Half price Celebrations carton in SuperValu

Nanazolie

Celebrations Large Carton (420 Grams)
€7.43 per kg €3.12
Half Price
Was €5.00, Now €3.12, Save €1.88
Offer valid from 06.11.11 to 12.11.11


Find the error in the pic and you could win your weight worth of cat food

dudara

Nanzolie - is this meant to be a Bargain Alert?

jor el

Is this something to do with the calculations of weight & price being all over the place?

Melendez

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noodler

Ah, well stayin the the Celebrations theme....

Tesco (and oothers) have been selling the tins (well they are plastic now) for 6e.

Nanazolie

Melendez wrote: »

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Tadaaaaa! well spotted. I thought it was obvious
Anyway, was in Supervalu and thought of mentioning it to the customer service, except there was no carton of Celebrations in sight. Nor was there a customer service clerk.

dudara

TBH I looked at "Was €5.00, Now €3.12, Save €1.88" so when that all added up, I didn't go any further. The "Half price" thing didn't catch my eye at all, as I went straight to the figures.

From the NCA website

I was shopping in my local supermarket yesterday and there was no price displayed for some products. Is this legal?

In general, retailers must display the selling price of every item offered for sale. More specifically, the European Communities (Requirements to Indicate Product Prices) Regulations 2002 requires that all products on sale to consumers must show a selling price in euro and a large number of products that are sold by weight or volume must show a unit price by reference to the metric measure. A price indication should be either on the product itself or on the shelf edge label.
By law, traders are obliged to display the selling price in euro and in certain circumstances the unit price (the price per kilogram) for all products offered for sale to consumers.

If you are concerned that a retailer is not adhering to the law in this area, please contact the National Consumer Agency.

Register a complaint with SuperValu, stating that you feel its misleading, but in fairness, even though it's a mistake, they are still displaying a final price (with a matching price/kg). It's up to you if you want to pay it.

ejmaztec

Nanazolie wrote: »

Tadaaaaa! well spotted. I thought it was obvious
Anyway, was in Supervalu and thought of mentioning it to the customer service, except there was no carton of Celebrations in sight. Nor was there a customer service clerk.

I hope that Melendez is not going to be done out his/her weight in cat food that you mentioned, or this thread might get transferred to the Legal Discussion forum.

noodler

Nanazolie wrote: »

Tadaaaaa! well spotted. I thought it was obvious
Anyway, was in Supervalu and thought of mentioning it to the customer service, except there was no carton of Celebrations in sight. Nor was there a customer service clerk.

So...its the opposite of a bargain?

Nanazolie

dudara wrote: »

TBH I looked at "Was €5.00, Now €3.12, Save €1.88" so when that all added up, I didn't go any further. The "Half price" thing didn't catch my eye at all, as I went straight to the figures.

From the NCA website



Register a complaint with SuperValu, stating that you feel its misleading, but in fairness, even though it's a mistake, they are still displaying a final price (with a matching price/kg). It's up to you if you want to pay it.

Ah no, I won't bother. I just thought it was a funny one, and meant to mention it to their customer service so they could correct it on the website before anyone starts giving out. I find these little mistakes amusing. My favorite are the ones that say "Special offer - was 3.99 now 3.99" on a big yellow sticker

vinnyirl

I believe its a mistake and it is half price. It is half price off the list price (RRP for supplier) but SuperValu was selling it a €5 which is €1.24 lower than the RRP.

They should probably put RRP €6.24 on it somewhere. This does happen semi frequently, Musgraves gets a good deal on a product and passes the saving on then the supplier sets a special offer of half price offering a rebate on each item sold (they never rebate for the total cost of the offer btw) It goes into the system and gets jumbled because of the new lower price that was already set.

vinnyirl

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