ICYMI Tesco rebranding all Tesco Metro stores to Tesco Express

GaleSF63

General_Grant said:

GaleSF63 said:

Tesco (and other supermarkets) prices have gone up steadily over the last few years - and no doubt before - so I don't know if it's possible to "blame" anything in particular for recent rises. 

That's general price inflation.  This thread is really about differential pricing - Tesco Express being more expensive than Tesco Metro.

But these things all get mixed up. We're supposed not to notice. 

General_Grant

General_Grant said:

k3lvc said:

chuckie851 said:

I went to my local Tesco Metro today and there were massive price increases on a lot of everyday items. Maybe it's changing to Express next week?  I walked out without buying anything.

Would be useful to have a definition of 'massive' and on what sort of items - given what's likely to happen over the coming months as commodities increase you may be doing a lot of 'walking out'

Not sure about "massive" and I don't buy much at Tesco but last week I noticed in a Tesco Metro compared with recent price (which is still the online price and therefore presumably available in regular Tesco/superstores):
Bananas - loose - 75p/kilo (was 73p)
Creamfields UHT skimmed milk - 53p(?) (was 50p)
Springforce jumbo kitchen roll - 95p(?) (91p in Tesco (as online))

The ? marks are because I'm not completely sure but the prices were definitely more compared with the bracketed prices.

I checked today and the price of the UHT skimmed milk was 55p and the other 2 were as originally written.
Perhaps the idea is to have 5p as the rounded figure for any price.

Percentage price differentials between Tesco superstore/online and Tesco Express:
bananas      2.7%
uht milk      10.0%
kitchen roll   4.4%

pokora

I saw 3 bands of pricing:
Tesco express, expensive
Tesco Metro, mix of expensive and cheap
Tesco Superstore, cheap

pokora

General_Grant said:

k3lvc said:

chuckie851 said:

I went to my local Tesco Metro today and there were massive price increases on a lot of everyday items. Maybe it's changing to Express next week?  I walked out without buying anything.

Would be useful to have a definition of 'massive' and on what sort of items - given what's likely to happen over the coming months as commodities increase you may be doing a lot of 'walking out'

Not sure about "massive" and I don't buy much at Tesco but last week I noticed in a Tesco Metro compared with recent price (which is still the online price and therefore presumably available in regular Tesco/superstores):
Bananas - loose - 75p/kilo (was 73p)
Creamfields UHT skimmed milk - 53p(?) (was 50p)
Springforce jumbo kitchen roll - 95p(?) (91p in Tesco (as online))

The ? marks are because I'm not completely sure but the prices were definitely more compared with the bracketed prices.

I notice the same, every item i usually buy in my shop rise.

Rosa_Damascena

pokora said:

I saw 3 bands of pricing:
Tesco express, expensive
Tesco Metro, mix of expensive and cheap
Tesco Superstore, cheap

Lets not exaggerate, they still make a tidy profit for the business.