deceiving supermarket offers

arcon5

Whats even more irritating (and a little humiliating) is when you only take pocket change and get to the til to realise you've been caught short

knightstyle

Lidl had a big full page add yesterday and prominent was the offer for Finish dishwasher tablets, 54 for £3 odd. But under the big sign in the shop all the packets were 28 or 30 tablets for the price of £3 odd!!!! Most noticeable was the fact that the in shop sign did not state how many tablets were in the box! What a blatant con!!!!!!!!!!

eyelinerprincess

marywooyeah wrote: »

Lol I wouldn't pay £1.50 for it either! I always double check the labels too just can't afford to be caught out with this kind of thing anymore.

T'was the only other shop between Tesco and home, so not much choice in the matter.

im-lost

arcon5 wrote: »

Whats even more irritating (and a little humiliating) is when you only take pocket change and get to the til to realise you've been caught short

Yes a pocket full of urine soaked pennies never goes down too well..
be thankful it wasn't notes though

NBLondon

david39 wrote: »

Special Offer - 4 tins Heinz Classic Range of Soups - £2

Amongst the tins on display are others that are not in the Classic range (but look the same other than the word Classic on the label).

Customer picks up 4 soups at random and finds when they get home that they've paid top price for all of them because one wasn't a Classic.

My local Sainsbury had a habit of that a few years back - big sign says "3 for £5" or whatever with smaller print specifying which variations it applied to. The sign being directly in front of the ones that weren't included... I spotted it at when the discount didn't go through the checkout and took it to customer services to complain. (OK I wasn't in regular work then so I had reason to check and time to make the point). After the third time I e-mailed head office and indirectly accused them of discriminating agaisnt the partially sighted - which seemed to do the trick.

Miss_Scrooge_2

I don't think they're deliberately being deceptive. Most people will pick something up, realise there's a better offer and dump their item there. I see it all the time.

Also, you gotta check yourself what exactly is included in the offer. The offer label will often list the size/quantity of the product, so you can only blame yourself if you pick something up that isn't the correct size.

NBLondon

Miss_Scrooge wrote: »

Also, you gotta check yourself what exactly is included in the offer. The offer label will often list the size/quantity of the product, so you can only blame yourself if you pick something up that isn't the correct size.

Yep - I check it.

Now what about when the offer is a corporate one and the signs are in all the stores and the leaflets shoved through doors but that branch doesn't actually stock the required size/quantity/variety?