Innocent Smoothies have lost their innocence - weights and measures trickery ...

DCFC79

Lol this thread might be a barrel of laughs as well, you have a choice of buying the carton of smoothie or make your own uisng recipes found on the net and they taste better and could be cheaper to make. Its a shame prices have gone up and pack sizes and been reduced but thats todays world so not much can be done.

delain

DCFC79 wrote: »

Does the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 still apply when the sel(shelf edge label) is showing the carton size. As this link says customers struggled to finish the 1 so the 750ml should be easily manageable to finish plus its more likely to fit into the fridge door.

I've not got the worlds biggest fridge by any means (in fact OH bought a smaller one than we were looking at by accident so for 6 people it's inconveniently small!) but... I can still fit 2ltr cartons of juice in the door, so that's just rubbush!

k3lvc

2sides2everystory wrote: »

This is a pro-consumerist website - why are you here?

Because I see the bigger picture - in order to have a society we have to have common sense and not just a bunch of people who cant read shelf edge labels/understand inflation/accept T&C's without then crying "woe is me" and claiming that big bad corporations are acting illegally.

If we accepted half the crap written on here at face value there'd be a hell of a lot more people unemployed and looking for money saving tips.

Never has the "caveat emptor" phrase been more relevant - don't like, don't buy

MamaMoo_2

It's hardly trickery. The pack and SEL both state correct size (750ml). Carton size has also decreased by 25%.
Anyone who thinks that's trickery is probably also amazed by the "I've got your nose" trick...

k3lvc

MamaMoo wrote: »

Anyone who thinks that's trickery is probably also amazed by the "I've got your nose" trick...

Stop it - you'll be accused of being in cohorts with the Magic Circle next :rotfl:

MamaMoo_2

k3lvc wrote: »

Stop it - you'll be accused of being in cohorts with the Magic Circle next :rotfl:

I don't know what you're on about *looks around shiftily*

DCFC79

k3lvc wrote: »

Stop it - you'll be accused of being in cohorts with the Magic Circle next :rotfl:

which magic circle is this then,

gordon2

the cashier scanned a single £1.10 item twice this evening

That is so lazy, sometimes when I buy 6 of an item they only scan one item and press a button 6 times.

Should they not scan each individual item?

2sides2everystory

I suggested a local authority so-called enforcement officer might be another one cosied up to the corporates they were supposed to be policing because just the other day I discovered that Trading Standards have someone routinely seated at a desk in the head offices of at least one major retailer and I was given that information by someone who wished to impress upon me that an unfair and misleading practice I'd highlighted must have been okayed by Trading Standards.

Seriously, if some of you have not moved beyond caveat emptor in your thinking then that's a great shame.

Have any of you ever tried getting anything changed for the better?

MamaMoo wrote: »

It's hardly trickery. The pack and SEL both state correct size (750ml). Carton size has also decreased by 25%.
Anyone who thinks that's trickery is probably also amazed by the "I've got your nose" trick...

Nothing in Sainsburys highlighted a reduced carton size. Why for example didn't they change the carton shape as they have done with the 1.25l "value pack" which they have made to look much wider than ever before? The reason is because the marketeers are deliberately tricking customers who have been led over many years to believe that there is 1 litre in that shaped carton whether it is Innocent Smoothie or Sainsburys own label pressed juice. Do you think Sainsburys would dare to start putting 1litre cartons of milk in place of 2 pint cartons without there being major consultation about it? Or perhaps if Sainsburys discovered that most couples thought that 37.5cl each was a bit too much wine to drink at a single session and that 60cl bottles were more healthy that they would start mixing them in amongst the other 75cl bottles in the Wines and Spirits aisle without major shelf labelling?

I detect that most of you ridiculing this might not have lived long enough to appreciate that an expectation of standard weights and measures linked to an established product has for centuries been part of the unwritten contract between retailers and their customers and that trickery of this nature has long been held as an abomination in the eyes of the Lord? Goodness knows what you thought the words I quoted from CPRs were designed to outlaw if they were not to outlaw this kind of trickery. We didn't need a new law that said "Caveat Emptor - Before you buy a carton of anything, put your glasses on and turn it round an round until you can see those little numbers that tell you how much is in it this week, then put it down, go home and dig out all the receipts for the same or similar product and see how much they cost -- and then go to the landfill site and see if you can locate your old cartons to see if they were the same size as this week's. Only then when you are satisfied, return to the store, double check that they have not changed the size again, buy it, and if you are overcharged then an offence has occurred. If they haven't overcharged, then before you consume any of the liquid, decant it all into a measuring jug because if there is less than what it said in print on the carton then an offence has occurred." Nah, I think that might be just a tad too pedantic even for you lot :rotfl:


And gordon, I don't mind the cashier scanning the same item the correct number of times but I only bought one not two.

k3lvc

Have you ever stopped for a minute and thought about not playing the victim ?

Have you considered that having an Enforcement Officer based in an organisation can provide a 'prevention rather than cure' service ? Allows the Enforcement Officer to see life from the other side and vice versa - it's called good, progressive business practice. Sure it may provide a level of leniency if things go wrong but they're less likely to - use the example of the last 100 years+ of Police Officers drinking in certain pubs and the associated lack of trouble in those pubs.