Taking a stethoscope to the Shops
Pick of the Prices
Not the first time a roving pasty muncher has picked up on stupid price promotion – see Supermarket Swizz – No Deal where our wandering eye spotted Tesco taking the little in every little helps to the minimum of price cuts – a penny off a litre of whiskey and Sainsbury’s shelf edges announcing that the promotion price of a pack of Hobgoblin Ale was exactly the same as before – no change.
Somerfield have now taken a step futher in a bizarre ploy to confuse bargain 
hunters even more. Possibly working on the premiss that if a price is enlarged on a shelf edge label then shoppers will assume it to be a bargain. All Bottled Ales Priced at £1.69 (various sizes) now
£1.72.
Either the marketing people had done no research in the effect of adding 3p to the existing price or considered the 69 to be a bit of a mouthful.
Stethoscope Swizz
Its not just in supermarkets and on the high street buyers need beware – online retailers too can bowl the odd googly.
This panel form an online medical supply website was found during the peak season for stethoscope sales to the fresh intake of medicl school students somefound this disappointment when Discount Nurses announced their sale on leading models of stethoscopes. One aspiring Doctor said “I’d read that Littmann Stethoscopes were amongst the best stethoscopes for medical professionals – what I wasn’t expecting was to see the prices increase before my very eye”
After further searching the same stethoscope was found on Amazon.com a little cheaper. In the UK Amazon only appears stock stethoscope
Sometimes it all goes wrong
Who can’t forget the online giant Amazon closing its operations when it was notified that it was selling hand held Asus eee pcs for a fraction of the correct price £7.32 instead of £197!
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I was wandering around my local ASDA last Sunday, i was looking closely at some off the Yellow Label offers, and most of them are pretty ridiculous, like 3p off and stuff! Very Irritating.
Yeah this kind of stuff is pretty funny. It just gives the illusion to the customer…. A lot of the time you don’t have time to read all the price cuts, however subconsciously you do notice them. Also some of them need to cut their prices when they make their claims in their adverts.
I used to work for safeway then morissons. I noticed one night on mcvites choclate digestive the biger value pack cost more per gram than the smaller version (used to show price per 100gram or something) don’t know where the value bit came in, marketing gone mad.
There’s always some instances that some medical apparatus like stethoscope will increase it’s price, it is because the demand of that thing also increases. But customers also will see to it that they buy an item with an exact price, and be well acquainted of the details and information for the benefit of everyone.
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