ASDA SP Garlic Baguettes - Online Price Glitch

Steve059

These are currently 32p. They're remarkably good for the price: unless you made the bread yourself, you couldn't make them for less.

However, they've had a duplicate entry on the website at 33p for as long as I can remember.

A couple of days ago, the price on this changed to 28p.

sarah1972

28p link http://groceries.asda.com/asda-webstore/landing/home.shtml?cmpid=ahc-_-ghs-sna1-_-asdacom-dsk-_-hp#/product/28970713

Moneysayver

What makes garlic bread so palatable is the garlic itsself and less so the baguette. Infact youre paying quite a lot for only a little garlic and a little bread. It might be easier and better value for money buying jarred garlic such as Raj's Minced Garlic Paste also sold by Asda; I know I do and I love it. Raj's in particular has a little sugar which makes the difference.

Apparently garlic is a popular snack on its own in parts of the balkans, probably elsewhere too.

DPJames

Quick Robin. To the Batmobile! There's a 4p saving on smart price baguettes to be had!

Holy garlic butter infused bread sticks Batman!

dlusman

If you look at the packaging and the ingredients/nutritional values - these are different products - NOT duplicates

http://groceries.asda.com/asda-webstore/landing/home.shtml?cmpid=ahc-_-ghs-d1-_-asdacom-dsk-_-hp#/product/28970713

http://groceries.asda.com/asda-webstore/landing/home.shtml?cmpid=ahc-_-ghs-d1-_-asdacom-dsk-_-hp#/product/35451

so why is this a "glitch" ?

Steve059

DPJames wrote: »

Quick Robin. To the Batmobile! There's a 4p saving on smart price baguettes to be had!

Holy garlic butter infused bread sticks Batman!

I envy you being able to discount such small savings.

dlusman wrote: »

If you look at the packaging and the ingredients/nutritional values - these are different products - NOT duplicates

http://groceries.asda.com/asda-webstore/landing/home.shtml?cmpid=ahc-_-ghs-d1-_-asdacom-dsk-_-hp#/product/28970713

http://groceries.asda.com/asda-webstore/landing/home.shtml?cmpid=ahc-_-ghs-d1-_-asdacom-dsk-_-hp#/product/35451

so why is this a "glitch" ?

They've only sold and only sell one SP garlic baguette. I've assumed that the one with the product code of 1991464 was an old but undeleted item and the one with the product code of 603602 was the new one. A change of supplier and/or recipe would explain this.

sarah1972

Moneysayver wrote: »

What makes garlic bread so palatable is the garlic itsself and less so the baguette. Infact youre paying quite a lot for only a little garlic and a little bread. It might be easier and better value for money buying jarred garlic such as Raj's Minced Garlic Paste also sold by Asda; I know I do and I love it. Raj's in particular has a little sugar which makes the difference.

Apparently garlic is a popular snack on its own in parts of the balkans, probably elsewhere too.

It may be easier to use jarred garlic but surely if you were to make it yourself (which I do regularly) you certainly wouldn't use jarred garlic and only use fresh garlic with no additives and much tastier and healthy.

dlusman

Steve059 wrote: »

They've only sold and only sell one SP garlic baguette. I've assumed that the one with the product code of 1991464 was an old but undeleted item and the one with the product code of 603602 was the new one. A change of supplier and/or recipe would explain this.

NO - they are two different products -
one is fresh/chilled - the other is frozen


Asda are perfectly entitled to charge what they want for two different products

Steve059

dlusman wrote: »

NO - they are two different products -
one is fresh/chilled - the other is frozen

Asda are perfectly entitled to charge what they want for two different products

I stand corrected. The storage type for product code 603602 is chilled. The storage type for product code 1991464 is frozen.

I was only aware of the chilled version. I'll check the freezer cabinets for the frozen version on my next visit.

I never knew that garlic baguettes could be so complicated. I really ought to get out more. Or should that be less?

Update.

I'm back. Chilled version, 32p. Frozen version, 28p. As I usually freeze them anyway, as long as they're cheaper, I'll buy the frozen version.