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I don't understand what is so complicated about this.
Buy 1:
price without reduction: £1.29
price with reduction: £1.04
reduction: 25p
Buy 2:
price without reduction: £2
price with reduction: £2
reduction: zero
Buy 100:
price without reduction: £200
price with reduction: £200
reduction:zero
Buy 101:
price without reduction: £201.29
price with reduction: £201.04
reduction:25p0 -
Change to Waitrose! - Their 'quick sale' reductions STILL take off the original offer which means in some cases you finish up paying only a few pence for 2 items - eg original price £1.49 - offer 2 for £2 (saving 98p) - individual item reduced to 75p - then you pay 2 x 75p - 98p = 52p0
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That's the way Sainsburys used to do it too. The till would subtract a fixed amount for the offer, but they would adjust the reduction to make the final price be sensible. That's what I thought they had done in this case:
Original price: £1.29 or £2 for 2 (saving 58p by buying 2)
If they wanted to charge (say) £1.50 for 2 after the reduction, they would have set the ticket price at (£1.50 +58p) /2 = £1.04 each, which is precisely what they did, but then reduced the reduction (I know I'm losing some people here:p) at the till from 58p to 8p.0 -
I don't understand what is so complicated about this.
Buy 1:
price without reduction: £1.29
price with reduction: £1.04
reduction: 25p
Buy 2:
price without reduction: £2
price with reduction: £2
reduction: zero
Buy 100:
price without reduction: £200
price with reduction: £200
reduction:zero
Buy 101:
price without reduction: £201.29
price with reduction: £201.04
reduction:25p
So your saying you can't get 25p more off each item when you buy the 2 for £2?
To me that was bloody obvious!
I cannot believe your complaining about it.0 -
I don't understand what is so complicated about this.
Buy 1:
price without reduction: £1.29
price with reduction: £1.04
reduction: 25p
Buy 2:
price without reduction: £2
price with reduction: £2
reduction: zero
Buy 100:
price without reduction: £200
price with reduction: £200
reduction:zero
Buy 101:
price without reduction: £201.29
price with reduction: £201.04
reduction:25p
I think I'll buy 100 please at the non reduced price and leave all the reduced ones for the OP.I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.0 -
So instead of saving 58p you're only saving 8p. Simple answer, don't buy the reduced ones.Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before0
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I work at sainsburys and no customers have complained to me about the reductions any goods that are on offerNo Links in Signature by site rules - MSE Forum Team 20
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I don't understand what is so complicated about this.
Buy 1:
price without reduction: £1.29
price with reduction: £1.04
reduction: 25p
Buy 2:
price without reduction: £2
price with reduction: £2
reduction: zero
Buy 100:
price without reduction: £200
price with reduction: £200
reduction:zero
Buy 101:
price without reduction: £201.29
price with reduction: £201.04
reduction:25p
But surely this is actually:
Buy Two - price without reduction: £2.08
Price with reduction: £2
So you still save 8p. To be honest, you aren't actually entitled to any discount unless the store wants to offer it, but either way, you still save money when you buy two. Unless I have misunderstood something here?0
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