Food price hikes!!

islandgirl8

Amba_Gambla wrote: »

If you don't like it, there are plenty more supermarkets who will take your business. If enough people do the same, then perhaps Tesco will start to realise

I went into Tesco yesterday and I was surprised at how empty it was! I usually shop there but have really seen an increase in prices in the past 6 months. Now I'm looking elsewhere.

diamond_dave

I've been watching the price of tesco passata go from 29p to 36p and now 54p!! Vote with your feet,Folks, and buy it in Aldi - still 29p.Our local is rammed with customers at ALL times of the day and the best thing the shop staff are pleasant,agreeable, normal people - no trouts in Aldi.
Aldi Angels, perhaps?

Mummy_Moo

diamond_dave wrote: »

I've been watching the price of tesco passata go from 29p to 36p and now 54p!! Vote with your feet,Folks, and buy it in Aldi - still 29p.Our local is rammed with customers at ALL times of the day and the best thing the shop staff are pleasant,agreeable, normal people - no trouts in Aldi.
Aldi Angels, perhaps?

I noticed the price increase on the passata too. Tesco value mixed herbs have nearly tripled in recent months and the price of value mince has gone up too. SO much for a cheap spag bol

jobdone1

This is why i can't get my head round the inflation figure surely we are all seeing massive rises in the cost of food, Found a few bargains in icelands this week but when it comes to the major supermarkets their is some very clear doggy practices going on for sure imho.

taxiphil

Tesco Antibacterial Handwash has just gone up from 69p to 99p - a rise of nearly 50%. An absolutely ridiculous price hike.

Happychappy

shammyjack wrote: »

No idea as I never set foot in the place.

Lying cheating con merchants with obnoxious staff !

Is that all 6351 stores and all 500000 staff :eek: never one to generalise :rotfl:

LittleVoice

luxor4t wrote: »

17th December: Tesco.E/Day Value Skimmed Longlife Milk 1L £0.49

Today: 53p.

A 7% price increase

Morrisons' and Sainsbury's also used to be 49p.
Noticed Morrisons went up to 55p in December; Sainsbury's and Tesco followed suit. Then Tesco reverted to 49p for about a week before going up to 53p. Sainsbury's and Morrisons are still charging 55p.

Edwardia

Disatisfaction with Tesco on these boards is confirmed by other sources.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210780/Tesco-falls-favour-languishes-near-survey-favourite-supermarkets.html

8th out of ten supermarkets September 2012

www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012//oct/03/tesco-profits-fall-uk-supermarkets
Tesco profits fall for first time in 20 years, October 2012

And just to cheer you up, Waitrose's boss Mark Price announced yesterday that food prices will only rise further..

www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/9779693/Waitrose-boss-Britons-should-brace-themselves-for-massive-price-hikes.html

The question in my mind, is since organic food is more expensive anyway, will that go up more ? Or will supermarkets attempt to hang on to the stranglehold on organic food by absorbing price rices necause organic is only 2.2% of total food sales

shammyjack

Happychappy wrote: »

Is that all 6351 stores and all 500000 staff :eek: never one to generalise :rotfl:

God , Don't you just love an old pedant !

Of course I am only talking of personal experience of the ones I have frequented in the past. However, I have been in Tescos all over the country on holiday and for work and found them all abysmal and the miserable unhelpful staff seem to be universal !

A._Badger

Edwardia wrote: »

Disatisfaction with Tesco on these boards is confirmed by other sources.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210780/Tesco-falls-favour-languishes-near-survey-favourite-supermarkets.html

8th out of ten supermarkets September 2012

www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012//oct/03/tesco-profits-fall-uk-supermarkets
Tesco profits fall for first time in 20 years, October 2012

And just to cheer you up, Waitrose's boss Mark Price announced yesterday that food prices will only rise further.

Tesco has a major image problem and it is sure to be working on plans to correct it. My own view is that the rot might have gone too far. No one ever thought 'dear old Tesco' - they shopped there because it was cheap There is no nostalgia or affection for the company to call on.

Tesco isn't Woolworths. If it closed tomorrow, there wouldn't be public sadness.

IMHO, the best hope it has is to play to its strengths and actually do some real price cutting - become a consumer champion, not fiddle around with the sort of pricing sleight off hand that has led to its present malaise. The problem is trust. Tesco has lost it.

As for the predictions of price rises, what concerns me is whether they will ever drop back again., My guess is, they won't. Those of us who have been around for a while will have seen countless 'apple crises' and 'coffee shortages'.. Prices rocket due to adverse weather but when the following season arrives and there's a glut, what happens? Nothing.