MSE News: Tesco fined £300,000 for strawberries 'sale' offer

Doc_N

That's the joy of shopping at Aldi and Lidl. Much lower prices, same, if not better, quality, and none of the Tesco fake pricing.

Aldi/Lidl prices are genuine - they don't manipulate them in the way that Tesco do theirs. And that even applies to the wines.

Dimey

evenasus wrote: »

I knew you meant the complaining shopper. She's dead now...
Quote:
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 cancer

Well RIP Miss Smallman.

That was a great legacy to leave - a thumb in the eye to Tesco :rotfl:

VfM4meplse

Dimey wrote: »

That was a great legacy to leave - a thumb in the eye to Tesco :rotfl:

Revenge from beyond the grave - it's just a pity she'll never know the satisfaction of being a peoples' champion.

Gigervamp

Not sure why it was moved to DT as it's about *food, shopping and groceries*, I would have thought this was the right forum for it.

senileturtle

Never paid £1.99 (or full price) for a punnet of strawberries. It has to have that nice little yellow sticker on it for me to purchase them.

I did get a great bargain in co-op the other week though in relation to punnet of strawberries. Two large punnet for £1. Was quite pleased with that little find. Clearly the stores are over-stocking on strawberries as I've seen crates full being reduced.

theblagger

If it was not for people complaining to the Local Standards bods...these companies would be ramping on lots of prices...seems to be a few shills on this thread...

Marisco

I agree with Lagoon here, I couldn't care less what the price WAS, if it's a price I'm willing to pay NOW, and I want the item, I get it. If I don't want it, I won't get it, even if it was 10 quid the week before!

Emessi

And nobody sent to jail.

Business is effectively legalised crime.

Of course if I tried to defraud Tesco I would be in jail.

VfM4meplse

senileturtle wrote: »

Never paid £1.99 (or full price) for a punnet of strawberries. It has to have that nice little yellow sticker on it for me to purchase them.

I did get a great bargain in co-op the other week though in relation to punnet of strawberries. Two large punnet for £1. Was quite pleased with that little find. Clearly the stores are over-stocking on strawberries as I've seen crates full being reduced.

Thats nothing! A couple of years ago I saw a whole crate of punnets at Sainsbos, reduced to just 10p each and perfect. I bought 7, ate 2 and washed and froze the rest for smoothies. Now that was a good deal

Doc_N

MrsBartolozzi wrote: »

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4744718

Absolutely.

Pointless starting a discussion in this thread when the discussion's already in full flow in MrsBartolozzi's link above.

Mods: Suggest you close this new thread down with a link to the above, and put that thread back where it started (and should still be) in the Food, Shopping and Groceries board.