Sale Prices Revisited

"jmcquown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Just got back from the store, picking up a few last minute items (of
course
I knew I'd forget some things from the last trip). This time I paid
particular attention to the stickers touting 3 for $X.00 and so on, even
though I wasn't buying those items. At the bottom of each one I
encountered
the codicil when you buy 3 (or however many the sale included).

So in this case if you bought just one item you paid full price, but if
you
bought 2, 3, 4, whatever the sale tag stated you'd get the discounted
price.
My trusty calculator did show the sale price was a bargain, but only if
you
really needed (or wanted) that many of that particular item.

Jill

Run this by me again....?

JoeSpareBedroom said:

jmcquown said:

Just got back from the store, picking up a few last minute items (of course
I knew I'd forget some things from the last trip). This time I paid
particular attention to the stickers touting 3 for $X.00 and so on, even
though I wasn't buying those items. At the bottom of each one I encountered
the codicil when you buy 3 (or however many the sale included).

So in this case if you bought just one item you paid full price, but if you
bought 2, 3, 4, whatever the sale tag stated you'd get the discounted price.
My trusty calculator did show the sale price was a bargain, but only if you
really needed (or wanted) that many of that particular item.

Jill

Run this by me again....?

Jill's description was a bit confusing, but it sounds like in that store, you
must buy the exact number stated to get the better price.

That's completely different than at my local supermarket (Safeway), where the
tags say something like "3 for $3.00" and in smaller print "$1.00 each". If they
have a club card sale with a special coupon for additional savings, those
coupons do require an exact number. Last week I used one that said "must buy 4"
to get an additional $4 off the purchase.

--
wff_ng_7 (at) verizon (dot) net

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JoeSpareBedroom said:

jmcquown said:

Just got back from the store, picking up a few last minute items (of
course
I knew I'd forget some things from the last trip). This time I paid
particular attention to the stickers touting 3 for $X.00 and so on, even
though I wasn't buying those items. At the bottom of each one I
encountered
the codicil when you buy 3 (or however many the sale included).

So in this case if you bought just one item you paid full price, but if
you
bought 2, 3, 4, whatever the sale tag stated you'd get the discounted
price.
My trusty calculator did show the sale price was a bargain, but only if
you
really needed (or wanted) that many of that particular item.

Jill

Run this by me again....?

Jill's description was a bit confusing, but it sounds like in that store,
you must buy the exact number stated to get the better price.

I know. I was just razzing her. She seems to be expressing amazement that if
price A is lower than price B, it means price A is lower than price B.
Pretty much like her saying "I found out that my name is Jill!"

wff_ng_7 said:

JoeSpareBedroom said:

jmcquown said:

Just got back from the store, picking up a few last minute items
(of course I knew I'd forget some things from the last trip). This
time I paid particular attention to the stickers touting 3 for
$X.00 and so on, even though I wasn't buying those items. At the
bottom of each one I encountered the codicil when you buy 3 (or
however many the sale included).

So in this case if you bought just one item you paid full price,
but if you bought 2, 3, 4, whatever the sale tag stated you'd get
the discounted price. My trusty calculator did show the sale price
was a bargain, but only if you really needed (or wanted) that many
of that particular item.

Jill

Run this by me again....?

Jill's description was a bit confusing, but it sounds like in that
store, you must buy the exact number stated to get the better price.

Yes, that's what I meant. Sorry if it was confusing. You pay full price
*unless* you buy the specified quantity.

JoeSpareBedroom said:

"wff_ng_7" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom said:

"jmcquown" <[email hidden]> wrote:
> Just got back from the store, picking up a few last minute items
> (of course
> I knew I'd forget some things from the last trip). This time I
> paid particular attention to the stickers touting 3 for $X.00 and
> so on, even though I wasn't buying those items. At the bottom of
> each one I encountered
> the codicil when you buy 3 (or however many the sale included).
>
> So in this case if you bought just one item you paid full price,
> but if you
> bought 2, 3, 4, whatever the sale tag stated you'd get the
> discounted price.
> My trusty calculator did show the sale price was a bargain, but
> only if you
> really needed (or wanted) that many of that particular item.
>
> Jill
>
>

Run this by me again....?

Jill's description was a bit confusing, but it sounds like in that
store, you must buy the exact number stated to get the better price.

I know. I was just razzing her. She seems to be expressing amazement
that if price A is lower than price B, it means price A is lower than
price B. Pretty much like her saying "I found out that my name is
Jill!"

Ah... but is it? 😄

jmcquown said...

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Jill's description was a bit confusing, but it sounds like in that
store, you must buy the exact number stated to get the better price.

Yes, that's what I meant. Sorry if it was confusing. You pay full price
*unless* you buy the specified quantity.

A TV news talking head shopping expert, speaking of discount coupons
advised viewers to always apply the coupon to the smallest size item
mentioned for the best savings.

Example: 50¢ Off any size of Ragu meat sauce.

You supposedly realize the best savings buying the smaller size, minus any
"fine print" constraints.

