tesco worst offer ever

Arkwright

Somerled wrote:

Or how about in Asda with their rollback on the price of own label Gin.
75cl £6.00 1 Litre £9.00 1.5 litre £14
The prices for the 1 and 1.5 litre may nit be accurate - but what did surprise me was that the price comparison on the £/Litre showed the 75 cl bottle was the cheapest.

Talk about deceptive trading or what?
The answer - always check that the biggest bottle is in fact value for money.

I always check the £/weight before buying the bigger packs.

You'll be surprised how often the bigger pack works out more expensive.

jap200

I spent a good 20 minutes a few months ago trying to explain to customer services over the phone that the item described on Tesco.com grocery section as: Tomatoes on the vine loose class 1 was mispriced:

I wanted to order about 10 tomatoes, but noticed that they have a weight guide of 0.42Kg This means that when you select 1 item the weight guide is 0.42Kg -which we know is 420g - i.e. exactly the same weight as a tin of baked beans - and clearly a lot more than a single tomato. Adding 10 to the basket changes the weight guide to 4.2KG!

I didn't want to end up with over 4 kilos of tomatoes, so changed the quantity to 1, thinking that the weight guide must be for a 'pack' - rather like the way grapes are sold. It came up as a guide price of 70p in the basket - all well so far.

Imagine my surprise when a single tomato was delivered - with a price/weight sticker of 7p / 0.04g. The person picking the shopping had obviously picked the item by number rather than by the weight guide - which is clearly out by a factor of 10.

I called Customer Services to say how annoyed I was at having to go out to the shop myself to buy these and tried to explain the error. The lovely, but dim-witted CS person just could not get his head around the 'problem' and kept just repeating that the website states that it is only a 'guide price'. He refused to accept that there was any error with the website at all - simply that I did not know how to use it properly. He did refund the 7p for the tomato though!

The error is still on there now - just look for 'tomatoes on the vine loose'.

small

Superman Yoguts

£1.98 for 4 x 150g. therefore total weight is 600g. Unit guide price is £1.32/100g therefore the total guide price for a pack is £7.92.

mistyarthur

I work in a Sainsburys and just before christmas there was an offer on the 6 pack cokes at 2 for 3pounds but there is also a 24 pack at a 'special price' of 6.95. I stood next to a couple who first picked up 4 6 packs and then the husband said isn't that cheaper to the 24 pack, they both worked out the maths and decided it was!!!!
Hardly challenging maths but it just goes to show people don't really pay attention when they shop.

golddustmedia

small wrote:

Superman Yoguts

£1.98 for 4 x 150g. therefore total weight is 600g. Unit guide price is £1.32/100g therefore the total guide price for a pack is £7.92.

I think what they mean is that 4 yoghurts in TOTAL weigh 150g costing £1.98. Therefore it works out at £1.32 per 100g.

So 2 packs of 4 weighs 300g and costs £3.96 which is exactly 3 x £1.32 the price per 100g.

small

No, it is defo 4 x 150g ("Nestle Superman Yogurt Pouch 4x150g" - from Tesco.com). It seems that Tesco worked it out the same way as you.

I have seen others where they get the guide price wrong. And why to they do some as 'per 100g', 'per 10g' and per'kg'. I could accept it if they went up the units as the packs went bigger but they don't.