Higher prices for Christmas

PennyPincher114

Went to Tesco and bought jellies marked at 35p. At the till they came up at 47p. Questioned it and the assistant discovered a second batch of the same jellies in another (Christmas) aisle at 47p. Told me that the cheaper ones hadn't been remarked. This means that they have gone up by almost 30% for Christmas. Is this so that after Christmas they can have massive signs saying "hundreds of prices reduced"? Has anyone found anything else that has had such a dramatic rise especially for Christmas?

DCFC79

Maybe the price increase has nothing to do with christmas but its a price increase, what kind of jellies were they

PennyPincher114

Hartleys strawberry jellies!

DCFC79

PennyPincher114 wrote: »

Hartleys strawberry jellies!

they're the small pots of jelly aren't they, if it is a price increase for xmas then its just tesco doing it as the sainsburys, asda and ocado have them for 38p

PennyPincher114

No, just ordinary packets of slabs of jelly!

DCFC79

PennyPincher114 wrote: »

No, just ordinary packets of slabs of jelly!

oh sorry, well according to mysupermarket asda, JS and ocado are still cheaper

uktim29

If they all go up it might be a wholesale price increase. You can't always assume that it's because of an event etc.

georgina_fenwick

PennyPincher114 wrote: »

Went to Tesco and bought jellies marked at 35p. At the till they came up at 47p. Questioned it and the assistant discovered a second batch of the same jellies in another (Christmas) aisle at 47p. Told me that the cheaper ones hadn't been remarked. This means that they have gone up by almost 30% for Christmas. Is this so that after Christmas they can have massive signs saying "hundreds of prices reduced"? Has anyone found anything else that has had such a dramatic rise especially for Christmas?

Yes, I found something similar.

I was in Morrisons last week and went to buy my usual cat food, Morrisons own brand 100g foil trays. A few weeks ago they were 23p each and then they reduced them to 20p each but last week they had put them up to 39p each. :eek:

I could not believe they had almost doubled the price, went straight to asda and they have boxes of 12 for £2.16.

DCFC79

uktim29 wrote: »

If they all go up it might be a wholesale price increase. You can't always assume that it's because of an event etc.

thats what i was trying explain but not as well as what you had put

speedfreek1000

uktim29 wrote: »

If they all go up it might be a wholesale price increase. You can't always assume that it's because of an event etc.

No it's more like TESCO Co policy:p

Have a look at how they manipulate the price of wine for certain discounts. Maybe it's an honest mistake that sometimes they discount to £6.99 from £9.99 on a bottle of wine which cost £5.99 the day before. Guess what the more expensive Reserve/earlier year version of the same wine (which looks almost identical) costs? :mad:

luvvabargin

Supermarkets usually get away with this sort of thing because we the public usually think that supermarkets must automatically be cheaper, when as is proved so many times, if you have the time to shop around, you often find things cheaper elsewhere, often from relatively small suppliers.

As suggested, I believe this is all price manipulation ready for the "big new year price slashes"

I think I'm right in saying that the law states that an item has to have been on sale for 28 days at a high price before being advertised for a "sale price" - no doubt someone with a little more knowledge of the sale of goods act (or whatever act covers it) will enlighten us!...

So if supermarkets stick the prices up now 6 weeks before christmas, they can then "slash" prices again just before or after christmas perfectly legally, though you'd be right to question the morality of such a practice.