Tesco: Same product repackaged and sold for more than twice price?

DCFC79

Been going on for years, people just need to compare the labels, if they dont then no 1 is to blame except themselves.

glider3560

cybervic wrote: »

Many of the budget/value product ingredient were sourced oversea at ridiculers price. I personally don't touch them because take yogurt for example, it could be full of hormone and drugs that had been injected at overdose amount which would not have been allowed under EU regulation.

The Tesco Value Natural Yoghurt has always been British everytime I have bought it.

Annoyingly, my local store stopped selling the Value Yoghurt now but the next nearest store (which is smaller) still sell it.

[Deleted User]

are there people really that shallow that they care if someone sees a value pot of yoghurt in their fridge??? beggers belief at times .Personally I couldn't give two monkeys I buy what I like, at a price I can afford, and the money I save goes on things I enjoy even more (my grandchildren ).If someone was being nosey enough to poke around in my fridge I'm afraid they would get pretty short shrift in my house

GwylimT

I used to work in a ready meal factory that produced pasta based meals, the sam packet of macarroni cheese varied from safeway value to the extra special range at m&s, the only difference with the m&s was the sleeve and the tray was metal instead of plastic.

SailorSam

LadyCoupon wrote: »

Think this happens quite a bit. I once watched a programme where a product was being packaged up and exactly the same thing was getting packaged for M&S and a few other shops, it was the same thing inside, just different packaging.

When i first left school i had a part-time job for a while doing that. I remember sticking labels on tins of Tuna that went out to different shops but it was the same stuff.

Haffiana

All these people who worked in factories and say the same meal/product was used for different supermarkets... It isn't. I used to work as a microbiologist for some of these companies, and the factory is the same, the production line is the same, but the ingredients, and their proportions are completely different. The mix used in the hoppers, the quality and proportion of ingredients, all sorts of stuff gets changed to the supermarket's requirements.

So for example, M&S bread is baked alongside Hovis and Sainsbury's value loaf, and Sainsbury's high end Taste the Difference or whatever - it is all made, baked and packaged up in the same bakeries. On the same day, even. But the M&S loaf contains a different quality flour to Hovis and to Sainsbury's, and the prove and bake time is slightly different, so the loaf tastes different. It isn't the same product with different wrappers at all.

Yoghurt is made with fresh milk, or with reconstituted powdered milk. It may have a different culture added, and it may have added thickeners (a disgusting American idea that is now becoming common in the UK. Look out for added inulin, a thickener, in some of the more common brands nowadays, and avoid. It is being used in some of the posher, high end products as 'thick' yoghurt is perceived to be more premium than runnier yoghurts. It isn't.) Some yoghurts are actually pasteurised AFTER they are made which of course kills all the health-giving bacteria stone dead, giving rise to a product which has a long shelf life, and which can be produced more cheaply.

GwylimT

Haffianna, the m&s meals were the same, not only was i perfectly aware of the mix made, the ingredients list and proportions were identical, and I know, because I was the batch maker on our particular line. The only supermarket we supplied that did have an individual mix was the co-op, safeway, sainsburys, morrisons and m&s were all identical.

lemontart

Meadows wrote: »

The pretty pack v the value no frills pack not only at Tesco all the supermarkets do the same giving customers the choice. And what's the betting some would rather pay more than twice the price rather than be seen to have 'Value' labels in their fridge.

ah the way round is to decant into posh pots that have been rinsed out just before Mrs Bucket comes round