Another Tesco Massive Price Increase

ThinkingOfLinking

Brightonman, there is a greengrocer near me where I cn get a crate of cherry tomatoes for like £1. I much prefer those prices!!

cazzagoogoo1903

last weeks shopping bill stated
Tesco value 4 pork pies £0.89
same pies this week £0.99,12 pack value ready salted crisps £0.44,this week £0.55
lots of other prices i noticed had crept up but stood my ground and refused to buy.I know it doesn't sound a lot but given the amount of customers mr.t has he 's still making a massive profit, obviously he doesn't believe we are in a credit crunch!!!!!!

swannee_D_3

Has anyone else noticed the discounter brand launched not so long ago with a big hullabulloo has started to disappear,

I tried the "market value" round tomatoes 49p no longer available

"market value" green apples 75p no longer available,

"market value" salad 49p went up to 99p now no longer available....

JoCJo2

Flickering_Ember wrote: »

PArdon my ignorance but what is the difference between bio and non bio?

Bio uses bilogical organisms (enzymes) to clean. This can irritate sensitive skin, so some may opt for non-bio

JoCJo2

swannee_D wrote: »

I tried the "market value" round tomatoes 49p no longer available

Haha, great name. As opposed to the square ones!! :rotfl:

newmumincov

jackieblack wrote: »

Tesco marmalade - was 44p, now 75p!

And I agree about the tuna prices too - HUGE increases over the last few months!

Not sure about the other general and quite random price increases Tesco have done, but this might explain the tuna
http://royalfoodimport.blogspot.com/2008/05/canned-tuna-cost-continues-to-rise.html

andyrules

Schamansky wrote: »

I've got a distinct feeling what's going on is this: They're phasing out their value range and gradually replace the value products with their new "biggest discounter" lines. Which are priced higher, of course.

It does absolutely make sense from a business point of view. Although their value lines were in most cases noticeably cheaper than the corresponding Aldi or Lidl products, there can't possibly have been much of a margin on them. So by pulling even in price with the hard discounters on, as I will maliciously assume, merely repackaged and rebranded items formerly known as "Tesco Value", they increase their margin in the "low price" assortment quite considerably. Which is the smart course of action in times of the real or perceived "pinch" making many customers downgrade to cheaper lines. "You wanna shift? Alright then. You shift the products, we shift the margins."

All this is being accompanied by a huge marketing song and dance, with two functions: to distract customers from what are actually price increases, and to propagate their claim of determination and capability to take on the discounters. For they have only just begun to see those as serious competitors. Why don't they simply undercut them? No way. Way too easy. We can do better than that!

Not a bad strategy at all, is it? Increasing margins (= prices) on the one hand while blowing the horn of "cheap as Aldi" on the other. Master strike. Looks like someone's really done their marketing homework.

But alas, it's more see-through than they think.

Has anyone tried the discounter brands? I've had the ketchup and chips and both were horrid to the point of being virtually inedible - and I use some Value things quite happily. Even DS - who will eat any rubbish - asked me not to buy them again!

zenseeker

andyrules wrote: »

Has anyone tried the discounter brands? I've had the ketchup and chips and both were horrid to the point of being virtually inedible - and I use some Value things quite happily. Even DS - who will eat any rubbish - asked me not to buy them again!

I have tried the ketchup, which I thought was nice, but I agree that the chips are vile!

I have also tried the washing up liquid, that's pretty good but the bubbles don't last long.

And I have tried the huge pasty, a bit hit and miss, can be nice, can be vile.

cally6008

fuzzymoneymonster wrote: »

I have noticed on their own brand pet food, they don't sell single cans of cat food in jelly anymore, you can only buy themulti packs which have gone up in recent weeks from £1.89 to £2.35 for 6 cans.
Also, I wanted peanut butter yesterday and they onlyhad sunpat and orgaonic brands on the shelf - there were no tesco brands there to choose from at all - I used to get their value peanut butter.
I also havn't been able to find their value tinnd mandarins, tinned fruit cocktail or decaf cola. I'm guessing they've disconned without warning - grrrrr.

Tesco's own brand Cat Pounches prices are up and down like a flipping yoyo, literally.
£2.28 for 12 pounches one day, following day .. £2.18 for one variety, £2.35 for another and £2.28 for the other two. It was £1.98 a few weeks ago.

jenniewb

Schamansky wrote: »

I've got a distinct feeling what's going on is this: They're phasing out their value range and gradually replace the value products with their new "biggest discounter" lines......

I really hope they don't do this- I genuinly like the aesthetics of the value ranges- the packes and simple images look really chic!!

To add to the list, Figs, pack of 4, were £1.74, now £1.99. Price went down then back up...
Sainsburys it is then!