Examples of surprising prices

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Rosa_Damascena said:

 

 

I think they do that so they can put them on an a multibuy offer, eg 2 for £10 to hoodwink the customer into thinking there is an economy of scale to be had.

The trouble is they think that the public are daft, and buy with their eyes shut. Well with the prices of food rocketing they will get a nasty shock when stuck with stuff they can't sell.

When I was a little girl many moons ago now there were only a few cereals on the shelves.  Puffed Wheat,Shredded Wheat,Weetabix, and Kellogs Cornflakes and Rice Crispies were just starting to come onto the market.
Porridge oats were Scotts with the beefy chap on the front of the box swinging a hammer
It was just Kellogs or Nabisco or the porridge company on sale in the shops .Today there are rows and rows of cereals available and far too much choice .
Looking at the cereal isles it often looks like kids just couldn't survive on cornflakes in the summer, and porridge in the winter today They all have to have at least a chocolate flavour added to tempt the kids into eating it. No wonder there is an obesity crisis if folk are feeding their children chocolate flavoured cereals for breakfast. Every cereal and even porridge seems to need to have another chemical flavour added to it.

I'm afraid my late Mum would have scoffed at the idea, you ate what was put in front of you then went to school full stop If the hens were obliging you may have got a boiled egg and a slice of toast but that was it. today it seems children cannot start the day without a chocolate fix with their breakfast.

I'm not a great breakfast eater myself, and haven't been for years due to shift work etc which messes up your normal day I usually start my day with a large cuppa and at most a couple of ginger nuts but eat my lunch around 12 and dinner around 6. I rarely snack between meals although I now and again like a slice of cake, or a biscuit and a coffee mid afternoon.

So the price of cereals don't bother me too much. Winter time is different, then I may have a bowl of porridge made as my late Mum made it with water and a sprinkle of salt over the top and a drizzle of milk around the edge of the bowl but thats because it does warm you up on cold mornings.

I'm not keen on granola or museli as its far too much like hamster food for me but each to their own I guess

JackieO xx

YoungBlueEyes

I've often thought the same JackieO.  How can you wonder why your kids are fat when you feed them junk morning noon and night, and large portions of it too?

I eat smaller meals than I've seen some kids eat!  We had a pub lunch the other day. I had a small fish n chips, himself had steak and ale pie chips and peas. There was a family at the next table (mum dad and son - maybe 10 years old). That boy ate pie chips and beans, an extra bowl of chips, a cakey dessert and a bowl of ice-cream. He was morbidly obese.  I felt sorry for him, he'd obviously learned it from his parents and I doubt any of them will change.  I hope I'm wrong about that last bit though.

maryb

Marks marks is often surprisingly good value for some of the basics - like sliced bread.  The secret is to get in and out without succumbing to all the other temptations 

London_1

maryb I think its very clever marketing if you think about it .Sell good quality bread at  a reasonable price, and it may be a loss leader but it will get folk through the doors. Then once inside the store M&S have cracked it as the rest of the food stuff is presented beautifully and of good quality so people will be very tempted to buy other stuff.

I shop mainly at (depending on what I need I always check all four websites for the best price as I am lucky that all the stores are quite close to one another) Tesco,Sainsburys, Asda's and Aldi's stuff that's price matched at Tesco from Aldi's I will get there as I will get the loyalty points.But I am more than happy to buy any bread needed in M&S although I don't eat very much bread but like to have a loaf portioned up in the freezer for that 'just in case ' moment. I only eat brown bread anyway if at all.

At the moment I have run down my fresh food as I am away this Wednesday for five days so I'm now eating from the freezer for a couple of days as I hate waste of any kind.

But when I come home I will have a bigger shop than usual, but then I have not been in a food shop this month so far so my October budget is still intact

JackieO xx

danny_x

One of my favourite wines has been £4.95 at Sainsbury's for at least a few years. Now it's gone up to exactly £5, which means it qualifies for their 25% off when you buy 6 or more offer.
So, for me the price rise means it's gone from £4.95 to £3.75. Result!

YorksLass

The only cereals I eat are porridge oats or corn/wheat flakes (the cheaper basics ones).  I do like the Nestle Curiously Cinnamon Cereal (I think they used to be called Golden Grahams) but I'm afraid they're way out of my budget nowadays.  The same goes for crisps - plain unadulterated ones please, not whatever weird flavour they can conjure up.  Even then, if I have a packet every other month then I'm probably exaggerating!  

As for Aldi price match (or price lockdown or whatever), I think that's definitely a con.  Once the price match/lock finishes then you'd expect the price to revert back to its original.  Not so, it's always higher than previously.      As JackieO says, the SMs must think we're daft and don't notice what's going on.

maryb's spot on with M&S - in and out for what you want and ignore the temptations!

sammyjammy

Broadsword66 said:

It's cheaper to buy butter from M&S (£1.75) than it is to buy it from Aldi (£1.99). A couple of weeks ago butter was £1.75 in Sainsbury's but is now £1.99 because they have "price matched" Aldi! Way to throw away a competitive advantage, inSainsbury's. 🤨

500g is even cheaper at £3.40, I've stocked up!

Auntycaz

I went to morrisons especially to get some nestle gofree (gluten free) as I saw it on offer on their website. Annoyingly it wasn't on offer in store so i had a wasted journey. I wish they would do all the same offers in-store as online instead of just some of them.  

London_1

YorksLass Ooh I love the curiously cinnamon cereal but object to paying the price asked for it Now and again Tesco have it on special offer so I treat myself to several packets and ration them out.but then I love anything with cinnamon in, I sprinkle ground cinnamon on top of apples in my apples pies  and make melting moment and add cinnamon to them as well its such a gorgeous flavour, and to me reminds me of autumn when my late Mum would make a cinnamon sponge cake a bit like madeira but so much nicer, and I would have a slice when home from school on a cold winters afternoon and it was still slightly warm from the oven with a hot cup of cocoa.

We lived almost on Blackheath on the outskirts of London and I had to walk to and from school over the heath four times a day and boy was it perishing cold in the winter ,especially when we had thick fogs So the flavour of cinnamon takes me back to the late 1940s early 50s and my childhood.  

Its the smell of home,warmth and comfort and love. Most people have certain smells that brings back those sorts of memories I think  

JackieO xx

YorksLass

I love cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger and use them a lot so I always look out for the bigger packs in the World Foods aisle as they're much cheaper than those piddly little bottles.  They all have a lovely warming smell and the nutmeg especially always makes me think of hm rice pudding.