Tayto crisps

denissilver · 07-07-2004 10:43pm #1

I would normally buy a packet of tayto cheese and onion with a sandwich if i,m on the road working.normal price 48-50cent. I go on holiday for two weeks and today Tayto have gone up to 60cent . I double checked with the girl behind the counter and she said that she also worked in another shop where they were the same price.
I bought a packet of King instead(owned by Tayto)and they were also gone up to 55
cent.how can c+c who own Tayto justify a 20-25% increase.I know its only a small amount but it pisses me off.Whats the price in your area.

fragile · 07-07-2004 11:01pm

There's only one thing for it, its time everybody went back to the old ways and planted a small potato farm on their own land (back yard!), that way we can plant/grow/pick our own potatoes, chop em up, drop em in the deep fat fryer and have our own home made Irish crisps

and it will work out a hell of a lot cheaper than buying them by the bag from Tayto!

cheeky_monkey · 07-07-2004 11:02pm

Sounds like you were fleeced there m8. I paid 48c for a pack just the other day, mouldy they were.

If I were you I'd go back with a rusty pipe for my 12c. Thievin bastards.

Ripwave · 08-07-2004 11:18am

Originally posted by denissilver
I would normally buy a packet of tayto cheese and onion with a sandwich if i,m on the road working.normal price 48-50cent. I go on holiday for two weeks and today Tayto have gone up to 60cent . I double checked with the girl behind the counter and she said that she also worked in another shop where they were the same price.
I bought a packet of King instead(owned by Tayto)and they were also gone up to 55
cent.how can c+c who own Tayto justify a 20-25% increase.I know its only a small amount but it pisses me off.Whats the price in your area.

Tayto used to print the price on the packet, but retailers didn't like that, so now you pay whatever the shop thinks it can get away with. I'd be surprised if Tayto put the price up that much, but it wouldn't surprise me if they made the packets bigger, and charged more for them - I think a packet of crisps used to contain 27g, and now some of them contain 45g.

(In the runup to the Euro changeover, Tayto packets were printed with 28p/35c, so it's a very recent change of procedure).

Gillo · 08-07-2004 8:33pm

It would be interesting to find out what the RRP is. I recently won a pack of walkers (you know the competition where you find a voucher in the bag). the voucher said I could win a bag of walkers to the value of their RRP, which as far as I remember was quoted at 38 cent.

EKRIUQ · 09-07-2004 6:51pm

I bought a multi pack of crisps in Lidl yesterday and each crisp bag worked out at 9Cent each how can Tayto justify 60cent, I know ,I know, I know advertising, sales, transport Bla, Bla, Bla but still 49cent on 1 bag is a bit much

AntiRip · 10-07-2004 11:31am

Isn't Chipsticks, monster munch just 41c. They have it printed on the bag anyways, & I know they're cornsnacks & not crisps. Perri crisps are nicer than tayto anyway.

Calibos · 11-07-2004 1:22am

We charge 45c for tayto,king, walkers etc 60c for Hunky's. We certainly got no notification of a new RRP from the supplier recently so it was probably the shop that decided to up the price for the hell of it rather than a new RRP from Tayto themselves.

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Shrimp · 11-07-2004 1:37am

you sound like you are about to go ape sh1t like the guy from Falling Down, The film

Calibos · 11-07-2004 2:18am

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Shrimp · 11-07-2004 2:20am

go for it

Ripwave · 15-07-2004 2:37pm

Originally posted by TIPPTOP
how can Tayto justify 60cent, I know ,I know, I know advertising, sales, transport Bla, Bla, Bla but still 49cent on 1 bag is a bit much

Sigh.

Tayto doesn't justify 60c. The shop charged 60c. not Tayto.

Big Ears · 17-07-2004 1:31am

Originally posted by Calibos
We charge 45c for tayto,king, walkers etc 60c for Hunky's. We certainly got no notification of a new RRP from the supplier recently so it was probably the shop that decided to up the price for the hell of it rather than a new RRP from Tayto themselves.

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how much do yee charge for Ripples .

ever since those bastards at Walkers changed they're recipe (for Cheese and onion ) they are my new favourite .

Calibos · 17-07-2004 2:09am

Don't sell Ripples I'm afraid.:)

Big Ears · 17-07-2004 2:16am

Originally posted by Calibos
Don't sell Ripples I'm afraid.:)

:eek: , and the thought that u smiled after that post :eek: .

oh well , I doubt I live even in the same county as you're shop anyway .

Calibos · 17-07-2004 4:02pm

In case anyone is wondering what my edit was about, I was ranting about almost feeling like 'if you can't beat them, join them'. ie. That despite charging RRP for 99% of what we sell rather than inventing prices out of thin air our turnover has not increased and I don't think the shop up the roads turnover who seem to add 10 or 15c to every RRP has decreased either. For all the talk of 'shop around' and reward retailers who don't rip you off. Its just that, talk.

What annoys me is that I still have to listen to every tom dick and harry moan about how I am ripping them off??? I point out that I charge RRP, I show them the Wholesale price list with the RRP. What do I get? "Ah sure anyone could print anyold pricelist up, my local shop only charges xyz etc etc". I usually just say to people, "well when you go back to your local shop and realise your mistake ie that they charge the same or more than me, I assume you will come back to appologise to me". Do they ever?? No.

My point being I sometimes feel like, well if I have to listen to people accusing me of ripping them off anyway, whether I am or a amen't, I may as well rip them off. I don't follow that train of thought through though as I would be just as bad as the ripoff retailers that give me a bad name by association (People assume now that 'every' retailer is ripping them off) and anyway we can live comfortably without ripping people off.

The rest of the edits were rants about marauding bands of blue rinse 'oul' dears taking 10minutes to get the handbag out of the Dunnes bag, the purse out of the handbag and the money out of the purse and then the reverse...and the way they blo...........Damn, there I go again!!

:D:D

Youseff was correct, it was a real De'fens 'Falling down' rant 'I had a few beers on me':D:D

Big Ears · 21-07-2004 9:40pm

put a sign outside the shop up the road , naming how much cheaper , you're prices on main items bought(Milk Bread , I dont know what the most common items bought are ) by people .

when they see the difference they would be thick to keep going to the same place .

It would at least get the shop up the road to bring down they're prices .

The Real B-man · 21-07-2004 9:47pm

price hike in the last year on tayto/king i think is to do with Walkers more & more people are buying them

Calibos · 21-07-2004 10:35pm

Originally posted by The Real B-man
price hike in the last year on tayto/king i think is to do with Walkers more & more people are buying them

Thats just the typical Irish version of 'competition'. New competitor arrives on the market and starts taking market share. Do they keep their prices the same or even lower them to fight off the competition and maintain their own market share ??? No.......... "Ah sure if that new shower can get away with charging 45c a packet, what are we doing only charging 30c. Lets match their (higher) prices...woohoo!!

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