I came across this novel idea when looking for shopping advice. Say you have a buy-one-get-one-free deal at a supermarket. These happen often enough. The thing is, it’s not exactly buy-one-get-one-free. It’s more like buy-two-for-the-price-of-one, because, let’s face it, you can’t just buy one and then stuff the other one in your pants and walk out past the security guard. It doesn’t work that way. You’ll get arrested for shoplifting a free item. You’ve still got to ring the item up.
The thing is, given that it’s really two for the price of one, you can use two coupons during a BOGO (buy-one-get-one) sale. Usually, the stores only allow using one coupon per purchase. However, since you’re actually buying two items, you can use a coupon for both of them.
Say there’s a big vat of…I don’t know…grape seed oil or something, and it’s a two for one sale. And then there’s a separate coupon for grape seed oil that’s a dollar off. If the original price of the oil is $5, and the sale is two for one, so now it’s $2.50. If you use a one dollar coupon on both of them, even though you’re “getting one free,” then how many pancakes does it take to cover a doghouse?
Ha ha, what I meant to say is that instead of getting two for the normal price of $10, you’re getting two for $3. That way, the power of the coupons are magnified.
And it doesn’t matter if the store rings it up as one for $5 and one for free, or both for $2.50. Either way the coupon will work, because the computer sees no other way to do it, since you’ve got to ring both of them up.
Happy shopping!
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