I bought some Diet Pepsi that was on sale 10 for $10.00. That in itself annoys me that they don't just say $1.00 each. In another place it said 4 for $5.00, and in small print, buy 10 it's $.79 each. I checked a couple of times as there were three different prices on Diet Pepsi.
I get to cashier at the Kroger and my Diet Pepsi is $1.25. I say that the sign read 10 for $10.00. He sends the grocery bag girl to check price, I say that's okay but he says shell be back soon and needs to check. She comes back with 4 for $5.00. I say, that's fine, but he says he'll go check. He comes back with a sign that says 10 for $10.00 and in tiny print "for potato chips." I don't even remember seeing the potato chips in the display of about fifty 2 liter bottles of Diet Pepsi. I thank him for his trouble and pay for the groceries.
I get home, unload the groceries, all is well. I really didn't want ten 2 liter bottles in the pantry just to get them for $.79. There's a slight difference in wording if you have to buy ten to get the sales price or if you buy one you still pay the sales price.
So next morning at breakfast I decide to fix scrambled eggs and see the ones I bought aren't in the refrigerator. I go check the car to see if I left them. Sure enough in the trunk is one of my canvas bags with the eggs in it. I bring the bag inside, put the eggs in refrigerator wondering if they will still be good. To my surprise there in the bag with my eggs is the pound of ground beef I had also bought. No doubt here, the meat goes in the trash ($3,00 or thereabouts in the garbage). I'm not sure of the egg rule. My grandmother didn't always refrigerate them right away, but then they were straight from the hen house. My eggs were relatively still cool in the trunk of the car in the garage when I brought them inside.
I don't know what the lesson is here, if any. I can't imagine putting eggs in the bag with ground beef and nothing else. But then why didn't I get all the groceries? Why didn't I read the sign correctly? Oh well, my dog Hoover and I had a great breakfast, scrambled eggs from the older eggs that had been in the refrigerator, just in case I decide to trash the fresh eggs.
In the meantime, isn't there a law about this kind of advertising. It is disgusting they can't say pears are $1.00 lb. instead of 10 lbs.for $10.00. Some people don't know that if you buy 1 lb. it's still $1.00/lb. If you aren't totally fluent in English, you wouldn't get the subtle difference of when you have to buy ten to get the sale price for one ot when you can buy one and get the sale price.
No this is not a riddle, just another day of grocery shopping at Kroger. I think I'll just shop at another store where they don't spend so much money on misleading advertising and huge displays. But those stores are very few. Even Staples had a sale sign, one cent each for notebook folders. In tiny print it said "limit 10," and in even smaller print that you had to buy $5.00 on other things. Teachers could get 25 for a penny each. It was a great deal except I went back four times, and spent about $50,00 on other stuff.
Is this brilliance or the onset of Alzheimer's Disease?
Mom
RESPONSES
THOMAS:
Yeah, I understand. A lot of misleading language out there. It's best to double check things. I called before going to a job this morning, It's not until next week. So, these things happen. I'm keeping a planner now. Imagine that. So, it helps to write down what you are doing and look at it so you know you are on track.
DAVID:
1. Put this on White Buffalo Bonanza.
2. I think you've discovered the origin of the kosher practice of separating meat and dairy!
3. Pick up The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollen (same author as Botany of Desire). He touches on some of these topics (the signs in the store).
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