Someone can't do their maths

eyelinerprincess

Morrison's a couple of weeks ago were doing ready meals: £1.79 each or 2 for £1.50...

codger

eyeliner:

Wot a luvvly sig!

Presumably, the incorporation of bisexuality in a relationship is a BOGOF. . . ?

JohalaReewi

LimeLight wrote: »

My sister has just sent an email to ASDA to find out just why one item costs 98p or she can buy two for 2 quid!

Do they really think the general populace are THAT thick??

Bit like the sausages that are £1.98 a pack, or 2 for £3, or 3 for £5.

VickyM_2

Which is all why so much food gets wasted - people get stuff that they don't need 'because it's so cheap!'

And then throw it away a week later...

Somerfields is always offering two bags of satsumas for the price of one (or something similar) but if I buy two, one lot will go off before I get round to it eating them, so where's the saving in that?

Fruitcake

Mark7799 wrote: »

Actually, it wasn't called arithmetic but sums:D

I used to work with a very clever bloke. I reckoned he had an O level in "Dead Hard Sums."

codger

VickyM wrote: »

Which is all why so much food gets wasted - people get stuff that they don't need 'because it's so cheap!'

And then throw it away a week later...

Somerfields is always offering two bags of satsumas for the price of one (or something similar) but if I buy two, one lot will go off before I get round to it eating them, so where's the saving in that?

We use a large Tesco because it's less than a mile from our front door. So we don't have much experience of other supermarket promotions.

Where Tesco is concerned, however, we note that Chief Executive Sir Terry Leahy is a big mate of Gordon Brown and was recently appointed to another of the Government's think-tanks, this time, on education.

As is now apparent, it's not over-stuffed minds that are emerging from British schools but over-stuffed bodies.

I know Brown suffers from a serious intellectual deficiency, but even he might have wondered what purpose is served by having as a Government adviser on schools and schooling a multi-millionaire whose wallet has grown fat on the profits derived from encouraging children to grow fat.

That this is self-evident can be confirmed by any Easter or, as now, Christmas shopping trip to Tesco.

Shelves of healthy snacks featuring, for example, mixed fruit and nuts continue to display premium pricing. But shelves of chocolates of every shape and price continue to display BOGOFs.

Anyone can double or treble their calorie intake at less than the cost of just one healthy snack.

But Tesco BOGOFs are unlikely ever to apply to products that are good for the physical health of the individual.

Tesco BOGOFs will only ever apply to products that are good for the financial health of Tesco and Sir Terry Leahy.

misscomickat

I live on my own, and don't have a car, so don't want to buy two lots of things.

Often BOGOF are on things you wouldn't usually buy anyway. They are rarely on items you would actually buy and NEED on a regular basis, like, I don't know, washing power or toilet paper.

uktim29

JohalaReewi wrote: »

Bit like the sausages that are £1.98 a pack, or 2 for £3, or 3 for £5.

Eh?

2 costing normally £1.98 for £3 would save 96p.

3 for £5 would save 94p.

needaspirin

codger wrote: »

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:


Though the thought occurs that in your day, it wasn't called "maths" but arithmetic.

Certainly was in mine -- back when only 112% of eight out of seven had a grasp of the subject.

Sadly, it's now the case that 27 out of every 12 people can't even spell arithmetic. . .

Utter bunkum! It's been proven that 78% of the people don't believe in statistics!

codger

Well, I don't think we need take any notice of a minority, then. . .