ASDA unfair pricing

Easypd

Maybe i am just getting old at 34, but i am getting annoyed at ASDA when i shop. When i see an item on offer, i like to compare it to similar and see if it really is agood deal. The tickets on the shelves display the prices and '24p per item' or '36p per 100g'. i then compare this to a non offer item to see if it is a good deal.

I have noticed though that in ASDA, when an item is on offer, it is shown differently to make comparison difficult.

ie: the offer item may be shown as a price per item, and a comparable may be shown by weight, or one item may show price per 100g and another may show price per kilo.

Perhaps it is just an error and i have spotted it on one or two things, but this is wrong and in my opinion a deliberate attempt to avoid comparison.

am i wrong?

BoGoF

Maybe....but if one is priced at £x per 100g and the other £x per kilo is it really that difficult to multiply by 10 to compare. Or maybe the education system aint what it used to be despite the record level of passes dished out these days

Easypd

Agreed, but multiply that by a trolley full and it is a pain in the neck.

Why show the same item in different formats unless it is an attempt to conceal?

BoGoF

In all honesty I don't think the majority of people even bother comparing

DCFC79

jamiepullen wrote: »

Agreed, but multiply that by a trolley full and it is a pain in the neck.

Why show the same item in different formats unless it is an attempt to conceal?

not just asda, i noticed sainsburys do the same or used to,

Easypd

think i just need to get out more. dont get me started on petrol pumps clicking over 1p extra by the time ive walked in to the cash desk.....

geordie_joe

BoGoF wrote: »

In all honesty I don't think the majority of people even bother comparing

I agree, but there are also people who stick to it religiously, even when there no need to.

The other day I saw a couple buying wood stainer, or preservative. A 2.5L tin was £9 and a 5L tin was £16.

They asked me for a piece of paper and pen, so they could work out the price per litre, they wanted 5L of the stuff, to make sure they were buying the best value tin(s).

When I pointed out that they didn't need them, as 2 x 2.5L tins would cost £18 and 1 x 5L tin costs £16. There fore it is £2 cheaper to buy a 5L tin than it is to buy 2 x 2.5L tins.

But they insisted on having paper and pen so they could do long division sums and get the price per litre of each tin.

They kept telling me that finding the price per litre was the only way of being sure they were buying the best value tin(s). My attempts to get them to look at the price per 5L just fell on deaf ears.

MrsMalthouse

I've noticed the supermarkets do this too and find it irritating. I need to work out the better value item as I'm on a very strict budget. I hate it when for example, it lists a bag of bananas as x per 100g then on other packs of bananas it says x per banana! Grr!

geordie_joe

DCFC79 wrote: »

not just asda, i noticed sainsburys do the same or used to,

I complained about this ages ago. It was Morrisons having one pack containing 4 tomatoes and having the unit price as price per tomato, and the other pack having 4 tomatoes and having the unit price per 100g.

I remember saying at the time that it was stupid forcing them to put the price per unit on items, and leaving the choice of unit to them. The should have set a standard unit, litres items sold by volume and kilos for items sold by weight.

I also remember seeing two packs of sausages, one giving the price per 100g and the other giving the price per sausage.

I am convinced that they do it to make it harder for people to find out which is the best value.

Give it two years and one product will have the price per 165.937g and the other will have the price per 0.76595k.

They've got to combat those mobile phone apps some how

VoucherMan

Lucky you don't shop in Tesco.

I used to get frozen chicken fillets. A 750g pack for £2.99.

The pack size changed over time - 700g... 650g... finally 600g but although the label showed the correct weight they never changed it from 39.8p/100g.

Now that's misleading!

antrobus

geordie_joe wrote: »

I complained about this ages ago. It was Morrisons having one pack containing 4 tomatoes and having the unit price as price per tomato, and the other pack having 4 tomatoes and having the unit price per 100g.

Oh that really Ps me off that does. It really annoys me when supermarkets (and they all do it) sell packaged fruit and veg without disclosing the weight so you have no basis for a comparison. Unless, like me, you hunt down the location of the scales, and weigh the damn things yourself.