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Default "23 Ways Grocery Stores Are Scamming You"

Sqwertz wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 14:25:12 -0400, jmcquown wrote:
>
> > I certainly know BOGO doesn't mean you
> > have to buy TWO. Get one for half price.

>
> BOGOF always means you have to buy 2 (for the price of 1).
> Restaurants, bars, grocery stores, etc...



Varies with the store there. Harris Teeters, can buy 1 and get it 1/2
price.


> It's the 2 for $5 or 10 for $10 where you usually don't have to buy 2
> or 10.



Again, oposite here. 2/5$ means have to buy 2 to get the savings nd
same 10/10$ (but only get those if it's something you can reasonably
store and use).

> My favorite line: "Researchers found that people who used bigger carts
> ended up spending 40 percent more". Uh, hello? Did it ever occur to
> these "researchers" that they got the bigger cart because they plan on
> buying a lot of items?


Snicker, I agree with you.