Reduced bargains and yellow stickers shopping

ScarletMarble wrote: »

One of my friends works for Sainsburys and they can enter prices manually on their handsets. Though the default reduction is a third off. She doesn't need a manager to able to reduce things to 5p-20p at the end of the day. I know when I was with my ex - worked for Morrisons, at the time (2007) the code checker had to get a manager's sign on to override the reductions below a certain % - couldn't remember what that was and unsure if this is still the case.

The bit in bold. Is that I know Sainsburys does track suspicious activities on reductions etc. They know the use by date on products and stock levels.

Morrisons HHTs were renewed a couple of years ago also running new software and it's all changed. First reduction is 25%, second 50% after 12noon (and it does it automatically, no having to type the price in) and so on until the end of the day when it's daft price time. If you want daft price or higher reduction before then you need a manager code.

That doesn't mean you can go up to a member of staff at 12noon and ask/demand something to be reduced further to 50%. They will be done when the store decides depending on what staff they have on, what other tasks they are doing, and how busy/quiet the store is.

And the bit in bold - as I said, every retailer I've known do not allow staff to go reducing stuff on demand of a customer without permission from a manager first. You're just leaving yourself open to disciplinary action by doing so. It's got nothing to do with stock levels and sell by dates.




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General_Grant wrote: »

Reductions, when they do happen, are not significant. For instance, items which are part of a multi-buy offer will be marked down to around the equivalent price as if bought on multi-buy or seem to have about 10% off.

Link save offers are never included in reductions and why should they? They are still a reduction on the single purchase price.

Are you one of those that moan to the staff every time as if they didn't already know for the 1000th time?

General_Grant wrote: »

Where did I say that I wanted to take advantage of a "link save OFFER" included in a reduction. That would be where £X (the reduction originally offered) is also deducted from the reduced price items if the original offer quantity is purchased.

I was pointing out that, if we are looking at money saving, we should look at the unit cost in a multi-buy offer - because in my view that is what the shop can easily afford to sell them at as otherwise they would not do it. I then look at whether the reduced unit cost is truly a reduction against that.

And no I have never moaned at staff because I can comprehend the rules. And I'm old enough to remember when supermarket computers did actually give the original reduction when the appropriate number of multi-buy items were purchased. (I think that was in the days before BOGOF.)

Offers e.g. £2 each or 2 for £3 where if you got one reduced with a yellow sticker to £1.50 you could argue it's still 2 for £3 but you are forgetting that the single item is still a reduction on the full price single item.

And who still does BOGOF these days? Major supermarkets stopped those years ago due to the backlash about food waste.