Nice one Aldi

System

I take the joke comment back! I see what you've done now. Very clever

meer53

If you don't like the price, don't pay it. Simple.

I agree that Pomegranate Juice is not an essential.

My moan for this week - Hardly ever shop at Tesco anymore, however, i used to buy their bacon. 2 packs for £4. Called in yesterday as i had run out and the 2 packs for £4 is still available, but now, 8 rashers a pack instead of the 10 previously. What a rip off. Not just a rip off, but a sly con.

Jeff_Bridges_hair

meer53 wrote: »

If you don't like the price, don't pay it. Simple.

I agree that Pomegranate Juice is not an essential.

My moan for this week - Hardly ever shop at Tesco anymore, however, i used to buy their bacon. 2 packs for £4. Called in yesterday as i had run out and the 2 packs for £4 is still available, but now, 8 rashers a pack instead of the 10 previously. What a rip off. Not just a rip off, but a sly con.

Are you still getting 2 packs for £4?

Techhead_2

meer53 wrote: »

If you don't like the price, don't pay it. Simple.

I agree that Pomegranate Juice is not an essential.

My moan for this week - Hardly ever shop at Tesco anymore, however, i used to buy their bacon. 2 packs for £4. Called in yesterday as i had run out and the 2 packs for £4 is still available, but now, 8 rashers a pack instead of the 10 previously. What a rip off. Not just a rip off, but a sly con.

So when they reduce the pack size to keep the price the same it's a con.

Yet according to the OP, keeping the pack size the same but increasing the price is also a con.

Given that the cost of the raw materials/ production has gone up. What should they do? Absorb the cost? Pay less to the producers? Stop selling the product? Pay their staff less?

What would you do?

yangptangkipperbang

rogcal wrote: »

Many people see Pomegranate/Cranberry juice as essential along with low salt and sugar content products and soya milk.
For them, not buying and consuming them is not an option!

rogcal wrote: »

It's the way in which we are hoodwinked that pees me off!

"Many people" would see those two comments being very closely linked.............

Pomegranate/Cranberry juice essential ????????? Just what has kept me alive these past 65 years ??

PS: Just came across this .......

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4276065
"SUPER" food:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

meer53

Jeff_Bridges_hair wrote: »

Are you still getting 2 packs for £4?

Yes, still get 2 packs for £4 but now get 4 rashers less ! I know prices go up but it's the way they do it that annoys me. Maybe con is the wrong word, i'd rather they just be upfront about price increases. I usually shop at Aldi anyway.

mad_dr

Techhead wrote: »

Given that the cost of the raw materials/ production has gone up. What should they do? Absorb the cost? Pay less to the producers? Stop selling the product? Pay their staff less?

What would you do?

I appreciate your sentiment and can see your point: they're in business and SOMEONE has to pay the difference.

Perhaps it would go a long way (if it was a manageable process) to pop a little shelf-edge-card next to, say, the pomegranate juice saying "Due to the rising cost of pomegranates, from November 1st we will be raising the cost by 20p/reducing the volume of the containers by 20ml, etc."

You get the idea.

The price per unit/volume would STILL go up to cover their costs but at least people wouldn't feel quite so conned (which is clearly the impression that folks are getting).

I expect the fear is that people will buy elsewhere through the belief that the shop is simply ripping them off but then, as long as the shop isn't being underhanded, they shouldn't have anything to fear from competitors who have presumably also had to hike their prices on the same items...

Just a thought.

geo555

All the supermarkets will be buying months in advance. There may well be a glut of pomegranates next year and the price would fall, but you wouldn't see any difference for 6 - 12 months.

Techhead_2

mad_dr wrote: »

I appreciate your sentiment and can see your point: they're in business and SOMEONE has to pay the difference.

Perhaps it would go a long way (if it was a manageable process) to pop a little shelf-edge-card next to, say, the pomegranate juice saying "Due to the rising cost of pomegranates, from November 1st we will be raising the cost by 20p/reducing the volume of the containers by 20ml, etc."

You get the idea.

The price per unit/volume would STILL go up to cover their costs but at least people wouldn't feel quite so conned (which is clearly the impression that folks are getting).

I expect the fear is that people will buy elsewhere through the belief that the shop is simply ripping them off but then, as long as the shop isn't being underhanded, they shouldn't have anything to fear from competitors who have presumably also had to hike their prices on the same items...

Just a thought.

I don't think it would be manageable to put a little card next to every price increase; just in case someone feels that they are being conned. Isn't it irrational to think that a price is being increased in order to con people? Who will bear the cost of all these notifications?

Perhaps I am wrong, but I can't believe that the majority of people are so paranoid as to think that a price increase is done to rip people off.

unholyangel

worried_jim wrote: »

Why do people complain when things go up in price? Everything goes up in price, nothing ever gets cheaper- get over it.

Reminds me of a saying i've heard

If you think living is expensive, try dying.