Somerfield - Illegal much?

Halloway

I have always maintained that all supermarket chains have one shop where they maintain ludicrously high prices, solely for the purpose of being able to screw over their customers in other branches with scams such as these. I think the shops must be in Central London where no-one would bat an eyelid at paying £4.19 for a tin of tuna.

squidge60

the other thing with somerfield is checking to make sure you get your bogof i brought bleach realised hadnt had the offer applied went in days and days later to get money back and the woman behind the desk told the guy to take the notice with the offer down.i hate to think how many people had picked up what they thought was an offer and didnt check receipt.

aaroncaz

I can't abide Somerfield, it's my local store, and they "up" the prices of lots of things!

teedy23

marvin wrote: »

It does not have to be that price in that store, it could be that price in the ochmagandy local somerfield for 28 days and then be upped.

this is not unusual practice. I noticed when tesco did their half price fruit promotion last year the price of the half price fruit went up considerably during the offer and came down considerabley outside it.

Nope I live in ochmagandy and it wasn,t that price any time I,ve been in !:D

Kerilinann

Clowance wrote: »

it doesn't much matter to the consumer whether or not its legal, a grey area I imagine. I think the OP was trying to highlight that we should all know the original price of the item before being sucked in by "offers"; it is all the supermarkets I think that do something like this. But if its something you buy regularly or is an alternative to something you buy, surely most people have a vague idea what the item should cost if they think about it. So what we have to do is look closely at the price that the offer is based on to see if it really is a bargain.
Also, genuine offers are usually on unhealthy things rather than everyday healthy items like broccoli ; even the fruit in Tescos tended to be non everyday sort of stuff.

Thanks! Think I did word it rather wrongly, was tired. It doesn't so much concern me with the illegal or whatnot (it was just highlighted) it was as you say, to watch out on the offers! Thanks for helping out