Sep 29, 2007
So we sell split cartons at our store. That is, you can get 5 of one kind of cigarette and 5 of another kind (has to be the same brand but can be a different flavor) and it will still only be the carton price (which is significantly less than buying 10 individual packs).
The point of that statement is this: I had a lady come in today and buy 3 bronson menthol light 100s. her total was 8.90 after tax.
To keep up on the math here, a single pack of Bronson cigarettes is 3.32 after tax. There is a discount when you buy three (3 packs for 8.90) and then a carton price (more discounts) of 25.08 or something. If I mis-remembered the carton cost, it is by pennies.
ANYWAY, back to the story. So she bought 3 bronson menthol light 100s. then she hands me the same credit card again, and (for a friend or something) buys three packs of Bronson light 100s and three packs of Bronson menthol 100s. the total on that transaction was 17.80.
17.80 + 8.90 = 26.70. As I stated above, a carton is 25.08. she spent 1.62 MORE for 1 less pack of cigarettes. I told her that if she had bought a mixed carton, she would have saved money AND gotten an additional pack of cigarettes, but she told me that since the other 6 packs were for a friend, that’s how it had to be.
Look, you moron, why don’t you divide 25.08 by 10- that will get you 2.508. let’s round it up to 2.51. your friend would pay you 15.06, and save almost three dollars (compared to the original purchase of 17.80, the friend’s new cost is 15.06) your cost would go up slightly (the majority of the savings is on the friend’s end, not the purchasers, if you do this fairly)- you would spend 1.12 more, BUT get another pack of cigarettes out of the deal!
Or you could simply tell your friend that it was 17.80 (which 6 packs DOES cost), and keep all of the savings to yourself. You’d end up getting 4 packs of cigarettes for… 7.28!
But NO, that’s how it has to be.
These kind of people should NOT be allowed to go into convenience stores, let alone spend their own money.
