This guy comes in to buy meds and sees our sale shelf. We currently have Optium Omega Blood Glucose Monitors on sale for $1 (with any purchase of $30 or more). The guy bought meds and it only costed $11.20 coz he's got a health care card. I go, he can buy other things in the store to make up the $30 if he wants the machine. He refuses to and this is what he says.
Him: But you're getting a subsidy from the government over $30 so therefore i can get this for $1.
Me: No, it doesn't matter what the government subsidises, you have to spend actually $30 in the store.
Him: yeh but ur getting the $30 from the gov, so you get ur money back for the promotion.
Me: the government has nothing to do with the promotion.
Him: you don't get me, the $30 is coming from the gov as subsidies. Why can't you get it from them, so i can get the machine. Its the same thing.
Me: no its not the same thing. First of all, the government has nothing to do with the promotion. Its the customer who pays out of their pocket, then they will get the promotion.
Him: Same money.
Me: No of course not. That $30 purchase is from the customer. Subsidies from medicines is a different thing. The government pays for it through taxpayer's money, you pay ur money from ur wallet. How is that the same?
Him: no no ur wrong.
Me: No i think you misunderstood. It's pretty self-explantory. Prices of promotions in the store has nothing to do with the government but you keep on thinking about the subsidised price when its the price that ppl actually spend in the store. The machine is not from the government. We're - the pharmacy - is selling it for $1 for promotional purposes. We actually had to buy it from the company ourself. It's not government-owned.
He's in his own little world.
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