More Pizza dumbness:Clean out your refrigerator!

[Quicksilver]

Now this one was back in the days when our pizza place was buy one get one free. It was a saturday night and a lady called just before closing and asked if she could order. I assured that she still could and she proceeded to order a small pizza with a couple of items and I quoted her the price and she said that she only wanted one and not two. I informed that it was buy one-get one free. She told me that she didn't want two because "she didn't have enough room in her refrigerator."

I asked her if it was possible that she could make some room or throw something out or do something because she was entitled to two pizzas. She said no, there wasn't. I shrugged my shoulders and told her the price and of course it was the same price as before and she asked why, since she was only getting one. I explained that I most certainly could put only one pizza in the package for her (we used a double board and bag system back then) if she wanted, but that would not change the price and that was why I suggested that she clean out her refrigerator. She told me I should just divide the price in half since she was only getting one pizza. I informed that we don't sell single pizzas, we sell double pizzas and I cannot just change a price.

Bottom line: after haggling me a bit longer, she did indeed order her infernal single pizza and paid for two because of her full fridge. Without a doubt, one of the dumbest things I have ever seen. I'll have more pizza dumbness for you later!

[batmoody]

We do alot of buy one get one free stuff (BOGO), and we dont allow one item at half price either. You have to buy one to get one free. This does not translate to get one half off. Then come the excuses. The afformentioned,
"I don't have room",
"What am I going to do with two gallons of milk!",
"But if I get two, I'll eat two!",
"Its just me, and I can't eat that much.".

Excuses aren't going to help. You will be charged full price for one. If you dont have the room, etc, you arent going to be forced to take the free one. But you will pay full price for one.
I will even make suggestions like, giving the extra one to a family member, or neighbor who could use it. Or how about a foodbank? Give it to that lady over there with a cartful of kids! Its free!

I think mostly they are just mad that they have to pay full price for one. But the store writes it's orders based on customers getting two items at a time. If we didn't enforce this policy, we would have no way of knowing how many people who would take the 1/2 off or get two. And while their isn't a huge difference between one and two gallons of milk, there is a pretty big difference between 1 and two pallets of milk.

[Ljt09863]

the only time we allow a customer to get an item hlf price when it is BOGO is when we only have one item left.

[pbmods]

Man, the psychology behind bargain shopping. It boggles me at times.

You weren't going to buy ONE. But since it's on sale, now you have to have TWO?

(or in this case, you weren't going to buy it, but if there's a chance you can get it for half off when you're not supposed to....)

Anyway, we have a two-pack of cameras on sale through November. Interestingly enough, in the city the two-pack is actually a buck cheaper than the single pack of the same camera (not so in the suburbs, but that's competitive pricing for you).

I get a lot of customers who don't want two cameras... but nobody's yet taken me up on my offer to have the second camera shipped back to Kodak to help keep prices low.

Sidebar footnote: Ever wonder what the store does with that disposable camera you just dropped off for development? We take the film out, and then we send the camera body back to Kodak (or Fuji or independent service) to have it recycled to help keep prices low.

Incidentally, one of my favorite tactics when I get a customer who wants a BOGO at half off is to offer for him to go in on a two-item purchase with somebody else (and then split the cost between them). Nobody has yet taken me up on this one, either, but I figure I'll throw it out there anyway.

[Lace Neil Singer]

the only time we allow a customer to get an item hlf price when it is BOGOF is when we only have one item left.

Same here, or else they get a voucher.

With pizza BOGOF, I mean, how much room does a pizza take up in the fridge? Couldn't she just stack the pizzas one on top of another?

[Becks]

Couldn't she just stack the pizzas one on top of another?

I'd just put a few slices into big freezer bags.

That was easy.

[Spiffy McMoron]

And if she has a fridge full of food, why would she order pizza?

Then again, I get insane pizza cravings that I HAVE TO CURE, so never mind, it was a dumb question.