Clear or cloudy?

Andy

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jmcquown said...

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Jill's description was a bit confusing, but it sounds like in that
store, you must buy the exact number stated to get the better price.

Yes, that's what I meant. Sorry if it was confusing. You pay full price
*unless* you buy the specified quantity.

A TV news talking head shopping expert, speaking of discount coupons
advised viewers to always apply the coupon to the smallest size item
mentioned for the best savings.

Example: 50¢ Off any size of Ragu meat sauce.

You supposedly realize the best savings buying the smaller size, minus any
"fine print" constraints.

Clear or cloudy?

Andy

Ummm....no. Take the item with the best unit price, and make it cheaper.

wff_ng_7 said:

Jill's description was a bit confusing, but it sounds like in that store, you
must buy the exact number stated to get the better price.

I never shop at grocery stores like that. I don't think anybody
in town makes you buy 3 or 5 to get the sale price - unless
they're offering some other item free or a credit of some sort on
another item (like gas).

If it's 2 for $5, they're $2.50 if you buy one. Plain and simple.
Only clothing stores play that game, IME.

-sw

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jmcquown said...

Quoted message said:

> Jill's description was a bit confusing, but it sounds like in that
> store, you must buy the exact number stated to get the better price.
>
Yes, that's what I meant. Sorry if it was confusing. You pay full
price
*unless* you buy the specified quantity.

A TV news talking head shopping expert, speaking of discount coupons
advised viewers to always apply the coupon to the smallest size item
mentioned for the best savings.

Example: 50¢ Off any size of Ragu meat sauce.

You supposedly realize the best savings buying the smaller size, minus
any
"fine print" constraints.

Clear or cloudy?

Andy

Ummm....no. Take the item with the best unit price, and make it cheaper.

Actually, you need to calculate the unit price of each size with the coupon
taken into the pricing. Then you can get the cheapest unit price.

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jmcquown said:

Quoted message said:

Jill's description was a bit confusing, but it sounds like in that
store, you must buy the exact number stated to get the better price.

Yes, that's what I meant. Sorry if it was confusing. You pay full price
*unless* you buy the specified quantity.

The Cub chain does a hybrid. Cut-out-of-their-paper-ad coupons will
often be a twofer price with the coupon, or an xfer with the coupon, and
it states that on the coupon. Some advertised items, no coupon
involved, will be pitched as xfer $$ prices -- but if you only want one
you only pay that fraction of the total; e.g., 5/$100, you buy one, it's
20 cents. And I don't think that all the featured ad items are
necessarily sale-priced, either.
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
http://web.mac.com/barbschaller - blahblahblog - Orange Honey
Garlic Chicken, 3-29-2007
jamlady.eboard.com
http:/http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/amytaylor/

jmcquown said:

Just got back from the store, picking up a few last minute items (of
course I knew I'd forget some things from the last trip). This time
I paid particular attention to the stickers touting 3 for $X.00 and
so on, even though I wasn't buying those items. At the bottom of
each one I encountered the codicil when you buy 3 (or however many
the sale included).

Are you sure? Or was one of those stickers that some put that say:

You save $2.95 when you buy three.

Because that sticker doesn't mean you have to buy three to get ANY
savings.

Brian

--
If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
-- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com)

"jmcquown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Just got back from the store, picking up a few last minute items (of
course
I knew I'd forget some things from the last trip). This time I paid
particular attention to the stickers touting 3 for $X.00 and so on, even
though I wasn't buying those items. At the bottom of each one I
encountered
the codicil when you buy 3 (or however many the sale included).

So in this case if you bought just one item you paid full price, but if
you
bought 2, 3, 4, whatever the sale tag stated you'd get the discounted
price.
My trusty calculator did show the sale price was a bargain, but only if
you
really needed (or wanted) that many of that particular item.

Jill

That sort of pricing drives me nuts, but is fairly common around here.
Sometimes it's all in phrasing -- "Buy one, get one free" is different from
"Two for $x", although sometimes the small print says in the latter case
that you must 2 to get that price.

I haven't seen it in quite some time, but "Buy one, get two free" sales used
to be fairly common around here. When you checked out, the first itwm would
go through at the full price, the second item went through at the full
price, and the third item went through for the negative full price.

Once it was salad dressing, at about $3 per bottle. The checker forgot to
ring up my third bottle until I pointed it out to her. Ringing up just the
two bottles would have meant I spent a total of $6 for the three bottles;
when she rang up the third bottle it went though as it should as -$3,
putting my price for the three at $3.

The only reason I can see for this pricing scheme is that some customers
will assume that they can buy 2 items for the price of one if they don't
want the third item. I think it they ever start running these sales again,
a local food pantry for the poor ought to put up a donation booth near the
store, informing customers of how the deal works and taking donations of
those free products. You know, if I can buy one of something I want only
one or two of, but get three for the price of one, I'm happy to donate the
items I don't need. All I'd pay for the donated items would be sales tax.

Anny