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Old 20-10-2011, 18:47
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Tesco's ready meal chilli con carne, few weeks ago it was on special at £1.50, last week it was back to it's normal price of £2.00. Was in this afternoon and it has gone up to £3.12. A rise of 56% is a but much don't you think.
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Old 20-10-2011, 19:13
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All supermarkets are doing it. Sainsbury's were charging something like £4.70+ for 4 tins of chopped tomatoes this week (I can't remember what brand). You've got to shop around.
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Old 20-10-2011, 19:14
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All supermarkets are doing it. Sainsbury's were charging something like £4.70+ for 4 tins of chopped tomatoes this week (I can't remember what brand). You've got to shop around.
Really? I pay 59 pence a tin for organic.
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Old 20-10-2011, 19:26
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Really? I pay 59 pence a tin for organic.
where from?
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Old 20-10-2011, 20:48
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Shops have rules about the claims of savings, it has to be on sale at the higher price for a set amount of time before they can legally advertise the saving - so you'll find periodically they price up products, just so they can claim '£1 saving' on the wrapper in the future. Keep an eye on the price, it will probably be 'reduced' to £2 in the future claiming 'over a pound off'.
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Old 20-10-2011, 20:54
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All supermarkets are doing it. Sainsbury's were charging something like £4.70+ for 4 tins of chopped tomatoes this week.
£4.89 in Tesco! Napolina.
Luckily I stocked 6 months or so ago at Asda when the same Napolina were 6 for £1.50.

Funny how massive price rises seem to precede a 'price war'..
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Old 20-10-2011, 20:58
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I paid £7.77 for a small bottle of Smirnoff vodka last night (for night out predrinks) ... it used to be £6-something a few months ago.
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Old 20-10-2011, 22:40
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Really? I pay 59 pence a tin for organic.
Yes, really. It's taking the pi$$. Luckily I've got 12 tins of the 'buy one (4 pack) get 2 free offer' in Tesco the other week! Shop around and stock non perishable offers if you can.
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Old 20-10-2011, 23:34
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Tesco's ready meal chilli con carne, few weeks ago it was on special at £1.50, last week it was back to it's normal price of £2.00. Was in this afternoon and it has gone up to £3.12. A rise of 56% is a but much don't you think.
It's a con. One of my local Tescos was selling pasta for two pounds a packet the other week. Like others have said, it is just so they can put a discount on it later.
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Old 21-10-2011, 08:47
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If ALL the supermarkets are doing it there's a very high chance that somewhere along the line a supply problem has come around. If it was just one supermarket it would be opportunism, but if they're all doing it there has to be another possible reason too.
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Old 21-10-2011, 18:35
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A fair point, but for the fact that the very same items seem the most common to be old as buy one get one free.
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Old 21-10-2011, 19:44
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Yes, really. It's taking the pi$$. Luckily I've got 12 tins of the 'buy one (4 pack) get 2 free offer' in Tesco the other week! Shop around and stock non perishable offers if you can.
My local Sainsburys sells them for 59 pence a tin.

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/grocerie...=1319222647420
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Old 21-10-2011, 20:02
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The trick is to completely ignore all pricing labels and special offers.

Pick what you want, in the quality you want and you will be better off in the long run as you are not playing the supermarket's game.

The minute you think; "Cool! 3 for the price of 2 that's a good deal", you might as well just have a big sign above your head saying "SUCKER".

Don't fall for it.
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Old 31-10-2011, 19:39
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Yup, prices are just a total orchestrated con.
Morrison's Napolina tin's of tomatoes are now 4 for £4.89 at buy 1 get one free.

Treating the consumer as total idiots surely generates long term contempt?
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Old 01-11-2011, 16:23
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If you have time or are able to shop around 2 or more shops, then you can get some good offers, but if you only have one place to do a big shop, then the money you save one week, will be clawed back by the retailer the following week, with prices rises on other stuff.
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Old 02-11-2011, 14:22
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All supermarkets are doing it. Sainsbury's were charging something like £4.70+ for 4 tins of chopped tomatoes this week (I can't remember what brand). You've got to shop around.
that has to be a record for 4 tins of toms!!!!!
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Old 02-11-2011, 14:24
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Ever since Tesco started the BIG PRICE DROP!! ive noticed that branded products do seem to have increased in price!!! couple that with the dropping of double points and ive since switched to sainsburys!!!! nectar points much better value coupled with my nectar credit card!!!
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Old 02-11-2011, 21:04
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I've also noticed that Morrisons have put the prices up on some of their Value branded toiletries. For instance their 1 litre bottles of foam bath have gone up from 18p to 40p.
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Old 04-11-2011, 00:50
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my wife spent £20 odd in sainsbury, and got a £4 credit for overcharging compared with Tesco/Asda

not sure what for, but might have been for 4 tins of Tuna.

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cooked meat seems very dear to me, and butter also,
I think it might be cheaper to buy cream, and make your own butter.
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