Love the
Melbourne Cup, espically as it gives us
an excuse for 4 glorious days in the high country.
Low on fuel I pulled up at the Safeway servo this wednesday morning
feeling happy that fuel is at its low cost point and took on 135lt unleaded.
The 4c voucher meant that it was $1.039/ lt , but then I noticed a label attached to the pump said "get 4c extra off by buying $5 of goods in store".
Now some quick math says 4 X 135 = $5.40
Can this be true - they will pay me 40c to take $5 worth of goods out of the
shop ?
I quickly spotted some Cherry ripe bars that came to $5.20
and stuck them on the counter.
Problem! The cherry ripe bars were on special and only came to $4.60
so because they were on special they didn't come to the $5 minimum.
This caused some discussion amongst the staff, who in the end decided
that I had to buy 40c more of goods.
I offered to give them 40c, but after further discussion this was not
accepable cause the system couldn't handle a credit.
With the queue growing behind me, I came to a compromise and swapped the
Cherry ripes for Kit-Kats which weren't on special and got my $5.40 credit
by paying $5.20
I.E. The store paid me 20c for walking away with 2 big Kit-Kat bars.
What a strange little world we live in ?
Robin Miller