A Woman Defended Me At The Pizza Place

[lio45]

Yeah very often the burger plus one part of the trio is more expensive than the trio. Looking briefly online I did see one article with prices mention 5.99 for the burger and 10.25 for the trio. That does seem like a much bigger gap than normal. Usually it's around a $2 gap which ends up making sense. There's a McDonalds in the bus terminus on my way home, I'll check today.

The burger was $5.99 and the trio was $11.48 as of last week at the McDonald's atop the hill on King Street East in Sherbrooke QC.

A normal Big Mac is $5 (so, the bacon adds a dollar, which is normal) but the normal Big Mac trio is something like ~$8 (a normal price - but then that extra bacon costs you $3! which isn't normal).


[Precision: that exclamation point expresses anger/surprise at that highway robbery, the bacon does not actually cost three factorial, which would be six. It's always been somewhat amusing to me that mathematically, if you want to exclaim "five!" you're actually saying a hundred and twenty.]

[Y.T.]

Wait, so the woman left without buying anything?

[Bartmanhomer]

Wait, so the woman left without buying anything?

No she didn't buy anything at all. She just left because I'm guessing she didn't like the service that the pizza place is running.

[JeenLeen]

On combos sometimes being odd.
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At Burger King, at least here where I live, it's cheaper to buy two 10-piece chicken nuggets than it is to buy the 20-piece. (I think something like $3 for two 10-piece, while $5 for a 20-piece.) From what I can tell, there wasn't sale going on.
I'm glad they weren't busy when I was there, since that gave me time to look over the menu, realize that oddity, and ask if it was correct or if I was misreading it. The clerk rather nicely said I was correct. From working in fast food previously, I reckon she was amused someone caught the cheaper way to order.

Since 'dollar menu' things now tend to be something like 1.00 to 1.59, I find it harder to tell if ordering a combo is cheaper than ordering its composite parts.

I also noticed at Sam's that, when ordering a pizza combo, the drink portion is something like 50 cents, while if you order a hot dog combo, the drink portion is something like 30 cents. (What I mean by 'drink portion' is the price of the drink above what buying the food item alone would be.) This is a little interesting to me since the hot dogs themselves are cheaper than pizza, so it incentivizes buying the cheaper item overall. (At least, it does for me, since I like getting the cheapest deal, even if the food isn't as tastey. Though their hot dogs are rather good, as hot dogs go.)

Also, where I work, they sell hot wings in our cafeteria-like place. It's cheaper to buy two 4-piece of wings than it is to buy a 7-piece.

[Murk]

Wait, so the woman left without buying anything?

That's what surprised me too. I'm thinking the woman was in on it. What "it" is I'm not sure yet, but I sense a conspiracy. So far it reminds me of a good cop/bad cop routine.

[Bartmanhomer]

That's what surprised me too. I'm thinking the woman was in on it. What "it" is I'm not sure yet, but I sense a conspiracy. So far it reminds me of a good cop/bad cop routine.

What's conspiracy?! Explain yourself, please I really do need to know. And please don't say that the pizza place is run by pizza aliens!

[Razade]

What's conspiracy?! Explain yourself, please I really do need to know. And please don't say that the pizza place is run by pizza aliens!

The pizza place is run by aliens.

[Bartmanhomer]

The pizza place is run by aliens.

I told you not to say that.

[JeenLeen]

Technically, you said not to say they are pizza aliens, and Razade's statement is about generic aliens without description. Though I suppose either type managing one's pizza place is disturbing, though I would find pizza aliens serving me pizza more disturbing.

And I'm guessing Murk was just joking. I could see the lady legitimately being upset at the service and not wanting to give the shop any money after that. Seems odd, maybe, but nothing conspiratorial. I can't see the shop gaining anything by having a person pose as an angry customer who decides not to buy anything. They don't even generate good will by that.

[Bartmanhomer]

Technically, you said not to say they are pizza aliens, and Razade's statement is about generic aliens without description. Though I suppose either type managing one's pizza place is disturbing, though I would find pizza aliens serving me pizza more disturbing.

