Asda Price Reductions

munchpot

Hi All - I know this isn't the biggest issue in the world but left me in total amazement this morning.

So went to Asda to shop and bought a couple of pre-prepared salads for lunch. Their price £2 each or 2 for £3.

All the salads had today's date on them so they were reduced to £1.70 each. However when you go to the till they don't ring through as £3 for 2. Apparently as the price has been reduced it's no longer in the promotion.

So the food is on the sell by date, so isn't as fresh as it could be, and you end up paying more for it.

Well done ASDA!

jazza77

Have seen similar things many times in a variety of different supermarkets. You would think it would make more sense to reduce it to a price which would still make it cheaper than the 2 for £3 offer, but I don't know if that is taken into account.

stephen77

not 100% sure on this as never worked in a supermarket.

However I been caught out once or twice with items scanning differently.

If i get a few things I normally prefer self service so you can see the price go through the till and cancel if let a staff member know to amend.

I guess some times the system does not update as quickly as the ticketing system or just inputted wrongly. You get a few threads saying about mis-prices on normal products. So any last minute alterations are more likely to lead to mistakes as not time for them to check things etc.

balmk

This is as a result of the till systems - the tills are programmed to recognise a series of barcodes and then deduct the appropriate amount to honour the offer.

As "whoops" stickers have their own barcodes these are not identified by till as being in the offer, so no deduction is made.

Louisdf

At Sainsburys, BOGOFs on reduced items still apply.

Evilm

As said above the reduction stickers sometimes have a different barcode on it which just relates to the part of the store and not the product in question. Thats why it doesn't realise and discount.

I had this the other day in Tesco - they'd reduced something from £4 each to £3.45 each and yet they were on a 2 for 6 deal. We promptly took fresh ones with longer dates on rather than paying more or the same and having to use it that night!

Darksun

Evilm wrote: »

As said above the reduction stickers sometimes have a different barcode on it which just relates to the part of the store and not the product in question. Thats why it doesn't realise and discount.

That's the case in Asda, when it scans it just comes up as "reduced bakery" or whatever. It's a right pain sometimes because it also doesn't know the product weight so messes up the self scan and makes it complain about unexpected items.

Forwandert

Doesn't it say on the sticker 'Item excluded from linksave offers' or something similar? The reduction isn't that much as its the first reduction of the day, from memory they have the first reduction (called a F5 reduction because they scan it and press F5 on the gun and get a price) then second reductions usually manually keyed in for the price to around half price and final reductions (10p time).

TheSaint_2

I have noticed Tesco have recently changed their policy on reductions. They usualy only reduce the price by a few pence. I guess psychologically you are more likely to buy because you see a reduced sticker - so they are trying to capitalise on the idiots that just load their trolly up with everything on the reduced shelf.

The stuff on offer is now always cheaper on the offer rather than buying the reduced items as a result.

Sainsbury's and morrisons seem to still reduce by a good amount though.

Peanuckle

I regularly buy reduced items that are "reduced" to more than the price of the original link offer, usually when it's pointed out to the cashier they make an extra reduction on one of their vouchers (can't remember the name of them but they're green and have the yellow smiley face on) so I pay less overall, the few times that hasn't been offered when I make the cashier aware of the problem I've asked for them to check with a supervisor and they over-ride the price. Only once did the supervisor refuse to help and she wasn't the most helpful in relation to another matter, unluckily for her I was on a mystery shopping job at the time