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Kel Varnsen wrote:Is there a single bottle code for Nickle Brook Naughty Neighbor? I was at the LCBO today and the same old story. There was a six pack holding 4 bottles. I figured if they sold two already they must be able to sell me one. But when I tried to buy one the woman at the counter scanned it and it came up as a 6 pack. I told her it was from a pack with 2 bottles missing but she told me that she could only sell the six pack. Even though I explained that someone else must have bought two bottles, she couldn't do it.
At my local in Kitchener they just use the $2 domestic bottle code. The last few times I went, there were 6ers with 3-4 missing, so I bought a full 6 and got the singles too. I know I'm gonna get burned when it says they have 3-4 in stock but they're nowhere to be found.
They really like pleasing customers at my local. A few months ago I went in for the BIA IPA and Hop Wired, it was ordered in for the Bent Elbow so they didn't have it on the shelves but had some available. Since they didn't know what it looked like, they brought me in to the warehouse to help look for it.
I agree with Peen. We can't have it both ways - lamenting (in another thread) that there are no cost-effective six packs coming out from local brewers any more, only 650 ml bottles - but then screwing them over by cherry picking singles. Buy the six pack!
midlife crisis wrote:I agree with Peen. We can't have it both ways - lamenting (in another thread) that there are no cost-effective six packs coming out from local brewers any more, only 650 ml bottles - but then screwing them over by cherry picking singles. Buy the six pack!
The obvious solution, assuming the LCBO co-operates (no rogue store managers!), is the open six pack. Buy the six or buy singles.
This is only for new products that singles are not available for sale right away. Anything with an open package will have a single code roughly 3 months after going to retail. If it has a single code, the LCBO has to sell it to you period. Once this has a single code I will post it here for those interested.
midlife crisis wrote:I agree with Peen. We can't have it both ways - lamenting (in another thread) that there are no cost-effective six packs coming out from local brewers any more, only 650 ml bottles - but then screwing them over by cherry picking singles. Buy the six pack!
The obvious solution, assuming the LCBO co-operates (no rogue store managers!), is the open six pack. Buy the six or buy singles.
Grab a 6-pack.
Pay for it.
Take a bottle out, put it in your pocket / backpack / whatever.
Get back in line.
Return the 5-pack.
PeenSteen wrote:This is only for new products that singles are not available for sale right away. Anything with an open package will have a single code roughly 3 months after going to retail. If it has a single code, the LCBO has to sell it to you period. Once this has a single code I will post it here for those interested.
PeenSteen wrote:Most stores know this fuck their inventory and the craft breweries your trying to "support"
I will never understand the convoluted approach (A above) nor the animosity (B above) toward solving such a simple problem. Instead of doing the obvious they frustrate people's natural buying behavior and make the customer to blame.
it's odd because the LCBO has a lot of good systems that support product returns etc, acting in our interests which you'd expect from a State acting as a retailer. What's creating one more system to deal with single bottles in an intelligent way that circumvents problems?
spinrsx wrote:is there a single code for Collective Arts Rhyme And Reason?
just buy the 6, it's awesome!
Exactly.
Sheesh, I haven't been here for months and you guys are still going on about your singles. Single single single......buy the damn 6 pack. If you're pretty sure you won't like a beer anyway, why even bother buying a single?
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