Online and Store Prices

theGrinch

Is it commonplace for Morrisons to have a different online and offline price for the same product? Its the Ardbeg I saw.

DCFC79

theGrinch wrote: »

Is it commonplace for Morrisons to have a different online and offline price for the same product? Its the Ardbeg I saw.

Prices should be the same.

Did you get the item price checked in store ?

alanq

Did you check the online price the same day as you saw the product in store? The price of items delivered by Morrisons is the price advertised at the time that one places an online order which may be higher or lower than the price advertised on the day of delivery.

Advertised price for 24th December is £37. What price did you see in store?

theGrinch

£47 in store at Morrisons. While there, I checked online and it was £37, which is the price its been for a while now.

I know some Tesco stores have different prices between branches and there can be online specials also.

Next time, I will take it to the till and we will see.

alanq

It is annoying when stores do this. Once I wanted some batteries from Wilko. The price in store was higher than online. I could order online and click-and-collect from the same store at a lower price than I could buy them off the shelf. I was also told that different Wilko stores can also have different prices for the same item.

Gnocchi

It's not illegal for a branch of Sainsbury's in W1 to charge more for six cans of Diet Coke than in say Ealing or Dundee.

Don't know if it's true now but when my grandmother bought stuff in her local Sainsbury's in London it would be cheaper than ours in Maidstone.

We were told that supermarkets put the price up if they think the store is in a more affluent area.

I guess if you buy online with Wilkinson and do click and collect it's saving them money on staff and delivery.

alanq

Gnocchi wrote: »

I guess if you buy online with Wilkinson and do click and collect it's saving them money on staff and delivery.

It will be cheaper than delivering to a home address (although there may be a charge for the latter) .

It is certainly not cheaper to service Click-and-Collect than having the customer buying off of the shelf. With Click-and-Collect the order goes to a central depot, a package is assembled wrapped and dispatched by courier (perhaps with other similar packages), the customer is phoned by the store when the order arrives. The customer goes to the store, the evidence for the purchase is viewed and a member of staff is sent to the warehouse to fetch the package. Much simpler and cheaper to have a customer take the items from a shelf and pay at a checkout.

maman

There's definitely a difference between main supermarkets and their own convenience store/small shop equivalents. It's the price they make you pay for 'convenience'. Also in-store offers are often advertised as not being available on-line.


Its the same with airport/motorway/hospital shops. I think the reason they give is higher rents although personally I'd expect those costs to be averaged across the group. I find the higher costs at hospitals particularly offensive as no one wants to be there as a captive audience.

In short the shops charge what they think they can get away with. To me it's another example of trying to rip us off and constant vigilance is needed.

sarahj1986

I've noticed in local Sainsbury's certain items cost more than online/bigger store

theGrinch

Tesco have been doing this for ages metro vs larger stores, which is surprising.

Even more this was the larger Morrisions. Curious to know hows it priced locally to them.

DCFC79

theGrinch wrote: »

£47 in store at Morrisons. While there, I checked online and it was £37, which is the price its been for a while now.

I know some Tesco stores have different prices between branches and there can be online specials also.

Next time, I will take it to the till and we will see.

Why not just get it delivered, if Morrisons deliver to you.