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Post by nidena on Apr 18, 2023 19:20:50 GMT -5
We've all seen pictures of funny sale signs or promos but I saw my first one in person tonight. Kroger has Starkist tuna on promo: $10 for 10. Attached to that promo sticker is the sale sticker "Buy 5 or more, just $.99 each". I had to chuckle. I also bought six cans.  What's a funny one that you've seen IRL? |
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Post by thyme4change on Apr 18, 2023 22:02:46 GMT -5
We've all seen pictures of funny sale signs or promos but I saw my first one in person tonight. Kroger has Starkist tuna on promo: $10 for 10. Attached to that promo sticker is the sale sticker "Buy 5 or more, just $.99 each". I had to chuckle. I also bought six cans. What's a funny one that you've seen IRL? I saw a can of retried beans on sale for $1.25 - the regular price, which was listed just below the sale price, was $1.29. This was in a “premium” grocery store. |
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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 18, 2023 23:16:34 GMT -5
We've all seen pictures of funny sale signs or promos but I saw my first one in person tonight. Kroger has Starkist tuna on promo: $10 for 10. Attached to that promo sticker is the sale sticker "Buy 5 or more, just $.99 each". I had to chuckle. I also bought six cans. What's a funny one that you've seen IRL? I saw a can of retried beans on sale for $1.25 - the regular price, which was listed just below the sale price, was $1.29. This was in a “premium” grocery store. If you bought twenty-five cans, YOU can save $1.00!  |
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Post by toomuchreality on Apr 19, 2023 1:43:45 GMT -5
Not a sign, but...
My BF bought me a purse on "CLEARANCE" once. After buying it, I peeled the clearance tag off the reg price tag, to see how much the discount was. It was marked down one penny! The original price was $79.99. The clearance price was $79.98. 🙄
Big clearance!
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Apr 19, 2023 7:19:40 GMT -5
It always boggles my mind that bundled products, such as deodorant are sold individually for FAR less than the the individual price of each bundled item. I picked up deodorant this weekend and single product was something like 4.69, and the bundled two-pack was selling for 10-something. I think those that don't examine the price per have been conditioned to think bundled stuff is a better deal without doing the math  . |
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Post by azucena on Apr 19, 2023 7:50:59 GMT -5
Shopping with various friends through the years, it always amazes me how folks think buy one get one half off is such a deal. It's really only 25% off. Can't count how often I've explained that and been met with very blank looks. Have even had DD14 in her teenage wisdom do the math on her phone to prove me wrong LOL.
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Post by finnime on Apr 19, 2023 8:08:53 GMT -5
And then there's the "Now! 50% more" on an 18 oz. box, followed by "than the 12 oz size." The price is proportional to the size of course.
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Apr 19, 2023 8:14:37 GMT -5
I keep instant oatmeal in the house and I was pissed when the price jumped from 2.84 to 3.91 AND it is now an 8 packet box in lieu of 10 packet box.
I keep seeing articles suggesting inflation is softening...um...sure, but we have all been paying these prices and I doubt grocery prices are going to drop to reflect that.
Sorry, off topic rant.
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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 19, 2023 17:14:27 GMT -5
Not a sign, but... My BF bought me a purse on "CLEARANCE" once. After buying it, I peeled the clearance tag off the reg price tag, to see how much the discount was. It was marked down one penny! The original price was $79.99. The clearance price was $79.98. 🙄 Big clearance! YOur BF took you to dinner and paid for it with your purse savings. |
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Post by toomuchreality on Apr 19, 2023 22:31:46 GMT -5
Not a sign, but... My BF bought me a purse on "CLEARANCE" once. After buying it, I peeled the clearance tag off the reg price tag, to see how much the discount was. It was marked down one penny! The original price was $79.99. The clearance price was $79.98. 🙄 Big clearance! YOur BF took you to dinner and paid for it with your purse savings. It's a good thing we weren't hungry! 😄 Actually, he was buying me clothes to wear on a trip to Cancun that we took together. Most of the clothes had to be altered, so we went to a tailor, then he did take me to dinner. When we got to Cancun, all the clothes that were altered, were screwed up, so we had to buy me clothes to wear again, in Cancun! I was not a happy camper! I don't think the tailor had ever even taken a sewing class in Jr High School, looking at the way she altered the clothes! (She lost her job, when we returned and took the clothes to the business. They were bad!) |
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 20, 2023 6:43:10 GMT -5
My favorite was Viking. We had a booked and paid cruise. About 3 weeks before we left, I got an email UPGRADE YOUR CABIN SALE! Intrigued, I looked and laughed.
The cost to upgrade our cabin one level was exactly the price it would have been to book it in the first place.
Next cruise, got another email like this. Glad I looked, as I was just about ready to blow it off after the previous email. This time the cost to upgrade was peanuts. I upgraded.
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Post by Opti on Apr 20, 2023 12:27:28 GMT -5
We've all seen pictures of funny sale signs or promos but I saw my first one in person tonight. Kroger has Starkist tuna on promo: $10 for 10. Attached to that promo sticker is the sale sticker "Buy 5 or more, just $.99 each". I had to chuckle. I also bought six cans. What's a funny one that you've seen IRL? That's actually a good promo, its not requiring a literal 10 cans of tuna for $10; local grocery chain does that ore similar. But you are being told that you only need to buy $5 to hit the promo price.  |
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Post by nidena on Apr 21, 2023 23:58:58 GMT -5
We've all seen pictures of funny sale signs or promos but I saw my first one in person tonight. Kroger has Starkist tuna on promo: $10 for 10. Attached to that promo sticker is the sale sticker "Buy 5 or more, just $.99 each". I had to chuckle. I also bought six cans. What's a funny one that you've seen IRL? That's actually a good promo, its not requiring a literal 10 cans of tuna for $10; local grocery chain does that ore similar. But you are being told that you only need to buy $5 to hit the promo price. The silly part is that Kroger didn't plan their promos very well and had them overlapping each other. |
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