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@repentatleisure1952 wrote:

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Hi dg !

Funny you should mention Coles !

I regularly bargain with our local Coles manager & have a fair degree of success.....mind you this is a small town & we do spend about $100k per year there. However I do the same with any b & m store no matter how big or small......40% off is quite common.

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Lucky 🙂 A manager would have more authority to negotiate, I suppose, but the checkout operators and deli assistants etc would get in trouble in most cases - I live in suburban Adelaide, too, so you can go to the same supermarket for years and rarely - if ever - see a manager let along get on a first-name basis. Some franchises are very strict about stuff like that, too, every penny has to be accounted for so an unauthorised discount could get an employee fired. 

I might ask if I was buying something in bulk, I have done before (on eBay) where the package was for 20 of something and I was after 500, and even then I just asked if there might be a quanity discount if I bought that many, and if so what it would be, but I couldn't do it if just casual shopping at retail outlets. I'm more the type to just ask for a quote, then quietly decide if I'm prepared to pay that, and if not I move on to somewhere else. ._.