What items in a supermarket are loss leaders?

[JEDI]

2liter soda for $0.99 and gallon of regular milk for $2.79 are loss leaders.

Any other items?

 

[shiner]

Cosmetics probably....if the store has them.

 

At my local Meijer today, if you buy one bag of fully cooked frozen shrimp (two pounds of shrimp) for $12, you get two bags free. Six pounds of cooked jumbo shrimp for $12? I'd say that's a loss-leader.

 

[FleshLight]

Whatever isn't frozen, baked, related to babys, floral, candy, cereal, fried, deli, or meat products aren't loss leaders.

 

[mugs]

Just about anything can be a loss leader if you combine coupons + coupon doubling + sale price. :thumbsup:

 

[Capone]

Originally posted by: jumpr
At my local Meijer today, if you buy one bag of fully cooked frozen shrimp (two pounds of shrimp) for $12, you get two bags free. Three pounds of cooked jumbo shrimp for $12? I'd say that's a loss-leader.

I used to work seafood in the market. You wouldn't believe the mark up on that crap. You're paying well over double what it costs to the market. I guess it's because it goes bad so fast. Fresh seafood anyway.

I can't remember the exact numbers but the Bakery Dept. was the biggest loss in the store.

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: Capone
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<hr><i>Originally posted by: <b>jumpr</b></i>
At my local Meijer today, if you buy one bag of fully cooked frozen shrimp (two pounds of shrimp) for $12, you get two bags free. Three pounds of cooked jumbo shrimp for $12? I'd say that's a loss-leader.<hr></blockquote>


I used to work seafood in the market. You wouldn't believe the mark up on that crap. You're paying well over double what it costs to the market. I guess it's because it goes bad so fast. Fresh seafood anyway.

I can't remember the exact numbers but the Bakery Dept. was the biggest loss in the store.

why is the bakery biggest loss in the store? bread = cheap to make

 

[RagingBITCH]

Originally posted by: JEDI
<blockquote>quote:
<hr><i>Originally posted by: <b>Capone</b></i>
<blockquote>quote:
<hr><i>Originally posted by: <b>jumpr</b></i>
At my local Meijer today, if you buy one bag of fully cooked frozen shrimp (two pounds of shrimp) for $12, you get two bags free. Three pounds of cooked jumbo shrimp for $12? I'd say that's a loss-leader.<hr></blockquote>


I used to work seafood in the market. You wouldn't believe the mark up on that crap. You're paying well over double what it costs to the market. I guess it's because it goes bad so fast. Fresh seafood anyway.

I can't remember the exact numbers but the Bakery Dept. was the biggest loss in the store.<hr></blockquote>

why is the bakery biggest loss in the store? bread = cheap to make

Bakery just isn't bread. Imagine everything else made in the bakery. The labor put into it is costly too.

 

[Chu]

Right now, I have to say the biggest loss leader at grocery stores, at least in the midwest, is gasoline. They sell it at or below cost, and hope you buy groceries while filling up. The big gas companies are trying to work laws to ban it

 

[paulee]

there's a good website, might only be good in socal, that tracks when stores put out items at crazy sale prices.. and when to double savings with coupons..

www.grocerygame.com

i'm not affiliated with this website in any way, and it may have been posted before on hot deals... i don't know, just trying to be a good samaritan here..

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: JEDI
2liter soda for $0.99 and gallon of regular milk for $2.79 are loss leaders.

Any other items?

No way.

2 liters are always 99 cents at our local cheap grocery store, and milk is below 2.80/gal also..

There's no way that it costs them over 99 cents to buy a 2 liter of soda wholesale. It probably costs Pepsi or whoever like 25 cents to make it, lol...