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More expensive by the dozen?
Bedsit Bob
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I was in Poundstretcher yesterday, and spotted some cat food, at 39p a tin, or 3 tins for £1.
I asked at the counter, for a tray of 12 tins.
The till girl called another member of staff, who fetched a tray and one loose can.
The till girl scanned the single can, then entered x12.
The price came up as, you've guessed it, £4-68.
I pointed out that it was 3 tins for £1.
She then went through the business of adjusting the price on the till, and making a hand-written entry on a sheet, to show why she had "discounted" the price.
Surely it can't be that hard, to program the till, to recognise that 12 is 4 lots of 3
I asked at the counter, for a tray of 12 tins.
The till girl called another member of staff, who fetched a tray and one loose can.
The till girl scanned the single can, then entered x12.
The price came up as, you've guessed it, £4-68.
I pointed out that it was 3 tins for £1.
She then went through the business of adjusting the price on the till, and making a hand-written entry on a sheet, to show why she had "discounted" the price.
Surely it can't be that hard, to program the till, to recognise that 12 is 4 lots of 3
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Just a bit ridiculous that, in this age, a till can't cope with a 39p a tin, or 3 tins for £1, deal.
I just thought it was worth commenting, on how ridiculous it is that, in this day and age, they can't get their tills to cope with something as simple as 3 cans for less than the price of 3x1 can.
Why in this day and age can't my tills automatically process deals ?
Because I opted for the shop owner not to bankrupt himself with crazy expensive till systems and instead got some cheaper models that dont have all the bells and whistles on them. A pain in the arse ya because I know how good tills can be, but for various reasons we decided to use others.
So in this day and age tills can do these things, but not everybody has them.
You would think a major company, like Pounstretcher would have them.
Poundland & Poundworld have them.
Very good reply i can understand it in your case small shop owner ect ect.
But poundstretcher are a national highly profitable chain whose tills should be more modern and up to date surely.
or people who own them
I forget which
Dear oh dear.
That would have still come to £4.68 though.
The report button took a bashing.
LOL
All the good bits are gone.
I think Bob is a nice guy, but if he is over reacting this much, its probably best he spend a week or two away from the forum IMO. This forum is not real life and shouldn't ever get you upset/stressed out.
That would be a fair comparison if the people designing rockets, probes and performing heart surgery are also the same people programming and setting up tills but they're not.
I said that, but it got deleted
I bet the tills in the NASA gift shop can handle 3 for 2, 20% off for pensioners, reduced to clear and coupons all at the same time
and under different magnitudes of gravitational pull