[foggy_lad]

Originally Posted by Fighting Irish

Tesco prices go up and down, deal with it, they exsist to make money not to make you happy

aldi and lidl can make the same money without taking anywhere as much from customers pockets! their prices when they do go up are still way cheaper than tescos lowest price for their awful tesco value crap.

[Fighting Irish]

Originally Posted by foggy_lad

aldi and lidl can make the same money without taking anywhere as much from customers pockets! their prices when they do go up are still way cheaper than tescos lowest price for their awful tesco value crap.

That's great, but i bet aldi/lidl could lower their prices even more if they wanted to, but why don't they? Greed? No, they're just like Tesco, out to make money.

[HxGH]

A lot of stores are now putting up posters like "Our brand products cost 1/3 the price of leading brands"

And with prices increasing, these inferior goods will increase in demand.

[Emerson]

Evian/Volvic were 69c, then 79c, then 99c last week. Today's price €1.09!

Note Ballygowan promo €1.08 - 1 cent cheaper and 2 for 1. Clear price maniuplation to favour suppliers that co-operate to their pressure. It's inline with their current "Love Irish" pseudo theme.

Tesco Value water up a smaller amount from 39c last week to 49c.

I see games being played on all their ranges constantly. All suppliers are played along for a while on rotation. The small reduction in value of the Euro was hugely amplified as expected. Also VAT in the UK should not effect Tesco Ireland prices.

[ando]

Tesco tinfoil, up from €0.80 to €2.18 ??? Nearly THREE times the price, disgraceful

[munchkin_utd]

Originally Posted by ando

Tesco tinfoil, up from €0.80 to €2.18 ??? Nearly THREE times the price, disgraceful

Nope, its a work of genius.

so long as they never raise the price of a loaf of bread, and have a 2 litre jug of milk for cheap, a lot of consumers wont notice the difference with everything else!
And people who shop in tesco will marvel and wonder at how their grocery bill is 100s of euros when their neighbour that shops at Aldi boasts of a bill a fraction of that.

When living in Belfast I noticed this problem with the UK supermarkets before Tesco even came on the scene in the south.
Sainsburys had dirt cheap bread and meat, 2 for 1 offers and the lot. But christ their bog roll was brutal dear. And same for a lot of other household stuff and toiletries. At times it was pick a number from the air stuff.
But a pound of mince was 99p and the shop always mobbed with people with very full trollies!

Lidl and Aldi though have cheap prices across the board.
(And affordable quality bog roll!)

[owenc]

you should just shop in asda our shopping in tesco is usually £120 or so but now we shop in asda and its only £50! tesco used to be cheaper but now they are getting really expensive and they arnt doing the cheap deals like buy one get one free etc anymore...

[snubbleste]

Originally Posted by ando

Tesco tinfoil, up from €0.80 to €2.18 ??? Nearly THREE times the price, disgraceful

Yeah I noticed this about a month ago about the tesco value tinfoil, the price just over a year ago was 49c, a rise of 445%. Sent Tesco a nice email. General response was: prices go up and down but overall aren't we the best supermarket ever..

The exact same product was and still is 45p in the UK.

[jor el]

Noticed a few strange prices in Tesco last week. First was a 1kg bag of frozen sweetcorn. The Tesco Value brand one was 30c more expensive than the regular Tesco brand. The other was Crunchy Nut cornflakes, where the "Best Value" 1kg box is 25% more expensive than the 750g box (when comparing gram for gram prices). I think it was €3.70 for 750g and €5.40 for 1kg.

Watch the SELs closely, especially when sizes and quantities vary, and always compare the per unit prices.

[ando]

Originally Posted by ando

Tesco tinfoil, up from €0.80 to €2.18 ??? Nearly THREE times the price, disgraceful

Ok I think its only fair, The price has now been reduced to €0.99. I sent an email a few days ago but didnt get any reply

[channelsurfer2]

one thing to note with tesco is their intrepation of the scanning code policy where if it scans wrongly they had/have a policy of giving you the item for free. thing is it depends who you talk to in tesco. I had 4 examples of the scanning incorrectly the biggest one being southern comfort that said 20.99 on the shelf but scanned at 22.99. I asked should I get it free and the girl said I must be joking i only get the difference in price after she spent 5 minutes telling me that i should have really paid 22.99 as thats what it was coming up on the system and the system is always right... anyway went in yesterday and bought a box of porridge that said in big writing on the shelf 2.20 but scanned at 3.15. didnt notice it till i checked my receipt but when i went back in a different girl gave me the full money back straight away and said thats whay normally happens...who is right?

[jimoc]

Whoever is telling you what is written in the big signes the have is the one who is right.

[snubbleste]

The refund + free item only applies after you have bought the mispriced item and have a receipt, not when you point it out at the till.

[ch750536]

Yep, always allow payment to be made then point out the issue.

[jor el]

Originally Posted by channelsurfer2

I had 4 examples of the scanning incorrectly the biggest one being southern comfort that said 20.99 on the shelf but scanned at 22.99.

If you paid for it, and still have the receipt, then you can go to the customer service desk and get a full refund. Some employees in some stores do seem to deny that this policy exists, but it is Tesco's policy. It applies country wide, and not on a store to store basis.

Another multi-pack con I've seen is chocolate covered Hob-Nobs. The "Big Value" twin pack is 10% more expensive than the single packs, when comparing the per kg prices. The singles are not on special offer of anything, just another fake bulk buy bargain.