Sneaky pricing at supermarkets!

stephen77

MillicentBystander wrote: »

:eek: :rotfl: Going by the rest of your post, surely the important bit on a shelf edge label is the price per kg/litre etc? So why would that be in very tiny print compared to the product price if the supermarket wasn't being sneaky?

but price per kg is not the most important part.

Actual price and what it is are more important.
Things like saffron i probably do not want to see the price per kg. Just total price.
If i budget my weeks food for eg £30. I just tot up whats in my trolley and if that comes to £28 and the time I am looking at costs £3 than I am over budget and move on. If it costs £1.50 i can put it in my trolley.

stephen77

pmailkeey wrote: »

If I was PM, all pricing would be pre-printed on packaging. It'd level the playing field for the corner shop v supermarket and you'd know what price you were paying and have proof to take back when the tills are set wrong.

That would cost food manufacturers a lot of money.
It would not be good for products with very long shelf lifes eg salt.

How would you price champange? I like vintage year of 1972. That will be 5 francs. oh wait inflation has increased a bit since then and its gone into Euro now.

Food importers of specialist foods. When they sell 99.9% of there products in there native country. Will they want to set up a new run just to print a price in british sterling on the pack. Plus if the foreign exchange rate changes they may want to alter the price anyway.

stephen77

MillicentBystander wrote: »

I have no idea what you are talking about but I pose this question to you: If you were buying a 10kg pack of a product, would you expect to pay more or less PER KILO than if you bought a 5kg pack? It's not exactly rocket science.

PS Just read prosaver's post and it explains everything. Shakes head. Don't bother replying...

What i meant was.
On certain products the supermarket wants you to buy more packs of the standard size rather than one large pack. It works out cheaper for you, supermarket and manufacturer.
The supermarket at the same make a better margin on the standard pack as well. Thus while you think they are being sneaky they are not maximising there profits.

This does not mean its true in every time, far from it. Bigger packs can often work out cheaper. Just not every time

Stompa

MillicentBystander wrote: »

Do you have 20/20 vision or do you take your reading glasses with you when shopping?

I don't need (or have) 20/20 vision. As long as I can read the price and the weight (both of which are generally not too miniscule) that's all I require.

I agree it would be preferable if the unit price were larger, but even if it were I'd probably still do a bit of mental arithmetic to check it was correct. I'm surprised you've not mentioned those cases where different units are used for different sizes of the same product - so for a small pack it may be shown as 'pence per 100g', for a larger pack as 'pence per kg'.

stephen77

prosaver wrote: »

always goes against us

Who is "US"?

geordie_joe

pmailkeey wrote: »

If I was PM, all pricing would be pre-printed on packaging. It'd level the playing field for the corner shop v supermarket

That would be a good idea, which way would you go?

All prices must be supermarket prices, meaning corner shops would go out of business over night

or

All prices must be corner shop prices, meaning we'd all go bankrupt over night. Well, not quite, but I couldn't afford to pay corner shop prices for all my shopping!

valk_scot

DCFC79 wrote: »

All you ahve to do is check the price, its not sneaky pricing by anyone, the price per 1kg or grams or litre is shown for us to compare but its down to us as to whether we use the information provided

Of course it's sneaky pricing. They're supermarkets, what do you expect? That supermarkets are fair to their customers and only have their best interests at heart? Or that they're greedy money-making opportunists out to screw every last penny of profit out of we the customers?

It's best just to accept the fact that they know every trick in the book to manipulate money out of us. And then shop with open eyes, an alert brain and, if necessary, reading glasses and a calculator. I see people in the supermarket just wandering around chucking things in their trollies without even looking at the labels. More fool them tbh. If you're not willing to check your own bloomin shopping bills you've got no right to start crying foul when you discover they've fooled you with a bit of sneaky pricing. As long as it's not illegal, as in the price is clearly stated somewhere. it's your own fault tbh for not checking the tickets.

KimYeovil

MillicentBystander wrote: »

That's a completely different argument and I would hope you actually know that. 'Quality' is an inexact science based on what the punter actually finds to their particular taste. Pricing of the exact same product but in differing sizes is an exact science. The fact that supermarkets deliberately price a larger pack to be more expensive per unit/weight than a smaller pack of the exact same product IS sneaky pricing and I genuinely can't believe anyone who hasn't a vested interest could argue otherwise.

No one forces you to buy it. Don't.

Nothing sneaky about it. You are a raving hypocritical nutter.

KimYeovil

littlemissbossy wrote: »

I nearly got caught out by the liquid hand soap in the pumps. The refills (just with a screw cap and no pump) were actually more expensive than the ones in the bottles with the pump. Hmmmmm.

So? That is what one would expect.

stephen77

valk_scot wrote: »

Of course it's sneaky pricing.

It's best just to accept the fact that they know every trick in the book to manipulate money out of us. And then shop with open eyes, an alert brain and, if necessary, reading glasses and a calculator. I see people in the supermarket just wandering around chucking things in their trollies without even looking at the labels. More fool them tbh. If you're not willing to check your own bloomin shopping bills you've got no right to start crying foul when you discover they've fooled you with a bit of sneaky pricing. As long as it's not illegal, as in the price is clearly stated somewhere. it's your own fault tbh for not checking the tickets.

Sneaky? Its stated there. Sneaky would be covering it up or missing it off one or two items.

As i stated above the supermarket wants you to buy the standard size pack and not the bigger pack in certain cases. They list the bigger as there competitors do. If the other supermarkets with drew the bigger pack they probably would as well. There not making more money from the bigger pack.

Though i agree if you do not check, its your own fault.
My mrs like maltesers. They are often some pack format on sale. Some times its cheaper to buy 3 small packs rather than 1 big box. some times it not. I look at price per kg to get the best deal.