SDM I am finally done with you

[tjthemanto]

That is the dumbest thing I ever heard of! Way to go screwing customers over Shopper's Drug Mart!

I also hate how their multiples deals ring in, for example chips 2/$5 ring in 1st $2.99, 2nd $2.01. It is so confusing!

One time they had chocolate bars 3/.99. They rang in .97, .01 and .01! So a lot of people would probably just grab one and pay .97 not knowing that they could get another 2 for only .02 more!

Bah!

denise

What happens if you try to return the 0.97 one and keep the 0.01 ones

[sweet sparrow]

What happens if you try to return the 0.97 one and keep the 0.01 ones

They'd take your product and give you the $0.01 for your time and trouble for coming in. You get the price as if you only bought one.

[nessa23]

good to know all this info! thanks for the original post, and all the helpful replies.

If anyone hears back from SDM HO regarding this issue i'd be very interested to hear their response....

[PinkLincoln]

Theres a Food Basics in Hamilton with a drive through pharmacy! lol Costco is the cheapest for medication if you don't have a drug plan, or you have to pay out of pocket for your prescriptions. SDM is also the only Pharmacy that charges people receiving social assistance health benefits for medication. I have found 1 SDM in all of Burlington that waives the co-pay which became expensive when DH was getting cemo and taking a billion different medications every month. No other pharmacy we had been to charged him anything. I found that to be a pretty cruel thing to charge people a fee who are on assistance when no other pharmacy does.

This is totally sneaky! Most families, do their weekly shopping trip once a week or every two weeks, depending on how much their family consumes, they'd need a lot more then 1 loaf of bread and 1 carton of eggs.

When you shop anywhere at all, it's understandable to have a limit of 2-4, which is pretty common depending on how good the sale is and the stock the store has. But limiting one per family just because of a sale? It seems pretty sneaky to me! I didn't shop at all this weekend. I used to always buy 4 bags of milk per BP promo to stock up. Now, my store has limited it to 2 bags per family, because they claim to have the lowest price (Yet Mac's Milk right beside it charges $3.99/4L) I thought it was silly, because I need 4 bags of milk regardless, and I'm not making two trips per week as I usually only get help with grocery shopping one day a week, so there's no shopping at a later day for me. So, why waste $50 when I can just go spend the $20 on 4 bags somewhere else.

[NuCoupon]

I would think combining offers like that borders on misleading advertising. A reasonable person would see those as two different products, at the same price. They would assume they are within the item limits to get the sale price. SDM is counting that 1) most people will not check their receipts 2) be too busy to inquire 3) feel its their fault somehow and let it slide. Sneaky on SDM's part!

[walkonby]

Thanks for all the postings about this. I can now see that it was not just me that felt slighted. Oh and PinkLincoln that was very sad about SDM charging on the prescription for your DH, how petty of them to do that!

[Slaney]

Uh.... ok that's offcially the stupidest "terms & conditions" in existance

[Shwa Girl]

Thanks for all the postings about this. I can now see that it was not just me that felt slighted. Oh and PinkLincoln that was very sad about SDM charging on the prescription for your DH, how petty of them to do that!

O.k. walkonby, you may have convinced me to be done with Shoppers too
Just maybe
Today they messed up on points advertised in store, not in the flyer
Cashier #1 brought the huge sign about 500 bonus points.
She interprited the sign to mean "abc"
Cashier2 was called over to help, reads the sign and interpreted the sign to mean "xyz"
I finally said if it's going to be what one cashier interprets over another, just give me a refund.
I was late getting back to work after lunch, because a THIRD cashier had to do the refund
Long line starting
I don't care
Just want to be outa there with my refund.

[walkonby]

Well Shwa...just sayin....seems one by one SDM is pissing us all off with pettiness.
So glad you went for the refund, I would say the same, KEEP IT! $$ are better in my pocket anyways.

[TurkeyinTheStraw]

Well Shwa...just sayin....seems one by one SDM is pissing us all off with pettiness.
So glad you went for the refund, I would say the same, KEEP IT! $$ are better in my pocket anyways.

+1
I am definitely going to SDM less. They don't want to give good service so they won't get my business. That's fine with me, don't need to shop there but I do shop there only on Bonus days.

[walkonby]

ok I am posting the good news into this previous bad news thread.

I was price matching my Dempster's bread @ WM on Saturday from the SDM flyer ( $1.79 ) and it was not till I was folding the flyer back up that I saw Limit of 4!!

You mean SDM is no longer penalizing customers who eat plenty of bread?
( News to me)

Did anyone else notice this change from combining things like bread and milk and eggs into their previous limits of 2??

Just curious.
So if SDM has changed their ways I will applaud them for that.
Wonder if it had anything to do with people posting on their facebook page about the previous deception?

[cabmonk]

I have seem sales like that before, item #1 is on sale but you have to buy item #2 at reg price to get the deal but in really small print. Or 3 items on a page and it says limit 1...You do think you can get one of each but you do have to read everything I guess. I do see where it would be annoying, but I still think a store can do a sale in any manner they want. I agree that the print should be bigger on the flyer though, and then it would be up to the customer to know what they are buying. Not exactly the same thing but my mom worked in a store and they had a sale of 2 bread for $3.00 or $1.79 each if you don't buy 2. This woman bought just one thinking it should be $1.50 and stood there arguing that well if 2 breads were $3.00 shouldn't 1 loaf be $1.50, no because that's the deal buy 2 and save, buy just 1 loaf you don't.

[couponmummy]

That's totally insane! Hope you get a reply...I"m still waiting since Dec 19

Are you still waiting for your missing points?