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When a store has a buy-one-get-one-free deal, it would be nice to have an app that would match me up with somebody else in the store who also wants only one of
by mbg721 5y ago
When a store has a buy-one-get-one-free deal, it would be nice to have an app that would match me up with somebody else in the store who also wants only one of that thing; then one of us could buy them and we could split the cost. I can't be the only one who doesn't have room in the freezer for a second bone-in pork roast.
- stepbeek 5y agoThe grocery store near me has a food bank donation that you can put items in before you exit.
- tuukkah 5y agoI've been thinking it would be a win-win-win situation if I had the choice to donate the other half as money instead of as an item: I get one item cheaper, someone gets a useful, extra donation from me, and the store gets to sell the other item again.
- boomboomsubban 5y agoIt's only a win for the store if they would sell out of the product if you purchased two, as they would only make the profit off of selling one item to you rather than two. That's why those food bank donations annoy me, they supermarket effectively takes a cut of all the donations.
- b112 5y agoNot completely true! For emergency preparedness, I keep a few hundred cans of food around. I live in a rural area, and this is prudent. I never eat them all best-before, and as this is canned food, best-before is not an expiry/safety date, even remotely. It is a flavour date. So I donate my stuff, before purchasing new. And before anyone gets all weird about it, I eat from the same stock I donate, even the day of donation. This means people get good quality food, I get to renew my stocks, and the grocery store with the donation bin, may or may not have been where I bought the food. If more people did this, we'd all be better able to handle disasters, and those in need would be better fed. A real win-win.
- sgerenser 5y agoHave you talked to the food bank about their policy on past-date canned food? I know at least one food bank where they told people not to donate any food past the date as it will get tossed (plus additional staff and volunteer labor to sort through the stuff). I assume this is common for liability reasons at least.
- hcknwscommenter 5y agoSounds like someone at the "at least one food bank" doesn't understand that there literally is no liability for past-date canned food. I am pretty sure dates on canned food wasn't a thing when I was growing up. It's just another way of prodding the customer to consume.
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> It's just another way of prodding the customer to consume. Not really; expiration dates are printed on food (including canned food) because customers want them. Manufacturers are responding to, not attempting to drive, customer demand.
- pempem 5y agoNot sure that's true: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1rZAT2GtmI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1rZAT2GtmI
- thaumasiotes 5y agoThat video doesn't even address the question. It says, correctly, that the dates have no particular meaning and are generally unregulated. It doesn't say why they're there.
- pempem 5y agoHah okay: thats a fair point and I googled this just for you - and for future me. Marks & Spencer introduced them in 1970 in the UK (1) It's true there was a survey of consumers and folks favored them, but I will refrain from posting the enduring veracity and reflectiveness of a survey and point out that consumers likely wanted dates that meant something They are often meaningless and we can assume the consumer wasn't in love with dates that are more complex than not. 1. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sell-and-best-dates-food-are-basically-made-hard-get-rid-180950304/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sell-and-best-date...
- rhino369 5y agoDon't free too bad. Grocery store margins are atrocious.
- sdenton4 5y agoYeaaaaah, but do you really want to put a bone-in pork roast in the donation bin? Sounds unsanitary.
- notwhereyouare 5y agoSome stores allow for buy one get one as buy one for 1/2 off. Some stores don’t. They make you buy both to get the deal
- hnlmorg 5y agoI remember that after I moved house I needed to buy 5 new energy saving light bulbs. The store near me had an offer: > £1 each or 4 for £5 I checked with the floor manager if that was accurate and how could I buy 5. Turns out I had to do it in two different transactions. Moral of this story is: store promotions often don't make much sense.
- bombcar 5y agoIn most of the US that’d be illegal (unless the four pack was itself a separate product instead of four individual ones). And “two for $5” and “buy one at $5 get one free” are considered different - the first almost always has to work out to $2.50 each unless they get very explicit with a “save $1 when you buy two” wording. Most stores don’t bother.
- runnerup 5y agoIt varies state-to-state. Texas allows "2-for-$2" and "1-for-$1.50" in the same store at the same time.
- nonamenoslogan 5y agoThis is pretty common in Idaho too, 2 for $2.22 or a single for $1.79 is the 20oz soda deal in just about every convenience store.
- bombcar 5y agoYeah, the key is they have to be explicit about both prices ($1.79 for one) - if they just say 2 for $2.22 they have to sell one for $1.11.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoI was just talking with a friend in China who told me that the item sizes at Costco are too large (yes, obviously). The solution is apparently to organize WeChat groups around buying -- and subsequently dividing -- the oversized items.
- jamst174 5y agoYou're not alone. I like the occasional soda, but the sales are always "buy 2 get 2 free". I don't need 4 cases of soda, but I'd take a BOGO if I could split the deal with someone.