The Co-Op BOGOF Reduced Free Food Loophole

Firefly

It works a treat in my Co-Op. Sunday afternoons are the best time for good bargains. Soon to be Tesco so no opportunities then!

ritaing

Hi Everyone a couple of weeks ago i bought 2 twelve packs of walkers crisps in Tesco that were torn they were reduced to £1.01p each when i paid for them they were on a BOGOF and i got £1.01 off my bill.

MarcD_2

In our Sainsburys if the item is buy one get one free, they take the reduced price off your bill.

If the item is buy 2 for £X or buy 2 save £X, they take the original promotion amount off. This worked with their smoked salmon recently, should have been £4.99 per pack, buy 2 for £6.00. They were reduced to £1.99 so £3.98 for 2, they then took £3.98 off for the bill for the multibuy, net result 2 packs for nothing!

mhoc

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.

In my Sainsburys if you buy BOGOF items that are reduced you still get one item free. For instance I recently noticed that the bakery section had apple trellis reduced and a BOGOF sticker on the shelf edge. I checked with a supervisor who said the BOGOF would not work but going through the till though at 40p each, it did work. I got 2 packs of 2 apple trellises for 40p, cheaper than making and baking them myself so a bargain, very useful for lunchpacks.

I think yuou just have to try them as a seperate purchase at the till but if the final price does not suite you, just say you dont want them after all

Mary

kev.pudd

You used to be able to get free food in sainsbury in Fareham, but now the checkout staff have been trained to overide the main price when bogofs are reduced, however i always look for the new green operators, you some times manage to get some offers under the wire.
A tip that might help is to split your shopping so as your reduced bogof's are at opposite ends of the conveyor, it is possible that the operator may not see it!
Sneaky! :T

hurricanewyn

They still BOGOF at the original price in my local Sainsbury's - last sunday Cheese and Onion Garlic Bread was reduced to 15p each from £1.19 each and were also BOGOF. They scanned through at 15p each and then I got a multibuy discount of £1.19 (It was 15 minutes before store closing and I don't think the lad doing the discounts was being too careful) - I bought a load of them and with my other discounts (gu chocolate pud down to 20p, taste the difference sausages 10p etc) I got a £20 shop for £4.61.

Mazy_2

I work for the Co-op and if BOGOF items are reduced we overide the system. There may be the odd time when this isn't noticed but the odds of that happening aren't too good for the customers (at least in my store!).

5bellies_2

Mazy wrote:

I work for the Co-op and if BOGOF items are reduced we overide the system. There may be the odd time when this isn't noticed but the odds of that happening aren't too good for the customers (at least in my store!).

I know how the system works, and it's the staff that are taking advantage of it more than the customers.

If the item is reduced, an orange label is added with the new price and new barcode - this label bypasses the BOGOF and other offers.

By making the new barcode unreadable - usually by staff tampering with the pricing gun - they have to use the original barcode, and manually alter the price, so the BOGOF stays in place. A mate of mine has started working for the local co-op and is regularly bringing home packs of fresh burgers (£2.19, or 2 for £3) and buns (they're on BOGOF as well) for free as they get reduced to 10p to clear at the end of the night but the regular discount of £1.38 is taken off the total of 20p for the burgers and 93p for the buns.

mhoc

On Saturday I noticed packs of ham were reduced to half price 99p but there was also a BOGOF shelf label. So I asked the girl to try them at the till, fortunatley had other items as well. Two packs of ham went through for 99p each, BOGOF, took £1.98 off my bill. Ham for free!

I would not imagine that Waitrose would have many BOGOF items

Mary

MyUserNamesTaken

My local Rainbows (Co-op) doesn't do this. They don't have barcode reduction guns. All reductions have little stickers on them with the new price written on by hand. When you take them to the till, the operator puts in a percentage reduction to get the price down, so this doesn't work.