So, I have a family of two adults and four children and we drink A LOT of cordial.
Woolworths have a great special at the moment with Cottees Cordial for $2 a bottle.
'Great' I think, 'I will stock up'. So I get to thinking, we probably go through about 2-3 bottles of cordial a week. That means we would be looking at somewhere around 52+ bottles for 6 months worth. Also, the family favorite is Fruit Cup Crush. We drink a bit of Coola and Raspberry but 95% or more is FC Crush.
So, I go down to my local Woolworths yesterday on the first day of the special and start loading up.
I get around 13 off the shelf and that clears them out of that flavour.
So, I ask a staff member, 'have you got anymore of the Fruit Cup Crush'. He tells me he will go and check and then comes back saying that the computer says they have some out the back in the storeroom.
He goes and checks and then comes back and tells me they are still on the pallet and he can't get to them. I ask what we have to do to get them out. He says he'll check with the store manager. Off he goes and the manager comes back to talk to me.
I tell her the deal and she tells me that there is no way she can get to them today, come back tomorrow and she'll help me out. Now, here's the bit you've been waiting for. 'How many were you after?' she asks me. 'About 50' I say. She looks at me and tells me 'you know, that's not a retail quantity. I can refuse to sell them to you if its not a retail quantity.' 'I'm definitely not selling them to anyone, they're for my family' I tell her. She seems somewhat satisfied with that but still warns me that this is something I need to be careful of.
Anyways, I went back today and got the rest of the cordial I was after but I was wondering if anyone had come across this before, what you think the threshold is for going outside retail quantities (especially since we have a large-ish family) and what the point is anyway since there are several Woolworths around me and I could easily just buy say 20 from three different stores (however schlepping around would be a PITA)?
Do you think it's fair other people might miss out on getting that flavor cordial because of you wanting 52 bottles of the stuff? They have these limits for a reason. :|