[AlanHo]

Most of us enjoy getting a bargain and yesterday I came away from Tesco with a smile on my face.
(For those not in the UK - I should explain that Tesco is our largest Nation-wide supermarket)

I went with my wife yesterday to buy some winter pansies from our nearest garden centre which shares the Tesco car park. We don't normally shop at Tesco but needed a few groceries and it was convenient to pop in there.

Once in Tesco my wife decided to have a browse through their range of women's clothing - and to pass the time I browsed the electricals, tools, car stuff and finally men's clothing.

They had a rack of men's dinner suits with the jackets and trousers sold and priced separately. I no longer possess a dinner suit - too many dinners over the years and it no longer fitted me - so I took an interest. The Jackets were £44 and the trousers £25 making the total cost £69. I found a jacket my size buried amongst the disorderly jumble and was perplexed to find that the price had been changed to just £1 - that is not a typing error - I mean just one pound.  It was the only jacket on the rack at that price and I thought that there must be something wrong with it. My wife and I carefully inspected it and could see nothing wrong - so it went into the basket.  I then found on a separate rack some matching trousers reduced to £8 - so these too went into the basket.  You must agree - a brand new reasonably good quality tuxedo and trousers for just £9 has got to be a bit of a bargain - but read on.

I was concerned that at the check-out it would be found that the jacket pricing was an error - perhaps some joker had stuck a £1 sticker on the label for a bit of perverse fun. However - when the check-out assistant scanned the label the price came up as just £0.04 - four pence. She explained that as part of the recent Tesco price war with other supermarkets they were randomly pricing many things at just £1 and that the £1 items that day had been reduced to four pence. 

Hence I came away with my new dinner suit for the total cost of £8.04 - less than you might pay in a charity shop.


I now have to find a reason to wear it - the cost for that will eat up my savings.....

[Shambles]

I'm guessing the ink on the "reduced to £1" sticker cost more than the eventual 4p

I love a bargain too, so I'm pleased for you.

But fear not... should the jacket indeed turn out to be faulty, you can easily return it and demand a refund

[Dazzler]

You are a man after my own heart... 

The best I have managed in the last 12 months are smart work shoes for $15 .. supposed to be $26 on special but they honoured the price ticket and $12 (one day only special) for some work trousers..

Although Ironically yesterday I got 4 x screw in mini fluros for $6 as they scanned wrongly so I got one twin pack for free and the other pack for the ticketed price of $6 .. They averaged about $5 each in the other shops I checked 

But.. your bargains make my stuff look decadent 

[eye30]

 

That must be the bargain of the year unless anyone else can beat the jacket price.......

[Surferdude]

Are you Scottish, Alan?

[Shambles]

Thanks for forwarding the photo from the fitting room, Alan

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[AlanHo]

You even caught me with a blank look on my face...............

[rustynutz]

Good one, Alan.......

I got a bargain a few weeks back, 2 pairs of Diadora walking shoes for $25. 

[Ugly Mongrel]

Good one, Alan.......

I got a bargain a few weeks back, 2 pairs of Diadora walking shoes for $25. 

Are you a four-footed rustynutz???

[rustynutz]

It feels like it at times....

[2i30s]

I've bought things on sale at supposedly reduced prices a few times, and later on found the same item cheaper elsewhere,and not even on sale. 

[Phil №❶]

me 2, I hate it when that happens.

Happened recently with the fitting of our solar cells 

[2i30s]

i now shop around by going too 4 or 5 different shops that sell a similar item.    last weeken i bought a ducted airconditioner/heater for $7,500 FITTED,2 OTHER STORES WANTED $11,000 AND $9,500 FOR THE SAME UNIT.  it pays to shop around. 

[Surferdude]

47,500  Shoulda shopped around BEFORE you bought it.

Or, did you hit the 4 instead of the $.................

[2i30s]

47,500  Shoulda shopped around BEFORE you bought it.

Or, did you hit the 4 instead of the $.................

you need to update your reading glasses Trev,or its time get some. 

[Surferdude]

You're just lucky I didn't hit "quote" when I replied.

But you and I know the truth, don't we?

[2i30s]

You're just lucky I didn't hit "quote" when I replied.

But you and I know the truth, don't we?

i never revised my post mate ,honest.  it doesn't say i revised it below it. 

[Surferdude]

 

[Surferdude]

You're just lucky I didn't hit "quote" when I replied.

But you and I know the truth, don't we?

i never revised my post mate ,honest.  it doesn't say i revised it below it. 

No, coz I fixed it for you.