PaulandNic

Seen it all now!

Go to local IGA for a few bits and grab a 1.25ltr bottle of coke on the shelf for $1.99.

Now standing in the queue to pay and I see them in the fridge, but with $3.80 under em. I thought it was an error so swapped with shelf one, but passed it thru first and clocked the till ... $3.80, so I questioned the price and she said "yeah, 2 diff prices for shelf or fridge!"



Ice cubes work fine I told my son, who it was for, but seriously can this be allowed?

moneypenny20

They can charge what they like. If someone is prepared to spend $3.80 then they'll charge it. I would. Charge it I mean, not buy it.

PaulandNic

Oh me too, just wouldn't of thought they could charge 2 prices for the same item ...

moneypenny20

They're using electricity to cool the drinks. Judging by my last leccy bill, they're probably not making a profit. Joke. I've been in a bottle shop and seen people happily pay extra for the stuff out of the chiller than the same thing on the floor because they don't have to worry about chilling it themselves. More money than sense, some people.

Zen10

So the till automatically clocked it at $3.80? I mean, she didn't feel it was chilled and manually put it through at a higher price?

lapin_windstar

Of course.

nickyjohnt

Not Coke but last week i bought the sunday paper in Port Hedland price on the paper $2.20..at the checkout charged $3.40 I pointed out the price on the paper... Oh thats the other price ...So it looks like they can charge what they like I left the paper on the counter.

newjersey

in the state of New York they charge different prices for gasoline self-pumped vs attendant pumped, been like that for as long as I care to remember. In NJ across the state line it is one price for the only reason that you are not allowed to pump your own gas weird innit

Tr1boy

They used to do that in Oz as well when I first arrived ('89). The only place you'd find attendant pumped petrol was in the country but it was very often a different price. If you chose to have the attendant option they'd usually clean your screen and check oil as well if you wanted them to.

Haven't seen any of those service stations for years.

Alfresco

Yeah, I wonder if the barcodes were the same.

roaringmouse

From what I've seen the chilled bottles tend to be a different size to the others - e.g. 1.25 litre bottles on the shelf, 1.5 litre chilled but with a big difference in price.

Zen10

I thought this was odd but the comment above about the sizes being different could explain it?? Otherwise (if you were really bloody minded about your chilled drinks) you could just drop a bottle from the shelf into the ice cream freezer while you did your shopping and then pull it out on when you go to the check out - chilled coke at the lower shelf price.

ozzieeagle

I'm sure all those corner type shops used to do that in London when I lived there..... I'm talking in the 70's here.

Either off the shelf behind the counter or one from the fridge, which the owner/attendent would retreive... before the days of glass door customer opened fridges.

I've not seen the larger bottles of Coke in Fridges down here... just the 375ml and 600ml ones. Which incidently are generally dearer than the larger ones of the shelf.

PaulandNic

Nope, dunno how but both same bottle sizes, can only guess barcode batches or something.

The shelf bottle @ $1.99 is exactly the same as the fridge one, bar the chill factor.

Zen10

So chuck it in the freezer when you start your shopping and get it chilled, admittedly this does take money saving to new levels.