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In the run up to Christmas many stores will run the promotion buy 3 items marked with a sticker and get the cheapest one free. Boots and Sainsbury's are already doing this now, but be careful how you pay for them.
If you are only buying 3 items it's OK, the cheapest will be free, however if you buy more than 3 you might want to pay for them seperately......
The software at the POS (Point of Sale) will know which items are on this promotion and it will make the cheapest one free, except consider this
If you buy 3 items worth £20 each, cheapest one free is £20 you pay £40 in total, all well and good.
If you buy 6 items, 3 at £20 and 3 at £5, the software will make the two cheapest items free (ie those at £5) so you will pay £65 in total for all 6. If you ask for them to be tilled up seperately and put the 3 at £20 through and then pay for them (£40) and then do the next 3 items (the ones at £5) then pay for them (£10), you will still have all 6 items but you will only have paid £50 for them.
It's worth arranging the items in this promotion into 3's according to value (highest first), and paying for them seperately.
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Originally Posted by Mossycat
In the run up to Christmas many stores will run the promotion buy 3 items marked with a sticker and get the cheapest one free. Boots and Sainsbury's are already doing this now, but be careful how you pay for them.
If you are only buying 3 items it's OK, the cheapest will be free, however if you buy more than 3 you might want to pay for them seperately......
The software at the POS (Point of Sale) will know which items are on this promotion and it will make the cheapest one free, except consider this
If you buy 3 items worth £20 each, cheapest one free is £20 you pay £40 in total, all well and good.
If you buy 6 items, 3 at £20 and 3 at £5, the software will make the two cheapest items free (ie those at £5) so you will pay £65 in total for all 6. If you ask for them to be tilled up seperately and put the 3 at £20 through and then pay for them (£40) and then do the next 3 items (the ones at £5) then pay for them (£10), you will still have all 6 items but you will only have paid £50 for them.
It's worth arranging the items in this promotion into 3's according to value (highest first), and paying for them seperately.
Mossy
Don't know where you got this from and 3 for 2 offers run all year round, not just Christmas, and the two stores you happen to mention I use often.
I'm afraid you are incorrect with your advice here.
The 3 for 2 offers are specific to those particular products and cannot be interchanged with other 3 for 2 offers and the barcode will relate this.
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Originally Posted by SharpmanTF1
if that was the case then why would it say cheapest one free?
Because in Sainsburys, for example, there could be a 3 for 2 offer on Colgate products, ie toothpaste, mouth wash, toothbrushes, floss etc etc.
Also, there could be a 3 for 2 offer with Fosters lager.
You don't buy 2 slabs of Fosters and 1 pack of Colgate toothpaste and get the toothpaste free!!
The offers are 3 for 2 specific to those products. The above example does not qualify as one would only have purchased 2 of one promotion and 1 of the other!!
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Boots do this specifically at Christmas, on all items with a specific label on them (a purple gift sticker I believe). The 3 for 2 applies to all items with this sticker on, it's not restricted to particular brands or combinations. From what the OP has posted I guess Sainsburys do something similar.
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In boots though the 3 for 2 offers at xmas are the ones with a gift box and it is possible to do as mossycat says ... I know I usually divide purchases between myself and Mr Saintly to maximise the savings
Any typos spelling mistakes are due to leprechauns in my keyboard they move the letters around sometimes (amended just for Bookie)
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so the OPs tip still stands in principal.
in your example for instance the colgate products. not all colgate products cost the same. so for arguments sake I wanted to buy some stuff for christmas stocking fillers. 3 tubes of tooth paste and 3 tooth brushes and 3 bottles of mouth wash. you'd put the most expensive through first pay for it, then the next and so on. so it would work in theory, altho in this case it would probably be pennies save. but every penny counts these days.
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Originally Posted by SharpmanTF1
so the OPs tip still stands in principal.
in your example for instance the colgate products. not all colgate products cost the same. so for arguments sake I wanted to buy some stuff for christmas stocking fillers. 3 tubes of tooth paste and 3 tooth brushes and 3 bottles of mouth wash. you'd put the most expensive through first pay for it, then the next and so on. so it would work in theory, altho in this case it would probably be pennies save. but every penny counts these days.
