Bigger packs are not better value

Kirri

Geordie Joe, you spend too much time in Morrisons let alone on here I've cured myself... back to once a week now!

Not food, but I noticed last week bird food in Wilkos is now more expensive in the 2kg than the 1kg after the recent price rise.

In a supermarket though I check as much as poss on the shelf edge lables, price per 100g etc. I noticed in Waitrose though that you can't do that with their packaged tomatoes as they are priced per tomato and the only weighing scales are the ones that print the price out rather than just telling you the weight.

maman

Kirri wrote: »

In a supermarket though I check as much as poss on the shelf edge lables, price per 100g etc. I noticed in Waitrose though that you can't do that with their packaged tomatoes as they are priced per tomato and the only weighing scales are the ones that print the price out rather than just telling you the weight.

I've noticed that the shelf edge prices per kg are sometimes not correct or not updated to match offers so I still end up doing the mental maths myself.

You can use those scales in Waitrose, just throw away the sticker!:D

photome

In Saisburys last week

A small kiddys size bar of Cadburys milk chocolate , think they are 20g, was less per 100g than any of the bigger bars

Horseunderwater

Shoppers beware!
Multibuy offers may be costing you more than you save if you do not check pack prices that are included in the 3 for a £5 offers that most of the chains do. There are many examples that I and many others have spotted in recent times. If you do not add the prices up of the 3 packs and the total does not go over the £5, then you are BEING diddled. It is easy to miss.
Sainsbury have as a slightly different offer: 4 pack of Fursty Ferrit ale at £6.56 (£1.64) per bottle, but single bottles are £1.43 per bottle (last Monday).
Another good one ( a while back now) was Tesco own lable tea (was in a red packet) 90p for 80 bags size but if you bought 2 x 40 size it was 80p, so 10p loss there. That went on for well over a year.
Most people now carry a mobile phone, which has a simple calculator on it, if you cannot add up in your head too well. Learn to use it and you will be astonished just how supermarkets are diddling shoppers.
You may be wondering how your shopping bill is rising, but that prices are seemingly the same. This is why.
So folks start watching to make some real savings on the weekly shopping bill.
Frances.:money:

Snakeeyes21

The supermarkets rely on people being lazy, Oh look 2 for 1 it must be a better price, when quite often its just as or more expencive then when it wasnt on offer.

Also check the pack sizes when things are on offer, packs of meat are the worst for this, the coop usually has 900g packs of chicken thighs for £2.50 odd, they now have 600g packs on for 2 for £4.00 bloody con merchants, the per kg price is only 60p more expencive but multiply that by the thousands of people who buy without thinking and you can see why supermarkets do it.

They are all out to shaft you.

UnderPressure

I have noticed Tesco doing dodgy half price offers recently as well heres an example, Napolini spaghetti 500g pack, I have bought this every week from Tesco for ages since my local Mr t stopped doing the finest spaghetti wrapped in the black paper anyhow it has always been 66p, about 4 weeks ago they had it on half price offfer for 50p, strange I thought thats not half price!

When the half price offer finished the price suddenly shot up to 99p, then 1 week later back down to 66p, Teco think we are all stupid I am sure they do it really annoys me as though they are trying to insult me in some way with a fake half price offer on stuff I buy every week, I have noticed this a few times in tesco on other stuff as well.

Off topic for a mo another thing that annoys the hell out of me, you walk around a supermarket for an hour loyally filling your trolley, get to the checkout ready to hand over £100 + quid sometimes and then they expect your to queue in a mile long queue to hand over your money to them, then when you do get to the front they expect you to pack it all as well.

Might be me this but I think the whole scenario is just insulting as all it would take for any supermarket to get my weekly custom would be for one of them to offer a no wait at the till guarantee and we will pack your bags for you, geeeessssh the amount of money I spend in greedy tesco for the level of customer service is crap!!!!!

Rant over

sassyblue

It's all good general advice but they're playing on people (sometimes like me!) who don't have time to get calculators out and do the maths. I don't shop in the same supermarket most weeks but chop and change so l can't remember what the exact cost of everything is/was in each shop.

Oh, and putting on the shelf label one price in kilos and the other calculated a different way bugs the hell out of me.

geordie_joe

UnderPressure wrote: »

Teco think we are all stupid I am sure they do

They don't think we are stupid, they know for a fact we are!

Well, not all of us, but a large majority are.

They don't just think up these stunts and hope for the best. They gather lots of information and analyse it. They know it is going to work, because it worked with tins of beans, tinned peas, and lots of other things in the past.

jenniewb

I don't think its people being stupid, most people are too trusting and assume the Supermarkets are on their side when infact they are not.

I'm lucky, I'm a naturally paranoid and suspicious person- and have eating issues which mean I eat the same thing day in, day out, I know the price of everything I buy a there are only a few different items there, not everyone else is so lucky and I can only imagine if you have 3 kids, one of which is screaming the place down, or are tierd after work and an arguement with your partner, or are moving home, don't shop very often or like to buy different things everytime you shop then it must be very difficult to think about what you are doing. I think then people rely on the little yellow SEL labels to help them out and never think to check so never learn otherwise.

zenseeker

What worries me more than anything is the fact that you people need calculators to add up such small figures...