I hate BOGOFs, 3 for 2, 4 for 3 and similar offers

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Because usually I only want to buy ONE item, not 2 or 3 or 4 whatever. Or maybe I do want 2 but I don't want 4 yet the offer is only on 4 which will go off before I can consume, and I'm thinking "You bastards, just offer the basic single item at a basic low price, thanks."
This is why I shop in Lidl (except that Lidl had a 4 for 3 offer today, on an item I only wanted one of, and I wanted to screech).
When I only one item but it's on BOGOF, I always think "If you can offer BOGOF then I bet someone else is just plain selling it cheaper for each, I am not going to buy 2 when I only need one so I'll buy something else altogether. I wonder if the shop across the road has it cheaper for single items..."

I don't want to be manipulated.

Do you think I'm mad or does anyone else have the same reaction?

I just shop in Aldi where it costs about £35 less than Tesco etc each time.

It is a bit annoying , esoecially if theres different offers on a different shops and its not always easy to wirk out ehich is the best deal.

Not sure if this is still the case but I lived in the USA in the early 90's and there if they had a 3 for 2 or similar they would sell you one for a third of the price of 2 items so those who either couldn't afford or didn't want to buy in bulk weren't penalised. Not a bad idea

Sorry about the typos, on phone and bf DD

I hate BOGOFs on items that either a) have a use by date or b) are heavy (when I would struggle to lug multiple items home). It actually stops me from buying items that I had gone into the shop intending to buy as I feel I am being ripped off if I only take one.

It's infuriating. If I buy one at the inflated price I know I'm just subsidising all the two for one sales.

YANBU. It's fine when it's on non-consumables, but how big is the family that can get through, say, two punnets of satsumas before they rot - and how abiding is their love of citrus?

I know this, yet I find it really hard to resist the free one. And if I do manage to, I then have to go to the self-checkout to avoid the following conversation with the cashier:

Them: this is buy one get one free.
Me: yes I know but I only want the one.
Them: but the second one is free...
Me: yes but it'll go off before I can use it so there's no point me taking it.
Them: but it's FREE!
Me: yes but I DON'T WANT IT!!!!

Aargh.

Drives me crazy. Waterstones 3-for-2 were the worst. I'd go into a shop for one book, find one other that I quite fancied, and then every other book I liked was not included in the desk. I lost count of the number of times I muttered "well sod you then" and walked out empty handed rather than feel ripped off.

Err "desk" = "deal"

If there's a BOGOF offer on a non-perishable item, you could always put the free one in the food collection.

I love a bargain and I love BOGOFs
but I do think its not fair on singles/the elderly who cannot eat or cart around lots of extra shopping

the worst/daftest offer I ever saw was ketchup in asda 2 for £2 or £2.15 each - how does that work? buy being unable to carry 2, you have to pay more than the price of 2 to buy just one???

I don't drive, so mum takes me shopping and does some while she is there. Things that are on offer, that we dont want more than 1 of, we split.

Agreed, its a complete con. I spend less than ever in the big supermarkets as a backlash against them. I use markets and individual stores whenever I have the possibility. TBH life's too short to tot up whether I am saving much money but just on lack of impulse purchases alone, I am spending less. If I do use the big name supermarkets, then I have an aversion to bogofs and use a different brand!

If it's something you were going to buy anyway and are happy to pay the normal price for one item, what's the problem? Go about your day.

Patronising as it sounds, I prefer going with DH if he suggests shopping. The number of times he has come back with three punnets of cherries - enough for one summer, or three boxes of Pringles - that's the only time we eat them! I'd just rather not bother.
Unless it's babymilk or washing up liquid or something we use that won't go off - unperishables?

I also dislike BOGOF for the reason that beals mentioned. I struggle to carry the shopping home and I don't want to stock up on extras just because they're on offer but I don't feel I can take only one when the second one is free.

My local supermarket has had tomatoes and strawberries on multi offers but we won't eat them quickly enough before they get too ripe so I buy one pack/punnet and feel a bit cheated.

There is a misconception that somehow the supermarket has assumed the liability - it is usually the farmer or manufacturer who shoulders the cost.

Why can it not just be 1/2 price?

It's a false economy with food, especially with food that will go off, there's only me and ds.

to be fair, there ARE also plenty of 1/2 price offers or £1 off things, all the time.

I stock upon daz 4 boxes at a time when its half price, we don't use any more of it or any quicker! I do realise I am VERY lucky in being able to without trashing our family budget!

I also frequently give the "free" item, if I would have bought one anyway, to the food bank eg if a 4pk of tinned toms or tuna is on BOGOF, that's a lot (and I dont have much cupboard space either!)so I give away the freebie

It's useful with things like shower gel, especially if it's a whole range and you have fussy kids who all like different ones you have storage space, but for perishables it's a pain.

I like the idea of giving the freebie to a food bank.

That's why I like going shopping with my Dad, he'll buy them and I have the free one! Plus he buys me lunch. Win!

The reason they do bogof rather than half price is that you use their products longer before potentially moving to a competitor - often used to combat new product launches

Interesting.
All the more reason not to let the bastards manipulate me.

So BOGOF really means... I should hold out buying anything until the competitor's items soon come on promotion at an even better deal. Ace, file that one away for future reference.

I used to be irritated at this but now just put the extra free one in the food bank receptacle. Win, win as far as I'm concerned!

I'm always peeved when it comes to BOGOFs that I have to buy double the amount I need, but when I see somthing that's half price, it's such a good bargain that I always buy two!