Yes, but you will always get the cheapest item free. So if the thoothbrushes are free then you would get 3 for nothing on the purchases you describe.
But one would need to check the prices of all three different products of that brand to determine the best combination at the checkout.
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Originally Posted by barracad
Boots do this specifically at Christmas, on all items with a specific label on them (a purple gift sticker I believe). The 3 for 2 applies to all items with this sticker on, it's not restricted to particular brands or combinations. From what the OP has posted I guess Sainsburys do something similar.
They may do it more often at Christmas but that doesn't mean they do not do it at other times. It is only 33% off in reality and 50% offers are weekly.
I bought 3 Dove products back in August where 1 was free from Boots-hardly Xmas time!
And I'm afraid you are wrong-one would not be able to buy two Dove 3 for 2 on offer and combine it with, say, just one Nicorette 3 for 2.
You would be charged full price on the two Dove products and full price on the one Nicorette product as you are not entering into the promotion of those products as you are not buying 3 of each.
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Sorry I thought my OP made it clear, it's the XMAS promotions I was referring to (Sainsbury's have a whole range of gifts all marked with a little box and bow), they range in price from £25 to £3.
They allow you to choose any 3 items (regardless of price) and you get the cheapest free. All I was saying was watch how you pay for them because that affects which ones are classed as 'free'.
I was NOT referring to the everyday promotions that are on household items.
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Originally Posted by Mossycat
Sorry I thought my OP made it clear, it's the XMAS promotions I was referring to (Sainsbury's have a whole range of gifts all marked with a little box and bow), they range in price from £25 to £3.
I was NOT referring to the everyday promotions that are on household items.
Mossy
Thats exactly what I thought you were refering to ( the xmas promotions)
Any typos spelling mistakes are due to leprechauns in my keyboard they move the letters around sometimes (amended just for Bookie)
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Originally Posted by Mossycat
Yes but I did try to hide it and disguise it by opening the thread with the following words
"In the run up to Christmas many stores will run the promotion buy 3 items marked with a sticker"
Sorry, but I just recall that any 3 for 2 offer at those two stores at any time of year are always 'marked with a sticker.'
How else would you know otherwise?
As opposed to
"All year round stores offer BOGOF's and other such promotions"
But it is an 'other such promotion.' It just so happens the Christmas 3 for 2 has a pretty purple sticker instead of, say, a sunshine sticker for 3 for 2 offers in June!
Then more cunningly it went on to say
"It's worth arranging the items in this promotion"
'This' promotion is obviously specific to whatever brand is involved in a 3 for 2 promotion.
As there could be some 200 or so brands involved then surely it is wise to point out to other members that 'this' promotion is specific only to the actual offer of that same brand.
SharpmanTF1 was clearly as confused with your OP as I was. As was barracad.
As opposed to
"Do this with as many different brand promotions as you can cos they will never spot it and the barcodes mean diddly squat"
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Sorry Al but I'm neither confused nor wrong - the Christmas 3 for 2 gift offer can be mixed across all products and brands, so long as they display the Christmas gift label. So you could, for example, buy a child's scooter, a fajita dinner set, and a perfume gift set. As each are part of the Christmas promo, whichever item is cheapest would be free, despite them being completely different items and brands. You can see full details of this on the Boots website.
There's only one person on this thread who appears to be confused.
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Originally Posted by SharpmanTF1
so the OPs tip still stands in principal.
in your example for instance the colgate products. not all colgate products cost the same. so for arguments sake I wanted to buy some stuff for christmas stocking fillers. 3 tubes of tooth paste and 3 tooth brushes and 3 bottles of mouth wash. you'd put the most expensive through first pay for it, then the next and so on. so it would work in theory, altho in this case it would probably be pennies save. but every penny counts these days.
Me thinks your argument is flawed.
Yes, but you will always get the cheapest item free. So if the thoothbrushes are free then you would get 3 for nothing on the purchases you describe.
But one would need to check the prices of all three different products of that brand to determine the best combination at the checkout.
put thru 3x mouthwash @3.00 = 9.00 minus 3.00 for the offer total 6.00 pay for it
put thru 3x toothpast @2.50 = 7.50 minus 2.50 for offer total 5.00 pay for it
put thru 3x tooth brush @.99p = 2.97 minus .99p for offer total 1.98 pay for it
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