Jollyes Pet Store. New take on saving.

Battway

Jollyes have those bulk bins for pet food which you scoop out and buy by weight. Now I always thought that was a cheaper way of buying. However that is not so. Standard price for a 1.3kg box of Bonio is £2.95. 1.3kg of loose Bonio checks out at £3.60. I queried this with Jollyes and their response was that loose is a more expensive way to buy. Well who knew that? Tried to share this on Facebook but no one seems interested.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Nor am I interested! You pay for what you want!

LadyDee

Battway wrote: »

Jollyes have those bulk bins for pet food which you scoop out and buy by weight. Now I always thought that was a cheaper way of buying. However that is not so. Standard price for a 1.3kg box of Bonio is £2.95. 1.3kg of loose Bonio checks out at £3.60. I queried this with Jollyes and their response was that loose is a more expensive way to buy. Well who knew that? Tried to share this on Facebook but no one seems interested.

Well, I'll thank you. I haven't got a dog so not really interested in the price of Bonios, but the principle is interesting.

This is very much a "catch out the customer" scenario. How many times have we seen "special offers" that actually work out more expensive per unit/gram? Or 2 for "X" where the individual price is actually less than half of the "X".

It's just a useful reminder not to be taken in by marketing hype.

peachyprice

Isn't it just the same as pick 'n' mix sweets? They've always been priced disproportionately high.

hollydays

Also with buying by weight you might also be getting a different, and possibly inferior product if it's not packaged.

DigForVictory

Dear me - times they have changed. I used to blue half my pocket money on Bonio as it went further than the money at the sweet shop.
(Back then, m'mother worried & wrote to Spillers who wrote back with a detailed breakdown of just what her daughter was happily chomping on - a completely human safe multivite!)
When hobnobs were the new & exotic biscuit, I was still happily arguing they were as useless for dunking as my Bonios.

However, yes, check cost per 100g & see how you go.

BrentMeister

Battway wrote: »

Jollyes have those bulk bins for pet food which you scoop out and buy by weight. Now I always thought that was a cheaper way of buying. However that is not so. Standard price for a 1.3kg box of Bonio is £2.95. 1.3kg of loose Bonio checks out at £3.60. I queried this with Jollyes and their response was that loose is a more expensive way to buy. Well who knew that? Tried to share this on Facebook but no one seems interested.

Have Jollyes ever stated that buying from the bulk bin is a cheaper alternative to purchasing packaged? If not, then I cant see what your vent is about and your thread title is misleading.

LadyDee

BrentMeister wrote: »

Have Jollyes ever stated that buying from the bulk bin is a cheaper alternative to purchasing packaged? If not, then I cant see what your vent is about and your thread title is misleading.

How nitpicking is that! It is generally and over many decades been accepted by shoppers (generally older folks) that buying "loose" means a saving - no packaging, no expense of pre-weighing, no waste as you buy what you need.

Things have changed and the OP posted a useful tip for those of us brought up on buying "loose". When I was young I lived close to a shop that sold goods considerably cheaper from bins.

The OP's post wasn't a vent, it was a warning not to be taken in by yet another retailer's underhand sales method. Just picture them, sitting in the boardroom "how can we con the public into spending more on bonios?", answer "when I was young my mum saved a fortune buying bonios from bins". Result - new company policy, put the stuff in bins.

BrentMeister

LadyDee wrote: »

How nitpicking is that! It is generally and over many decades been accepted by shoppers (generally older folks) that buying "loose" means a saving - no packaging, no expense of pre-weighing, no waste as you buy what you need.

Things have changed and the OP posted a useful tip for those of us brought up on buying "loose". When I was young I lived close to a shop that sold goods considerably cheaper from bins.

The OP's post wasn't a vent, it was a warning not to be taken in by yet another retailer's underhand sales method. Just picture them, sitting in the boardroom "how can we con the public into spending more on bonios?", answer "when I was young my mum saved a fortune buying bonios from bins". Result - new company policy, put the stuff in bins.

What a load of old tripe.

The way OP worded the thread title implies Jolleys state you save money by buying from the bulk bins.

I can remember back 20 years ago when everyone knew pick 'n' mix was more expensive then buying packets of sweets, so its not a recent thing.

Why people need a warning to check prices of items to find the best deal is beyond me. Next there will be a thread stating its cheaper to your shopping in Tesco then its is Waitrose.

vuvuzela

BrentMeister wrote: »

What a load of old tripe.

The way OP worded the thread title implies Jolleys state you save money by buying from the bulk bins.

I can remember back 20 years ago when everyone knew pick 'n' mix was more expensive then buying packets of sweets, so its not a recent thing.

Why people need a warning to check prices of items to find the best deal is beyond me. Next there will be a thread stating its cheaper to your shopping in Tesco then its is Waitrose.

Sorry, the only tripe is from your mouth. The OP wasn't talking about pick & mix sweets, they were talking about dog biscuits. There was a time, only dying out a few years ago, when you got shops selling all sorts of dried food (including dog biscuits) from large bins, and the costs per kilo were less than buying the items packaged.
Nowadays, with the rise of discounters such as Lidl and Aldi, these shops have pretty much gone, but you being ignorant (and arrogant enough to boast about it) about them and the relative costs doesn't mean it didn't happen.

BrentMeister

vuvuzela wrote: »

Sorry, the only tripe is from your mouth. The OP wasn't talking about pick & mix sweets, they were talking about dog biscuits. There was a time, only dying out a few years ago, when you got shops selling all sorts of dried food (including dog biscuits) from large bins, and the costs per kilo were less than buying the items packaged.
Nowadays, with the rise of discounters such as Lidl and Aldi, these shops have pretty much gone, but you being ignorant (and arrogant enough to boast about it) about them and the relative costs doesn't mean it didn't happen.

No doubt there was. Just like the cheapest car insurance quote I got last year turns out to be one of the most expensive this year. They rely on people staying.

Its not difficult, if you're going to buy something, check the prices. Sometimes things will be cheaper, sometimes more expensive. Cant believe people need to be warned about this. No wonder no-one was interested on Facebook.