The Co-Op BOGOF Reduced Free Food Loophole

simsyboy

Dont know if this has been mentioned before but you can actually go to Co-Op and be paid to take their food.
Its a bit confusing so youll have to bear with me, and its my first post after being an observer for so long. Thought I'd give back after taking so much amazing advice.
OK, sorry to ramble. In the Co-Op (where I used to work) they make more money from BOGOFs than on anything other offer. If you ever see a BOGOF offer which is also reduced make sure you take two and go pay for em, and you still get the BOGOF offer as well as the reduction. Go as late in the day as possible as co-op reduce items 75% max. For example, say bread was on offer BOGOF and was £1 a loaf. Say some were reduced to 25p (75% off) At the till it will scan the two reduced loaves at 25p then take off £1 to cover the BOGOF offer, so they have paid you 50p to take two loaves of bread. I have never tried this so my balance goes to minus, just in case. But I have gotten a lot of nice reduced shops. Sorry for waffling, just realised this poast is confusing. Wanted to explain as best I could and introduce my self as well. Anyhoos, my names Gavin

redfox

hi Gavin and welcome to the boards

As this is a general offer rather than a Quick! Grabbit I've moved your thread to Shop but don't drop. I've also sent you a Private Message to explain this

cozzie

Hello. I understand it perfectly. Would be interested to know if anyone has actually been paid to shop, (as above)

simsyboy

Forgot to mention. I have tried in Tesco, but to no avail. Sainsburys did take some extra of my bill, but didnt understand where it came from. Yeah, anyone else tried it in Co-Op. In all honesty, my co-op is a village (small shop) which has a lot of reductions. WOuld be interested to see if its popular in the bigger store.
Thanks for my welcome BTW. X

Liverbird

Tesco's used to do this, but unfortunately they cottoned on to the fact they were giving money away. :mad:

princessmoneysaver

Both my local Tesco's & Sainsburys still do this, I have often done it in the past BUT they are not allowed to give money to you if you haven't *paid* them anything so make sure you get something else other than the offer to get the money off that too, does that make sense?

Yvonne

zzzLazyDaisy

My local Tesco no longer does this - nor does Asda....

But I have a big COOP near me, so I'll try them,

Cheers Gavin, and welcome :beer:

simsyboy

Thanks again for the welcome, and your welcome daisy. Found a couple of others as well. Sorry if any are double posts

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MarkyMarkD

As "the Co-op" is actually many different Co-op companies, they don't necessarily use the same computer systems, so won't necessarily all do this.

Sainsbury, Tesco, Asda, Morrison have all stamped down on this, often by using specific reduced item barcodes which exclude the BOGOF offers.

Our Co-op is the only shop in our area now where this logic prevails - making late evening visits a lucrative idea.

I think that you need to be on the ball and not take the p*** - having a total negative bill is not going to endear you to the shop staff or manager if it comes to that.

My wife got hassle off a stroppy checkout operator, who noticed that she got 2 items for a total of 0p - BOGOF items reduced to half price, so total price 0p - the girl called the shop manager who said "it's all right; that's meant to happen." My sort of manager. (This wasn't all she was buying, either).

Dormouse

At Sainsbury's, the BOGOF doesn't work at the original price (i.e. it wouldn't take £1 off in your bread example, but it would take 25p off). However, if there's stuff on other promotions, buy 2 for £X etc, then you might get things for free if you're lucky.

MarkyMarkD

Dormouse wrote:

At Sainsbury's, the BOGOF doesn't work at the original price (i.e. it wouldn't take £1 off in your bread example, but it would take 25p off). However, if there's stuff on other promotions, buy 2 for £X etc, then you might get things for free if you're lucky.

Not in our Sainsbury's. Even the 2 for £x offers work pro-rata.

E.g. £2 item which is 2 for £3 (i.e. £1 discount).

If half price, you get 2 x £1 items for £1.50 (i.e. 50p discount).

Very clever stuff, and fair as long as you realise that's what's going to happen.