Supermarket 'promotion' prices - Are they for real?

[umarkmywords]

just been, very reluctantly to a s'market - Hate them. staffordshire strawbs are in now at can you beleive half price!! yipee (NOT). half price = £2.50 WHAT? has anyone ever seen a punnet of strawbs for a fiver (full price) EVER! I didn't buy them, but know that if I complained i would be told they were on promotion - what a load of rubbish. Same at one of the other SM with blueberries, £1.50 punnet on a friday - monday £3.00 but buy one get one free madam, or £2.00 for one, and yes, they were on promotion the week before. does anyone know what this promotion is or is it another word for RIP-OFF?. Clover spread £3.70 for 1kg but if you buy 2 x 500g tubs - £3.00 saving 70p.there is no signageto say these products are on promotion and I for one am sick to death of playing cat and mouse with these idiots and it is about time it stopped, after all ladies and gents, we are in charge. Anyone else had this sort of experience and does it make your blood boil?

 

[tek-monkey]

I'm kinda used to it, I know what I'm willing to pay for all items I regularily buy and wont pay over the odds. I just look at the £/kg and ignore the rest.

 

[cj1]

I think you will find its called retail. There just playing the retail game. They will charge for things what people are willing to pay for them. If the words promotion or bogof will persuade people to pay more then that is what the retailers are going to do. A retailer is not your friend. It is there job to extract as much cash from you in a single trip as possible and get you coming back for more. It is you job as a consumer to acquire all the products / services you need / want for the lowest price possible

 

[Hothouse Flower]

I just look at the £/kg and ignore the rest.

That is exactly what I do.

For those not in the know there is a tiny sign underneath everything to make it easy to make a comparison. One can sometimes make an assumption that a bulk pack is cheaper but this isn't always the case.

Sometimes the offers are plain daft....you only save 5p by buying 2 .

The wines in Tesco are the biggest rip off.

I agree with cj. They are out to make a profit. I know the price of everything and just buy what I think is worth the money.

As an aside, which is your favourite supermarket?

 

[Withnail]

I have said before, and appear to be saying again, and will no doubt say at some time in the future, check your receipt before leaving the store.

I guarantee that you will find instances of going to BO, but putting two in your basket only on the basis that you would GOF, then paying full whack for both. If you do query it, you will get some kind of flummery about it 'not being updated on the system'. Next time this happens to you, try taking two but only paying for one and shrug it off as some kind of systemic malfunction and see where that gets you. Done for theft i reckons.

I realise that by using the word 'basket' in my second paragraph i inadvertently explain how much easier it is for me to do that - i shop 'little and often' (which, for those with children in the exam season, should right now drum into their offspring as a revision mantra, but i digress). I cannot count on the limited fingers of these hands of mine how often this occurs; for someone doing a hefty 'weekly shop' with a trolley that overfloweth i appreciate it is not quite so easy, but still, check your receipt before leaving the store.

Another downright dirty trick that is often played is to have things-what-are-on-offer directly adjacent to very-similar-looking-things-what-aren't. I have taken supermarkets to task on this in the past, but only because i had the time to do so - oh, and because i had checked my receipt before leaving the store.

Lots of the offers are pure bolony (now on offer at the deli counter) and as tek says, just buy what you want to buy, paying the price you are willing to pay. I had one at Sainsbury's this week - first time i'd been in there for ages - lookin' for some lardons i was. Glory be, lardons are on special offer, i will as some might say, have me some of that. It was quite a generous offer, i thought. 2 packs for £5? well it just so happens i'm in the market for that many lardons - but what kind of a deal am i getting here? Individual pack price £2.50.

A recession-busting saving of £0 - every little h, wait, wrong store.

 

[Wolfenrook]

Invitation to treat.

Sainsbury's - Pringles on bogof, £3 a tin.
Asda - Pringles - £1.50 a tin...

Shop in Sainsbury's, you MIGHT get a voucher giving you £2.45 off your next shop (note, your next shop in SAINSBURY'S, who just told you they aren't the cheapest on that voucher...)to price match. Yeah ok, odd then that the same shop cost £20 less in Asda....

I worked in a mens wear store once (seasonal). Come the January sale they brought out all of the really old stuff from the stock room and priced it up with "sale" prices. The stuff already on the shop floor, same price.

Invitation to treat.

Says it all really.

Our favourite supermarket? Shock horror, Asda! I always feel robbed after going into Sainsbury's, Tesco or Morrisons. Oh, and they have a LOT more variety too.

Ade

NB. Wolverhampton Asda now, who stock Polish, carribean and Asian food stuffs, hence more variety.

 

[zebidee]

ASDA's recent advertising campaign got me all riled up - 'supermarket with the most items for £1.' Implicature? Asda = cheap. Has anyone looked at their £1 deals? 1kg bags of carrots for £1. Loose? 78p per kg. What a con.

 

[Gramaisc]

Apparently the important concept is now 'choice'.

I don't want choice - I want what I came in for.

 

[tek-monkey]

I noticed that Pataks now do a microwave rice, it was £1.99 in Tesco. This way overpriced, and they only had a few, so I expect this to be half price or BOGOF on offer in the next few weeks bringing it down to the expected price of a quid a pack.

 

[umarkmywords]

I noticed that Pataks now do a microwave rice, it was £1.99 in Tesco. This way overpriced, and they only had a few, so I expect this to be half price or BOGOF on offer in the next few weeks bringing it down to the expected price of a quid a pack.

get your rice from home bargain or £1 shop much cheaper or cook your own in m'wave and freeze, thats if you have time - 8oz rice - 18fl oz bpoiled water - knob butter - spices if you want - cover -dont forget to vent and m'wave on high for approx 15-20 mins, stacks of rice in the freezer mmmmm!
oh yes, my moan about the strawbs at lets say it - TESCO resulted in 2 x 400packs of english for £2.50 now although they still have a few at £2.50 for one.