Co-op Meal Deal and Coke

steviebuk

Not an issue and I think I know the answer but just curious if anyone knows, instead of bothering the person at the till with my stupid question

I noticed the meal deal and notice there is the 2x500ml Cokes for £3.10 instead of £4.50.

So I did a meal deal with a coke, then bought 2 cokes on their own. Got both deals.

Got wondering. Could you do the meal deal but get two cokes and would the deals get combined. So you'd get the meal deal discount and then the discount for buying 2 cokes?

Correct me if I'm wrong, as my math IS bad.

You pay £3.50 for the meal deal including a coke, you get the 2nd coke but it now gets excluded from the 2xcoke offer so you'd be paying the full £2.25 for that coke.

But if they did apply the 2xcoke deal as well as the meal deal, you'd be getting the 2nd coke for £1.55 so you'd save 70p

Just curious if sell service till would apply this or would it say no because the meal deal over rules other deals?

UnsureAboutthis

You have confused me as well. Anyone?

pramsay13

Just take 3 bottles with you to the till and ask them to put through the meal and then 1 more coke and see what happens. If the 2 bottle discount isn't applied just buy the third bottle. You could do it yourself on the self-checkout if you don't want to bother anyone. 

ButterCheese

I would think not. Most deals state in the small print "cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer".  So you can get the offer over 2 transactions (like you did), but not in a single transaction.  Basically you have to buy a full priced item to get a discount (meal deal).  You can't usually use one deal (2 cokes for £x) to make up part of another different deal

steviebuk

UnsureAboutthis said:

You have confused me as well. Anyone?

I re-read it. It wasn't explained well

My point was, combining the deals together would save 70p, buying them separate you still get the deals but don't get that extra 70p saving.

But as in the reply, it most likely wouldn't work as you most likely can't combine deals into one.

Cornucopia

Retailers are getting better at processing overlapping offers - presumably their tech is better, and they are aware of customer expectations.

I have two examples- 

Morrisons meal deal + Points Boosters.    Points boosters give you extra points based on the cash spend on a particular product or set of product.   Ah, but if your booster product was purchased as part of a meal deal, you didn't pay the full shelf price for it.   So M's calculate a notional price (I assume a proportional split of what you actually spent).   I think that's fair.   

Sizzling Pubs lunch deal + 25% Octopus voucher.    SP's have a two mains for £14 offer, where individual dishes each have their "full" price.   They also have an Octopus Energy voucher for 25% off mains.    They do allow them to be combined - they don't give you 25% off the full price, but 25% off the £14.   Again, it seems fair, and £5.25 for each main meal is a good deal.