'Why BOGOFs stop me buying tangerines…' Blog discussion

bunking_off

MSE_Martin wrote: »

OK I have a confession to make... I think my blogs innaccurate - having read the above I believe it was satsumas not tangerines.

...which drives me off-topic but raises a bug-bear of mine. Is it me, or have tangerines disappeared off the face of the earth? I'm not keen on satsumas and nectarines, I like tangerines. No-one seems to stock them any more....if I saw a bogof I'd gorge myself on them while I could...

phanmale

the subject of BOGOF anything....
1) you find the deal, you tell your sister and your sons who have left home and split the cost!!
2) you find the deal, you buy both and force the household to eat it before it perishes
3) you hover round the BOGOF (satsumas in this case) and wait for someone else who begrudges buying both knowing theyll throw one away and checkout together...
4) buy both and give the freebie to the old folks home (or the local school as I read earlier in the thread) - pat on the back for your good deed for the day
5) buy both and throw the perishables in the recycle bin (at least it does the planet good, right?)
6) dont buy it and go without till its not on offer, possibly regretting not buying it when it was on offer when it goes back to normal price..
7) leave it the first time you see the offer and wait for it to go in the cheapy bin - supermarkets will try anything to squeeze your last cent from you AND most supermarkets still have their BOGOF on checkout - reduced or not - so you get it cheaper still!!!
Personally? Ive tried all of the above and would gladly do again :rotfl:

Sparkkee

Wistful100 wrote: »

Can anyone tell me why we can't go back to paper bags for fruit and veg (we still have them for mushrooms) to reduce plastic bag use, better cos it doesn't sweat and can go straight in the compost bin.........or am I too simplistic? No I don't need an answer to that one............ thanks!

presumably because the checkout operators cannot see what's inside when they come to price them.

do what i do and just don't put them in a bag at all. there is nothing to say that you can't get your oranges loose and it saves using a bag at all.

(plus my sadistic side likes to watch the snooty woman at sainsbury's trying to corral half a dozen loose potatoes onto the weighing thingy )

rachel_c_2008

I got two punnets of peaches from Sainsburys on BOGOF a couple of years ago. They had fairly long use-by dates, so I thought it would be fine, but unfortunately by the time I'd eaten through the first punnet, the ones in the second punnet were starting to go mouldy. They were still in-date so I took them back to Sainsburys, who gave me a new punnet - but the new punnet had the same problem, and started going mouldy before I was half way through. I got four more punnets from Sainsburys (each time taking back about half a punnet of in-date peaches which were mouldy) until it was no longer "peach season" and they gave me a refund! A whole summer of peaches for free...