Years ago a local model shop had a sale on, 20% off Tamyia kits and 30% off Revell kits. The shop was part of a chain and had a pimpley faced yoof manager who programmed the tills thus - Tamyia kit price x 0.2 Revell kit price x 0.3
Needless to say the sale went very well. I ended up with 3 Radio Controlled cars :-)
Yeah, this morning I was in Tesco and they were selling "twisted" Starburst packs for 18p each. Their "Special Offer" price? - 2 for 50p! Needless to say, I only had one...
OT for this but Tesco and others also show a lack of understanding of what most of us mean by "Ready to eat"...
ReplyDeleteI frequently report those "half price" errors to my local supermarkets and they look at me with "Get a life" eyes every time.
Years ago a local model shop had a sale on, 20% off Tamyia kits and 30% off Revell kits. The shop was part of a chain and had a pimpley faced yoof manager who programmed the tills thus -
ReplyDeleteTamyia kit price x 0.2
Revell kit price x 0.3
Needless to say the sale went very well. I ended up with 3 Radio Controlled cars :-)
this is probably a fair reflection of the general levels of numeracy in axminster...
ReplyDeleteTurns out this may be more widespread than Axminster - Tesco near Bracknell had the same prices as in the photos.
ReplyDeleteSo take back your Axminster-sleight, Ashley!
Wow, perhaps SciencePunk needs to start a whole Tesco Bad Math section
ReplyDeleteYeah, this morning I was in Tesco and they were selling "twisted" Starburst packs for 18p each. Their "Special Offer" price? - 2 for 50p! Needless to say, I only had one...
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