Asda multibuy on sweets - warning

Pound

Asda always seem to be offering crappy deals on the X for the price of Y offers. I sometimes work out the savings in my head and they work out at something like a 9p saving on £3.00 spend, for example.

spuds_2

I reckon these crappy '40p each or 2 for £1' type deals have become a lot more common recently. I think Tesco are trying hard to compete with Aldi (who don't really go in for the BOGOF thing) - the use of yellow SEL's makes it look like they have loads of deals on, when they haven't at all.

I find Tesco very sneaky and underhand in some of their pricing, plus my local one often has out of date food on the shelves. A particular annoyance is the pricing of things as half-price, eg, strawberries, when they have never, ever been the full price.

Impet_Limpet

smileygiraffe wrote: »

I found energy saving light bulbs at asda a while ago £1 each or 3 for £1. we stocked up!

We went in on Sunday 31st and it was four lightbulbs for £1 or £1 each. We got four :-).

On a similar note to OP and bitter wallet I found it was cheaper to buy 2 x 5L of catsan instead of 1 x 10L.

so2006

I would ring up CS or tell the CS desk and I am sure they would notice the problem and will refund the difference.

honeyD

nikki_angel wrote: »

ASDA also had marge on offer recently. £1.15 for one or 2 for £1.00!!!!

The offer has now changed to 2 for £1.50 so I wonder if it was an error in the first instance.

I actually bought this online and was charged £1.15 each :mad: didnt get the deal!

WEEGIE

sometimes buying items individually can be cheaper than the multi-pack equivalent e.g Sainsbury's pepsi 2for£3 (6pack) 12 pack £4.59.

Enigmatic_Me

It is all a ploy. they simply want you to spend more.

I used to fall for it and was always buying these offers, then one week I questioned myself as to why I was doing it, did I really need 3 of whatever just to save a few pence? So now, unless it is a really good offer I just don't bother.

I hate ASDA (hate supermarkets as a whole) but don't have much choice where I live so am kind of stuck with it.

emay

The really small savings are usually on the own brand stuff thats on offer all year round, while the better savings are on the short-term brand name deals

Pound

Asda sell pitta bread for 19p; but on the label it says it's been reduced from 26p. I've been buying that stuff for about a year and it's always been reduced from 26p. Isn't a limit to how long they can say an item has been reduced for?