Tesco buy 1 get 2 free deals

jenniewb

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Supermarkets have always inflated prices prior to discounting them. Years ago during my student days I worked at Safeways changing prices during the night whilst the store was closed. Each Sunday night we adjusted lots of prices - a few for offers, but in the main just tweaks here and there all over the place (a few thousand changes). The following Tuesday night we'd go around and do all the price changes for that week's offer leaflet - upping the prices on the offers just ended and reducing the prices on the new offer items. Approx 1/3rd of the items due to appear in the leaflet would regularly be upped in price on the Sunday, ready to be reduced again on the Tuesday! For example a price might go from £1 to £1.20, and then drop to the advertised 50% off 60p - so the 50% off only applies to the recently inflated price - the reality was the reduction to a week before was only 40% off.

Shops know that the majority of shoppers are swayed by the big flashy banners, and if they're told its an offer, bargain, price crunch, rollback, cut, chop, wow, whoops, or whatever other nonsense they want to call it (which doesn't necessarily carry any legal meaning), colour it red and yellow, and people will buy it. Put it on an aisle end and it gets maximum passing trade from people who weren't necessarily going down the aisle for the particular product. A place on the aisle ends are also normally paid for by the manufacturers - certainly those on the centre aisle.

At the end of the day you have to your wits about you, pay attention to the price of items and keep an eye on the price per item/weight and compare everything. Sometimes the offers are worthwhile, sometimes they're not. From what I can see, Tesco's 3 for 1 offers were good, but as the popularity has risen, so have the prices...

I agree but when it comes to over inflated prices, this is what Supermarkets seem to rely on some people paying, the 'real' or reduced prices exist but its a matter of locating them with random promotions and offers, if you don't look for them you can often miss them.
The way I see it supermarkets like to trip me up, I have to use forums and my brain when shopping to get the better deal to make ends meet. If I haven't done my homework I pay the price (literally). Its a sort of game, makes my food shopping more intersting anyway! (small minds, little pleasures....:o:rotfl:)