It sounds like it was in sale. It may be a sale offered by the manufacturer, or one the store is offering directly. Getting rid of old stock is not the only reason things go on sale.
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2025
23 points (89.7% liked)
Asklemmy
44697 readers
983 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy ๐
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
As a cashier, we don't care. Sometimes "i forget" to scan an item or two. If the item doesn't scan I'll ask the customer what they'd like to pay for it. For me it's companies aren't people, customers are.
The clerk sold you them at a discount, but not the grocery store? Like they were fully priced before checkout, but then discounted at the point of purchase?
I wasn't going to buy any ice cream but the clerk told me about the deal at checkout so I did. Another clerk was like "wow you sold another one?"
Well then it sounds like the ice cream was on promotion and then he upsold the product. The sales are probably tracked and the clerk was working harder so it would reflect well on his performance review.
Never seen a discount that deep. Felt weird
Sometimes a store will discount a certain product way below its value in order to attract customers to visit the store (and buy other things at regular price along with their bargain item). It's called a "loss leader".
If it wasn't this, then the manufacturer could be discontinuing the flavor or the store could be trying to get rid of their stock of this brand because they want to switch to another one.
It's working too. OP has ice cream and this store on his mind way after purchase.
You can find discounts sometimes like that with dairy. A farm might produce a lot of milk and before it goes bad they have to turn it into to something. Some companies can make the product in bulk and then sell it at a discount because supply and demand.
I've seen crazy deals with shredded cheese. Like buy 2 bags get 3 free at my grocery store. That's sooo much cheese, but they would get more profit selling it at a discount then letting the dairy expire.
Buy one get one is super common. Just a step above!
They're the deals that get you back in the building. take a loss on one product and you can drive up sales of others.
At my old grocery store they had a clerk who had a movement disorder of some sort, so she was sort of like the Chicken Lady. She was all done with figuring out what an unusual piece of produce was coded as, and she'd just toss it past the scanner and not charge you, bobbing and weaving away.
๐คท Maybe they had a glut of inventory and needed to clear out space.
Big Diabetus
It's pretty simple - they don't give a fuck. They have no incentive to do anything but the bare minimum. And the other day, the bare minimum meant you got a box and a half of free ice-cream.