TESCO ARE UPPING PRICES BY AT LEAST 10% - not good - i left my trolley

DCFC79

These price increases are most shocking, heaven forbid prices on items should go up, vote with your feet

blue_monkey_2

shaven-monkey wrote: »

If it's purely on british grown, produced, packaged and processed then they are indeed ripping us off.

Not neccesarily, remember the minimum wage has increased too - unfortunately things like this rise, NI rises, fuel costs rise, etc... the supplier is not going to sell at a loss are they. Remember, if your day to day costs are rising then so is any businesses costs - who must use 1000 times the gas/electric a small household uses. I am sure that these retailers are not doing it to 'rip you off' but covering costs.

I noticed the price of my labels have gone up £3 since I last bought them - a supplier/retailer has to cover their costs else they will end up the same way as woolworths!

~Chameleon~

The only answer to all this is STOP USING SUPERMARKETS!!!!!

If everyone went back to using their local stores, farmers markets, etc then the supermarkets, Tesco in particular, wouldn't have the control and dominance they do! Everyone moans about supermarkets and how they are taking over, but that's only because people allow them to!

Do something about it NOW before we no longer have a choice :rolleyes:

skint-student-nurse

i had mr tesco deliver my food the other day, and was told almost half of it was sustituted- with items twice the price of what i intended to pay!! cunning move but i made the delivery guy take back all the non-essential items cos it wasnt funny and i didnt even ask for substitutions!

sneezyboots

how terrible.... not the price increase, you leaving half a trolley of shopping in the middle of a supermarket. how has nobody already mentioned how inconsiderate and damn right lazy that is! prices are displayed perfectly clearly for you. if you do not like what they are asking for it, here's a thought, don't put it in your trolley! by the time a member of staff had seen the trolley enough times to think that maybe someone had actually left it for good and not actually just popped to the next aisle i imagine there would have been a lot of items in it which would have been chilled/frozen and had to have been chucked away, increasing their right offs. If you want to contribute to increasing their right offs don't be surprised when everything is dearer again next time you go there. talk about spitting into the wind. even if i had an emergency and had to leave my trolley half way through a shop i would have the decency to give it to a member of staff so it could be dealt with straight away.

markelock

sneezyboots wrote: »

how terrible.... not the price increase, you leaving half a trolley of shopping in the middle of a supermarket. how has nobody already mentioned how inconsiderate and damn right lazy that is! prices are displayed perfectly clearly for you. if you do not like what they are asking for it, here's a thought, don't put it in your trolley! by the time a member of staff had seen the trolley enough times to think that maybe someone had actually left it for good and not actually just popped to the next aisle i imagine there would have been a lot of items in it which would have been chilled/frozen and had to have been chucked away, increasing their right offs. If you want to contribute to increasing their right offs don't be surprised when everything is dearer again next time you go there. talk about spitting into the wind. even if i had an emergency and had to leave my trolley half way through a shop i would have the decency to give it to a member of staff so it could be dealt with straight away.

I did???

Captain_Frugal_2

sneezyboots wrote: »

how terrible.... not the price increase, you leaving half a trolley of shopping in the middle of a supermarket. how has nobody already mentioned how inconsiderate and damn right lazy that is! prices are displayed perfectly clearly for you. if you do not like what they are asking for it, here's a thought, don't put it in your trolley! by the time a member of staff had seen the trolley enough times to think that maybe someone had actually left it for good and not actually just popped to the next aisle i imagine there would have been a lot of items in it which would have been chilled/frozen and had to have been chucked away, increasing their right offs. If you want to contribute to increasing their right offs don't be surprised when everything is dearer again next time you go there. talk about spitting into the wind. even if i had an emergency and had to leave my trolley half way through a shop i would have the decency to give it to a member of staff so it could be dealt with straight away.

You are funny............. did you not think to ask if I had actually been down the chilled / frozen food aisle before noticing they were trying to rip me off?? If you had I would have told you I hadn't............... jeezzz..... and regarding 'decency', have you got the decency to get a life and do something more useful than attempt to patronise somebody for pointing out the bleeding obvious that Tescos are ripping us all off............... :xmassign:

sneezyboots

how exactly are they ripping you off? do you know what their mark-up margins are? do you know exactly what their balance shets look like? clearly not! do you even realise that supermarkets actually have the smallest mark-ups per item they sell around?

if you think a store like tesco is ripping you off you need to get out more. prices go up. prices go down. if you see a price you aren't willing to pay, don't pick the item up. sounds straight forward enough to me.

although if shops changing their prices bothers you that much, find a patch of ground and grow your own food, i hear tesco are doing some great deals on seeds at the moment :rotfl:

gilfachboy

some of tesco's prices have increased by 50% over the last few months. i also have noticed that every time there is a offer on a product that when it ends the price of the item has increased from its pre-offer price. wot a cunning move .

chriz1000

I always notices this, how do you think they make there sales sound so good!? They know exactly when we all need to buy lots of food so put the prices up and maximise there profits. Then come the January sales they will look like they are heavily discounting everything when they roll back thousands of prices. I know exactly how much all my regular items cost. Sometimes the fluctuation is unreal!
I have seen items on sale at £1.49 for say a year. Then they will suddenly be £2.09 and a month or two later roll back to £1.79 with a big sale discount sign saying it’s dropped in price. It’s all a con.