Tesco two tier pricing

scottishminnie

For Tesco shoppers in Scotland you can now look forward to a 5% increase in the price of your goods - although given most of the Tesco price increases 5% is positively tame

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/8687519/Tesco-caught-operating-two-tiered-pricing.html

k3lvc

How can you twist that from being "Scotland has been undercharged and Tesco have been told to correct it" to "Nasty Tesco are going to impose an increase on the Scots" ?

babyfruitella

Maybe you should take comfort from the fact you've been getting undercharged rather than moaning about paying the correct price!

vuvuzela

3 very good responses to the OP there

arcon5

Whats the big deal with them chargng different prices in different regions or am I missing something?

But whilst we're talking about price rises, last month we bought some tinned curry, went back this month to buy the same curry and it went up a whopping 100%!!!!!! From 4p to 8p :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

babyfruitella

flanflanflan wrote: »

I take it you are not moaning about the other two tier pricing systems - remind me how much you pay for prescriptions, and tuition fees?

And eye tests......

scottishminnie

flanflanflan wrote: »

I take it you are not moaning about the other two tier pricing systems - remind me how much you pay for prescriptions, and tuition fees?

babyfruitella wrote: »

And eye tests......

all "paid for" through the endless amounts of taxes and national insurance we pay to the government. Anyone who thinks these are free is a sandwich short of a picnic

antrobus

arcon5 wrote: »

Whats the big deal with them chargng different prices in different regions or am I missing something?

It's in contravention of an undertaking given to the Competition Commission. If supermarkets weren't obliged to operate a "national pricing policy" then they'd be able to take advantage of local 'monopolies' to squeeze the beejesus out of people.

babyfruitella

scottishminnie wrote: »

all "paid for" through the endless amounts of taxes and national insurance we pay to the government. Anyone who thinks these are free is a sandwich short of a picnic

Oh do I not pay tax & NI? I best speak to someone at work then to find out where that huge chunk of my wages goes each month.......

At the end of the day, you've been paying less than the rest of the UK for your shopping & now you're going to have to pay the same. That seems entirely fair to me!

antrobus

babyfruitella wrote: »

And eye tests......

Clearly not something that the OP has availed themselves of, otherwise they'd have a pair of reading glasses that actually did the job.

antrobus

Actaully the most interesting thing about the Telegraph piece is the last paragraph;

The difference in pricing comes just weeks after figures from the Office of National Statistics revealed the volume of food purchased by consumers last month fell 4pc on the same month a year earlier, the first such fall it has recorded.

Now that IS something worth talking about. It tells you a good deal about the kind of pressure that household budgets are under, when you see a 4% FALL in the volume of FOOD being bought. It's of far more significance.