Sainsbury’s mocked for ‘Fifty Pence Challenge’ to boost profits
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Sainsbury’s mocked for ‘Fifty Pence Challenge’ to boost profits
30-09-2014 3:10 PM
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Sainsbury’s was alerted to its mistake by Chris Dodd, a TV freelancer, who spotted the poster in the grocer’s store on Romford Road in Stratford.
He posted a photo of the poster to the supermarket's official Twitter account, @Sainsburys, with the message: “Not sure this is meant to be in your window.”
In response, Ross, an employee in the grocer’s customer services team, said: “Yeah, I don't think so either. Which store was this? I'll give them a call. Ross.”
But Mr Dodd refused to reveal the location of the store, saying he would rather people knew what Sainsbury’s is up to.
Ross subsequently acknowledged the poster was meant for “staff areas”, and was not intended to be seen by the public.
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Wait no longer (Here it is)

What inventive ways would you to encourage shoppers to spend an extra 50p on their shopping ?

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30-09-2014 3:20 PM
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Quote from: TORPC What inventive ways would you to encourage shoppers to spend an extra 50p on their shopping ?
Having polite, informative staff, clean stores, enough tills open so that you were next in line whichever one you went to and no more 'Unauthorised item in the bagging area' messages

Oh, the most obvious way, charge an entrance fee of 50p




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30-09-2014 3:34 PM
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30-09-2014 3:48 PM
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I don't use WH Smith very often but when I do they always try to sell me a bar of chocolate at checkout.
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30-09-2014 4:04 PM
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wasn't the positioning of sweets and chocolate products at the till supposed to get stopped some time ago as part of measures to tackle obesity ?
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30-09-2014 6:48 PM
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30-09-2014 6:54 PM
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Got out of the car in the car park and trod straight into a puddle of diesel. Yes dirty disgusting diesel. I got back in the car to move it and my boot stunk the car out in seconds. I went to customer services and grumbled asking for something to clean my boot with as i couldn't have it stinking the car out on my way home. To my surprise they took me to the menswear and told me to pick a pair of shoes!
£25 worth of shoes later, a bag full of rags and cleaner for the car pedals, boots tied up and sealed in carrier bags and a manager coming out with a bag of sand to put over the oil and i left a happy chap as my missus returned with the shopping. She'd got fed up with me taking time, gone to do the shopping and by the time I was sorted out she'd finished


Had to clean the boots and leave them outside for a couple of days but hey.. free pair of shoes!
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30-09-2014 6:58 PM
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problem is they put stuff like that right next to the reduced counter, safe in the knowledge that price savvy shoppers will make a beeline for that part of the store in the hope of finding something they want for less and probably be enticed into also buying the treats as well .......
@sprite
that's a spot of good customer service, quite rare in many places nowadays
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30-09-2014 7:02 PM
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30-09-2014 8:11 PM
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30-09-2014 9:21 PM
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09-10-2014 12:23 PM
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I Spotted this today in the Cambridge 'local' store. If you want six doughnuts there is a mortgage advisor available.
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