Smaller food packaging is disguised price increases...

Dee140157

I was upset in Asda this week as I have been buying their organic stonegoround cheese and tomato pizza at 3 for £3. This week there was the double whammy of the price going up to 3 for £4 and the pizzas reducing in size by about 1/3. Very disappointed.

nuttywoman

Bought some Walkers Square crisps this week & noticed they`ve gone down from 25grm to 20 grm.

surfsister

RHYSDAD wrote: »

Tesco are sods for doing this. The value range is suddenly shooting through the roof. small individual pizzas a fortnight ago were 46p, yesterday 68p!! a what, 40% price increase. Value milk chocolate, gone from 23p for a 100g bar a few weeks back to 34p now, nearly a 50% price rise. A couple of examples and how the slogan makes me laugh 'Tesco. Helping you spend less' (by charging you more). Well sod you Mr T, we buy potaotes direct from farm at £5 a 25kg sack, the equivalent at todays Tesco price would be £12.80!! We but vegetables direct and i've found a free range egg supplier at, get this, £1.20 for a dozen fresh free range eggs, large size. Ha Ha Ha!!! Don't buy supermarket meat as it's expensive yet tasteless. Buy direct from a butcher, not much cheaper but about a 100 times better in the flavour stakes. Birds eye fish fingers too have done the reduced pack size thing, the 36 pack at £4.99 is now 30 for £4.99!! So now don't buy them. i have no loyalty whatsoever for any supermarket, just use mysupermarket to find the best deals and shop accordingly and also try to source as much food as possible direct from farmers. Much better that way.

Yes the farm or the market is cheapest and fresh and they still know how to sell by the pound!!

freda

Really big boxes of Persil non bio have gone from 500g to 475g for the same price.

harley1

Its not quite the same as, as far as I can tell, the quantity is the same, but Tesco Cheesy coleslaw no longer has a lid. The price has increased by 2p to 68p but with only the celophane on top it will deteriorate much quicker and therefore you will need to buy it more often. I have mentioned this to the staff a couple of times as I will no longer buy it without a lid, but they just shrug and don't really seem to be interested.

A small gripe, but annoying nonetheless.

Harley x

IHateDida

harley1 wrote: »

Its not quite the same as, as far as I can tell, the quantity is the same, but Tesco Cheesy coleslaw no longer has a lid. The price has increased by 2p to 68p but with only the celophane on top it will deteriorate much quicker and therefore you will need to buy it more often. I have mentioned this to the staff a couple of times as I will no longer buy it without a lid, but they just shrug and don't really seem to be interested.

A small gripe, but annoying nonetheless.

Harley x

I agree - I no longer will buy the fat reduced coleslaw because of this - it ised to be able to be used over nearly a week with a proper plastic lid. Do they assume that we use it in a day???? :rolleyes: I used to recycle the lid anyway. But I reckon sales of their coleslaw will have halved because of this. Silly Tescos......but I don't reckon they care very much.

deeds

I found this article interesting.
They obviously think the public are stupid.

RHYSDAD

I started a thread ages ago about supermarket stealth price increases and was basically shouted down by other posters saying how it is a free market and that Tesco/Sainbury's et al are perfectly within their rights to do this sort of thing. I didn't disagree but just thought that some notices announcing this method of price rising would be a courteous thing for supermarkets to do. However it seems that supermarkets want to be underhand and so i'll play them at their own game. My wife and i now have agreed that anything that is substantially increased in price that we would normally like to buy, is now not bought. We still manage to survive and the supermarket is a sale down. Good. I have no sympathy whatsoever. They are greedy and grasping and if everyone thought like this then price rises would very quickly stabilise. tesco are always sending me email about electrical goods and sofa's etc. Not a chance Mr T, will find later that your 'bargains' are not always what they seem to be.

Tesco: 'Every little helps' (yes Tesco that is) Tesco: 'Helping you spend less every day' (by charging you extra and decreasing the amount of goods in our packets so essentially helping you spend more)

Tricia2008

I've noticed Tesco doing this with beef mince, I used to buy 1kg for about £3.70 only a couple of months ago, they have reduced the packet size to 800g and kept it at the same price. But just looking at the prices online for next week, looks like the price has gone up to £4.40 now for 800g. Surely prices for meat haven't gone up that much in the last few months?

RHYSDAD

An interesting article.....
http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk/issues/nerve6/rise_of_supermarkets.htm