Deck Chairs

We went to the Garden Centre to buy plants not seats but the half price offer on some stylish tubular steel and sky blue canvas deck chairs was too good to miss so we loaded three on to the trolley and headed for the tills, where the problems began: first the checkout lady couldn’t find the barcode and so called the supervisor; she looked up and called out random numbers with no success until we finally spotted a sticker on one of the chair legs that contained the magic sequence; I then pointed out that the total demanded (£101) was roughly twice what I was expecting to pay and suggested that maybe the 50% discount had not been applied; the staff conferred and another code was unearthed and fed into the till, reducing the total to £86; I said that was a start but how about reducing all three chairs rather than just the one; a further staff conference concluded the only way to that was to buy each chair separately, and by now I was ready to accept anything that would conclude the matter so dutifully fed my card and PIN in three times and left with several feet of receipts; but hopes of conclusion turned out to be premature as back home, now in need of a sit down, I erected the chairs only to find one faulty - so it was straight back to the Garden Centre where the staff unsurprisingly recognised me and effected an exchange without quibble.