Enough of BOGOFs

Hezzabear

I went to buy 2 tins of beans. There was a deal if I bought 5 tins or 8 tins (2packs of four). I don't have room in my cupboards for 5 or 8 at one time! So I now feel discriminated against because I don't have a huge kitchen. This happened all round the store with lots of other things. I know they want us to buy more of everything but there are limits and I am at mine. We nationally are also being asked to produce less waste. BOGOFs on the fresh and Deli goods have in the past just meant that I have ended up throwing food away.....not good for my pocket or the environment! I have brought this to the attention of our local Waste and Recycling manager but have been ignored. I have no objection to reduced or half price offers as these do not discriminate against those who do not wish to buy huge quantities eg. Single, elderly, poor, people with small kitchens. If I could ban the BOGOFs I would. OK rant over :mad:

phoebe03cat

yes , quite agree..and it 's all a con anyway with an inflated single unit price. I've voted with my feet and gone to Lidl and the markets.

Lynsey

Agree with you 100%.
Should be half-price rather than BOGOF - same price but greater flexibility, buying single or odd number quantities.
Assumption must be that supermarkets get volume discounts/bonuses for the more they shift?

Lynsey

Lip_Stick

Tins don't have to be exclusively kept in the kitchen.

I recently bought 24 tins from Amazon and I managed to find somewhere to fit them in my kitchen cupboards when I didn't think I would. I don't have a tiny kitchen though, but then it's not large either. The tins would have gone of top of the cupboards if I hadn't found room. Failing that, they'd have gone in my shed.

I do agree with you about bogofs. In my opinion it'd do a supermarket the world of good if they had low prices as good as the bogof offers consistently. I think this was what Tesco told us they planned to do in the last campaign but failed miserably.

asparagusnextleft

Reading this just now I struggled to remember the last time I actually saw a BOGOF in the supermarket.

I shop at Asda and it seems they banished BOGOFS in 2009 in favour of lowering prices according to a quick Google search.

You do get a lot of 'buy x number for x amount' but if I only want one I just ignore that and buy the amount I need as it still works out cheaper than buying several products I don't need.

Lynsey

asparagusnextleft wrote: »

Reading this just now I struggled to remember the last time I actually saw a BOGOF in the supermarket.

loads HERE and doesn't include all the Morrisons and Sainsbury's ones.
Asda did stop doing it.

Lynsey

bcl999

Yes, tell the supermarkets to BOG OFF!

Edwardia

Hi Hezzabear welcome aboard ! I agree that unless you have a large family, BOGOFs of fresh food are a waste. Last night I watched an old Panorama report on iplayer all about supermarket pricing and sometimes they actually break the law. It was really enlightening. Supermarkets often put the price up and drop it again to make it a special offer. They also try to get you to buy bigger value sizes which are more expensive when you work out the price per 100ml/kg. I'm anti-BOGOFs too, they are just blatant invitations to buy more. Often the offers are paid for in effect by the manufacturer/producer not by the supermarket.

rachbc

On goods that store I really don't see the problem. My fav soap is on b1g1f at the mo - I'd be daft not to buy a couple and keep the rest on a shelf...obvisouly I checkd to make sure the price hadn't been hicked before hand (Morries seem to be worst for this). Fresh food does potentially lead to waste but there don't seem to be many of those around anyway

computerfixer

Like others have said, vote with your feet, I may be lucky as I have two different shopping areas to go to that are 3 stops away on train (5 min) and am not far from train station.

1 has lidl, b & m wilkinsons, home bargains and asda. the other has home bargains, morrisons and sainsbury and not too far away from me is an aldi.

On top of this there is an aldi in one part of town I can get to easily, a little in other part, both near station to mine (12 min)

And have a farmfoods, iceland and large co-op 3 min away on foot and small co-op (which is better for reductions) 4 min away on foot in other direction

So I buy what I like from all these different places and usualy go to one lot once or twice a month and the other lot a week or two later and get what i can carry that will be needed.

The local shops on foot are handy for everyday things that are same price as elsewhere and saves on the carrying on train

I know I find it much cheaper than doing a full shop in one supermarket, and I dont particularly like deliveries as rarely want to spend £25 odd in one store, especially as it's cheaper to buy from the smaller shops and dont mind doing a wee trip to them every week or 2 especially as aren't inundated with special offer this n that - in saying that, home bargains have a lot of special offer signs, but they do tend to be SPECIAL LOL

Maestro.

asparagusnextleft wrote: »

Reading this just now I struggled to remember the last time I actually saw a BOGOF in the supermarket.

I shop at Asda and it seems they banished BOGOFS in 2009 in favour of lowering prices according to a quick Google search.

You do get a lot of 'buy x number for x amount' but if I only want one I just ignore that and buy the amount I need as it still works out cheaper than buying several products I don't need.

i went in co-op the other day and got loads of bogofs. sausages, fresh pasta, fray bentos pies and bacon wasn't quite a bogof but almost. Most supermarkets have bargain counters or trollies.