[georgiab]

My manger informed a customer that if she bought the set of mattresses that he would sell them to her for 65.00 (if she bought them right then) instead of the ticketed price of 75.00. Of course she decided not to buy them because she had no way of hauling them from the store even though she was informed that we could hold them for X amount of days until she was able to find a vehicle to load them onto. The very next day she calls and asks about them I stated that they were still there but we had three others on there way (who were to pay the 75.00 ticketed price). She then asks how much they are I tell her the ticketed price in which she replies but yesterday he said 65.00...I understand that but that was yesterday if you bought them then.....(that was the bargain) but no she chose not to.....She still got the marked down price because I was not in the mood for a headach...The thing is she came in and bought them but we still had to hold them because she didn't have a vehicle to load them onto.

[Knightmare]

Gotta love Little Caesars. Unfortunately, they aren't around me.
But that story made me remember their ad campaigns about 15 years ago. They had the funniest commercials! The one in particular:

Customer standing at the counter, talking to pizza guy.
Cust: I'd like one pizza
Pizza guy (PG): It's buy one, get one free.
Cust: Then I'll pay for 2 pizzas
PG: Then you'll get 4 pizzas
Cust: Then I'll pay for 4 pizzas
PG: Then you'll get 8 pizzas
Cust: Then I'll pay for 8 pizzas

-Cut to the special of the week, or whatever, and then the end of the commercial

Cust: Then I'll pay for 1,322 pizzas
PG: Then you'll get 2,644 pizzas.

Ok, not as funny when you read it.

BUT I LOVE LITTLE CAESAR'S PIZZA!

[jb17kx]

My responce to any of the above would almost certainly get me fired, but hey...

"FOR GOD'S SAKE WOMAN, YOU'RE GETTING IT FOR FREE! DOES THAT NOT OVERRIDE ANY OTHER COMPULSIVE MONEY-SAVING DESIRE YOU MAY HAVE?
Let's go over it slowly. "Buy one" means that you pay for one item. Okay? "Get one free" means that I then give you another item FOR FREE. GRATIS. NO PAYMENT. COMPRENDE? If you don't want the second item, then just don't take it. I will not give you a discount on an item THAT YOU DON'T WANT!"

[Dips]

The smartass in me would cheerfully refund what she paid for the free pizza by pantomiming giving her back the $0 she paid for it.

[Quicksilver]

The smartass in me would cheerfully refund what she paid for the free pizza by pantomiming giving her back the $0 she paid for it.

I like it! Good answer!

[TYFSOK]

Somewhat related:

Here in Japan, there are vending machines everywhere, and they dispense a wide variety of sizes of drinks.

Coca-Cola usually comes in 500 mL plastic bottles (for 150 yen), or 350 mL cans (for 120 yen). There's also a smaller sized can for only 100 yen. Sometimes in the summers, the price of the 350 mL cans drops to 100 yen as a special. At the same time, a can with 150 bonus mL is produced at the same price as the 350 mL can (that's a 500 mL can of Coke for around a buck).

One day, one of my fellow (foreigner)ALTs was out for a walk with a Japanese friend, and they came upon a vending machine. The American naturally got the 500 mL can, while the Japanese woman grabbed a 350 mL can. The Ameriacan asked her why she didn't get the bigger can.

"Because I won't drink that much."

"But it's the same price! It's like you're wasting money on the smaller size!"

"I'd rather waste the money than the drink."

...they think differently out here, don't they?

[Crow The Robot]

What part of get one free ddin't the woman understand? Wierd, Wierd, wierd.

[Crosshair]

"But it's the same price! It's like you're wasting money on the smaller size!"

"I'd rather waste the money than the drink."

...they think differently out here, don't they?

Considering the problems their economy has gone through in the past, that seems wierd. I remember years ago watching on the news people in Japan lined up converting their money into gold during the recession in the 1990's and the resulting doubling of the unemployment rate. One would think they would be more thrifty than that.