Tesco Mislabelling product weights

cosmicseahorse

I know that TS take any breach of Weights and Measures law very seriously. I worked in a pub, and the same laws apply to measures of liquids, even down to the % of head on top of a pint!

keyser666

zenmaster wrote: »

Or pointed it out to someone whilst in the store?

I would do the same as Mamma Moo said because it is quite clear 2 managers are not correctly doing their job and are lying to CS, so if they are happy to let that slip at that store and lie I wonder what else they are not doing by the book?

Money-Saving-King

ThumbRemote wrote: »

but you're still certain they won't because you think you know what your imaginary friend does at work.

Better than your imaginary sense of being right!

Azari

lucy03 wrote: »

In my experience of a few trading standards offices in the east of England, they certainly do go out on the basis of one complaint, if they feel it's appropriate. Equally though there are cases where they will wait until multiple complaints are made, it would depend on the nature of the complaint.

I don't know about Tesco, but I would suspect that they would certainly consider a visit, especially if clear evidence was presented to them.

My guess would be that if someone just tells them the label was wrong they probably won't take too much interest on the basis of a single complaint.

On the other hand, if someone tells them that they reported the matter to CS or a manager, was told it would be corrected, and then found nothing had been done, the may well take an immediate interest.

prowla

These days a lot of manufacturers are trying to do price increases by stealth by keeping the price the same but reducing the quantity.

The most blatant one was a while back where Shloer switched from 1L to 0.75L but kept the price the same. I pretty much stopped buying the product, so they lost my business.

When I spot it I tend to not buy that, look at other products, or go elsewhere next time.

Azari

prowla wrote: »

These days a lot of manufacturers are trying to do price increases by stealth by keeping the price the same but reducing the quantity.

That's particularly bad when they keep the packaging exactly the same so that unless you check every item you buy you probably won't notice until it's too late.

Of course, you get the usual suspects wittering on that they have done nothing wrong and everybody should check before they buy, but I think their ready acceptance of such borderline dishonest behaviour tells us a lot about them, none of it to their credit.

kaya

i was in sainsburys the other day checking out the own brand mayo, there was regular, low fat and cheapo with the low fat being the more expensive of the bunch but reading the labels revealed that the cheapo mayo had the exact same amount of fat as the pricy low fat option

Pollycat

azari wrote: »

of course, you get the usual suspects wittering on that they have done nothing wrong and everybody should check before they buy, but i think their ready acceptance of such borderline dishonest behaviour tells us a lot about them, none of it to their credit.

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prowla

Pollycat wrote: »

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