And I'm guessing Murk was just joking. I could see the lady legitimately being upset at the service and not wanting to give the shop any money after that. Seems odd, maybe, but nothing conspiratorial. I can't see the shop gaining anything by having a person pose as an angry customer who decides not to buy anything. They don't even generate good will by that.

I meant pizza space aliens. Sorry if I wasn't specific earlier.

[JeenLeen]

For clarity, I meant space aliens as well. I assumed all aliens spoken of were referring to extraterrestrial beings, whether they are composed of/related to pizza or not.

I was just meaning to add some linguistic nitpicking, kindly-meant, to the joke. I'm not real used to using smileys or interpreting them, though. If I gave offense or led to frustration, my apologies.

[Coidzor]

Y'know, I wonder if people have made a Pizza Space Princess to go along with Lumpy Space Princess.

Probably, considering Tumblr.

[Liquor Box]

I told you not to say that.

What's conspiracy?! Explain yourself, please I really do need to know. And please don't say that the pizza place is run by pizza aliens!

I meant pizza space aliens. Sorry if I wasn't specific earlier.

Sometimes I wonder if Bart is stringing other posters along, and if the joke is really on them.

[Razade]

I told you not to say that.

You're not the boss of me. What're you going to do about it? I only listen to the Space Pizza Aliens.

[Chromascope3D]

At Burger King, at least here where I live, it's cheaper to buy two 10-piece chicken nuggets than it is to buy the 20-piece. (I think something like $3 for two 10-piece, while $5 for a 20-piece.) From what I can tell, there wasn't sale going on.
I'm glad they weren't busy when I was there, since that gave me time to look over the menu, realize that oddity, and ask if it was correct or if I was misreading it. The clerk rather nicely said I was correct. From working in fast food previously, I reckon she was amused someone caught the cheaper way to order.

Nah, it's not just you, unless you happen to live in Alabama. I really have to wonder how some major burger chain managed that oversight, unless it was intentional, for whatever reason.

[Anonymouswizard]

You're not the boss of me. What're you going to do about it? I only listen to the Space Pizza Aliens.

But are they legal pizza space aliens or illegal pizza space aliens?

[Razade]

But are they legal pizza space aliens or illegal pizza space aliens?

Pizza aliens don't care about jurisdictions our puny non-cheese and bread based lifeforms.

[Viathon]

Awesome people are awesome! I'm glad there are still people who aren't afraid to stand up for others.

[Gnomvid]

But are they legal pizza space aliens or illegal pizza space aliens?

The real question here is: are the Pizza space aliens run by Pizza the Hut?

[T-Mick]

Sometimes I wonder if Bart is stringing other posters along, and if the joke is really on them.

My question for the past year.

It's been a while since I bet on page count. I'll say this topic has another page left in it before it gets heated and closed. Any takers?

[Wardog]

Deals that aren't actually deals are quite common round where I live.

Supermarkets typically sell bagged fruit and vegetables at higher prices (£/kg) than the same stuff loose. And I've occasionally seen a number of multi-buy deals that are worse than buying make the items more expensive.

I've also recently seen a number of pubs and small shops offering joke deals, like "Buy one for twice the price, get a second one free!".

[2D8HP]

Deals that aren't actually deals are....

At my last retail job (1993 2000), the owner would eveyr so often glance around the shop, pick out an item, order the price tripled, and then say to sell it at "50% off".

[Anonymouswizard]

At my last retail job (1993 2000), the owner would eveyr so often glance around the shop, pick out an item, order the price tripled, and then say to sell it at "50% off".

I personally am wise to the 'double/triple the price and then sell at 50% off' trick (as in I've seriously seen places increase the price just so more people by at the 'deal' price, which is what I paid for it beforehand), and have a mental list of 'I expect X to cost about £Y' to help me catch them. Although I know we have more regulations regarding deals than America does (I believe that for sales specifically you have to prove you sold it at the 'standard' price for a certain amount of time, most of us know that the expected price is still the sale price 80% of the time). I don't think I've ever seen a multi-buy deal worse than the individual parts, although bagged fruit and veg is generally a tad more expensive (which is why I tend to buy loose fruit and potatoes, I don't need to pay for them to be weighed and bagged).

