Special Offers

Shops have special offers but it’s often hard to tell,

If they’ve actually reduced the goods they’re trying to sell.

Three for two sounds great at first, but not if they have raised

The price for one considerably, with former price erased.

Larger packets may conceal the fact the unit price,

Is more than for the smaller pack for products such as rice.

Fruit and veg are often sold by kilos or in packs,

Or individual items which you take from piled-high stacks.

But is the special offer that is clearly on display

Really quite so special?  If you use their scales to weigh

All the different items and then calculate the cost,

Another might be cheaper; over this the shop has glossed.

Before one buys one needs to check if a special offer’s real,

Or if another version might turn out a better deal.