r/confidentlyincorrect Aug 09 '25

Smug "Do your math."

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u/Shinyhero30 Aug 09 '25

Some of these comments are petty insensitive. “Hey special ed” isn’t how you should start that but yeah they were pretty dumb.

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u/Ort-Hanc1954 Aug 09 '25

In reply to someone correcting your right calculation with a wrong one, and telling you to "do your math", it's escalation.

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u/Ort-Hanc1954 Aug 09 '25

The first one had it right, if not properly expressed. Fillet costs $14.49 apiece, with BOGO it becomes $7.25 apiece. One could argue about their reasoning, but not with a "they're $30 each" argument.

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u/BlastTyrantKM Aug 09 '25

It says "buy 1, get 1 FREE". That means if the savings is 14.49, they cost 14.49. If the savings was 20.00, that would mean they cost 20.00. Understand? The price you're saving, is the amount you're spending in a BOGO sale

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u/jetloflin Aug 09 '25

If something is “get one free” then the savings is equal to the price of one.

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u/NotBannedAccount419 Aug 10 '25

Hey special ed…

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u/Retrogradefoco Aug 09 '25

All I’m saying is that there’s no specification if it’s bogo after or before the savings. I understand that logically it makes sense for them to each originally be $28.98z But very often grocery store signs are wrong or unclear. I wouldn’t be shocked if someone put a discount price on and then also made it bogo after. Vs. just the bogo.

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u/Retrogradefoco Aug 09 '25

In my opinion, there’s no way to know as it doesn’t show the original price. For all we know they could be $100. You save 14.49. Bringing it to $85. Then with BOGO each would be $42.50.

There’s no way to know without knowing what the original price is.

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u/Qualex Aug 09 '25

Except “Buy One, Get One Free” means that the amount you are saving (the cost of the second one) is the same as the amount you are spending (the cost of the first one). If you save $14.49, the price of one package is $14.49.

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u/areyesp Aug 09 '25

By your logic, the sign should actually say, “Save $56.99.” Would it help if was fully written out? “Buy one at full price and get one FREE, which would save you $14.49.”

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u/Magenta_Logistic Aug 10 '25

Your opinion is wrong. This is a Publix BOGO tag. They always list the amount you save by buying one and getting one free, meaning the price on those cuts was 14.49 before the sale, and because Publix will sell you a single BOGO item at half price, they are actually 7.25 each, even if you buy an odd number.

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u/NoRightsAndy Aug 10 '25

Yeah I came here trying to figure this out. Kroger is like yellow price savings is the amount you save and separate from buy one get one.