Supermarket Offers - BIG Vent

cifpower

So I went into Sainsbury's this morning to do a weekly shop. And I found it incredibly confusing! Now I'm a 33 year old man, intelligent, financially aware but my god do they make shopping hard!

I wanted burgers. I spent an age trying to figure out which offer was best for me. You can have a 4 pack of Taste The Difference burgers for £5 or you can buy two 2 packs for £6. Barmy!

In the fresh meat aisle there are shelf wobblers and barkers saying 3 for £10 and 2 for £5 side by side. What applies to what? I'll be damned if I am going to scan each SEL and stand there with a calculator working out which offers the best value.

And crisps. They really annoy me with the pricing of Pringles. Over the last few weeks they have been:

BOGOF @ £2.49
Half Price @ £1.25
2 for £4 @ £2.49

and today there are 3 for 2

Why can't they just do simple clear pricing instead of faffing around with all these stupid "promotions"? The amount of money they must waste on signs every few weeks.

And they wonder why their sales are going down and people are switching to Aldi and Lidl.

kwikbreaks

cifpower wrote: »

The amount of money they must waste on signs every few weeks.

Is easily made up by the number of people in a hurry making assumptions about what is the best deal rather than working out the confusing pricing.

Most of the supermarkets I use now show a price per 100g etc. on labels. That allows you to see easily if it's cheaper to buy two small packs rather than a big one (it often is).

The ones that annoy me most are Tesco with their frequent 3 for £n offers with the price for 1 artificially high. We frequently don't want 3 as buying that amount would lead to wastage. Unfortunately we don't have discounters nearby and usually end up in Morrisons as I hate the Tesco car park and the Asda is a pretty small store and we often can't get everything we need there.

cifpower

kwikbreaks wrote: »

Is easily made up by the number of people in a hurry making assumptions about what is the best deal rather than working out the confusing pricing.

Most of the supermarkets I use now show a price per 100g etc. on labels. That allows you to see easily if it's cheaper to buy two small packs rather than a big one (it often is).

The ones that annoy me most are Tesco with their frequent 3 for £n offers with the price for 1 artificially high. We frequently don't want 3 as buying that amount would lead to wastage. Unfortunately we don't have discounters nearby and usually end up in Morrisons as I hate the Tesco car park and the Asda is a pretty small store and we often can't get everything we need there.

Its the permanent "up and down" of prices which I hate. For example, Tesco have 2 litre Pepsi for 99p one week and the next week its £2.07 BOGOF. Why not just sell things at a normal steady prices so customers know what to expect? I know supermarkets want volume which is why they do BOGOF (or the new and really stupid buy 2 get 2 free) so they get their over rider payments from the supplier but it really annoys me and a great many other people I'd wager.

KxMx

cifpower wrote: »

So I went into Sainsbury's this morning to do a weekly shop. And I found it incredibly confusing! Now I'm a 33 year old man, intelligent, financially aware but my god do they make shopping hard!

I wanted burgers. I spent an age trying to figure out which offer was best for me. You can have a 4 pack of Taste The Difference burgers for £5 or you can buy two 2 packs for £6. Barmy!

In the fresh meat aisle there are shelf wobblers and barkers saying 3 for £10 and 2 for £5 side by side. What applies to what? I'll be damned if I am going to scan each SEL and stand there with a calculator working out which offers the best value.

And crisps. They really annoy me with the pricing of Pringles. Over the last few weeks they have been:

BOGOF @ £2.49
Half Price @ £1.25
2 for £4 @ £2.49

and today there are 3 for 2

Why can't they just do simple clear pricing instead of faffing around with all these stupid "promotions"? The amount of money they must waste on signs every few weeks.

And they wonder why their sales are going down and people are switching to Aldi and Lidl.

Re the burgers, surely that was easy, £5 for 4 without offer £3 for 4 with offer?

Getting four more high quality burgers for a quid is actually a really good deal i've no idea why you'd call it barmy! :cool:

clarryd

cifpower wrote: »

So I went into Sainsbury's this morning to do a weekly shop. And I found it incredibly confusing! Now I'm a 33 year old man, intelligent, financially aware but my god do they make shopping hard!

I wanted burgers. I spent an age trying to figure out which offer was best for me. You can have a 4 pack of Taste The Difference burgers for £5 or you can buy two 2 packs for £6. Barmy!

In the fresh meat aisle there are shelf wobblers and barkers saying 3 for £10 and 2 for £5 side by side. What applies to what? I'll be damned if I am going to scan each SEL and stand there with a calculator working out which offers the best value.

And crisps. They really annoy me with the pricing of Pringles. Over the last few weeks they have been:

BOGOF @ £2.49
Half Price @ £1.25
2 for £4 @ £2.49

and today there are 3 for 2

Why can't they just do simple clear pricing instead of faffing around with all these stupid "promotions"? The amount of money they must waste on signs every few weeks.

And they wonder why their sales are going down and people are switching to Aldi and Lidl.

I totally agree, shopping is getting very confusing.

But remember it is only a bargain if you need it, when you go to the till and add up all the 3 4 2, the buy 1 get 1 half price and the 2 for £xxx you end up spending more money.

I have been caught out many times doing this and hardly ever use the extra purchase because by the time I go to use it it has gone off.

MarkBargain

cifpower wrote: »

And crisps. They really annoy me with the pricing of Pringles. Over the last few weeks they have been:

BOGOF @ £2.49
Half Price @ £1.25
2 for £4 @ £2.49

and today there are 3 for 2

I agree, as we surely all know that Pringles are not worth £2.49 and that they are only priced as such so they can appear to be sold on 'promotion'.

In Aldi they sell a similar product called 'Stackers', which I think taste the same as Pringles. They are never on promotion. The price? About 80p a tube. Fair pricing and good value.

cifpower

KxMx wrote: »

Re the burgers, surely that was easy, £5 for 4 without offer £3 for 4 with offer?

Getting four more high quality burgers for a quid is actually a really good deal i've no idea why you'd call it barmy! :cool:

Perhaps I mistyped.

Four burgers are £5

Two burgers are £3 or you can get two packs (four burgers) for £6

DCFC79

The meat that are on the 3 for £10 and 2 for £5 offers are labelled as such.

[STRIKE]Ive never seen these 4 pack of Taste The Difference burgers for £5 or get 2 for £6.[/STRIKE]

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head

DCFC79 wrote: »

The meat that are on the 3 for £10 and 2 for £5 offers are labelled as such.

Ive never seen these 4 pack of Taste The Difference burgers for £5 or get 2 for £6.

See above, it's a pack of 4 for £5 or 2 packs of 2 for £6.

The reason they do this is so you have no idea how much stuff should cost but most people think offer = cheap and so buy it without realising most of it is actually over priced rubbish.

mattyprice4004

cifpower wrote: »

Perhaps I mistyped.

Four burgers are £5

Two burgers are £3 or you can get two packs (four burgers) for £6

Perhaps you mis-typed? There's doubt?
I'd go and edit your first post, as at the moment you don't look very financially intelligent.

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head

mattyprice4004 wrote: »

Perhaps you mis-typed? There's doubt?
I'd go and edit your first post, as at the moment you don't look very financially intelligent.

OP said to begin with: "4 pack of Taste The Difference burgers for £5 or you can buy two 2 packs for £6" which is correct.

Perhaps you'd look more intelligent in general if you read the thread correctly before slagging people off?