Pointless reductions with thing(s) missing
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I'm not talking something with a few pence off, but things in the supermarkets' reduced section because it had something important missing.
My example is this https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/302808925 In a Co-op near me, the bunny is missing (probably nicked) and it's £6 full price. In the reduced section, this egg without the bunny is reduced to £4. Who in their right minds will pay £4 for a 72g chocolate egg? At my work, if something similar happened to an Easter egg at work, it gets disposed and chocolate is broken up in a bowl for staff to help themselves in the staff room.
Have you seen things with things missing for them to be reduced in this manner?
My example is this https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/302808925 In a Co-op near me, the bunny is missing (probably nicked) and it's £6 full price. In the reduced section, this egg without the bunny is reduced to £4. Who in their right minds will pay £4 for a 72g chocolate egg? At my work, if something similar happened to an Easter egg at work, it gets disposed and chocolate is broken up in a bowl for staff to help themselves in the staff room.
Have you seen things with things missing for them to be reduced in this manner?
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a few years back B & G garden were setting annual plants AFTER flowering reduced - just foliage that would die soon!0
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I've seen ~£10 choclate christmas wreaths thad have been smashed reduced to ~£6 in sainsos.
As you say, no one would pay that much for a damaged item that only has a high price to start with because it's for gifting.0 -
I suppose that its a last-ditch attempt to make some money out of the product before writing it off as a loss. It is surprising what tat some people will buy.Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
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VfM4meplse wrote: »I suppose that its a last-ditch attempt to make some money out of the product before writing it off as a loss. It is surprising what tat some people will buy.
Quote, HL Mencken
"No one in this world, so far as I know-and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me-has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."Eight out of ten owners who expressed a preference said their cats preferred other peoples gardens0 -
I found a couple of toilet brushes reduced in Debenhams a while back. They had been reduced because the actual brushes were missing. They were just the bases with the handle on top.0
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But in speculating, you need to have the ability to withstand a loss.Quote, HL Mencken
"No one in this world, so far as I know-and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me-has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
"No man is worth, crawling on the earth"- adapted from Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio
Hope is not a strategy...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!0 -
these sort of reductions can be really good such as a multipack of say mars bars one missing and you pay 20% of the price...i always have a root through the crate in tescoonwards and upwards0
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