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?

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

It's also economies of scale: manufacturers may have an excess of raw materials/ingredients, or have negotiated/been offered better deals with their suppliers. They can shift X amount of product and make Y profit, or shift 2X amount of product and make 1.5Y profit (for example) - increased volume brings down the per unit cost, but if they can't shift it quickly it just increases warehousing costs (if non-perishable) or as already mentioned from a consumer point of view, will perish before reaching the consumer.

I see a few people have mentioned putting the extra item in the food bank receptacle - Do most supermarkets have these? I've never noticed one at my local Asda but it's a big store and I'm probably not that observant. Is the food collected often enough that fresh produce would still be fresh (and wouldn't get squashed)?

I don't really make use of them either, and it can be very annoying, but one thing I do is, if the veg is on offer then I will get it and make soup and freeze it, or if it is tomatoes then I will make a lot of pasta sauce and freeze that too, but fruit goes off so quick it's not worth buying

It's the 'half price wine' that gives me the biggest rage.

Is there anyone out there fooled into believing that stuff like this is anything other than £5 wine?

Link didn't work but I meant the likes of the Ogio wine that you can only get in Tesco and is 'reduced' from £10 to £5 90% of the time.

Also, exploiting variations in seasonal produce to claim that strawberries for example are 'half price' in summer when they are in season and the full price is when they are out of season and imported in February or whatever. .

I was pondering the sales affect the other morning while having a shower (shower gel about to run out and hoping there'll be an offer on for the one I like ) - the other problem is the sales price becomes "the price" - but it draws you in - some products are on a constant loop of offer price - so that buying it at anything other than the sales price is a rip off.