This will make those in cities cry........ It also covers bottles of beer.............FOR A FIVER......I’d take the slices and but a drink elsewhere
Meal Deal rip-offs...
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That is a good deal.
But that's incorrect tho, like that's what happened at the till in my case but that's not what has happened at the self-service till today or on my old receipt so it's not how it's always worked. A reduced item should not count towards the meal deal.
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If you get in the same situation again, try putting the 3 meal deal items through, sub totalling the basket, and then scan the other item. Perhaps that will get around the issue?
Heck I may even just buy a reduced item next week and test out my theory just for you.
Have done that, I've tried both now, found an old receipt and then today I tried experimenting with putting the reduced item first then the meal deal after... so it's worked both ways. See here:
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/meal-deal-rip-offs.18976982/post-36627137
That was with self-service tills though.
When I got scammed (nearly) in the situation in the OP and needed a refund it was the staffed tills where the Tesco guy scanned everything. He apologized and said it was a new till then refunded/put them through separately.
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Till systems can be a proper pain in the backside to sort out.. Its probably a tick box in the back office that someones not ticked/unticked.... Have you let them know yet. I put a deal on ours last week and totally broke all our promotions.. Because I missed a tick box.....This is an important discussion, I take my meal deals very seriously!
Well I told the guy on the till who processed a refund and sorted it out at the time, he kept the receipt - is that what you mean? Like someone setting some config in the store? Or do you mean telling corporate?
Maybe I should, if I get a voucher mods can change my name to Karen for a week.
If the £2.80 sandwich was exactly the same as the £1.50 sandwich just bigger I'd be OK with that, but it's actually a worse deal with the £2.80 sandwich if it is a sandwich I don't like.
It's a bit like the Dine in for £10 deals where you get a drink with it, obviously you choose the bottle of wine instead of soft drink as it's better value. But if your whole household is tee-total, you might prefer the Appletise or whatever.
Yeah it's pretty standard with most offers, like if you get 25% off 6 bottles of wine and you want to get 7 or 8 bottles, make sure you put the cheaper ones through separately to avoid the expensive ones not getting the 25% off.
With sainsbury's (almost 20 years ago now), items on multibuy offers did funny things with reduced items; it was possible to get paid to take food away if sandwiches etc. were reduced to 10p near closing time.
Yeah. Something probably hasnt been scanned onto the system correctly. Or the cannot be used with other discounts box has/hasnt been ticked.Well I told the guy on the till who processed a refund and sorted it out at the time, he kept the receipt - is that what you mean? Like someone setting some config in the store? Or do you mean telling corporate?
Maybe I should, if I get a voucher mods can change my name to Karen for a week.
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Coop was the same. Bought 4 packs of chicken breasts down to 30p Had buy 2 save 60p.
So cost me nothing! As the offer worked still
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I find the local Asda quite bad with this on multipacks of drinks. They will have pepsi on offer, 3 for £ 20 for example, that same deal applies to to fanta, dr pepper etc but doesn't actually tell you on the shelves.
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I found Asda were so bad at listing deals, honouring deals, and generally displaying prices, that I basically stopped shopping there. It was the fact you'd get to the checkout and things would literally scan at different prices, not just no discount. Impossible.
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Lol please, it would be permanentWell I told the guy on the till who processed a refund and sorted it out at the time, he kept the receipt - is that what you mean? Like someone setting some config in the store? Or do you mean telling corporate?
Maybe I should, if I get a voucher mods can change my name to Karen for a week.
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This has always been a problem since epos began. It applies to any offer based on a group of items so most commonly 3 for 2. Some epos software evaluates whether an offer applies after each scan so the order that items are processed has an effect in that scenario. There should always be small print somewhere on the offer pos that states the cheapest item in some way is the deal.
Sometimes retailers remove items that are yellow stickered from multi product deals. If they didn't they'd get some buy 3 yellow stickered items and they'd get the initial item discounts plus a multi product deal on top. These retailers wouldn't fall foul of including a yellow sticker item in a meal deal for example. There can still be issues if you buy 4 or 5 qualifying items in one transaction though as the lowest cost items may get grouped into the deal.
In short, it's best to go through the self service checkout so you can witness the screen as the sale is being built up. If it doesn't work how you expect then checkout individual transactions.
Sometimes retailers remove items that are yellow stickered from multi product deals. If they didn't they'd get some buy 3 yellow stickered items and they'd get the initial item discounts plus a multi product deal on top. These retailers wouldn't fall foul of including a yellow sticker item in a meal deal for example. There can still be issues if you buy 4 or 5 qualifying items in one transaction though as the lowest cost items may get grouped into the deal.
In short, it's best to go through the self service checkout so you can witness the screen as the sale is being built up. If it doesn't work how you expect then checkout individual transactions.
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On another note, why are places list
There terrible .I have one by me and I used to shop there loads they used to be alright but they have really become the worst , prices higher than other stores, not willing to budge on pricing , I used to sometimes get a lot of meat that I could freeze, meats were half normal off the shelft stuff and some discounted stuff) . They have not been marking down deals etc , I was walking past the other day after visiting the meat section the amount of food waste they are binning is unreal , mark down the prices a little and i bet It would be gone instead of going to waste.
Fuel is also terrible for the car, noticble difference between Asda and Tesco's , I don't like sticking In supermarket fuel where possible but my car mostly runs horrible with anything that I have had from Asda .
I don't buy meal deals as luckily for these occasions work cantine is actually better food and cheaper than going to the shops .
There terrible .I have one by me and I used to shop there loads they used to be alright but they have really become the worst , prices higher than other stores, not willing to budge on pricing , I used to sometimes get a lot of meat that I could freeze, meats were half normal off the shelft stuff and some discounted stuff) . They have not been marking down deals etc , I was walking past the other day after visiting the meat section the amount of food waste they are binning is unreal , mark down the prices a little and i bet It would be gone instead of going to waste.
Fuel is also terrible for the car, noticble difference between Asda and Tesco's , I don't like sticking In supermarket fuel where possible but my car mostly runs horrible with anything that I have had from Asda .
I don't buy meal deals as luckily for these occasions work cantine is actually better food and cheaper than going to the shops .
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that seems reasonable tbh - a sandwich on its last legs shouldn't be included in a deal if it's been reduced so they can sell it before it goes foosty! it's pretty much a different item after it's been reduced