Kathleen wrote:

> 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?
>
> Er... Yeah. For as far back as I can remember buying Thanksgiving
> turkeys you always had to also purchase a relatively minor amount of
> grocieries. Certainly less than I'd spend on the other items for a
> Thanksgiving dinner, and less than half of what I'd spend on a normal
> week's groceries. Sometimes I make an extra trip and stock up on
> canned goods, frozen foods, etc. to take advantage of the
> ridiculously low turkey prices.

Not quite the same -- he's talking about not being informed of this
till he was in the store.

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Dan Goodman
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