Tesco: bad value

Economics101

Two things: first they increased the price of a well-known brand of milk from €1.05 to €1.29 this week (it has been at the lower price for quite a while.

Second, since MUP their beer and wine price on many items above the MUP threshold have increased significantly. For example Tyskie beer from €1,65 to €2,50 a litre. Also most wine price a re rounded up to the nearest Euro.

Contrast this with Lidl where wine prices have increased in line with MUP rules, and not more.

Milk has shot UP in price last couple weeks.....that's certainly not unique to tescos......mrs Mc Carthy texted me the other day to pick up 2ltr ( anonmore supermilk) on way home...... 20cent ( €2,19 from €1,99) MORE than a week earlier.

As regards a relaxing bevvie at the end of the day........ looks like my bi-annual trip to Newry will have the car stuffed on the way back......even with the rate of exchange at moment ( bad) still a BIG saving

Doodah7

OP, you might look into the cost of inputs of producing milk and the huge increases in these inputs in recent months. Ultimately some of these costs have to be passed on to the consumer.

tiredblondie

Price on a lot of things have gone up in Tesco - went in for weekly shop yesterday, haven't done it in there in a few months and certainly noticed the difference in cost compared to Aldi where i have been going!

uli84

2.50£ in the uk 4.50€ in Ireland

rip off

https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/en-IE/products/312720713

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119974697#Comment_119974697

Why would you expect two different countries with different currencies and economies to have the same price ?

Xterminator

All supermarkets: bad value

there, fixed that for you!

seriously though, min wage in Ireland is a lot higher VAT regime is different. they are not going to have currency at an exchange rate level. your comparing apples and oranges.

Also just back from Belfast and i can confirm some items are dearer in the north! they are charging the euro price in sterling for some goods like a small bottle of diet coke. So it is swings and roundabouts.

Sam Russell

Supermarkets price most items at what use to be the 'Recommended Retail Price' set be the originator - wholesaler/manufacturer. That was outlawed but still operated but just not mandated.

Supermarkets in Ireland - Dunnes, Tesco, Supervalu (Musgraves), Aldi, and Lidl - supply more than 90% of the everyday and food market. They compete furiously, but only on a few items that they can claim are cheaper than **** or match ****. Of course, when a customer goes to take advantage of these super competitive prices, they pick up enough full price items that more than makes up for any loss on the low priced items. Most people know less than 10 prices of everyday items.

The own brand items are often low margin and so inflation hits these harder, and it is these prices that go up first. They do not like putting up prices on individual items often, so they put them up by 25% to 50% and then maintain these prices long term - well, sometimes.

Of course they also have shrink inflation where they reduce the quantity in the product but keep the price unchanged. It is particularly common with chocolate bars such they have got so small they are a total waste of time. The Cadbury Cream Egg is now the size of pigeon egg. The Chocolate Orange is also diminished to be not worth looking at. The Toblerone 400g bar was reduced to 360g by removing some of the triangles. Sad - it is enough to cure my love of chocolate.

endofrainbow

Just noticed that Tesco's online shopping delivery has increased to E8.00 plus their minimum basket value is now E45.00 up from E30.00 otherwise an extra E3.00 is added.

walterking

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119974697#Comment_119974697

That was a 2 week club card price special offer.

Tesco had them here for €2.99 on a club card deal in early February

homingbird

Tesco clubcard shopping price is now a joke i saw a 2 liter of soft drink 20 cent dearer after clubcard reduction who are the trying to fool the housewife is well clued up now when she goes out to shop.

Doodah7

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120361741#Comment_120361741

The 'housewife is well clued up now when she goes out to shop'?????

You might want to look at the calendar and notice that it is 2023 not 1973...

homingbird

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120361784#Comment_120361784

I knew i would have that comment coming to me but when you look around any supermarket its still at least 70% women pushing a shopping trolley around.

HeidiHeidi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120361830#Comment_120361830

Just because they're a woman and shopping in a supermarket doesn't mean they're married to their house.

Drag yourself into the 21st century ffs.