New product in Tesco

MadsL

A pack of 6 tomatoes.

Why is this item worthy of comment?

1. It has no weight printed on it.
2. It therefore has no unit price (ie price per kilo)

The up-shot is that you cannot properly compare the packed tomatoes against the same loose tomatoes.

Worse is that the price works at out at over TWICE the price of the loose tomatoes.

6 pack of tomatoes - €1.99 (mispriced in my store at €2.49)
6 loose tomatoes - €0.14 each * 6 = €0.14 (priced on Tesco's website - not in the store)

Using the guide on tesco's website
1 kilo of tomatoes = €2.39
1 kilo of pre-packed tomatoes = (€1.99 @ approx 360g tomatoes) = €5.53!!!!


Even worse is that you are not being protected from this blatent rip-off by the Office of the Director of Consumer Affairs. At the moment they are not applying the unit pricing legislation shown here http://www.odca.ie/ to 'multipacks' where no weight is shown.

This particularly Irish interpretation of the EU legislation allows supermarkets like Tesco to remove the weight shown on packaging so that they can avoid showing the 'real' per kilo price of items like these six tomatoes, a massive source of profit.

The consumer is being denied the information that these regulations were designed to protect and there is now very little to show you that the 'convenience' of picking up a 'multipack' could cost you a whopping 130% more than putting in a bag yourself.

Write to Carmel Foley at odca@entemp.ie and Mary Harney at tanaiste@entemp.ie and ask them;

1. Why the legislation that applies through the rest of Europe is being blatently ignored to the disavantage of the consumer.
2. Why NO prosecutions have been made this year to enforce the regulations, despite the fact when the ODCA returned to stores in August it had previously checked and warned in March, 30% of prices were still incorrectly marked.
3. How we can 'see the price or pay the price' without adequate price display?

Cross-posted to Rip-Off Ireland....blatent rule breaking in the name of Consumer Justice!! Sorry.

Victor

Same with Jaffa Cakes which are "cake multi-packs", not packets of biscuits :rolleyes:

Don't get me started on "Cheese Food" (insufficient cheese to call it cheese).