Food price hikes!!

naganalf

What with unjustified price increases of 10-50% on a lot of lines,horsemeat in burgers and ready-meals,flawed "Price Promise" process(subject to a formal investigation by the Advertising Standards Authority ASA),pulling out of the US,a market share that's dropped to 30% which is the lowest in 8 years,what are Tesco doing?Ever since Sir terry left there's been poor decision taking and flawed strategy....."Every Little Helps" is such a scandalously mercenary statement because they mean for them!

dasophster

Edwardia wrote: »

dasophster I reckon Sainsbury's is trying to capture Waitrose customers. I've seen a big increase in the number of organic products in my local branch for example.

It makes sense I guess. If you're in a recession, the poorer customers will be spending less not more and more of your customers generally will be spending less. So if you tempt enough people used to Waitrose and Ocado prices you may make more money hence sorbets and organic.

It has got to a point now where Sainsbury's is considerably more expensive than waitrose on quite a few of their mid priced items, represented in waitrose by the 'essentials' range as waitrose don't have a value range in the true sense. For example 1kg of pasta it's £1.40 in waitrose and something like £1.79 in Sainsbury's :eek:. I've done some side by side comparison shops without checking out as well and Waitrose is often at least £15 cheaper than Sainsbury's now for a list that is consisting of either identical or almost identical items. The only good things about Sainsbury's are that some of their basics range are pretty good, and that they do a fairly wide range of vegan own brand products-however with the vegan products especially the frozen stuff ASDA and Tesco are doing in some cases identical products for the same price so we'd rather pop in there just for those (we finally found a decent well stocked ASDA in London it's the Dagenham one) xx

A._Badger

I couldn't agree more. Sainsbury's seems to have taken leave of its senses.

Edwardia

I think ASDA is generally cheaper than Sainsbury's on a trolley/basket. Before we went organic we reckoned on saving 10-14% on Sainsbury's prices on a shop.

My local ASDA store doesn't do any fresh organic meat or poultry, it does more ready meals than fresh cook from scratch stuff anyway. It is good for organic tinned/packet things eg pasta, tinned toms, passata, EV olive oil, Weetabix - all cheaper than Sainsbos and Waitrose.

Local ASDA doesn't hardly do any organic veg ditto Morrisons but when they do, usually the cheapest.

Really I think that for anything you buy regularly brand-wise it makes sense to check out mysupermarket and look for offers and stock up if it's not fresh.

maman

zenseeker wrote: »

Jesus, I can't believe some of you are whinging on about price "jumps" of a staggering 2p. Get a grip....

KxMx wrote: »

Like I said a few pages back, what started as a reasonable and intelligent thread has turned into "OMG price gone up scam scam scam!"

:cool:

To use Tesco's phrase 'Every Little Helps' [them] surely if a 10p item goes up by 3p the 30% increase is as bad, in principle, as a £100 item going up to £130 overnight. Balance that against pay increases (if they exist at all) below the rate of inflation. In those circumstances, OMG Scam is mild.;)

Edwardia

Sorry, I have to say a 2p rise isn't unjustified. 60p overnight on the other hand, IMO definitely is.

I have seen some prices come down, butter hit 1.70 for 250g in some stores and I'm seeing it for 1.49, 1.55 now without being on offer.

paulineb_2

I went into tesco the other week to buy some stock cubes, they had gone up from 10p to 15p. And still cheap.

But its the percentage rises, not the amount of pennies. And thats a low priced item, but some of the price increases in Tesco, on loads of items have been staggering and thats why I shop elsewhere.

Edwardia

I have to say I'm flabbergasted that anyone makes a profit out of selling stock cubes for 15p when you think of transport costs, store overheads etc.

paulineb_2

They probably dont. But if you are going to make an increase on something, why not do it a penny at a time? And this was in Tesco, who make a lot in profits, millions.

Its the fact that if people are on a low income, every penny counts.

I was in tesco a couple of weeks ago, a pack of wholewheat organic spaghetti, 50p. Which is reasonable.

The next week. It was 99p or two for £1.50.

I have most of the supermarkets near where I live, as far as Im concerned Tesco are the worst.

People arent getting pay rises of 50 per cent increases yet food prices are on the up all the time.

And supermarkets will sell some goods knowing they wont make a profit but also knowing people will spend on other items while they are there.

I_luv_cats

Chicken thighs used to be 2 packs for £5, then shot up to £7 for 2 packs - NOW £5 for ONE pack!


(Did get some at £6 for 2 packs a month ago but no more!!)



Bread is nearer £1.50 a loaf these days!


Apples / pears are astronomical in some places or you only get a few in a value bag!