MSE News: Top ten supermarket pricing blunders

gbhxu

fionajbanana wrote: »

Its an example of the thicko shelf fillers Tesco seem to employ. If you scanned one of the 4+2 packs, it still scan at £2.

Don't start me with the cat food.........

Perhaps not.

The 4+2 pack is not the same as a 4 pack. They have different barcodes!

If someone has entered the barcode of the 4+2 pack at the price of the 4 pack it will scan at £2.

If someone has entered the barcode of the 4+2 pack at the price of the 6 pack it will can at the price of the 6 pack.

geordie_joe

fionajbanana wrote: »

Its an example of the thicko shelf fillers Tesco seem to employ.

Nope, it's more likely to be tesco policy of "You can't make money from an empty shelf, if you haven't got what is supposed to be there, put something else there".

All supermarkets, and probably all shops do this. It would be madness not to. As my manager says to the shelf stackers "No customer ever picks anything off an empty shelf, so if you haven't got the right product to fill the shelf, fill it with the next best thing".

I think this time the shelf stacker did very well. After all, they filled a gap meant for a pack containing 6 tins of Heinz Beans with a pack containing 6 tins of Heinz Beans.