New ASDA rip off

geordie_joe

DCFC79 wrote: »

That doesn't make it a rip off, there are cheaper options open to you to make a pizza. Definitions of rip off :

And cheaper options being available doesn't make it not a rip off.

DCFC79 wrote: »

1. A product or service that is overpriced

So, it is a rip off after all!

geordie_joe

43k_in_43m wrote: »

it remains your right to lambast a retailer for increasing the price on a line that you could easily make yourself for a fraction of the price :T

Which proves the point, if we can make it at a fraction of the price, then asda, with it's huge bulk buying powers, can make it for a fraction of the price we can make it for.

So it's over priced, and therefore a rip off.

DCFC79

geordie_joe wrote: »

And cheaper options being available doesn't make it not a rip off.



So, it is a rip off after all!

If it were me and Id bought the pizzas from asda and the cheese topping counted as 1 of the 4 toppings I just wouldn't bother them anymore and make my own.

markwilkinson

Many of you should be making your own anyway. Shop bought pizza tastes like cardboard unless you go for the expensive ones. Making pizza dough is niether expensive or time consuming, likewise making a tomato sauce to go on top. Toppings - each to their own.

Pointless thread in my view.

Stephen_Leak

I can even give you recipes for focaccia bread and an Italian-style tomato sauce.

Middy

markwilkinson wrote: »

Many of you should be making your own anyway. Shop bought pizza tastes like cardboard unless you go for the expensive ones. Making pizza dough is niether expensive or time consuming, likewise making a tomato sauce to go on top. Toppings - each to their own.

Pointless thread in my view.

Check out if you see any supermarkets' own premium brand pizzas in the reduced. I had Mr T Finest one with parma ham earlier this year and it was bloody gorgeous. The base tasted like the pizzas you get at proper pizza restaurants.

sarahcmo

Approved food have a bag of pizza base miv 3kilos for £1.99 that will make hundreds of pizza bases and under 2p each,

VoucherMan

nobodiesfool wrote: »

How can ASDA justify such an overall increase?

I don't think they need to. But if people are still willing to pay the price then why not.

It's hardly an everyday essential that you can't live without.

PasturesNew

If I buy pizza I compare the price of the extra toppings -v- buying it and adding it myself. Pineapple can be bought at 25p/can, an onion's 10-20p. Just pick the toppings you can't buy easily cheaper (e.g. peppers that cost 75p each).

You pay your money, you make your choice. If you think something's a rip off, stop buying it. Simples. Asda provide a product at a price, it's up to the consumer to decide if the price is worth it to them.

Sometimes though, you simply "deserve it" and any extra's worth the fact that you can breeze in, get the pizza, breeze out and treat yourself to something a bit special.

Edwardia

Personally I wouldn't describe ASDA pizzas as something special but every time my late father would visit me he would nip in there before going home to grab one. He thought they were next best to Pizza Hut and he'd even had pizza in Italy.

A cheaper alternative would be some part baked ciabatta from Lidl and putting own toppings on. Am pretty sure I've seen pizza bases in there. Lidl often has Goodfellas pizzas half price too.