Great 'supermarket staff tell us your reduction policies' hunt

calleyw

ernie_w wrote: »

our sainsburys only give you the offer if its buy one get one free and then you only get the offer at the reduced prise

You are lucky.

It was a nice way to get a better deal from them :rotfl:

Mind you the other night I got 5p pints of 1% milk x 8 and still had loads left, 2 X £12 joints of beef for 70p each and a £6 pork joint for 50p and 2.5kgs of potatoes for 20p each. I had bags of stuff and the whole lot cost me just over £4 and saved me about £35 in full prices :eek:

Shame I can't do that every week.


Yours


Calley

kt33uk

ernie_w wrote: »

our sainsburys only give you the offer if its buy one get one free and then you only get the offer at the reduced prise

I noticed last night in my local Sainsburys that the reductions are no longer going through. The BOGOF used to work but I didn't buy anything that was on that offer. They are now using different barcodes like Tesco so I presume this stops the 2 for £6 (or whatever) going through.

I remember the good old days when you used to be able to get stuff for 1p. I remember getting 2 5lb bags of potatoes for 2p and cornish pasties 2x6 packs for 1p - and yes I was one of those people who walked out with a big trolley load of both, and yes they weren't all for me. When I used to get decent bargains that I knew would keep or could be frozen I would buy loads - give some to a few old folk that lived near me and drop the rest into my local Salvation Army who do meals for the homeless. They nearly died of shock once when I walked in with about 20 bags of potatoes and other veg and told them they had cost me less than 50p for it all. They were very grateful.

Jakejakejake

calleyw wrote: »

Depends on the sainsburys. My local sainsburys had new tills The new tills print on both sides of the receipt and the extra reductions no longer happen.

They'll all go that way by the end of the year... Maybe the updated software overrides it?

We still get the occasional bargain on the old style tills at my store.

machofairy

ernie_w wrote: »

i also find out that round here the main people who complain about what you get are the people who are regulars but try to make out they didnt realise stuff gets reduced

I can vouch for that! There is a woman who goes into Tesco in Sale on Sunday afternoons and hangs around the bargain aisle for hours waiting for the staff to reduce the prices. Then I heard her once saying to another customer "I don't come here often" :rotfl: :rotfl:

~Jem~

When i do reductions it bugs me when people follow you round, or stand there waiting.
If i get a load of people around me like a pack of vultures i wheel my trolley into the back and finish what im doing in there.

lic

~Jem~ wrote: »

When i do reductions it bugs me when people follow you round, or stand there waiting.
If i get a load of people around me like a pack of vultures i wheel my trolley into the back and finish what im doing in there.

Why, you are reducing the price to shift nearly out of date stock. If that is the way you feel why not, just throw the nearly out of date items in the bin?
Is it because the store have to pay to have their rubbish removed?
I was in my Sainsbury's local eariery tonight and I heard one of the staff memebers asking the checkout girls if they wanted some butter at 10p a pack. Obviously the staff did, adn who can blame them. Don't we all like a bargain.#
What is wrong with someone going into your store late, knowing that there are items which are chaeper at say 1730 hours that 0930 hours. It makes sense to me.

DCFC79

~Jem~ wrote: »

When i do reductions it bugs me when people follow you round, or stand there waiting.
If i get a load of people around me like a pack of vultures i wheel my trolley into the back and finish what im doing in there.

I do the same and so do other staff where i work

DCFC79

lic wrote: »

Why, you are reducing the price to shift nearly out of date stock. its what sainsburys do, they reduce stock which has a date which is coming soon or its the same date as your reducing the stock

If that is the way you feel why not, just throw the nearly out of date items in the bin? i was always told the less that the less that goes into the bin is better
Is it because the store have to pay to have their rubbish removed? as far as i know each store pays an amount each month for a skip/compactor and thats where any disposals go
I was in my Sainsbury's local eariery tonight and I heard one of the staff memebers asking the checkout girls if they wanted some butter at 10p a pack. if it were up to me id offer any reduced items to my fellow colleagues especially the ones on the checkouts as they dont get to see whats reduced
Obviously the staff did, adn who can blame them. Don't we all like a bargain.#
What is wrong with someone going into your store late, knowing that there are items which are chaeper at say 1730 hours that 0930 hours. i dont mind people buying reduced items but its when people follow you around waiting for you to reduce the stuff, i personally dont like people stood over me while im doing my job, i also have customers who will 'shove an item' which has already been reduced in front of my face and ask me to reduce it and i make them wait plus i find it rude, we also have a horde of customers who will hang around where the meat and fish reductions are stored and they will wait for me to go over there and reduce the items and again they will 'shove' a piece of fish in my face wanting me to reduce it, they seem to think the item will somehow disappear if they dont hold on to it, the way they act its as though they dont have money but thye do plus they dont work,

need to find out if i can do multi qoute

lic

Why not take the items off the shop floor and change the prices away from public view, that way you will not be bothered by the vultures.
I am not championing rude behaviour here, but feel that the customer should not be branded as a vulture, when they are merely trying to make thier money go further.

DCFC79

lic wrote: »

Why not take the items off the shop floor and change the prices away from public view, that way you will not be bothered by the vultures.
I am not championing rude behaviour here, but feel that the customer should not be branded as a vulture, when they are merely trying to make thier money go further.

have you witnessed them though, im all for making money go further but hassling the member of staff to reduce stuff isnt the way to go about it,
i would do it all the time but sometimes im on a tight schedule and taking the stuff out the back wouldnt help