[the groutch]

bloomfields dun laoighre, 6 x 380ml lucozade, gone from €3.50 up to €4.55

[snubbleste]

Tesco have put a long list of products comparing prices to 3 other supermarkets in Ireland on their website. Survey carried out 4th November
http://www.tesco.ie/spotthedifference/

Selective choice of products with the highest differences first

[rubadub]

Originally Posted by thebman

Tiger bread for 35 cent tonight.

Of course it goes off tomorrow and they printed their barcodes wrong so it won't go through their system with the reduced price

If the price is too high then you get it free. In most bakeries they will tell you it is best eaten on day of purchase, I like to see my bread is capable of going mouldy, if it lasts a week you have to wonder what sort of crap is in it.

[Slunk]

Bought a Terrys orange ball a while ago and it was 1.17. Seen it again the otehr night on BOGOF and it was put up to 2.34. Bit sneaky really.

Still got a few other bargains. Just have to be careful

[marinbike]

Tesco Castlebar, 5 pk iced Donuts gone up today, was €1.00, now €1.35.

Tesco Sucks, dont want to buy there anymore, Prices come down one minute then rocket the next. At least i will be buying off Dunnes Stores from now on.

[rubadub]

Originally Posted by marinbike

Tesco Castlebar, 5 pk iced Donuts gone up today, was €1.00, now €1.35.

5 iced donuts for €1.35, OMG call the cops, what a "rip off", are you serious?!? this should be in bargain alerts FFS

Originally Posted by marinbike

Prices come down one minute then rocket the next.

€1 is feck all, that was obviously an offer, and a ridiculously good one, €1.35 is still next to nothing, you'd be lucky to get single donut in some places for that. They often have half price deals, so, shock -horror, prices do "double overnight", when the offer ends.

Originally Posted by Slunk

Bought a Terrys orange ball a while ago and it was 1.17. Seen it again the otehr night on BOGOF and it was put up to 2.34. Bit sneaky really.

Ditto to all the above, chocolate oranges are 175g, a 50-60g bar of inferior chocolate would be a euro in some shops.

Do people honestly thing "change for good", meant they signed some legal document stating they would never, EVER again change prices? it seems that way, which is quite disturbing.

As I have said here and in many threads many of the offers in tesco are no longer advertised, and many advertised ones are "non-offers", if you do not know the true values of items then its only yourself to blame. Not realising 1.17 was a ridiculously low price is quite strange and since it is 2.34 it was obviously half price. They had bounties 5-packs in tesco for €1.25 a few weeks ago, this was not highlighted as an offer, now they have "rocketed" to €2 for 5, you'd be lucky to get a single one for €1 in a newsagent, and last time I was in dunnes I think it was €3 for a 5 pack.

[marinbike]

Originally Posted by rubadub

5 iced donuts for €1.35, OMG call the cops, what a "rip off", are you serious?!? this should be in bargain alerts FFS


€1 is feck all, that was obviously an offer, and a ridiculously good one, €1.35 is still next to nothing, you'd be lucky to get single donut in some places for that. They often have half price deals, so, shock -horror, prices do "double overnight", when the offer ends.

There was no offer on these because I asked the manager about it. That was the original price. Tesco brand iced donuts are now €1.35. A 35 cent price rise overnight. Tesco's way of hiking the prices just in time for their busy christmas season goes against what they previously promised.

[pleasant Co.]

Originally Posted by marinbike

Tesco Castlebar, 5 pk iced Donuts gone up today, was €1.00, now €1.35.

Tesco Sucks, dont want to buy there anymore, Prices come down one minute then rocket the next. At least i will be buying off Dunnes Stores from now on.

Pretty sure iced Doughnut's in dunnes are more than €1.35 for 5....I know the jam doughnut's I last bought there were €1.69 for 6.

To be honest, I can see you coming to the realisation at some point that dunnes sucks too...at which point you'll want an asda and so on...

I quite enjoy not needing to feel like I have to shop in any one shop over another (no brand loyalty here), I get to see that they're all much of a muchness. Dunnes will be cheaper on some items, tesco on others, and supervalu will be cheaper on certain items too etc...

As you can see in dunnes latest advertisement:



They're pretty much the same.

[rubadub]

Originally Posted by marinbike

There was no offer on these because I asked the manager about it.

I think you are just saying that in an attempt to bolster your argument/outrage, I cannot imagine people calling out a manager to moan over 35cent on such cheap items which is already very good value item.

Like I said the 5- pack bounties went from €1.25 to €2, a 75cent increase OVERNIGHT!! outrageous, why could they not bring it up a few cent a day

Originally Posted by marinbike

That was the original price.

