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Name: Charles Letterman
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Enticed in by the Sales signs and in need of some new shirts I went into Austin Reed in Kingston's Bentall Centre. Although my main reason for going out had been to buy a new pair of boots in Jones ("the bootmakers") they only had shoes, and I couldn't go home empty handed.
Formal shirts were on a two for three in Austin Reed and there were also shirts marked down by half price. I found one shirt in the half price bay and then picked out another three formal shirts. The three formal shirt were £50 each and the half price came in at a few pence short of £25.
"That'll be £150 pounds", said the sales assistant after scanning
in the bar codes.
"£150? You have two for
three on formal, that's those ones", I said, isolating the three shirts on
the sales counter, "and then this one" I continued, while picking it up,
"is on sale"
"No", said the sales assistant, shaking his head, "that one is
the free shirt"
"In that case it would be cheaper for me to run these through as two separate transactions, can I do that?"
He hesitates, then quietly cancels the transaction, and runs the items through again as two separate sales. "That's accountants for you", he explains, while handing me the single bag. As I leave I feel, erroneously, as if I'm up £25 - Wuwho! Next stop Threshers.
Posted in: Business
Tags: Austin Reed | Two for Three | Marketing
