Rip off Stella

Nytehawk

We are nearly all into the world cup fever and a nice cold Stella helps the results seem far more acceptable with a cold one in your hand BUT those rip off supermarkets are at it again. I buy a box of Stella as and when I need them but the attraction of buy one box for £9.99 or two for £16 You know the top 4 supermarkets I mean. What they fail to tell you is that they have given shorter measures down from 330 ml bottles to 284ml so actually you arent getting a bargain at all.............. Should I be surprised. Every time I look at someone looking at the offer I quite openly tell them of the typical supermarket rip off. Be warned of these rip off bargains PLEASE!!!!!!! :mad:

Quincy_3

Phew glad I like Caffreys, 8x440ml for a fiver at jims.

bjo_2

20x440 cans stella are £8.99 at sainsburys
regards
bjo

shelly

I know its not Stella but saw a neighbour this am laden down with Carlsberg. He got them from out local Lidl's, 8x500ml cans for £3.89 IIRC.

Kevponder

bjo wrote:

20x440 cans stella are £8.99 at sainsburys
regards
bjo

Finishes today tho ... sat 17th june!!!! so hurry ..... :beer:

Becles

bjo wrote:

20x440 cans stella are £8.99 at sainsburys
regards
bjo

I've been trying to get this deal, but never managed to find stock our 2 local stores

Kevponder

If they are advertising a line but havent any stock left you can ask for a 'rainy day voucher' ..... basically they write out a voucher with the item and price of the item you cannot get so that when they do have stock in and the offer is not available anymore, you can hand this voucher to the cashier and get the stella at £8.99. This applies to any offer at sainsburys. Obviously they dont like to advertise this but go to the customer service desk. It normal needs some sort of manager to give you the voucher. ... hope this helps

italiastar

Kevponder wrote:

If they are advertising a line but havent any stock left you can ask for a 'rainy day voucher' ..... basically they write out a voucher with the item and price of the item you cannot get so that when they do have stock in and the offer is not available anymore, you can hand this voucher to the cashier and get the stella at £8.99. This applies to any offer at sainsburys. Obviously they dont like to advertise this but go to the customer service desk. It normal needs some sort of manager to give you the voucher. ... hope this helps

I didn't know Sainsburys did these vouchers - Tesco's tell me they've stopped - is this true?

CheekyLittleMonkey

vyvwalters wrote:

We are nearly all into the world cup fever and a nice cold Stella helps the results seem far more acceptable with a cold one in your hand BUT those rip off supermarkets are at it again. I buy a box of Stella as and when I need them but the attraction of buy one box for £9.99 or two for £16 You know the top 4 supermarkets I mean. What they fail to tell you is that they have given shorter measures down from 330 ml bottles to 284ml so actually you arent getting a bargain at all.............. Should I be surprised. Every time I look at someone looking at the offer I quite openly tell them of the typical supermarket rip off. Be warned of these rip off bargains PLEASE!!!!!!! :mad:

If you had bought them from Tesco you should have taken them back to customer services and claimed r+r on them. See Tesco's Grabbit thread for details. x

bootcampbilly

vyvwalters wrote:

We are nearly all into the world cup fever and a nice cold Stella helps the results seem far more acceptable with a cold one in your hand BUT those rip off supermarkets are at it again. I buy a box of Stella as and when I need them but the attraction of buy one box for £9.99 or two for £16 You know the top 4 supermarkets I mean. What they fail to tell you is that they have given shorter measures down from 330 ml bottles to 284ml so actually you arent getting a bargain at all.............. Should I be surprised. Every time I look at someone looking at the offer I quite openly tell them of the typical supermarket rip off. Be warned of these rip off bargains PLEASE!!!!!!! :mad:

In all fairness it's not the supermarkets that bottle these is it.
So how can you blame the supermarkets for changing the bottle sizes?

speedyjoe

bootcampbilly wrote:

In all fairness it's not the supermarkets that bottle these is it.
So how can you blame the supermarkets for changing the bottle sizes?

Do you think that the buyers for the supermarkets don't talk to the brewers and discuss what size bottles and packs they want to stock?

Personally I just go by the price per litre, usually listed by the supermarket, if it's not there I just calculate it myself.