Tesco’s Big Price Drop

[denphone]

l suspect so

[Gary L]

When you have Aldi changing the weight of mince beef from 1kg to 900g and still charging the same for it. I doubt it.
you'll just get less for the same price or a bit cheaper. they might even sell halve loaves. shops are in it to make money, and they're already on the ball with that one.

[Chrysalis]

Originally Posted by Taf

{cynical mode} I wonder if this sudden drop in prices will provide a lower rate of inflation in October which is used to set the welfare benefit ammount of increase next April? {/cynical mode}

I assume they used a yearly average of inflation rather than just 1 month?

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Originally Posted by Gary L

When you have Aldi changing the weight of mince beef from 1kg to 900g and still charging the same for it. I doubt it.
you'll just get less for the same price or a bit cheaper. they might even sell halve loaves. shops are in it to make money, and they're already on the ball with that one.

Does that fool the measure of inflation? or are they intelligent enough to account quantity as well?

[nashville]

I agree
I have seen that many times

[Waldo Pepper]

Originally Posted by Taf

I shall keep my eyes wide open looking for the con tricks...

Well I bought a block of cheese yesterday but was allowed two extra blocks free. All with a sell by date 6th October.

If I had a family of five I couldn't shift that much.

[colin25]

Originally Posted by Waldo Pepper

Well I bought a block of cheese yesterday but was allowed two extra blocks free. All with a sell by date 6th October.

If I had a family of five I couldn't shift that much.

Are we all invited for cheese toasties at your house? I like mine with onion please

Well we got two absolute bargains at Tesco today

We were looking for some of those plastic storage drawers, a bit like this -



We found one on the top shelf. It had no price, bar code etc on it so we went to the counter and asked how much it was. 25p said the guy, I will go and get a barcode for it. My partner an I looked at each other thinking he had clearly made a mistake and had gotten his pounds and pence mixed up.

He returned 5 minuted later with a bar code and slipped it on the drawers. I asked him to clarify the price. He scanned it and sure enough, it came up at 25p!

We only wanted one, however there was another on the shelf so we thought, at 25p why not get two?

We took them to the checkout and they scanned the second one that we picked up and it came up at £10! So we questioned this saing that they were both the same and she scanned the other one and sure enough... 25p. A supervisor was called and we got both for 25p instead of £10 each.

Now that's what I call a price drop!

[toonlight]

Originally Posted by Waldo Pepper

Well I bought a block of cheese yesterday but was allowed two extra blocks free. All with a sell by date 6th October.

If I had a family of five I couldn't shift that much.

Your solution to your problem is to freeze the other blocks, cut into sections before hand, the chease is good for 6 months after the best before date in the freezer sealed in a bag. Just take the piece out & microwave your chease on toast after toasting you bread first... simples!

Waste not want not..... I was always told, still live by it today

Toonlight

[Ignitionnet]

Alternatively just completely ignore the sell-by date.

It's cheese, if it's decent cheese it's been maturing for a year, I doubt it's going to curdle again and it's not going to be starting to go mouldy until it's been opened.

Freezing is slightly dodgier as a course of action as the cheese may have already been frozen to be transported, just another trick big stores like to do to reduce costs, you can really tell which do it when you have a fine cheese and buy it from a real cheese shop over a supermarket.

Never use Tescos. We use Asda online for about 60% of stuff, and the rest from Morrisons, which is 1/2 mile up the road. I normally get between £2 & £4 in vouchers every week from the Asda 10% price guarantee [to use online the following week] this generally it covers the delivery cost.

[denphone]

And Tesco's is certainly feeling the heat of the cheaper price supermarkets according to this.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...o-supermarkets

[Taf]

The Grocer magazine says Tesco prices have RISEN.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ying-more.html

[Chrysalis]

tesco are a master of fooling people on prices. I have been monitoring my shopping costs since the start of the year very closely, and they have used a fair few tricks.

Now because they sell a product thats an essential food/drink I expected they would get away with it forever, but its pleasant to read that they are actually now suffering on sales and this is also a sign ho wbad the economy must be if food sales are been hit.

Unfortenatly online shopping options seem limited to the big 3.

Whilst there is alternatives outside of the big 3, the min order size makes them unviable for me. I would love it if someone proved me wrong here.

[Welshchris]

Originally Posted by Taf

The Grocer magazine says Tesco prices have RISEN.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ying-more.html

yeah and here is another interesting one..

http://www.walletpop.co.uk/2011/10/0...pers-pay-more/

[denphone]

Tesco profits grow but UK sales subdued

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15178825