Asda, stop changing your products for the worse!!

Lifeforms

There's a reason why people buy convenience food and it's there in it's name.

It's not just asda, they're all at it. My local other one just stopped stocking their own Gluten Free (was pure corn/rice flour) spaghetti packs due to "no interest". Funny that, the box always had some missing when I bought it. They have conveniently started stocking Heinz gluten free pasta range (with other junk ingredients like lupin flour added in it too) at £2 a packet vs their own at around £1.40... Who's been getting a payback then??

When asked and I got the no interest reply, he helpfully picked up a packet of the heinz and said you could buy a different brand. To which I said yes, Asda's own now. Don't think he was expecting that response!

Callie22

likelyfran wrote: »

And another thing! When I see 'Chosen by You' on an Asda product, I generally don't buy it because very nearly all of these products that I've tried have been RANK. WHO exactly chooses them - people with no taste or taste buds?

OH is not a fan of ASDA and refers to the 'Chosen by You' range as the 'So it's your own b****y fault' range Have to agree that most of it is downright nasty.

Arachne_2

angelil wrote: »

Solution: make your own! So many of the things you are all mentioning above are so much cheaper to make yourself, are so easy to make, and will cost less for a higher-quality product

I don't have a cooker (long story involving uber-sensitive circuit breakers and smoke detectors that go off when they want to, so I gave up in the end).

If I need to cook, I tend to use my mum's cooker and microwave the portions.

Fuskercat

I know it's the cheap brand, but I quite liked Asdas Smart Price Peanut butter, that is, until they changed it :mad: It's like crushed up peanuts in oil, not like proper peanut butter at all now. They use rapeseed oil and there's something about the taste and texture of it that's just not right and there's always a puddle of oil in the bottom of the bit you've scooped out...not nice! I won't be buying it again.

Valli

likelyfran wrote: »

And another thing! When I see 'Chosen by You' on an Asda product, I generally don't buy it because very nearly all of these products that I've tried have been RANK. WHO exactly chooses them - people with no taste or taste buds?

All the baloney marketing really gets on my nerves - load of rubbish!

RARRRR!

:mad:

As a matter of fact they conduct taste tests with people throughout the country, and the research is carried out by market researchers.:cool: They also ask about packaging and price.
Not all testers get to taste all products, though.
I can't say anymore than that!

I suggest you email Asda and complain;)

mttylad

And they use it as an opportunity to put the prices up grrr.

Tranquilday

Let us not forget, that some of Asda's "chosen by you" range was withdrawn because it had horse meat in it. I don't that would be chosen by anybody and the adverts for it annoy me, as I have never been asked for my opinion on any of these products, so its not chosen by me. Irritating advertising.

atarisrocks

it not just the chosen by you ranges alot of things have changed out their normal range too.

most annoying one for me is the hummus. i brought some recently and now it very sour and has a weird texture like it has too much oil in it. which is a shame as i alway used to have a pot of it in the fridge

nattybking

likelyfran wrote: »

The carrot cake is all heavy and lumpen now. Poo!

I would have climbed over my nearest and dearest for their now defunct (WHY YOU MORONS????) Extra Special Carrot Cake - the larger one that had the cream cheese frosting all over it and it wasn't a measly thin spreading either!!

The "new improved" rubbish is just awful, stodgy and heavy and it seems that now they just briefly show it the frosting and only on the top too! :mad:

I tried their fancy schmancy mince pies at xmas too, they were possibly the most horrible mince pies i've ever tasted, dry pastry and the filling just tasted weird. I used to buy their own brand mince pies so after sampling the Leith's malfunctions I purchased the CBY variety, foolishly thinking they had just changed the packaging. WRONG I'm afraid! :mad: The soggy pastry was tastless and the filling was bland.

I made a trip to Aldi after that, came away perfectly happy.

perhaps its a good thing the carrot cake is now so horrid, at least i won't end up like the side of a house! :rotfl:

bottleredhead

monty-doggy wrote: »

I found the most amazing fresh soup in sainsbugs, chicken bacon and sweetcorn chowder. I could live off it. On times they sold out so not just me liking it. Now they've discontinued it. WHY???:mad:

Saw similar to in Morrisons yesterday if that helps; was def. bacon n sweetcorn but can't remember about the chicken part!