Like I said most of tescos best offers are not offered as being "on offer", I am confused why they do this, but I like it. The mindless drones shopping there miss the good deals, and snap up the phoney non-offers. This means more profit to tesco so they can afford to have these discrete nonadvertised offers which savvy shoppers benefit from.

I have a great memory for prices, always have, and I notice prices are wildly changing in tesco all the time now, and they are rarely advertised.

[marinbike]

Originally Posted by rubadub

I think you are just saying that in an attempt to bolster your argument/outrage, I cannot imagine people calling out a manager to moan over 35cent on such cheap items which is already very good value item.

Perhaps you didn't like my response to your previous comment? I asked the manager because he happened to be on the same aisle.

Even if it was a 35 cent rise, whats to stop Tesco raising it again by another 35 cents tonight??

The point is, Tesco is slowly and discretely trying to return its prices to the pre-2009 rip off.

[gavney]

One thing I don't like about Tesco at the moment is their in store Price comparisons:

Some of them say "Cheaper than dunnes" (fair enough, I'll buy that) but advertising that you are "Cheaper than Londis" or "Cheaper than Spar" is a real insult to my intelligence. What this is really saying is "Dearer than Dunnes, so we had to compare against a convenience store rather than a real competitor".

[rubadub]

Originally Posted by marinbike

Perhaps you didn't like my response to your previous comment?

Yes, you are right, I think you were lying to bolster your argument.

Originally Posted by marinbike

There was no offer on these because I asked the manager about it. That was the original price.

How did this conversation go? seems strange that you would specifically ask him if they were on offer before, just coincidental to me asking about it. If these are the same donuts I am thinking of they are 4 packs (not 5) and they had hundreds of them in a section in my local tesco marked as €1, they were flying out the door. It was a ridiculously low price, stocked high and selling loads, like the "tiger loafs" have been €1 recently. And in both cases my local tesco strangely did not have big signs promoting them, the volume of stock was enough to catch peoples eye. Those 4 packs of donuts have gone up, but I do remember they were a lot more than €1.35 before they were reduced to €1. Those 4 packs have been out a good while and I always thought they were particularly expensive for tesco own brand stuff.

Originally Posted by marinbike

whats to stop Tesco raising it again by another 35 cents tonight??

Absoultely NOTHING, thanks be to god there are no pricing restrictions. They can raise all they like, as I said many times only an utter idiot would think the slogan "change for good" meant they would never again raise their prices for all eternity.

€1.70 would still be cheap, I think there were closer to €3 a few months back. A single tim horton one of a similar size & style is ~€1.20 in tesco.

[schween]

Originally Posted by gavney

One thing I don't like about Tesco at the moment is their in store Price comparisons:

Some of them say "Cheaper than dunnes" (fair enough, I'll buy that) but advertising that you are "Cheaper than Londis" or "Cheaper than Spar" is a real insult to my intelligence. What this is really saying is "Dearer than Dunnes, so we had to compare against a convenience store rather than a real competitor".

What's even better is signs saying "Cheaper than Asda" and "Cheaper than Sainsbury" in stores that are quite a distance from the border.

All the supermarkets are a rip off. I don't get the I'm never shopping in Tesco, I'm never shopping in Dunnes, they're all the same. Aldi/Lidl ftw! even though they are no saints either.

By the way, after Tesco launched it's "price war" didn't Dunnes/Supervalu follow suit? Are other supermarket prices are yoyoing too or is it just Tesco?

[bcirl03]

Whilst the Donuts were good value before and now good value after the price went up it's the percentage that they went up by we should be highlighting.

That’s were I would have an issue regardless of how cheap \ good value the item is.

[rubadub]

Originally Posted by bcirl03

it's the percentage that they went up by we should be highlighting..

WHY??!??

Do you work for The Sun or something? This is the type of gutter press tactic that I absolutlely DESPISE. You want to hide/mask the reality from the consumer with statistics you KNOW FULL WELL do not portray what is really going on, just for a sensationalist eye catching headline/comment.

A high % of SWEET F**K ALL is still SWEET F**K ALL. This crap maddens me since I work in stats as part of my job and find this sort of stuff is utterly disgraceful and unforgiveably underhanded, you are deliberately trying to mislead the ignorant, and blind them with figures.

Originally Posted by bcirl03

That’s were I would have an issue regardless of how cheap \ good value the item is.

This beggars belief Why are you concerned with some statistical figure when you full admit they are still good value. If the donuts were 10cent and now 1euro, OMG, they changed the price 1,000% OVERNIGHT



I said before I was confused why tesco no longer advertise their best offers, I think I know now -bullsh*t stat makers. In another thread some "independent survey" was done comparing supermarkets and incredibly they IGNORED special offers!, they went for the previous prices. So it pays for supermarkets not to advertise any offers because of this illogical reasoning.