Kellogs crunchy nut, small packs more expensive

londonTiger

At asda now.

500g £2.68
750g £2.00 or 3 for £5.

Unbelievable

geerex

If only humans were equipped with some sort of built in calculator that allowed them to work out which things were more expensive.
That would be so useful.

steveE2

Same with Coco Pops at Asda
350g £2.38
550g £2.00 (3 for £5)
800g £1.97

Paully232000

there is always products like this at all supermarkets.

In tesco recently i have seen it cheaper, for instance to buy 4 seperate tins of beans, soup, cartons of juice, instead of buying the ready-packaged up 4 packs of these.

Nada666

At least it isn't the 375g packs that are £2.68.

londonTiger

the size/weight markings on asda price labels are tiny making them difficult to read. I have often found the prices on the shelves to be out of date as staff have not changed them (probably because they're so tiny and easy to miss.

So you don't always trust the prices, when I saw the price I almost didn't want to believe it, I thought perhaps there was a "rollback" and the clerk has just changed the price of 1 size and not the other.

whitegoods_engineer

Isn't it about time supermarkets stopped this nonsense. Their sophisticated computer stock/price systems could easily eliminate this.

It is a con, plain and simple. There is no excuse for this except to deceive the consumer.

bylromarha

whitegoods_engineer wrote: »

Isn't it about time supermarkets stopped this nonsense. Their sophisticated computer stock/price systems could easily eliminate this.

It is a con, plain and simple. There is no excuse for this except to deceive the consumer.

Not a con, but a business. Supermarkets have done this for years and will continue to do so. They are presenting all the information to you.

It's their job to make money.

It's your job to not let them get it.

I find the calculator on my phone very handy if the weight per kg/item is not easy to work out.

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pmduk

It's frustrating however when one brand is measured by weight, eg grammes and another by volume eg ml.

System

Supermarkets make their money from 'sleepwalking' customers. Those that just pick up things into the trolley without bothering looking at prices and/or offers.

Plus those old dears that buy the same things week in/ week out. Have the same menus each week.

DCFC79

You just need to be aware of what your buying, even if something is on offer it doesn't mean its the best value, some shoppers don't bother doing this.