Eggs - Free Range - I'm CROSS

purpleivy

:mad:

I've been over at my Mum's in Hull, got the eggs out to do scrambled eggs for lunch and noticed they were Morrisons medium free range.... exactly the same as the ones I have bought for the last couple of weeks....except they weren't! They were £1.18, just got home and checked the price of mine, £1.28. What possible justification could there possibly be for this?

Rikki

Hulls closer to the farm?


I wonder if it depends on how many the sell in a particular store. The more popular the lower the price?


No idea really.:o


How about giving your local store a ring and ask out of curiosity.

davetrousers

Are you expecting uniformity in an un-uniform world?

Shops can (offer to) sell stuff at whatever price they like imo.

churchrat

I'm sure I heard somewhere that the stores in the "better-off" areas (not here!!) charge more than the same stores in the chain in cheaper house price areas. I wonder if its true? perhaps we could do a price check to see???????????

Mrs_Flittersnoop

Yes that is true. OH works for a supermarket and it's a bone of contention with me too. It's not just the supermarkets, M&S and other big stores do the same thing. Annoying, isn't it.

churchrat

in that case I will just nip down to the poorest, most poverty stricken place I can find (just down the road in fact!!) and do all my shopping there.
does it make a big difference Mrs Flittersnoop?

iwanttosave_2

churchrat wrote: »

I'm sure I heard somewhere that the stores in the "better-off" areas (not here!!) charge more than the same stores in the chain in cheaper house price areas. I wonder if its true? perhaps we could do a price check to see???????????

Well its true round here, my local Asda is slightly dearer than the one on the next town which is quite a poor town.

In fact thinking about it, alot of things in that town are cheaper from items in a charity shop and in the greggs bakery.

angelavdavis

All supermarkets use regional pricing models - that is why you have to enter your postcode online when putting in an order. They supermarkets may say enter your postcode to see if delivery is available to you - but in all honesty though this might have originally been the case, delivery is fairly widespread now - the main reason is to adjust the prices!

I found this out when I accidentally left my own home postcode in the system instead of changing it when I went to order some groceries for delivery to OH's address.

The total cost of the trolley was £6 more at OH's address for the exact same trolley!

purpleivy

Seems I've found out more from my little rant than I expected! I have found in most places that the free range eggs look nice and are more reasonably priced in places other than supermarkets, so will try and get them when the opportunity presents.

pigpen

It is because the average income Hull is WAY WAY lower than the rest of the country.. so the prices are lower.. That said the tesco express prices are higher than the tesco big stores.. which I always moan about too! This is one of the most 'deprived areas' in the country and many things are cheaper here.. houses, cars.. everything.. but then you have to live with a crappy standard of education, crappy health service (if you are lucky enough to get an appointment!) and given last summers flooding a very high flood risk area as well..

I'd rather pay 10p extra for a box of eggs and £100 LESS on my house insurance!!!

Just to gloat.. our council tax is less than £100 a month in most areas!! .. see.. one good thing! At the last check there were 70%+ of people living on or below the poverty line.. or it could just be 70% of children that were living in poverty.. I forget the details.

balmaiden

We have both, one of the most expensive Tescos in Britain, Five miles from where I live and six miles in the other direction we have one of the cheapest in Britain. Infact I have been told that the expensive one is the most expensive in Britain!!
Living in Cornwall, our coastal towns are now populated by the very wealthy second home owners, whereas our inland towns are still some of the poorest in the country.