On Saturday, July 1, 2017 at 7:34:18 PM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
> ...
> > On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 21:49:55 -0400, jmcquown wrote:
> >
> >> On 6/30/2017 7:59 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> >>> 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...
> >>>
> >> Never heard of BOGOF. Buy on get one, yes. BOGO. Not BOGOF.
> >
> > But you can figure out what it means, right? It's an industry
> > standard acronym.
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_one,_get_one_free
> >
> > BOGOF make more logical sense then "buy one, get one". Because of
> > course you "get one" because you just bought it. The "free" suffix is
> > needed to complete and fully qualify the ambiguous term.
> >
> >> You can definitely buy only one and get a half price deal at any grocery
> >> store around here.
> >
> > Definitely not at Publix and Bi-Lo when I lived in South Carolina.
> >
> > -sw
>
> Here it used to be B1G1F.

I don't much care for those deals. Mostly it forces you to buy stuff in multiples of 2. I you only want one or an odd number, you're outta luck! Even worse is B2G2F. Those you have to buy in sets of 4. That's nuts but it must move a lot of units.