On 17 Feb., 14:45, Roland Perry wrote:
More [ASDA] supermarket pricing silliness today.

Old El Paso item for £3.22, "two for £3".


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Roland Perry

Up until five or six years ago, when they amended their checkout
software, you could do quite well at Tesco when the special offer
stuff was discounted near its sellby date.
If something was say 2 quid but two for 3 quid, then after the second
went through, a pound would be deducted. The thing is, this still
happened even if the unit price had been dropped to less than 50p.
I remember once checking out with a trolley of oranges, charged at
-70p per two bags. I did have to include some other stuff to keep the
total in positive territory, as I didn't quite have the nerve to ask
for payment for my goods.
That though has changed now, such that the BOGOF or whatever doesn't
apply to discounted items, so that if for the above example the price
was dropped to 1.75 (they're not nearly so generous with their
discounts now, either), you'd pay 3.50 for two. Software equally
flawed, but with the error in that direction I don't expect the same
urgency to fix it.