>>21115033
It will depend on the laws of the jurisdiction you are in but in general the common law philosophy is that if there's ambiguity, whoever makes the offer has to take the worst interpretation. In this case, that would be that you can purchase one item for $1.50 if you wish.

Depends on the store but I'm my experience, nine times of ten, the items'll be a buck fitty each and you can just buy one, yeah.

How can you tell what the price is?
I'm seeing "$2 $4 $3"

>>21115033
the grocery store I had growing up set up all promos regardless of wording to whatever the per-item price would be
then they started playing games like "you have to buy three items to get the price" and "it only counts for the FIRST three items you buy" and like a month later went bankrupt

>>21115033
The other day Target had Doritos 2 for $5 and my mom bought one bag and it was $5 dollars. Dumb bitch.

it depends on the store and the deal
every time at Harris Teeter it means the item rings at half price
Lowe's Foods depends on the item for some reason, and is specified in fine print on the price tag either "must buy x to get y price" or "item rings at half price"

Here in Norway it always seems to mean "you have to buy 2 items"
If i go to the self checkout it only applies a discount if i scan the required amount, and if i just scan one it's full price

>>21115033
are you braindead? of course you have to buy two to get the sale, otherwise the sign would be 'SALE 1.50' or somesuch

>>21115033
>2
>3
>for (4)
what did they mean by this?

>>21115033
>>21115309

a lot of the time you don't have to buy more, but "2 for 5!" sounds better than "2.50 each!" to braindead consoomers.
And in the situation where you actually needed to buy more than one to get the discount, you can just complain online saying you didn't understand, and more often than not they'll just give you a coupon to make up the difference.

>>21115033
in my experience at two different stores, it will explicity state if you need to buy 2 in order to get the sale price

>>21115033
if there is a self-checkout you can be 100% sure that it's just $1.50 each, they aren't going to waste manpower on someone helping every single self-checkout do their 2 for N deals

>>21115359
i'm getting the impression that this must be an american thing. here in the UK if there was a multibuy offer and you came to the cashier all 'hurr durr it said 2 for £3 that means i can get one for £1.50' then brenda would laugh so hard she'd wee herself a bit.

>>21115033
Every time I've seen this in the US it means $1.50 each. Needing to buy 2 is only for when it says like "Buy one get one free"

>>21115033
bro you can just ask one of the workers if the price is as marked

>>21115033
Walmart, Kroger, Safeway, Ralphs, etc pretty much every big chain grocery store does the "each item $1.50" situation, usually at least.

I miss coupons it made things so much easier

>>21115593
>I miss coupons it made things so much easier
I don't understand. They still exist.
That being said, it makes sense that schemes like this exist because it allows companies to make a profit from people that can't do basic math. I think it would be funny if a company tried doing something like "1 for $4 and 2 for $9" and people ended up buying 2 because they thought they were getting a deal.