This ranks low in the scam scale, and it’s been around for decades, which leads me to believe it works well enough to keep around. At (some) supermarkets whenever an item is on sale the bright attention grabbing tag will say something like 3/$6 or 10/$10 leading you to believe you have to buy 3 or 10 or whatever at the same time to get the deal, when really the sale price is just $2 or $1 for the items in these examples, and you can buy however little you want.
Maybe adults don’t fall for it, but it sure worked on me when I was a dumb kid spending my few dollars I had on candy or whatever.
Yeah they do that at convenience stores with the single bottles. Like you’re not already paying more for one bottle than you would for a 12pack/2liter already.
This ranks low in the scam scale, and it’s been around for decades, which leads me to believe it works well enough to keep around. At (some) supermarkets whenever an item is on sale the bright attention grabbing tag will say something like 3/$6 or 10/$10 leading you to believe you have to buy 3 or 10 or whatever at the same time to get the deal, when really the sale price is just $2 or $1 for the items in these examples, and you can buy however little you want.
Maybe adults don’t fall for it, but it sure worked on me when I was a dumb kid spending my few dollars I had on candy or whatever.
This varies. There are some stores where it really is 10 for $10 and individual items will ring up at $1.19 or whatever. It can pay to ask.
Notable exceptions include sale prices by Target and Circle K/Holiday, which typically do require you to buy the posted quantity to get the deal
Learned that one the hard way at Target one day
Edit: In the US
Guidelines in Ontario for retail were that “unless you list the price for 1, you must honour the unit price for combo deal”…
Grocery stores in Canada are much more commonly now “3/$7 or $2.99 each for less than 3.”
That’s a hell of a lot better than needing to buy all of them to get the sale price.
True. That’s usually the case with 12 packs of soda. Gotta buy 3 or 5 or whatever or you get nothin’
Yeah they do that at convenience stores with the single bottles. Like you’re not already paying more for one bottle than you would for a 12pack/2liter already.