do delivery, there have been times where I had to remove stuff off a shelf as a colleague put the wrong one on the shelf. Latest one was yesterday was a cat food pouch in jelly put in the gravy section. Most times its a customer that picks up an item looks at it, changes their mind then dumps it in the wrong place.

If unsure, get a colleague to help. I don't mind doing this at all.

fairtrade

You have to read the labels.
In my Tesco Metro they have a jar of pickles 74p.
The flourescent sign says 2 for £1-50! :rotfl:

moonrakerz

Middy wrote: »

Most times its a customer that picks up an item looks at it, changes their mind then dumps it in the wrong place.

That wasn't what I was commenting on ! I was commenting on when the shelf has been FILLED with different priced articles ..............

Strange how many other folks have had the same experience - with one supermarket in particular. Which actually isn't one I use that often (for geographic reasons), but seems to come well up my list too.

This problem doesn't seem to occur in Lidl/Aldi/etc - I wonder why ????
Could it be that they always offer good value as "normal" prices and don't have to resort to "pricing by confusion" to lure people into their stores ?