Asda price increases - unbelievable!

zenseeker

alyth wrote: »

If it's any consolation I work there too! I'm sick of getting my ear chewed off by customers to be honest.

I worked in Morrison's and would often get customers ranting at me about prices rises, my standard response was "What the f**k do you want me to do about it? I just stack the shelves for next to minimum wage and you expect me to care that the price as risen by *insert figure*?"

frugal_shopper_2

marywooyeah wrote: »

I used to work in a pub and the manager bought all the ingredients for meals from our local asda - he said it was more convienent than going to a wholesaler - didn't realise they werent allowed to do so.

It's a grey area as to whether or not you are allowed to do it, the competition commission are reluctant to make a decision either way so generally speaking any decisions about customers bulk buying are left to individual supermarket managers. Any supermarket can refuse to sell products for any reason if they wish to do so.

To give an example of how this can affect a food business I work in a hotel/restaurant that has a pizzaria attached to it as a sideline we buy all ingredients wholesale or direct from the grower/farmer & as far as possible it is local produce (within a 50 mile radius) which to a large extent is more expensive than buying the same ingredients in a supermarket. There is a kebab shop across the road who also sell pizzas which they purchase from a supermarket for about 2 thirds less than it costs us for the ingredients to make one from scratch (then obviously there is staff & time costs on top of that) yet they are charging their customers around the same price we do so they are making more money from selling an inferior product & we lose out on customers purely because they look at the prices & decide to go to the place across the road because it is 50p-£1 cheaper. When they do eventually try us they are usually happy to pay the extra on a regular basis but we have usually missed out on an awful lot of sales before that happens & of course the customers have been losing out because they are buying pizzas from the kebab shop which they could of bought in the supermarket themselves for a fraction of the cost.

antrobus

frugal_shopper wrote: »

When that happens just remind the customer that Asda is a retailer not a wholesaler & although it's a bit of a grey area as far as the legailty of doing so goes they shouldn't really be purchasing ingredients from a supermarket for products they will be selling on for a profit instead they should be buying them from wholesalers even if it does work out more expensive on certain items.
In my area there are an awful lot of people permanently banned from shopping in Lidl, Morrissons & Tesco for doing exactly that.

marywooyeah wrote: »

I used to work in a pub and the manager bought all the ingredients for meals from our local asda - he said it was more convienent than going to a wholesaler - didn't realise they werent allowed to do so.

And the manager was perfectly entitled to do so. There is no legal 'grey area'. If a shop has something for sale, anyone is entitled to walk into that shop and offer to buy it. Of course some retailers don't like it when they find their shelves stripped bare of special offers because some local trader has wandered in and piled the lot into their trolley. They particularly don't like it if they think that the trader might intend simply reselling the product at a profit in their own shop. It is therefore not unknown for retailers to ban certain people from their stores for this reason, and they are perfectly entitled to do so.

There is however no law that prevents someone from buying business supplies from a 'retailer'.

Thryth_2

The other thing I have noticed with ASDA of late is they are really pushing up prices on single items in their "special offers" such as the buy 2 for £5 etc... I thought I was imagining it until I went to buy some mince steak and they'd put it up to £3.48! usually just under £3. Tricks like that will stop me shopping with them...

pinkteapot

Asda is our closest supermarket and we still shop there. Thanks to the Price Guarantee website, every week at the moment we get a voucher for 5-10% of what we spent, to use on our next shop.

Food inflation is really high at the moment. It's not just affecting Asda prices.

lonestarfan

In Asda the tenderstem broccoli is usually £1.57. Has been for over a year. Last November they had a special offer for a short while where it was £1 but I haven't seen that since. On saturday it was £2 instead of £1.57 and £3 for 2 packs.
43p increase on a single item is a bit much I think. Its still £1.57 at Tescos so I'll go there for a while.

dickydonkin

zenseeker wrote: »

I worked in Morrison's and would often get customers ranting at me about prices rises, my standard response was "What the f**k do you want me to do about it? I just stack the shelves for next to minimum wage and you expect me to care that the price as risen by *insert figure*?"

I see that you 'worked' in Morrison's.

Did you get the push for having that attitude towards customers?

It was your choice to stack shelves for minimum wage - why take it out on the people who actually pay them?

tazmac25

If you want to see dodgy offers check out tescos big price drop !!!!
You are lucky if you see more than 10p of any item but the increase in every day shopping is shocking even their value range
The value tin foil has doubled this year alone!
And to add insult they have stopped double club card points too xxx

Ps anyone getting over charged in asda if you go to cs you should not only get your over charge back but also a £2 were sorry gift card!
For tescos the over charge you should always get back double the over charge!
Hope this helps x

TrueFlower

Thryth wrote: »

The other thing I have noticed with ASDA of late is they are really pushing up prices on single items in their "special offers" such as the buy 2 for £5 etc... I thought I was imagining it until I went to buy some mince steak and they'd put it up to £3.48! usually just under £3. Tricks like that will stop me shopping with them...

I|ve noticed this too! So frustrating!

balmk

I know it helps to vent, but to add a bit of perspective -

Fuel prices keep rising. This is a significant contributing factor to the cost of food prices; it cost more to farm, transport, and manufacture. The cost of this has to be passed on to the end consumer.

Supermarkets don't "trick" you by increasing prices. The cost of items is clearly displayed and you have to make a conscious decision whether or not to purchase the item.

Times are tough, budgets are getting stretched, and money is tight for everyone, but if you are looking to get maximum bang for your buck then head over to the Old Style board for some tips.