Supermarket price variations

Flyboy152

Hammyman wrote: »

Because, like the prices they charge you, suppliers can charge the retailers different prices.

For example, if I buy a cardboard box, I'll pay 80p per box for quantities up to 100. If the business next door buys over 100 of the same box, they'll pay say 70p for example even if it was from the same place I bought mine.

And just because the sign on the petrol stations both say Shell doesn't mean its the same company. They're all franchises so you'll find the BP petrol station in Hull on Stoneferry is run by X Ltd and the BP petrol station on Hedon Road, just 3 miles away, is run by Y Ltd and BP could charge them differently.

This is why I specifically referred to retailers and not wholesalers. I am in particular alluding to groups of retailers, such as the one in the town near us. One petrol retailer who has two sites, one close to an Asda and one on the outskirts of town. The one close to Asda he charges 135.9p per litre and at the other, he charges 139.9 per litre.

spaceboy

The BP petrol station in Grangemouth less than a mile from the refinery is more expensive than the Edinburgh prices. Go figure...

spaceboy

Flyboy152 wrote: »

This is why I specifically referred to retailers and not wholesalers. I am in particular alluding to groups of retailers, such as the one in the town near us. One petrol retailer who has two sites, one close to an Asda and one on the outskirts of town. The one close to Asda he charges 135.9p per litre and at the other, he charges 139.9 per litre.

Well it's not hard to work out why he does that. He's trying to make money.

Flyboy152

spaceboy wrote: »

Well it's not hard to work out why he does that. He's trying to make money.

That much is obvious, but he is ripping off the general public whilst doing it, which is the reason why I have no sympathy for fuel retailers.

targaid

dzug1 wrote: »

Since when did they need to justify it? The customer has the option to buy elsewhere. And what's actually WRONG with discrimination? People do it all the time.

:doh:

Are you for real? What's wrong with discrimination? Words fail me.

targaid

I've had a reply from sainsbury's about this. They claim that it's too complicated to explain, but that it's mainly to do with their costs in delivering it. Within a 5 mile radius that's clearly tosh, and the implication that it's too complicated is patronizing in the extreme.

Outpost

targaid wrote: »

:doh:
Are you for real? What's wrong with discrimination? Words fail me.

If words fail you then perhaps you would care to express yourself through the medium of dance or possibly music?

targaid

Or maybe I could just use sign language.

Outpost

targaid wrote: »

Or maybe I could just use sign language.

Do you know sign language?