Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> I don't follow.
> >
> > It means if it says "Buy one for $10, get one free", then you can buy
> > one for $5.
> >
> > Altho I think that's more like "Two for $10" being "One for $5", now
> > that I think of it. I'm not sure "buy one get one free" always means you
> > can get one for half price.
>
> Round there, the deal is like this:
>
>    The item is priced at £10. If you buy one, it costs you £10. If you
> buy two, it costs you £10. If you buy three, it costs £20, if you buy
> four, it costs £20. And so on.
>
> In other words, the item's "real" sale price is actually £5, but if you
> only buy one, there's a 100% surcharge. But they like to phrase it as
> "if you buy two, you get the second one absolutely free". (Which,
> clearly, is untrue.)
>
> Similar offers include "3 for 2", "buy 9 get 1 free", and so on.
>
> > If you buy fewer (meaning more people buy the same number), they pay
> > more rent for storing them, they pay more in credit card transaction
> > fees, they pay more interest on the money used to buy them in the first
> > place, etc.
>
> Well, I'm not in retail. I very much doubt the things you're talking
> about are financially significant, but I don't know. However, I would
> strongly suspect that the true reason is simply to convince people to
> buy more than they otherwise would (possibly more than they actually
> need). Some people (like my mother) mistakenly believe that buying an
> item at a lower price per item necessarily equals saving money.
>
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I have shopped in a supermarket that often has buy 1 get 1 free offers.
The bill looks like this:





They often sell short dated fresh produce at reduced prices, with the resulting
bill:







It makes for interesting and profitable shopping.

Cheers,
Peter

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