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I thought my local supermarket had blundered when I bought 4 cans of Fosters that had been reduced in price. The price scrawled in biro on the reduced sticker was 60p, but when I scanned each can through a self-service till the price that came up was 49p. A question popped up everytime on the screen asking if the price was correct. I naturally touched the "yes" option. The following couple of days I did the same thing with other drinks. I got a can of Strongbow, selling for 90p, a couple of cans of Punk IPA, selling for £1, and a bottle of Old Speckled Hen, selling for £1.20, for 49p each.
It was yesterday, when I told a friend about it, that I discovered it was the norm for reduced alcoholic drinks to come up 49p. It was up to the customer to touch the "no" option when asked if the price is correct and type in the correct price. I told my friend the system is laughably flawed as you'd have to be mad, if you like a drink, to touch the "no" option when asked if the price is correct as you're getting cheap alcohol even cheaper!
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