Because I know that if I see three cans of brand name tuna going for £3 then I've got an actual deal (when that one showed up it equated to at least a 33% price drop for about two months, there were a lot more tuna sandwiches than normal), and I suspect a decent proportion of people do have an awareness of what they buy regularly that they can easily spot a fake deal.

[Chen]

Deals that aren't actually deals are quite common round where I live.

Supermarkets typically sell bagged fruit and vegetables at higher prices (£/kg) than the same stuff loose. And I've occasionally seen a number of multi-buy deals that are worse than buying make the items more expensive.

That's more a convenience thing than a non-deal though. Pre-packaged foods are going to be more expensive even if it's literally the identical loose product. Occasionally you'll see things where the smaller packages have better $/weight value than a larger package, but these tend to be when one is on sale and the other isn't. It's usually some sort of inventory issue at the store (this happens with groceries fairly frequently).

[Liquor Box]

I personally am wise to the 'double/triple the price and then sell at 50% off' trick (as in I've seriously seen places increase the price just so more people by at the 'deal' price, which is what I paid for it beforehand), and have a mental list of 'I expect X to cost about £Y' to help me catch them. Although I know we have more regulations regarding deals than America does (I believe that for sales specifically you have to prove you sold it at the 'standard' price for a certain amount of time, most of us know that the expected price is still the sale price 80% of the time). I don't think I've ever seen a multi-buy deal worse than the individual parts, although bagged fruit and veg is generally a tad more expensive (which is why I tend to buy loose fruit and potatoes, I don't need to pay for them to be weighed and bagged).

Because I know that if I see three cans of brand name tuna going for £3 then I've got an actual deal (when that one showed up it equated to at least a 33% price drop for about two months, there were a lot more tuna sandwiches than normal), and I suspect a decent proportion of people do have an awareness of what they buy regularly that they can easily spot a fake deal.

Yeah, it is illegal to increase the price then pretend to be offering a discount here as well.

[Anonymouswizard]

Yeah, it is illegal to increase the price then pretend to be offering a discount here as well.

It's weird, I have seen places here jack up the price and then offer a discount, but it generally comes out as 'costs as much as or a bit less than the normal price'. Although there are plenty of jokes about how certain stores have split their stock into two sections, the 'winter sale' lot and the 'summer sale' lot, and just switch which is easily noticeable. Honestly the idea of an item perpetually on sale confuses me because I'm used to how it's done here.

[Peelee]

Honestly the idea of an item perpetually on sale confuses me because I'm used to how it's done here.

There's an old saying. If it's always on sale, then it's never on sale.

[Keltest]

There's an old saying. If it's always on sale, then it's never on sale.

The store I work at has "every day low price" items, which are, basically, always on sale. And youre right, the point is that the item is perpetually at a lower price than it was before it got that tag.

[Aedilred]

That's what surprised me too. I'm thinking the woman was in on it. What "it" is I'm not sure yet, but I sense a conspiracy. So far it reminds me of a good cop/bad cop routine.

Given how badly Bartmanhomer has communicated the details of this very simple situation, and the way that, the more details he is eventually prevailed upon to clarify, the less sense the whole scenario makes, I am minded to think that he is either making a substantial portion (possibly the entirety) of this story up or that his failure to communicate adequately manifested itself in the scenario in question, with confusing results for everyone involved.

[lio45]

Given how badly Bartmanhomer has communicated the details of this very simple situation, and the way that, the more details he is eventually prevailed upon to clarify, the less sense the whole scenario makes, I am minded to think that he is either making a substantial portion (possibly the entirety) of this story up or that his failure to communicate adequately manifested itself in the scenario in question, with confusing results for everyone involved.

Yep, and I unfortunately think it doesn't augur well for his infamous business with that movie theater lady, given that obtaining her phone number then going on dates is orders of magnitude more difficult than successfully ordering pizza.

Advice: set your sights on reasonable goals first, don't try to aim too high. When your basic skills have improved, then you can gradually change the target.