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Default Safeway tigtens the screws

In article >,
notbob > wrote:

> I've been going to Safeway to buy their great turkey bargains for over 30
> yrs. Never have I encountered a problem. Go in, buy turkey, go out. Today,
> we went to our local Safeway to buy the advertised turkey sale of $5/$7
> turkeys, as we/I have done some many times before. Low and behold. once in
> the store, we were confronted with a disclaimer sign above each frozen
> turkey bin informing us that we must buy $25 worth of groceries to get said
> discount! This was not in the flyer. Upon questioning Safeway storedroid,
> I was informed this was policy for whole Denver district stores.
>
> Have any other of you rfc regulars... about the country.... encountered this
> extortion sales gambit?
>
> nb


I always thought it was SOP.


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