Panorama - tonight (Monday 5th)

jenniewb

Pink-winged wrote: »

I also hate the fact that some products are sitting side by side, but for one the price is listed in grams, the other is listed in kilograms which makes it more difficult to compare costs. Most people can work it out, but some can't, some are too busy to do so, and others don't care.

Pink

Not as bad as when they do this and its actually WRONG!
I do my own sums and very often come up with a different result. There should be a law against them doing that, for many they employ so much trust in the labels and time again they abuse that trust.

rinabean

Something that has bugged me about supermarket pricing since I was a girl - when there's a bogof or similar, what is the price in kilos referring to? The price of just one - which surely legally needs to be displayed somewhere ? - or the price after the offer? I keep meaning to work one of them out but I don't get to spend a lot of time in supermarkets lately (never sure if that's a good thing or not).

redlady_1

This just confirmed exactly what i have thought and the main one being that buying two of a smaller packet is cheaper than one large one.

Middy

rinabean wrote: »

Something that has bugged me about supermarket pricing since I was a girl - when there's a bogof or similar, what is the price in kilos referring to? The price of just one - which surely legally needs to be displayed somewhere ? - or the price after the offer? I keep meaning to work one of them out but I don't get to spend a lot of time in supermarkets lately (never sure if that's a good thing or not).

The price per kg is for a single item so if an item is BOGOF, half the price/kg.

I wish they put the price per kg when buying an offer when they are £2.50 each or 2 for £3.50.

dickydonkin

red_devil wrote: »

There will be moans but people will still use the big 4.

You are right of course - but some are worse than others.

Morrison's must be the worst at [STRIKE]conning[/STRIKE] 'confusing' their customers with ambiguous pricing and strategically locating products on offer with similar products that aren't.

I accept that mistakes in pricing goods can and does happen - but with Morrison's, it happens too frequently to place the blame on inept staff.

Certainly in my 'nearest' (Doxford Park - Sunderland) - this is a common occurence.

On another note - after Friday evenings debacle in the aforementioned store - I have finally convinced my wife that it is not worth the 16 mile round trip every Friday to that hell hole.

22+ checkouts in place - less than half open on a Friday evening - 3 weeks before Christmas!


The store is filthy (dirty sawdust used to absorb leaking water from fridges), the place is a danger (cheap tat blocking up or toppling in the gangways) hardly surprising that Morrison's have just been hammered in court by the HSE for H&S failings and 'customer service' staff who treat their patrons with utter contempt - although there is obviously a training and morale issue.

We got fed up of waiting, dumped the trolly and went to Tesco Xtra - 2 minutes from where where we live.

A truly awful company - less reasons to shop at Morrison's!

VfM4meplse

Panorama is sensationalist, I am always disappointed whenever I tune in with the hope of learning something. They seem to be able to define the problem, but stop well short of offering solutions.

Mrs_Chip wrote: »

RFTA - that's a cunning trick, ain't it? :mad: . You have to have a degree in astro physics or summat to work out a comparative price. Even with a calculator it takes ages to work out the best value. It must be a deliberate policy, it happens so often.

I disagree with this, the maths is comparatively simple. If nothing else, comments like this should encourage parents to ensure their kids pay attention at junior school.

RHYSDAD

The overriding impression i got was that Sophie Raworth doesn't trouble herslf with such a mundane task as the weekly shop. The way she was permanently goggle eyed implies her maid does it all for her.....

raider

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

The other thing that really annoys me is how some of the tickets show a pack of x marked in £/kg and their own brand marked £/L etc as it's impossible to work out!

There are loads of these, they drive me nuts!:mad:

It's not just the supermarkets who have different weights and measures on products though, the manufactures do it also.

Helmanns Mayo Jar 400g & squeezy 750ml

Yazoo Milkshake 500g & 1L

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its not sensational at all its the same old same old story ' they know that busy people dont have time too stop and read all the labels
my local asda reguar;y do the price drop thing .... for example a packet of biscuits week no1 28p... week no 2 it had a label saying they were 40p discounted from 45p .... told the woman at the till ... and she said i dont shop here they dont pay me enough

Middy

What thing that annoys me is not every flavour is part of the offer. As a supermarket colleague, I am forever having to take customers to the area where the product is sold and explain/point that that flavour/ready meal isn't part of the deal.