Tesco Online BOGOF Warning

codger

On the subject of bulk buying at Tesco, we tend to stock up for winter not with milk but with a modest supply of paper tissues -- easy enough to store, and it saves bulking up the routine shopping by getting a supply all in one go.

Yesterday we loaded up our trolley with Tesco Mansize Tissues in double packs (2 boxes with an adhesive band around 'em) because -- obviously -- buying a double pack is cheaper than buying a single.

Wrong.

It's not only Tesco tissues double packs that we're now having to price check -- I wonder how many other Tesco shoppers, like us, have made the mistake of assuming that a double-pack of anything automatically represents a saving over a single pack of the same thing?

uktim29

codger wrote: »

I wonder how many other Tesco shoppers, like us, have made the mistake of assuming that a double-pack of anything automatically represents a saving over a single pack of the same thing?

Surely all you've got to do is look at the price label?

codger

Er: what price label are you referring to?

You must be particularly well served to have a local Tesco which assiduously price stamps every individual product with its own individual tag.

Our Tesco's price tagging seems as random as the weather. Very often it's necessary to take a product for a barcode price check because the only price indicator is a shelf label. . . which has fallen off and vanished.

DCFC79

codger wrote: »

It's not only Tesco tissues double packs that we're now having to price check -- I wonder how many other Tesco shoppers, like us, have made the mistake of assuming that a double-pack of anything automatically represents a saving over a single pack of the same thing?

you just at the sel on the shelf to see how much it is per tissue, it isnt hard, buying a multipack can be cheaper but not always

DCFC79

codger wrote: »

Er: what price label are you referring to?

You must be particularly well served to have a local Tesco which assiduously price stamps every individual product with its own individual tag.

Our Tesco's price tagging seems as random as the weather. Very often it's necessary to take a product for a barcode price check because the only price indicator is a shelf label. . . which has fallen off and vanished.

the sels can fall off if the plastic stripping which holds the sel's in place has been damaged

codger

DCFC79 wrote: »

the sels can fall off if the plastic stripping which holds the sel's in place has been damaged

Thanks for that -- yep, it certainly happens. And when you're in a hurry, it's all too easy to assume that the multi-pack buy must be the cheapest because otherwise, why would it be a multi-pack??

Honeydog

I've been looking at that verylittle helps dot com site that someone on the vent bit mentioned. It confirms everything I ever thought about Tesco. Check it out - it is really interesting.

My particular favourite sharp practice is the way some stuff is measured in kilogrammes on the price label and some stuff is 100g. Where they compare how much a particular amount costs. They try to make it look like a particular pack is a bargain - mostly it isn't. I hate Tesco.

MarkyMarkD

If you can't compare prices in p/100g with prices in p/kg, then you should have paid (or should that be pay?) more attention at school.

But seriously, I agree that there is stupid use of unit pricing. Worse than the example you give are things that use p/item and p/kg indiscriminately among the same product category.

uktim29

MarkyMarkD wrote: »

If you can't compare prices in p/100g with prices in p/kg, then you should have paid (or should that be pay?) more attention at school.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

I like that!

You can see how big something is anyway. I've never had any problems with doing the calculation in my head even if I do want to compare the price/weight the label often has. You just move the decimal point, not hard stuff.

Honeydog

MarkyMarkD wrote: »

If you can't compare prices in p/100g with prices in p/kg, then you should have paid (or should that be pay?) more attention at school.

But seriously, I agree that there is stupid use of unit pricing. Worse than the example you give are things that use p/item and p/kg indiscriminately among the same product category.

I can obviously work the prices out but why should I have to stand there peering at the shelf edges? My point is that they do it deliberately otherwise eveything would be in either grams or kilogrammes. It isn't as if anything under a certain weight is g or over a certain weight is kg. They do it to mislead.

A Mum with 2 or 3 screaming brats might be 'capable' of working it out but will she bother - no way! She just wants to get round and get away - so they'll catch her out.

Flippin' heck - it is bad enough having to look at the fat/carbohydrate content of things.

By the way did you know that people with GCSE maths or the equivalent are in the top 25% of the UK's mathematicians? Now there's a frightening statistic.

Did I mention I HATE Tesco?