ASDA cheeky pricing

bod1467

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hollydays

I think that if you sign up to mysupermarket you can select certain products you buy and they will email you when these are on offer.

marvin

You can of course use the ASDA price guarentee as Whiskas pouches are 2 for £5 at Tesco, just need 8 or more items at a time.

Mysupermarket is a good place for checking where the things you want to buy are cheaper elsewhere and then plan your purchases accordingly.

But yes the pricing is horrendous everywhere not just ASDA.

Chrysalis

yeah the supermarket pricing is very chaotic. I find prices rapidly changing, and by huge amounts, as said , part of it is to raise prices before offers to make offers look cheap, and the other part I think is in response to consumer demand and competitors.

eg.

lets say tin of beans is 50p, isnt selling they drop it to 80p for 2 (but wont drop the single tin to 40p as they only interested in bulk sales), if it gets popular they will immediatly react and bump up the price.

I also frequently see offers end before the end date, they just get pulled of the website, and then tesco pretend they never existed.

eg. I might order a product today (20th feb) for delivery on the 22 feb, and the website says offer expires 28 feb. But then 23 feb tesco decide to pull the offer due to high demand, and when my order comes I pay full price, if I then ring to complain, the rep's would say its not on the website so it doesnt exist.

p00hsticks

Another vote for moneysupermarket.com here. Not only duoes it let you compare current prices of products it also has a graph showing how the price has fluctuated ove the last year

It looks like your pouches are on offer at 2 for £5 at Tesco, Asda and Waitrose at the moment

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/Shopping/FindProducts.aspx?Query=whiskas senior fish

marvin

p00hsticks wrote: »

Another vote for moneysupermarket.com here.

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/Shopping/FindProducts.aspx?Query=whiskas senior fish

Freudian slip there Moneysupermarket is the people that own here and mysupermarket are another place.

Chrysalis

p00hsticks wrote: »

Another vote for moneysupermarket.com here. Not only duoes it let you compare current prices of products it also has a graph showing how the price has fluctuated ove the last year

It looks like your pouches are on offer at 2 for £5 at Tesco, Asda and Waitrose at the moment

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/Shopping/FindProducts.aspx?Query=whiskas senior fish

the problem is who is going to just buy one product from a supermarket, when one thing is cheaper at a supermarket something else is more expensive to make up for it.

you cant order one item only online, in addition if you travel there then travel expenses probably will outweigh the saving.

honeybean

I have to be honest I am on a tight budget and my local town has a morrisons Asda tescos and lidl all within walking distance. I have no worries about buying one item at a supermarket if it cheaper than another shop.i do shop savvy. Today I went to lidl to buy 4pints of milk as it was 1.35 in the other shop. I also work for a supermarket and get 10% discount but if I can get something cheaper even with my discount taken off that shop gets my business. In this day and age you have to be savvy.

p00hsticks

marvin wrote: »

Freudian slip there Moneysupermarket is the people that own here and mysupermarket are another place.

Whoops ! You're absolutely correct - mysupermarket.com is what I meant

p00hsticks

Chrysalis wrote: »

the problem is who is going to just buy one product from a supermarket, when one thing is cheaper at a supermarket something else is more expensive to make up for it.

I take your point - I guess it depends on how often you shop, where you live and what you buy.

We live in a city and so are lucky enough to have all the major supermarkets a short drive away, with the exception of Waitrose, with several a few hundred yards away from each other (we have a Sainbury's opposite a Tesco, and another Sainsbury's next to a LIDL). So we have absolutely no loyalty to one supermarket over another.

When we do a big shop every few weeks, I visit mysupermarket.com to both check the prices of things on our shopping list and to view the current offers - I'll be looking for good offers on items that we buy but don't necessarily need right away such as toilet roll, coffee, washing powder etc....

Whichever comes up best (weighing up other factors like clubcard vouchers and nectar point offers) determines where we go shopping on that trip - often we can combine a visit to two different supermarkets together. And we'll stock up on the items on offer along with our regular shop.

In my experience now (as with the Whiska example above), often when one supermarket has something on offer, the others tends to follow, presumably because of all the 'price match' promotions going on.