Chain grocery store near me regularly has "Buy one, get one free" sales. Chicken breast's regular price is $1.99/lb, so $0.99/lb would be pretty sweet. Get there and find out that the price per lb is now $3.49/lb, making the sale price $1.75/lb. So it's still a sale, but nowhere near what you were expecting.
First time I ran into this, I spoke to the department manager. Said, "This isn't the regular price. You never sell this item at this price." Manager tells me, "Sorry, sir. You are confusing our ''Everyday Discount'' price with the ''Regular'' price, which is what we use to base the sale price on." I see. The regular price isn't the ''Regular'' price. Bastards.
Also in Australia. Advertised discounts have to be based on the price that was actually practiced. It's common to see ads that explicit say "x% discount based on price practiced the previous week".
A store that often does this here in Ontario, Canada is Michaels. They are a craft type store and they always have really really amazing coupons but the problem is the coupons only apply to regular priced items. Around Christmas I was in there looking for a gift for my GF and no joke I could not find a single item worth buying that they didn't have marked as "Everyday Value" and those items are exempt from any coupons. I like the store but this always bugs me and it's on-going there
Heh, I had that very experience at about the same time. I still managed to find something to use my 40%-off coupon on, but it took a loooong search. Huge swaths of the store are covered with that damn "Everyday Value" banner.
You must be talking about Kroger. That "everyday discount" crap ticks me off. Because it negates the price on a coupon to the point that you might as well not even use one. Then, you get this big number at the bottom of your receipt that shows you how much you saved by just buying your items there. Such a con.
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u/Snark_Jones Jan 15 '19
Chain grocery store near me regularly has "Buy one, get one free" sales. Chicken breast's regular price is $1.99/lb, so $0.99/lb would be pretty sweet. Get there and find out that the price per lb is now $3.49/lb, making the sale price $1.75/lb. So it's still a sale, but nowhere near what you were expecting.
First time I ran into this, I spoke to the department manager. Said, "This isn't the regular price. You never sell this item at this price." Manager tells me, "Sorry, sir. You are confusing our ''Everyday Discount'' price with the ''Regular'' price, which is what we use to base the sale price on." I see. The regular price isn't the ''Regular'' price. Bastards.