Get More From Multibuys In Supermarkets

rab21

MOST SUPERMARKETS REDUCE ITEMS ON THE DAY THAT ARE GOING OUT OF THEIR SELL BY DATE.
IF THESE ITEMS ARE ON MULTIBUY OFFER e.g. BUY 2 FOR £3.00 AND SAVE 50p, BUY THE REQUIRED NUMBER FOR THE OFFER AND THEY WILL SCAN THE ITEMS AT THE KNOCK DOWN PRICE BUT THE TILL WILL ALSO DISCOUNT AUTOMATICALLY THE 50p AS WELL.
MOST POS SYSTEMS CAN'T COPE WITH REDUCED ITEMS AND MULTIBUYS.

I HAVE FOUND IT WORKS - QUICHES, COLD MEATS, PIES AND PASTIES.

I HAVE FOUND THIS IN SOMERFIELD, TESCO AND COOP SO FAR - M&S DON'T REDUCE MULTIBUYS.

emr_2

works in Sainsbury too

bagand96

Safeway Morrisons don't reduce multibuys. And Tesco have recently updated their tills, they will only honour the ORIGINAL multibuy offer. I.e. if something was £2 each but on 2 for £3. If they were reduced to say £1.60 each, the till would only take off 20p instead of the £1. If the reduced prices bring it under the multibuy offer then nothing will get taken off.

--Tony--

I often get paid to take thing out the store when the price paid is less than the multibuy saving , I especially look for these.

mossy

I was in the coop today and saw some reduced multibuy stuff but there wasn't anything I wanted. I didn't think Tescos worked but if I ever see anything at the coop I'll give it a try.

Bossyboots

Tesco have definitely stopped applying the multibuy to reduced items. There are notices telling you that and I have tried it.

The problem with this policy though is that sometimes the reductions are not enough to bring you under the multibuy price. An example of this (and this is the most recent, but by no means the only time) is last week. They have Finest sausages on offer at two packs for £3. They are normally £1.69 - £1.99. They had a set reduced from £1.99 to £1.69 and another set from £1.69 to £1.39. That comes to more than buying two fresh packs on the multibuy. Even if they had each been £1.39, I would prefer to pay the extra 22p and buy fresher packs.

gazroe

shame tescos dont do it any more back in dec03 they has satsumas £2.50 bogof reduced to 10p meaning it took £2.30 off your shopping, I had 10 bags of satsumas and 10 bags of shopping and It cost me £5 :beer:

and I managed to give all the satsumas away!

ROCKINGHAM

Happened to me in Tescos a few years back with Stawberries on BOGOF reduced to 10p - picked up loads - my shopping - bags of it came to 10p. Cashier very puzzled - so was I at the time (pre MSE) - then she said would I mind buying a bar of choc (sweets were still displayed at tills in those days) as Tesco actually owed me the 10p and she didn't know what to do! Needless to say - a bar of choc no problem, lots of lovely strawberries and free shopping - those were the days!

fezza_2

I was in tescos today rumaging in the reduced fruit and veg.Lots of bargains yippee, got chatting to a guy. Went to bread ailse for more reductions. Same guy there, fellow MSE I thought!
Anyway he started moaning to me about the size of the reductions, and how he used to feed his family of 10 for £1 a week. Intrigued by this I dared to ask how? Thinking of all the great ways that tesco used to take money off my bill like the OPs.But no this guy jumps into the skips that are behind tescos and takes the food that tescos chucks out home for his family. I endured tales of whole legs of lamb and the feasts that they throw away each night.
Now I dont know to what lengths fellow MSEs will go to save money, but I for one will give skip diving a miss!

calleyw

fezza wrote:

I was in tescos today rumaging in the reduced fruit and veg.Lots of bargains yippee, got chatting to a guy. Went to bread ailse for more reductions. Same guy there, fellow MSE I thought!
Anyway he started moaning to me about the size of the reductions, and how he used to feed his family of 10 for £1 a week. Intrigued by this I dared to ask how? Thinking of all the great ways that tesco used to take money off my bill like the OPs.But no this guy jumps into the skips that are behind tescos and takes the food that tescos chucks out home for his family. I endured tales of whole legs of lamb and the feasts that they throw away each night.
Now I dont know to what lengths fellow MSEs will go to save money, but I for one will give skip diving a miss!

Is that not illegal as the goods still belong to Tescos?

Yours

Calley

newfunk

My OH works in Somerfield, and we also get 10% discount when this happens, we have been known to buy these reduced items, and not pay for them, and get change....now thats a bargain!!!