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Buy One Get One Free

stav

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Post Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:28 pm

Buy One Get One Free

While sometimes these offers can be quite handy, in many cases they merely encourage us to buy stuff we don't need, and in the cases of food, often end up wasting as they are not used.

One of the largest supermarkets in the UK has tried to address the problem of waste with a new take on bogof offers.. Now it's buy one get one free 'later'..

They plan to issue customers who buy one of the offer items, a voucher/coupon which can be redeemed up to several weeks later for another one of the product bought.

Sounds like a good idea that the others will probably copy too... what do you think?

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Deltic

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Post Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:19 pm

Re: Buy One Get One Free

The voucher idea is very good. I shop with a list now and I try hard to stick to it. I only buy bogof's if I can use the item or pass it on to another family member.

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Post Wed Oct 28, 2009 2:13 pm

Re: Buy One Get One Free

Although i don't use a list, i tend to try and stick to things i need as well.. with bogofs, because there are only the two of us i tend to skip the food ones, and take advantage of the toiletries, cans, household stuff which I know will always be used.

this way i get to make some of the savings in the food ones without wastage.. does mean i'd have to shop in tesco though... maybe my preferred supermarket will also start doing it...

mollyL+88

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Post Fri Oct 30, 2009 1:40 am

Re: Buy One Get One Free

Well, we've talked about shopping with a list and here's the thing, I read a marketing article that said that people who shop with a list, and stick to it, will usually reward themselves at the end for sticking to the list. I guess it happens to me, does it happen to you?

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Post Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:47 pm

Re: Buy One Get One Free

lol Molly.. they always seem to manage to get your money one way or the other!

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Post Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:57 pm

Re: Buy One Get One Free

Yeah, stav...somehow I never have ice cream on my shopping list, but somehow the little rascal manages to jump into my basket... :JUMP: ...how do they do that?

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Post Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:07 pm

Re: Buy One Get One Free

lol... it's a mystery Molly.. some sort of evil mind manipulation going on.. i have the same problem with jaffa cakes...

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