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!