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I think the counter argument to this is non-perishable food and other groceries. There is a certain brand of shelf stable non-dairy milk that my family use a l
by jamiethompson 8y ago
I think the counter argument to this is non-perishable food and other groceries.
There is a certain brand of shelf stable non-dairy milk that my family use a lot of. The usual price is £1.50 a carton. Every few months there is a 3 for £3.00 offer. Now this is obviously a ploy to get you to buy more than you needed and also to appeal to new customers.
But I use these offers to stock up on weeks worth of the stuff. If has a shelf life of over a year so it's a no brainer. I hardly ever pay full price.
- mrhappyunhappy 8y agoI’m curious to know what’s happening with our supermarket ice cream discounts. Every Friday all ice cream is 50% off and as you’d expect a lot of people buy their ice cream on a Friday. The rest of the week it’s full price. Does that mean they are taking a profit hit on Friday just to move inventory or is the ice cream marked up higher than their ideal selling price which would be the standard profit margin they expect on Fridays? Not sure...
- Matticus_Rex 8y agoThey're using it as a loss leader: taking a cut in profit or even a loss to pull people into the store, where they're likely to buy more than enough to make up for it.
- aembleton 8y agoIt's full price the rest of the week so that on Friday it looks like a good deal. How do you know what the actual value is? You only know its value from the price charged during the rest of the week.
- Spivak 8y agoYou would have to have some insider knowledge to know for sure because both options are possible. But regardless if something is a loss-leader or not I typically shop with the rule that any item that routinely goes on sale for $x has a true price of at most $x.