Bananas over priced at Asda?

gunsandbanjos

Nada666 wrote: »

But as to onions I would say bagged are often better (not the three-pack nets). They tend to be of a consistent size and smaller. So unless you are the sort of person who weighs their chopped onion rather than just throwing in one or two onions, you will get more portions from the bagged ones.

You're happy to pay 2/3 times the price though? That's weird, plus as someone mentioned its easy enough to pick the size you want from the loose ones.

Nada666

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

You're happy to pay 2/3 times the price though? That's weird, plus as someone mentioned its easy enough to pick the size you want from the loose ones.

I explicitly excluded the three-in-a-net packs. The 1 kilo bags are usually pretty close to the price of loose onions.

And the crates of loose onions nowadays rarely have many small onions or that big a range of size.

geordie_joe

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

You're happy to pay 2/3 times the price though?

You don't always pay more. Just back from Morrisons where I bought onions.

Pre-packed plain brown onions 57.5p per kg
Loose plain brown onions 75p per Kg

Neither were on any kind of offer, that is the normal price for both items.

Both grown in the UK and the only visible difference was the loose ones were bigger. I guess you pay more because they have been grown longer, given more fertilizer or some other reason.

I agree with nada, I prefer the bags of smaller ones as they are just the right size for me. If I get the big ones I either cook too much onion, or have half an onion kicking round that needs using up.

It was the same with apples and oranges, the bagged ones were cheaper but smaller.

The days of all pre-packed fruit and veg being more expensive than loose are long gone. Long ago they learned that if they put all sizes in the loose box people pick the biggest and the small ones get left and either have to be reduced or binned.

So they bag the smaller ones and sell them cheaper because many people just pick them up without noticing the size, and many others actually want the smaller ones.

Of course, they still pick the biggest and best ones and put them in nets and charge more for them.

But only a fool thinks all pre-packed f&v are more expensive than loose these days, you have to check both.

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

That's weird, plus as someone mentioned its easy enough to pick the size you want from the loose ones.

Actually it's not, all the ones in the loose box were larger than I wanted, because the producer had picked out the smaller ones and bagged them. So it wasn't easy enough to pick the size I wanted out of the loose box, it was impossible.

Not that I would have picked them if they had been there, I'm not stupid enough to pay 75p per Kg when I need only pay 57.5p per Kg just because I wrongly believe the loose ones will be cheaper.

jon81uk

Yep Geordie Joe is right, for onions, the netted extra large are expensive, the loose are in the middle price and the big bags of smaller sizes are usually the cheapest.
In the case of bananas often the bagged ones are more expensive, but may be better quality or of a more uniform size.

alanq

Sometimes the packaged items are of better quality or appearance than the loose ones. It is up to the customer to decide if there is enough of a difference to justify paying extra.

Loose items are not always cheaper. I have just seen in ASDA 1kg of bagged carrots for 57p. (Smart Price 2kg for £1.18!) The loose carrots were larger and didn't look as good but cost 75p per kg.

Nasyas

I personally am careful about buying loose items due to the likelihood of many dirty hands touching them.

Not so fussed in the case of items that have an outer layer e.g bananas but I have heard some nightmare stories about bakery items for example that are laid out open in supermarkets e.g. Croissants, doughnuts, etc! In those scenarios I would always buy something that has been packaged even if more expensive!

What annoys me so much about supermarkets is that they use different ways to measure different products e.g. Kgs, quantity, etc. There should be a law against this as it an easy way for supermarkets to mislead consumers.

[Deleted User]

What I find pointless is when people pick up loose bananas then go and put them into the little plastic fruit&veg bags. WHY! The banana has a skin to protect it, it doesn't need you to put it into a plastic bag. :rotfl:

Also another thing I notice is when people pick up a bunch of loose bananas they always seem to pull one off and put one back. End of night the shelf is full of these single bananas that everyone has pulled off.

ash28

I never buy bagged bananas - years ago I was shopping and picked up a bag of value bananas and out of interest weighed them only to find they were more expensive than the "regular" unpackaged bananas (and there was me thinking value stuff was the cheapest)......and with mushrooms - I always bought a carton of value mushrooms but one day I weighed them and found they were just under the weight advertised, I picked up another carton and found there were 50% more mushrooms than the advertised weight.

I always weigh packs now. It only takes a few seconds and most supermarkets have scales in the fresh produce section.

I don't care if onions are small, large or a mixture, the same with potatoes - in fact I buy potatoes from a local farm...£5 for 25kgs works out at 20p a kilo and they are all shapes and sizes - probably the ones the supermarkets don't want, but they taste the same, the only thing is they have a bit of mud on them.....and stored properly they last months......

So I usually weigh bags that are sold by quantity (just to check the price per kilo) and value mushrooms as the weight can vary enormously from one carton to another.

Ken68

The banana peel weighs as much as the banana, similar with oranges.
Don't know why people buy this foreign muck anyway. lol

stephen77

Ken68 wrote: »

The banana peel weighs as much as the banana, similar with oranges.
Don't know why people buy this foreign muck anyway. lol

so you only buy produce from the UK?