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MSE News: Tesco fined £300,000 for strawberries 'sale' offer
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Do you know I think I've met the only "poor" one in London. I'll need at least 6 months of coupon-subsidised meals out at Subway before I consider setting foot in a TravelodgeMrSmartprice wrote: »Don't settle for anything cheapskate. They can afford it, even if you choose the lobster!:D
Oh, and a Travelodge is an absolute no-no....:rotfl:
Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
"No man is worth, crawling on the earth"- adapted from Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio
Hope is not a strategy
...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!0 -
I didn't mean people here. I meant the shopper that complained to trading standards.
I knew you meant the complaining shopper. She's dead now...Customer Daphne Smallman stood up to Tesco in fight over £1.99 punnets
Supermarket is fined two years after she launched a battle in Birmingham
Punnets were sold at £4/£3 for two weeks - while promotion was 14 weeks
But Solihull resident Miss Smallman died aged 78 in February from cancer0 -
From me in the Arms thread:Suppose they could always give Tesco an deal.
Offer Tesco the option of paying the £300K fine with our specially calculated half price fine deal of the figure of £400K.Hi there! We’ve had to remove your signature. It was so good we removed it because we cannot think of one so good as you had and need to protect others from seeing such a great signature.0 -
I didn't mean people here. I meant the shopper that complained to trading standards.
Without these people that have got to much time on the hands taking the trouble to report wrong-doings to Trading Standards these companies can do what they like.Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
What it may grow to in time, I know not what.
Daniel Defoe: 1725.
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Without these people that have got to much time on the hands taking the trouble to report wrong-doings to Trading Standards these companies can do what they like.
That's fair enough. Personally, I don't see the issue here. I don't care what price, real or imaginary, an item has been in the past. I look at a price, and if it looks reasonable for the product (and I want the product) then I will pay it. If not, I won't.
It seems like a massive waste of time and effort to be complaining that 'I can't believe those strawberries were ever £3.99!'.
Really? Does it matter? Does that affect them now? I've never bought anything in my life with my decision based on 'the price it used to be'.0 -
Looks like Trading Standards could do with a serious budget cut if this is what they waste their time on.
Pathetic.
The customers saw what they were buying and what price they were paying.
They got what they thought they were getting and they paid what they thought they were paying..
It's not like they somehow ended up paying more than they expected.
It's not like the strawberries under the top layer had gone a bit soft.
It's not like they opened the box and it was half empty.
It's not like the pie in the picture is 2 inches deep and chunky, and the pie inside the packet is half an inch deep and full of gravy.
On a scale of 0 to 10 for slightly dodgy selling practices that fool nobody, this is about a 0.2 I'd have thought."It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
If it didn't matter why would Tescos and every other supermarket or retailer go to such lengths to claim that something was 'half-price' or '10% off' or whatever else they make up?
Because there are a lot of fools that see the words 'half price' and go 'Ooh, I must buy that! What a good deal!'.
I'm not saying it's not a bit dishonest on the part of supermarkets, but at the end of the day it's a marketing tactic that DOESN'T affect the current price.
Therefore, I stand by my claim that I think someone that complains about this has too much time on their hands.
If you buy things based solely on the fact that they have the words 'half price' next to them, then you deserve all that you get. 0 -
The strawberries are £1.99, "thats a bit expensive", ah, but they used to be £3.99, "great I'll take two".
Considering the glitches Sains,Tesco & ASDA keep serving up I couldnt accuse them of anything but inefficiency, (he said tucking into almost free Jaffa cakes).0 -
Looks like Trading Standards could do with a serious budget cut if this is what they waste their time on.
I can't see how Trading Standards are wasting their time in investigating cases like this. That's their job to check on companies working outside of the rules. It's like saying the Street Cleaners are wasting their time picking up litter, if people didn't drop it we wouldn't need that dept in the council either.Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
What it may grow to in time, I know not what.
Daniel Defoe: 1725.
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