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dlusman wrote: »

Dont know about what happens currently , but some supermarkets ( including Tesco ) used to offer "raincheck" vouchers for products that where currently on offer but out of stock. Allowed you to buy them at a later date , but at the offer price.

Sainsburys do a similar thing. But only give it out if the other options on the offer have sold out. For example if a customer wants to buy something which is on BOGOF for £2 and there is onlyu one item in the shop, a supervisor will issue the customer a coupon making it £1. The customer just hands it over to the cashier.

But if its a multibuy offer such as the ready meals and plenty of choice on the offer - no coupon.

minislim

KobKab wrote: »

Just so you are aware, we don't take anything off the shelves. It runs out so quickly. The reason the shelves are full the next day is because we have had a delivery! The same thing that happens every day. If something is on offer, it sells quicker!

I have seen a lot of dodgy things happen, but this is not one of them!

do you work for asda?

the local small asda store near to me does this on many products.
the most noticeable one though is bottles of vimto and robinsons orange as i buy them often.

it normally stocks the smaller bottles. but when they are on offer these bottles seem to get replaced with the larger ones.
then when the big bottles go on offer the smaller ones reappear at full price and the big ones vanish.

PLRFD

Agree totally with post above.

surfsister

Hi yes agree op
other tricks are stopping selling value range altogether and especially temporarily at xmas. e.g. I could not buy any packet custard usually 29p or gravy granules 29p from Christmas eve until yesterday yet the other gravy granules 89p were full up and the tinned 59p custard.

Only sainsburys small store still sells the value range gravy - the large stores here no longer stock it and thus gain 60p on each pack they sell.Also Tescos and Asda had no value range either.

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I can remember when stores sold a litre of own brand washing up liquid for about 29p then suddenly overnight it became 500ml for the same prices. Nobody complaints so they continue to rip us off.

jany

I have not entered the forums before, not having the confidence to join in but today watching what is being said here on this thread I feel the need to get involved. I thought that this whole website was about money saving, debt solving, supporting each other to these ends. I have come on here tonight looking for cheap meat and have found a lot of very !!!!!y self satisfied individuals who should know better. Apologies for any minor spelling mistakes or errors of grammar, I just thought someone should remind you what this site is supposed to be about.
regards
jan

I_have_spoken

Thank you for the reminder. There's a lot of thought provoking ideas to absorb from your post, so I intend to sit down with a coffee and plain digestive biscuit and reread it after I've completed my ablutions. I usually have a milk chocolate Hobnob, but our Vicar visited yesterday and scoffed the last one which I didn't think was very Christian of her!

Even then, I may not have time until after lunch, which will be homemade oxtail soup prepared by my good lady wife. I don't like shop bought, although Baxters is OK but so expensive; I only found their products when served by Mrs McConnell at a B&B we stayed in during a walking holuday in the Trossachs in 1985. I have purchased a couple of tins since then as a special treat for the wife to save cooking.

pelirocco

KobKab wrote: »

Just so you are aware, we don't take anything off the shelves. It runs out so quickly. The reason the shelves are full the next day is because we have had a delivery! The same thing that happens every day. If something is on offer, it sells quicker!

I have seen a lot of dodgy things happen, but this is not one of them!

Now now there is no place for logic on these forums;)

pelirocco

jany wrote: »

I have not entered the forums before, not having the confidence to join in but today watching what is being said here on this thread I feel the need to get involved. I thought that this whole website was about money saving, debt solving, supporting each other to these ends. I have come on here tonight looking for cheap meat and have found a lot of very !!!!!y self satisfied individuals who should know better. Apologies for any minor spelling mistakes or errors of grammar, I just thought someone should remind you what this site is supposed to be about.
regards
jan

This site is to help people save money , or rather to help them spend what money they have more wisely .

This isnt a place to find 'cheap' meat , people may be able to point you in the right direction of where you might be able to buy it at a lower price . (Personally the one place where I wouldnt spend less money is on food , but thats a whole 'nother argument .)

shazza71_2

What gets my goat is the price of basics branded items. Smart Price curry Sauce was 9p when i first bought it, the price has risen slowly but last time i was there it had jumped from 19p to 30p :O and suprise suprise sainsbury`s basic brand is also 30p. Is it because both of these stores are in the same shopping centre ?

geordie_joe

shazza71 wrote: »

Smart Price curry Sauce was 9p when i first bought it, the price has risen slowly but last time i was there it had jumped from 19p to 30p

In this country they don't set prices by cost to them + profit = selling price.

e.g. if it cost them £1 to purchase and sell an item and they want 50% profit so they sell it for £1.50.

Instead they charge "what the market will stand".

In other words they set the price as high as they think people will be willing to pay.

I can remember when the curry was 4p in Tesco, someone mentioned it on the old style board and loads of people started buying it, even buying 20 tins at a time. There was a huge thread about it, mainly people bragging about how many tins they got or people complaining their local store had ran out of stock. But soon after the price started to rise, and the tins changed to jars. I think it got up to about 27p before I stopped reading the thread.

It was the same with value baby soap, it was 9p then someone mentioned it was really good and MSE'ers were buying it by the dozen. The price just shot up to 45p over night.

I reckon tesco just saw the sale rocket, assumed everyone wanted the products so put the price up. The other supermarkets all followed suit. Because it people were willing to pay 27p/45p in tesco then they would be willing to pay the same price in Morrisons. asda etc.

Have you never done online surveys for new products? They all include a section where they show you a variety of prices and ask "if the product was on sale for this price would think it was (A) too cheap (B) just right (C) too expensive.

And "if it was on sale for this price would you (A) Will buy it (B) Might buy it (C) won't buy it".

If they used the Cost to them + profit = Selling price model they wouldn't need to do that, as they would already know what price they are going to sell it for.

But they don't use that model, they sell for the highest price you are willing to pay. And they are willing to pay you to tell them what that price is.