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Basic numeracy in Waitrose
the_reductionist
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Beware the discounted cookies promoted all over the coffee shop in Waitrose! Original price £1.25 now with 20% off so should be £1.00
But no! Hang on a minute, Waitrose makes this discounted price £1.05! What kind of strange maths is this? Yes I know it's only 5p but all those 5ps add up and more to the point - customers are being diddled out of their money by a misleading promotion. This wasn't some chalked up affair either but an expensive looking full colour poster so I imagine, perhaps, a national promotion.
I did inform Waitrose customer service of this but a week later and I have had no reply. That's just the way it crumbles I suppose....:(
But no! Hang on a minute, Waitrose makes this discounted price £1.05! What kind of strange maths is this? Yes I know it's only 5p but all those 5ps add up and more to the point - customers are being diddled out of their money by a misleading promotion. This wasn't some chalked up affair either but an expensive looking full colour poster so I imagine, perhaps, a national promotion.
I did inform Waitrose customer service of this but a week later and I have had no reply. That's just the way it crumbles I suppose....:(
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Reminds me of hearing a senior contracts manager of a large company having it explained to them by a patient underling why taking 20% off the retail price doesn't give you the pre-VAT price0
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coffeehound wrote: »Reminds me of hearing a senior contracts manager of a large company having it explained to them by a patient underling why taking 20% off the retail price doesn't give you the pre-VAT price
Yes and I once took two shirts both with 20% off to the till in Debenhams and the girl asked her supervisor whether that meant I got 40% off. I was hoping she was going to say yes and I would have quickly got 3 more
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Confusing 20% with 20p. Probably just a central programming error and hopefully was fixed quickly?the_reductionist wrote: »Beware the discounted cookies promoted all over the coffee shop in Waitrose! Original price £1.25 now with 20% off so should be £1.00
Now for some tough talking: spending £1 on a single cookie?
Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
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20% off £1.25 should be 93p ish?0
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12.5p x 2 = 25p. Where do you get the extra 7p from?RainbowDrops wrote: »20% off £1.25 should be 93p ish?Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
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Yup £1 each but they are the big saucer size ones with lots of delicious ingredients. Used to splash out when the coffee was free but bit more frugal now.0
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VfM4meplse wrote: »12.5p x 2 = 25p. Where do you get the extra 7p from?
No idea :rotfl:
Maybe I should work for Waitrose?:D0 -
75% of £1.25 is just over 93p? It's actually 80% that is needed.0
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Cornucopia wrote: »75% of £1.25 is just over 93p? It's actually 80% that is needed.
Ah, maybe I was trying to do 25% off. Brain fail.0 -
There is a relationship there with 25%...
Your 20% off becomes 25% to go back on again.
£1.25 less 20% = £1
£1 plus 25% = £1.25
I imagine that the exact mathematical reason is something to with it being 4/5 (four-fifths) to take the amount off, and 5/4 to put it back on again.0
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