ASDA unfair pricing

RHYSDAD

I am still amazed at the apparent 'shock' that these supermarkets use sly tactics to get us to part with our money!! Supermarkets aren't there to 'help' you, to help you get the 'most' out of your money, to 'give' you the best value. They are there to make money from you. When, oh when will you all realise they don't care about you, they only care about your wallet......

KateBob

antrobus wrote: »

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.

So I'm not the only one that does that!

Publicdomain

So really people just want the moon on a stick. Who these days hasn't got a mobile phone. How many haven't got calculators on it. If you are trying to be savy then at least make some effort and work it out for yourself !!!!

DCFC79

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.

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

i was under the impression that it had the the same weight for comparison so if tomatoes were 50p per kg then everything else was in kg

geordie_joe

DCFC79 wrote: »

i was under the impression that it had the the same weight for comparison so if tomatoes were 50p per kg then everything else was in kg

No, they just have to give a unit price, they get to choose what unit they want to give the price for.

Take a look at tomatoes in Tesco

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/search/default.aspx?searchBox=tomatoes

Some packs are given the price per kilo, and others are the price each.

That is the web site, I'm sure if you went into a store and looked at the packs some of them would give the price per 100g.

DCFC79

geordie_joe wrote: »

No, they just have to give a unit price, they get to choose what unit they want to give the price for.

Take a look at tomatoes in Tesco

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/search/default.aspx?searchBox=tomatoes

Some packs are given the price per kilo, and others are the price each.

That is the web site, I'm sure if you went into a store and looked at the packs some of them would give the price per 100g.

clearly i was wrong, tomates was an example but a poor 1 at that