Sainsburys reductions

Tiglet

I don't know whether this is a well-known ploy by Sainsbury's so my apologies if it's been done to death already.

They currently have a range of McVities slices originally priced at £1.29 each or 2 for £2. These were then reduced to £1.04.

The problem is that if you buy one, you get a reduction but if you buy two, they are still at the original price, in this case 2 for £2. There is nothing on display to show that the reduction does not apply unless you buy exactly one item.

A manager told me that this was their usual policy, so this will apply to anything that is on offer and then reduced.

peter_the_piper

I must be thick cos I'm sorry but I don't understand this.
1 item is £1.04, 2 items are £2.00 (1.00 each) where is the problem?

hollydays

Pay for them in 2 transactions,

Bamber19

I'm with Peter here.

Hollydays, my understanding is that if you pay both seperately your total spend will be £2.08 as opposed to £2 for buying together...yes, it's only 8p but considering the OP appears to be getting worked up about actually saving money by buying 2 together it could be quite a problem to them.

I'm sure the OP will be along at some stage to explain what he or she actually meant though.

hollydays

oops sorry-didnt read it properly.

Pollycat

I think a lot of shops do this, certainly Co-op, Tesco and Somerfield.

The trick is to check if you're REALLY getting a bargain rather than seeing the 'Reduced' sticker and assuming that you are.

Polly

peter_the_piper

I thought there was something here so subtle I missed it. Phew!!

Tiglet

Bamber19 wrote: »

I'm with Peter here.

Hollydays, my understanding is that if you pay both seperately your total spend will be £2.08 as opposed to £2 for buying together...yes, it's only 8p but considering the OP appears to be getting worked up about actually saving money by buying 2 together it could be quite a problem to them.

I'm sure the OP will be along at some stage to explain what he or she actually meant though.

The original price was £2 for 2. The price after the "reduction" was £2 for 2. So no reduction.

Although it appears that you save 25p per item, the actual reduction is only 25p in total, no matter how many you buy, and even then only if you buy an odd number. That is the point I'm [strike]getting worked up about[/strike] making.

uktim29

So hold on, it actually does the offer with the reduction, just the offer isn't reduced as well. So basically your wanting them to be 2 for £1.70 or something?

I'm not really surprised though. They'd have to make a brand new offer for all stores everytime a single store has a few close to their sell by dates.

Then you'd end up with 2 offers on one product depending on the date codes of the products, that would be a bit silly really woudn't it!

I don't really see the point myself, aren't there more important things to worry about?

Tiglet

uktim29 wrote: »

So hold on, it actually does the offer with the reduction, just the offer isn't reduced as well. So basically your wanting them to be 2 for £1.70 or something?

Or at least to make it clear that the reduction doesn't apply if you buy more than one item.

I don't really see the point myself, aren't there more important things to worry about?

Of course there are more important things, in terms of the amount of money involved in a single transaction, but the 25p is 19% of the purchase price.

Supermarkets are companies that make huge amounts of money selling low value items in vast quantities. The whole ethos of this site is consumer revenge, which is why it's worthwhile posting things like this.

uktim29

What do you mean the reduction doesn't apply if you buy more than one item?

How much do you pay if you buy 2?

£2, then you've got your 25p off and saved another 8p as they are 2 for £2.

Do you mean you only get 25p off one so you pay 1.29 + 1.04 meaning £2.33? but then it knocks off the 33p for the offer?

If you brought 5 would you get charged £5.04 or £5.29? If it's the first option then your still saving over 25p per item with the latter if you mean you can only buy 1 with 25 p off then the 2 for £2 otherwise applies then you still save 23.2p per item which means it's 1.8p out.

Are you complaining about 1.8p or do you mean something else?