Sunday 20 March 2016




The Great Turkey-Buck
Bamboozl

About a month ago, maybe a little longer our local grocery store announced that they were running their turkey-buck promotion, just in time for Easter, again this year. Never one to pass up a good bargain, I decided to play along. They even gave me an impressive 'Turkey-Buck' envelope to keep my turkey bucks in. About four weeks ago I went into the turkey-buck supermarket and picked up a few things on my way back from a medical appointment. It came to $39.23. The cashier didn't give me a turkey buck, even though I gave her my air miles card. Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you, you may only collect turkey-bucks if you have air miles.  No, (you simpleton, my words) you have to buy $40 worth of groceries to get a turkey -buck. I left in the abject dejection of acceptance of the RULES. 

Three weeks ago I went back to same store. By golly, I was elated when my total came to 
$40. 58. She did not give me a turkey buck. I said, do I get a turkey buck. She said, "No (silly, this simpleton's word) "you bought milk." Well I stammered, 'my family prefers that I give them milk rather than pepsi or coke for their meals." If I had had $4.00 worth of pop instead of milk the store would have rewarded me with a turkey buck.

 In the two years before, come Christmas and Easter time, said store would put their turkeys on special for, sometimes $1.49, sometimes $1.99 per pound. AND they post that price per pound.  Last year, along with my turkey bucks that I had collected I got an aprox. $20 dollar 10-lb turkey for $4.00. This year this store had their turkeys priced at $7.69 a kilogram. I asked the cashier, what is the price per pound for your turkeys. She looked at me in complete bewilderment and said that they only deal in kilograms not pounds. She posed the turkey per pound question to another worker in the store. Again a complete blank stare and an aura of bewilderment. They know nothing about pounds was the reply.

She offered to call the manager but I said "naw, don't bother." I'll take my $35.50, 4.617 kg turkey anyway. I gave her my 16 turkey bucks, some of which were donated by friends and relatives ( with the excited anticipation of a morsel of deep fried turkey in Da Shed) and left. By the way, they charged $3.50 per pound of turkey on Friday.

So come Easter weekend, our $35.50 turkey, which I could have gotten for half that price, turkey bucks and all,  at the supermarket up the road, will be dipped down in the turkey fryer, and NO DOUBT, will be the subjest of dinner conversation next weekend.

As a lesson to be learned, I think I'll stop in to Coleman's only, and not both stores as Long Islanders are wont to do, always looking for the grocery 'bargains'on my way back from my next medical appointment or bank business trip at least until the sour taste of turkey buckes can be cleansed from my palate.




4.617 kg= 10 lbs 2.8599 oz our Easter turkey.


3 comments:

  1. Just a few things... "Turkey bucks" is not a promotion of the store... It is strictly an AIR MILES promotion. So when you say the store had "their" promotion... You're incorrect. It's an air miles promotion which is why you need to follow air miles "rules" for their promotion. Also that's why you must have an air miles card to collect, earn and redeem turkey bucks . You do not at any time ever recieve air miles on milk (liquid dairy) OR pop (unless air miles decides to put a deal on something) ... So what you said about earning turkey bucks for pop vs milk is untrue... And that's also why milk along with other things such as pop do not count towards your earning or turkey bucks.
    As for the cashier ... They are at the cash at a busy store and I'm guessing rarely have to work on the floor... If you really wanted to know about turkey... It would've been a smarter decision for you to ask the meat department as they most likely would've been able to tell you the price per pound off hand as they deal with the weighing and pricing of the turkeys.
    So maybe next time before you write a bunch of stuff, you should just get your facts straight because a few things you've written here are very misleading.

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  2. Just a few things... "Turkey bucks" is not a promotion of the store... It is strictly an AIR MILES promotion. So when you say the store had "their" promotion... You're incorrect. It's an air miles promotion which is why you need to follow air miles "rules" for their promotion. Also that's why you must have an air miles card to collect, earn and redeem turkey bucks . You do not at any time ever recieve air miles on milk (liquid dairy) OR pop (unless air miles decides to put a deal on something) ... So what you said about earning turkey bucks for pop vs milk is untrue... And that's also why milk along with other things such as pop do not count towards your earning or turkey bucks.
    As for the cashier ... They are at the cash at a busy store and I'm guessing rarely have to work on the floor... If you really wanted to know about turkey... It would've been a smarter decision for you to ask the meat department as they most likely would've been able to tell you the price per pound off hand as they deal with the weighing and pricing of the turkeys.
    So maybe next time before you write a bunch of stuff, you should just get your facts straight because a few things you've written here are very misleading.

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  3. The facts are that this is a very small grocery store. Yes, it is an Air Miles Promotion BUT the store had the power to set a price per kg/lb at their own location. It was still the decision of this particular store to charge $3.50 per pound for their turkey while the 'turkey bucks' promotion was on. AND, I still receive turkey bucks/air miles for buying pop vs milk. It was a rip off, pure and simple and the particular store had it in their power to do right by their customers.

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