Free strawberries

[lovingboth]

My local Sainsbury's has a large number of packs of strawberries reduced to 99p. Since they also come with 200 bonus points - equal to £1 - they're effectively paying people two pence per pack to take them away.

Comments

[ruth-sedina.livejournal.com]

oooh you lucky bitch!

[badriya.livejournal.com]

Haringey had them too and I got some. I didn't realise what a bargain they were. They are for D and D tomorrow. I have to take lots of fruit and dried chickpeas to nibble and share. We usually eat sweets and crips and nuts and those would ruin my diet..

Imaginary Numbers ?

[feanorfinwe.livejournal.com]

How does £1 - 99p = 2p ?

Re: Imaginary Numbers ?

[lovingboth]

You get (0.99 of) a penny's worth of bonus points for spending 99p on them...

its a bit like...

[kingginger.livejournal.com]

... the old bannanas thing when the reward card did start out, and that guy grabbed all the banana's in the UK to make a profit or something,

And just gave all the banana's to charity.

Nutter.

hehehehe

Re: its a bit like...

[lovingboth]

That was Tescos, and I don't think one person quite managed that, although some people were stopped from buying them, and then going back into the shop to buy the same bananas again and again and...

Re: its a bit like...

[kingginger.livejournal.com]

heheh... Still... I am pretty sure they wont mind that kind of loss leaders in general...

Whats a couple of punnets profit out of however many squillions...

heh...