ASDA - NON bargain ...

[Blue_SV650S]

I was in ASDA buying some Guinness ....

Now NEITHER of the following were on an sort of 'offer' .... and it was exactly teh same stuff, just different quantities/number of cans ...


10 cans 440ml ... £9.98 .. so £2.27/l
15 cans 400ml ... £15:15 .. so £2.52/l

As I said, the 10s were not on offer ... I mean WTF is going on with that pricing!?!?

What tool woudl buy the 15?!?!? ... someone not too good at basic maths I suppose ... even if both packs contained cans of the same volume each ... its obvious the 15 pack is more expensive per can ... but them being 10% less in each can just makes it madness!!
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needless to say I didn't buy the 15!!
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[Itchy]

You'd be surprised, in Asia in Japan , Korea , Taiwan and Hong Kong but not Mainland china in shops you get two or three can sizes of the same product, they cost exactly the same 250ml 355ml 500ml, the small ones always get out of stock and purchased first....



Although admittedly ASDA does run such things all the time when say soup 4 cans = £1 , when the cans are individually 20p each. (been a while since I've had to have 20p ASDA soup though).
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[Kickstart]

Hi

As above, Asda do it fairly often. The double packs of Jaffa cakes were more than 2 single pack quite recently.

If you want to save money, wander round and find all the out of date products (doesn't have to be anything you want), get to the till and ask to speak to the manager about it. Should be a nice discount.

All the best

Keith
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If you want bang for buck, get a trade card and head on down to wholesale for volume discount.

I hoard items that are neccessity, because they are cheap in bulk, for example cases of toothpaste, cases of shampoo, cases of soap.

And not to forget, cases of delicious sexy sweet tantalising envigorating lovable delectable succulent nourishing refreshing soothing seductive satisfying irresistably unrelentingly moreish, BEER.
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[jack_zxr400]

Hey

I work in Asda doing POS so I deal with advertising the offers etc and yea it can do that when they put something on a rollback which im guessing the 10 cans were on?

and yea keiths right
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[Blue_SV650S]

[Mudskipper]

Probably because customers have got so used to larger packs working out cheaper, it's a way for the shops to trick them and get more money.

I'm a right £/litre / pence per gram analyser though, so I don't get caught out either!
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[Blue_SV650S]

[Kickstart]

[Skudd]

[Blue_SV650S]

[Skudd]

[N.C]

[s44678]

Tell you what fucks me off, it's when they do an offer (2 for £7, 3 for £10 or whatever) then they don't put the £/litre price of the offer.

So you can't work out whether the 'offer' is cheaper than the non offer stuff.

They have trained us to see some garish yellow and red sticker and think 'wow a deal' and toss all objective comparison out the window. Tossers.

[G]

[Blue_SV650S]

[Blue_SV650S]

[Courageous T]

serves u right for drinking guiness.

[WildGoose]

Any offers piss me off, buy one get one free type stuff the most. Just reduce the price of the item across the board and permanently.

For one example, Coca-cola and its derivatives seem to be very bad for this at the moment in petrol stations and the like. Brand name cider is another one that seems to fluctuate wildly for no apparent reason day to day.

Last week you could buy a 1.25 litre (stupid random size, branded as "share size" normally reserved for pizza delivery places) bottle for £1.44 buy one get one free. Go in there a few days later, and you are paying £1.15 for a standard 500ml bottle.

Next week there will be buy one get one free on the big 2 litre bottles, and so the cycle goes on.

Want to return consumer confidence, reduce the price to the "pour down the drain" commodity that is so obviously is, and keep it that way.

Test the dishonesty yourself, it isn't just food retailers. Go to amazon and choose a basket of 20 varied goods (more obscure variants of stuff the better, DVD's, games, electronics) leave them there and don't purchase. Check in twice a day and watch the price of each item fluctuate wildly beyond comprehension, it's quite sickening when you think how you could get ripped off one second and have a bargain the next. It scarily goes in both directions almost daily.
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[jack_zxr400]

Just had a look today, yea your right, although the boxes are different- the 10 box is plain but the 15 box has offers and stuff on it so might be guiness's thing effecting the price but not sure why its like that xD
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[Blue_SV650S]

[jack_zxr400]

yea thats what the prices are at

I actually asked a BWS colleague and they said "thats just how it is" xD

lol but the 15 can box did have some sort of offer for a free glass with a send off thing on the box I think or something like that so that could be it?
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