In message , at 16:10:46 on Fri, 17
Feb 2012, Frederick Williams remarked:
More [ASDA] supermarket pricing silliness today.

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

Excuse me for being dim (I can't be expected to change the habit of a
lifetime), but what point are you seeking to make here?

That a shop would charge less (in total) for two of an item, than one.

I'm told that in the USA you could insist, under their consumer law, on
buying one for £1.50 (dollar equivalent etc etc).

And in Germany BOGOF is outlawed as 'unfair competition' (no, I don't
get it either), but what about "buy two get it for less than one"?
--
Roland Perry

Roland Perry wrote:

And in Germany BOGOF is outlawed as 'unfair competition' (no, I don't
get it either),

Unh?

ISTR hearing an edition of "more or less" on R4 recently which
explained, somewhat tediously, how it is that all the supermarkets
can guarantee to be cheaper than each other. It was a bit like
listening to a poor edition of "you and yours", which is saying
something.

It may have been in the same segment that they went on to express
shock and horror that buying, say, a bag of apples for a quid might
work out much more expensive than buying them loose in the same
supermarket, that sometimes two half-kilos is cheaper than one
single kilo, blah, blah, and blah.