"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On Saturday, July 1, 2017 at 7:34:18 PM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
>> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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>> > 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.
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> 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.

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Depends on what it is. Costco used to have a deal on cases of canned
tomatoes. Buy one, get one free. I would donate the one to the food bank.
They no longer seem to do that deal but that's okay too because I was
somewhat hard pressed to be able to use up a case of tomatoes in a year.