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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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
Now for some tough talking: spending £1 on a single cookie?
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"No man is worth, crawling on the earth"- adapted from Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio
Hope is not a strategy
No idea :rotfl:
Maybe I should work for Waitrose?:D
Ah, maybe I was trying to do 25% off. Brain fail.
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.