squirmy_wormy

It "solved" the singular and bulk pricing. If they chose a lesser value for the single item, then the more you bought, it'd get more expensive.

They gave you the cheapest price for quantity. That's both a scenario and reality.

Well sure - they put one sticker on and it solved everything. Are you suggesting they should have put a sticker to adjust the price of a single item and then also put another sticker on to hide the 3x item? That's not only a waste of stickers and time, it also really doesn't add or remove anything from the situation.

I'd argue you are the mildly infuriating part of this scenario at this point.

I'm assuming the £8 is a sticker put in the item and not what it originally said, since it looks raised and like a sticker.

That leads me to believe the original price under the sticker is greater than £8, which makes the discount make sense. And makes it interesting because the lowest a store could set a single unit and maintain the price curve is £8.

I know. If the single price was anything other than 8, the other hard coded prices give scaling discounts.

The adjusted price saves you money on a single one and removes the bulk savings. Kinda neat to me. Wonder if that was on purpose to make it easier to move stock.

*Edit: hell, the actual way to look at this is you get bulk pricing without the bulk. This is pretty awesome and mildly interesting if anything.

If original price was 9

1 for 9

2 for 18 (deal gives 2 off)

3 for 27 (deal gives 3 off)

If it was 10

1 for 10

2 for 20 (4 off)

3 for 30 (6 off)

Your original post referred to wanting to hire people based on the tools they use to do a task, not their ability to do the task - in fact, you talked down to people for using certain tools by calling them elitist. That's why my pen/pencil comparison is accurate.

Personally, I think caring about that is silly.

Lol that's like not hiring someone because they take notes with a pen instead of a pencil.

I'm pretty sure cold things just taste less. Keep that in mind when a beer is advertised as "best" when freezing cold.

The company addressed the issue though. I'd agree with you if they were like "oh well, things happen" and that was it.

No one got away with anything.