Pointless reductions with thing(s) missing

Legacy_user

I'm not talking something with a few pence off, but things in the supermarkets' reduced section because it had something important missing.

My example is this https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/302808925 In a Co-op near me, the bunny is missing (probably nicked) and it's £6 full price. In the reduced section, this egg without the bunny is reduced to £4. Who in their right minds will pay £4 for a 72g chocolate egg? At my work, if something similar happened to an Easter egg at work, it gets disposed and chocolate is broken up in a bowl for staff to help themselves in the staff room.

Have you seen things with things missing for them to be reduced in this manner?

Clowance

a few years back B & G garden were setting annual plants AFTER flowering reduced - just foliage that would die soon!

RainbowDrops

I've seen ~£10 choclate christmas wreaths thad have been smashed reduced to ~£6 in sainsos.
As you say, no one would pay that much for a damaged item that only has a high price to start with because it's for gifting.

VfM4meplse

I suppose that its a last-ditch attempt to make some money out of the product before writing it off as a loss. It is surprising what tat some people will buy.

Farway

VfM4meplse wrote: »

I suppose that its a last-ditch attempt to make some money out of the product before writing it off as a loss. It is surprising what tat some people will buy.

Quote, HL Mencken
"No one in this world, so far as I know-and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me-has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."

FLA27

I found a couple of toilet brushes reduced in Debenhams a while back. They had been reduced because the actual brushes were missing. They were just the bases with the handle on top.

VfM4meplse

Farway wrote: »

Quote, HL Mencken
"No one in this world, so far as I know-and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me-has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."

But in speculating, you need to have the ability to withstand a loss.

tessie_bear

these sort of reductions can be really good such as a multipack of say mars bars one missing and you pay 20% of the price...i always have a root through the crate in tesco