Another Tesco Massive Price Increase

minnie1972

Aunt Bessie chips 1kg was £1.42 now £1.59
Aunt Bessie roast potatoes was £1.86 now £1.99
Blossom Hill white wine was £3.89 now £4.49 only £3.99 in Co-Op

taxiphil

ljonski wrote: »

Here is the text of an Email i received last night from Trading Standards regarding me being diddled twice. (Once, even while i was standing at C/S getting another one sorted out !

Dear xxxx
My name is XXXXXX and I am an Enforcement Officer with Hull City Council Trading Standards, I have been passed your complaint for investigation.
Following receipt of your complaint a colleague and myself have visited the Tesco store at the St Stephens Shopping Centre to review the pricing.
We sample by obtaining a number of random products and noting the price shown on the shelf edge and then comparing this with the price that appears on the point of sale system. On this occasion we sampled a hundred products, three of these came back with an incorrect indication.
As a result these have been rectified and hopefully our visit will help to ensure that they keep a tighter control on prices in store generally.
Please be aware that we periodically inspect all the supermarkets within the Hull boundary and perform these checks.
I would like to thank you for bringing this matter to our attention and hope that you have found our actions acceptable. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.
Yours sincerely XXXXX

And that, in a nutshell, is why Tesco are making millions in "black profit" by charging more at the till than the price on the shelf - because Trading Standards are too weak and ineffectual to prosecute them for these criminal offences, even when they catch them red handed in the act!

Overcharging customers on 3% of items is a pretty damning statistic (but entirely unsurprising to me). For Trading Standards to say "it's ok because Tesco rectified the overcharging after we told them about it" is a massive cop-out. The offence(s) still happened in the first place and should therefore be prosecuted. Shoplifters aren't given the luxury of escaping prosecution simply by being asked nicely to put the goods back on the shelf after getting caught red handed.

There is no incentive whatsoever for Tesco to comply with the law if they're not punished when they break it!

I wonder if Trading Standards bothered to ask Tesco to look at their computerised records to calculate how much money they'd stolen in total from customers who'd bought these products and not checked their receipts? (Not forgetting that Tesco had the information available to automatically refund all those customers who used Clubcards). Somehow I doubt it.

Trading Standards are so inept that they're almost complicit in this scam.

blackmidnight

the healthy living mozzarella has gone up to 74p from 63p last week :mad: and the normal mozzarella has gone to 93p from the same price I think

although peppers have gone down 12p...

baccyman

i have noticed that their petrol prices are starting to creep back up again last week they were 84.9p per litre and today it was 86.9p.
the petrol prices never did go down as much as what the crude oil prices did, so we were still being ripped off on fuel prices.

cold-mummy

cucumber up to a POUND!!!!!!!!

TH77

Tesco Own brand Bubble Bath:
Was 48p now 78p

Tesco Own Brand Cat Food (6 pack):
Was £1.89 now £2.75


Plus plenty more items that have shot up over the last few weeks. This is also happening at Asda and Morrisons.

I have a list of the 2 items which I have taken note of from 4 stores (Not been to Sainsburys so I don't know their prices)

Own Brand Bubble Bath:
Tesco 78p
Asda 78p
Morrisons 78p
Wilkos 56p

Own Brand Cat Food (6 Pack):
Tesco £2.75
Asda £2.75
Morrisons £2.59
Wilkos £2.06

Have the 3 'Giants' named above explained why they have hiked the prices so much in the last week or so??
:mad: :mad:

MattLFC

Yeah, im buying Kitekat now, I usually buy the 12 pack of Tesco Premium, but it is over £5.00 now, the Kitekat is miles cheaper in comparison at £4.35 for a 12 pack.

It makes you wonder what is going on when big brands like Kitekat are cheaper than Tesco's own brands.

Having said that they whacked the price of 12x Tesco Value batches up from 22p to 40p overnight, and then back down to 29p a few days later. And Malt Loaf shot up from 18p to 29p.

I understand things increase in price, but 50% at a time is rediculous lol.

Sylvester

Tesco's are jokers. I have a Tesco 10 mins from me and an Iceland and Morrisions, 30 mins from me - I rarely go to Tesco anymore, although I have done twice in the past week :eek:

On both occasions I got the shock of my life - the first time the till guy had a sense of humour, the second time, the girl smiled and was friendly.

Been going there for around 10 years and they are so miserable and now they are even more expensive too.

I went to Morrisons on Monday and enjoyed it so much more - not to mention they have cracking cream cakes!

With regards to overcharging, I was charged 9p more than the SEL for a packet of toilet roll, but I let it go. My Tesco also do not refund by their policies, even if you point it out. They just get moody and start blaming you.

With regards to cat food, Kitekat is alot cheaper than others and my felines like it anyway.

Another thing my local tesco do, is put, for example, 400g items with a 300g SEL under it, making you think you are buying and paying for the 300g, but in fact, you pick up the 400g and pay more. I appreciate sometimes things may get moved across, but not as many times as i've seen it happen. I'm now much more careful when I go there and inspect more closely.

If I can avoid the place, I will.

ThinkingOfLinking

Flickering_Ember wrote: »

1kg of Tesco own-brand (not Value or Finest) dried spaghetti was 86p, now £1.15!!

And 2 days on, it's now £1.20.:mad:

Rioja

MattLFC wrote: »

Yeah, im buying Kitekat now, I usually buy the 12 pack of Tesco Premium, but it is over £5.00 now, the Kitekat is miles cheaper in comparison at £4.35 for a 12 pack.

It makes you wonder what is going on when big brands like Kitekat are cheaper than Tesco's own brands.

I also used to buy the premium cat food then switched to KiteKat when it shot up to £5. However in my Tesco the 12 pack KiteKat has increased to £4.75 ish and it was cheaper to buy two packs of six