Food price hikes!!

MavisTheMaven

Its the same case for tomato pasta sauce - I mean how easy is it to make your own out of tinned or fresh tomatoes - if you make your own it wont be full of sugar or salt either.

Middy

Lady_Muck wrote: »

Its the same case for tomato pasta sauce - I mean how easy is it to make your own out of tinned or fresh tomatoes - if you make your own it wont be full of sugar or salt either.

I'm on ww and chopped toms, basil, garlic and balsamic vinegar is 0 points. I had a jar of some cooking sauce and its 4 points for half a jar!

Miroslav

Middy wrote: »

Tesco EDV white grapes are now £1.75 - they were 98p. Cheaper to get them loose at the moment as they are £2.49/kg

I spotted this yesterday. They've gone mad.

kittendothroar

I rarely go to Tesco nowadays but was shocked at price hikes last week, every item on my list made me think 'do I really need this' as everything seemed to have increased about 20% and I put a lot back or changed my mind! Needless to say I won't be hurrying back there to do my shopping!

Doc_N

I gather Tesco's beef burgers are good value:

"Tesco beef burgers found to contain 29% horse meat"

naganalf

I have mainly shopped at Tesco Minehead or Tiverton over the past 12 months and have come to know the price benchmark when I started in Dec.2011 and now!
Example they have reduced the contents of a tray of Minced Beef from 800g to now a tiny 500g(not enough for a family of 4) and kept the price at £4 which is a 38% increase in 12 months and bread has gone up £0.20 per loaf and numerous other examples of duplicitous behaviour whilst still trying to persuade you a good deal is to be had if you buy in 2's or 3's but many people cannot afford this.
Please list your examples of items which have gone up by £0.10/0.20/0.30 per item and I'll create a list to lobby them as they're clearly struggling with some commodity price increases but also now sales revenue as people like me go elsewhere.
Short-sighted to believe that customers are ignorant of price points and they'll learn their lesson through customer loss.:mad:

naganalf

Let's all boycott Tesco until they realise that we're not stupid and can get most of their items cheaper elsewhere.
I think I have spent about £7000 in 2012 so that's what they're losing....if we all did this,guess what they'd be forced to do?
But don't go back as their customer care does not exist!

Doc_N

naganalf wrote: »

Let's all boycott Tesco until they realise that we're not stupid and can get most of their items cheaper elsewhere.

Already done it - and the large numbers of happy customers in the Aldi next to Tesco (now a lot emptier since Aldi opened) seem to have taken the same line!

Anything that Aldi can't supply (and the treats) come from the nearby Waitrose.

islandgirl8

Doc_N wrote: »

Already done it - and the large numbers of happy customers in the Aldi next to Tesco (now a lot emptier since Aldi opened) seem to have taken the same line!

Anything that Aldi can't supply (and the treats) come from the nearby Waitrose.

I'm doing the same. I used to shop almost exclusively at Tescos. Now I use Aldi and Asda for the things I can't find at Aldi. I compare the prices with Tesco every week and I've saved £69 so far this month by changing!

naganalf

The only real way to make them hear your voice is to go elsewhere!