I just downloaded the app to make it easier to keep track of items I occasionally need from Sprouts, and I’m already annoyed seeing the “sales” and “deals”. For example, there is currently one plastered on the home page of the app saying “3 day sale BOGO mix and match chocolate bars”. If you do the math, they’ve inflated the price of all the chocolate so that when you buy two, you literally are paying full price for both. Proof? Sure. You can normally buy a Hu chocolate bar for roughly $4.50. Right now on the app they are $6. Half of $6 is $3. So when you apply the BOGO coupon, you pay a total of $9 (full price for two bars regularly), but they trick you into thinking you paid less than $12 which LOOKS like a deal. So what actually happened? They inflated the price to literally manipulate the consumer into believing they got a great deal, when in reality they got played. A REAL BOGO deal would be buying a bar for $4.50 and then getting the second for $2.25 for a grand total of $6.75. It’s such a shame that Sprouts pulls this. It’s exactly what other large retailers do these days because they’re so disgustingly greedy and stingy that they would rather trick their loyal customers than give honest savings. Don’t fall for these sales because if you do, it encourages them to continue their scams. Take the time to research and learn these tactics to avoid these bs “deals”. The ONLY reason I’m giving two stars instead of one is because I appreciate that Sprouts carries certain items that would otherwise be much harder to find anywhere else.
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