bargain hunters beware ASDA reduced BOGOFs

gruel

Yesterday Asda were selling pork chops for £2.66 a pack, BOGOF (so 2 packs for £2.66). Some packs were reduced to £1.86 and some to £1.30 (all had yesterdays sell-by-date on). The BOGOF sticker on some packs had been covered over with a yellow sticker, some had not. I went to customer service for clarification and was told that reduced items are not subjected to BOGOFs. If I had picked up 2 packs at £1.86 the chops would have cost me £3.72!!! I hope no little old ladies fell for this. I don't know about the legality of this but it does smack of sharp practice to say the least. I think it is a ridiculous state of affairs when reductions don't apply to BOGOFs and that it is ludicous that products very near the end of their shelf life should cost more than products with a longer shelf life. Be very careful whan considering Asda's 'bargains'. Have sent a letter to Asda to let them know my feelings in an attempt to change their policy.

MarkyMarkD

I agree with you that this is stupid. What ASDA should do, if they insist on BOGOFs not applying to reduced items, is to reduce them to LESS than the original half price and clearly cross through the BOGOF and make it clear it doesn't apply.

The current situation where it can cost more for 2 reduced things than 2 full price things is obviously wrong. The point of reducing stuff is to sell more - and they aren't going to do that if the price after reduction is MORE than the price before.

ben500

I'd be very wary about buying reduced meat from Asda too if I was you!

ROCKINGHAM

ben500 wrote:

I'd be very wary about buying reduced meat from Asda too if I was you!

Especially when you can get it for free @ Tescos!!

ben500

ROCKINGHAM wrote:

Especially when you can get it for free @ Tescos!!

That's one damn good reason

North-East_Quine

ben500 wrote:

I'd be very wary about buying reduced meat from Asda too if I was you!

Can you expand on that?? They were selling Large Fresh Chickens in my local Asda yesterday reduced from £3.98 to 42p. I bought 5 to put in the freezer. Now you are worrying me.

scooper

hi, i dont know if ben500 is refeering to a tv programme on channel 4 a few weeks ago(not sure if it is still on every week)but it was about asda, tescos and i think all supermarkets meat, the first week was about xhickens and sighns of a bad bred chicken,what to look out for in the supermarket.
it showed some of the places where chickens were bred and it was horrendous, thousands upon thousand of chickens in a big warehouse.
also because they are fed a special diet where they grow faster there bone are not getting enugh calcuim and vitamins so therefore the meat suffers because they cant walk around very much if at all, so the musscles arnt working properly.it really opened your eyes to what goes on and what you buy from suoermarkets, the next programme was about cows and how they are treated, i didnt watch that one but i believe that was terrible as well.
i do not eat meat, but my partner does and he no longer will buy ANY meat from supermarkets.

ben500

North-East_Quine wrote:

Can you expand on that?? They were selling Large Fresh Chickens in my local Asda yesterday reduced from £3.98 to 42p. I bought 5 to put in the freezer. Now you are worrying me.

Suffice to say I wouldn't feed it to my cat. This is my opinion based on my experiences, I actually picked up a reduced piece of cheese in a store only last week and it was absolutely coated with mould, and I mean thick green mould a chimpanzee wouldn't have picked it up to eat but one of their assitants had stuck a reduced sticker on it and this piece of cheese had more fur on it than Zaa Zaa Gabor!
I took it to the customer services desk (less than five minutes later than handing them a pack of yoghurts nine days past the sell by date taken from regular display) and told them I was absolutely disgusted that this had been placed on the shelf (absolutely no fear of ANYONE buying it as it looked more like a piece of axminster than cheese) they actually took £1 off my shopping bill for pointing it out to them (I thought that was really big of them) I asked the "acting duty manager" (clothing supervisor) how he thought I felt purchasing produce from the store knowing that this kind of thing was offered up for sale? he couldn't answer, he quite clearly thought that I was some kind of muppet without the slightest idea of the severity of the situation but that was fine by me as I had my camera recording everything and it will be reported his reaction was nothing short of academy award merit, once they have had their visit I will after having checked the legalities if possible name and shame the exact store. The dirty stinking pigs deserve it!

ben500

That is just one visit to one store, in general if it's at its sell by date I would consider it past that date. But that's only my opinion as an ex slaughterman

I do not have the same opinion about reduced meat from Tesco or Sainsbury for example and think that if the opportunity arises at these stores you would most probably have a bargain, and anybody having followed any of my previous posts will almost certainly be amazed at such a statement as I do not have a particular fondness for the practices of the former of the two.

adminannie

Hi At my Asda (Landudno) you get 2 for the price of one even when they are reduced, and you pay the reduced price. Annie

GWaites

At our store, we have SELs which indicate to the customer that any product reduced does not apply on a linksave (3 for £2.00, BOGOF, etc.)