Rip off Britain

[stevewool]

i am very careful when it comes to shopping and spending money, not that i am tight or anything just carefull, do i want, and i have to convince myself that its what i need, farmfoods, aldi, wilkinsons and pak shop, not paky shop Graham, Pak shop here in derby, the trouble at the mo is farmfoods are doing 3 loaves for £2, i cant eat that much bread before it goes green,i did not realize this until i asked em why my bread was getting smaller the slices she was cutting the mould off, so the ducks are happy near me now they have the extra loaf,

[Dedworth]

i am very careful when it comes to shopping and spending money, not that i am tight or anything just carefull, do i want, and i have to convince myself that its what i need, farmfoods, aldi, wilkinsons and pak shop, not paky shop Graham, Pak shop here in derby, the trouble at the mo is farmfoods are doing 3 loaves for £2, i cant eat that much bread before it goes green,i did not realize this until i asked em why my bread was getting smaller the slices she was cutting the mould off, so the ducks are happy near me now they have the extra loaf,

You're a sensible man Steve not letting them rip you off - there's better things to spend your money on than blindly filling Tesco's coffers

[grahamw48]

I just freeze the bread.
You can even put it straight in the toaster still frozen.

I got a whole load today at about 20p a loaf.

[stevewool]

never walk in tesco for over 3 years , the ex worked there so never go in and i hate frozen bread too,even when its thawed

[stevewool]

anyway the freezer is full of farmfoods

[grahamw48]

But we live on bread and water.

[lastlid]

Saw the programme last night. Nothing new there. Again, I too would like to see some prosecutions.

[lastlid]

I got a whole load today at about 20p a loaf.

When I was living in Aberdeen last year I could do a weeks shopping for under tenner at Asda, whole lumps of fish for 10p etc etc. Just bunged it in the freezer. I used to time it right, about 7pm at night, just after work.....

[Dedworth]

Saw the programme last night. Nothing new there. Again, I too would like to see some prosecutions.

You are quite right but at least by broadcasting it along with accompanying news reports it may open the eyes of thousands of mugs to the underhand and devious practices of the supermarkets.

I've seen them on BBC Watchdog before but I do laugh at Tesco's yellow "multibuy" stickers £1.50 each or 2 for £3. A Psychologist said people are attracted to the so many for so much bit and switch off to the individual price - Tesco have the front to repeatedly claim that these stickers are down to human error.

"Never give a sucker an even break"

[andy222]

Oh come on guys everybody makes mistakes. Its only a sticker. Whats another few pounds on a shopping bill? .

[lastlid]

They do makes some cracking mistakes in the buyers favour. Last year I bought a Blu Ray DVD for £3.00 that should have been £13.00 at Asda. When they priced a heap of them up they inadvertently put two prices on each set of Blu Rays. And of course they are (to a degree) obliged to sell at the lower price. So I got mine for £3.00.

[Dedworth]

Oh come on guys everybody makes mistakes. Its only a sticker. Whats another few pounds on a shopping bill? .

The programme shows it as being a cynical and deliberate ploy - with the volumes they shift and the number of stores those few pounds are multiplied by thousands. Where would you rather have those £'s Andy your pocket or Tesco's ?

[grahamw48]

They do makes some cracking mistakes in the buyers favour. Last year I bought a Blu Ray DVD for £3.00 that should have been £13.00 at Asda. When they priced a heap of them up they inadvertently put two prices on each set of Blu Rays. And of course they are (to a degree) obliged to sell at the lower price. So I got mine for £3.00.

How can you live with yourself ?

[South-east boy]

The UK isn't cheap or the rest of Europe expensive when you live in each country. Prices in the UK haven't gone down or prices in Europe gone up loads. The prices here have gone up a lot here, especially over the last 3 years, but instead of things going up a few pence like it used to, it's been 10, 15, 20 or even up to 40/50p on some things! It's just that the £ to the Euro rate dropped a lot 3 1/2 years ago and has never regained, so it's only when you travel to Europe, convert your cash and buy things that you'll get stung and get less value than you used to. Of course it will be the opposite for when anyone in mainland Europe comes here to buy as it will be better value once they have converted their cash than over there.

Why the £ has never risen to like the 1.3-1.4 Euro's to the £ like it used to be given how badly many countries in the Euro are doing such as Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Ireland beats me!

[lastlid]

How can you live with yourself ?

Well, yes. I think the guy who priced them up got a real roasting from his supervisor......

[lastlid]

On the plus side, the Tesco in Douglas is one of the biggest employers of Filipinas on the island.......

[Englishman2010]

Why the £ has never risen to like the 1.3-1.4 Euro's to the £ like it used to be given how badly many countries in the Euro are doing such as Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Ireland beats me!

The value of £ vs € isn't directly linked to the economic fortunes of UK vs EUzone. It is far more complex than this, but in simplistic terms, the value of Sterling started falling when bank base rates tumbled. As BoE BR fell, sterling became a less attractive investment to the institutions who buy billions of foreign currencies every day. As ECB BR is higher than ours, the Euro is still more attractive to foreign investors than Sterling.
Whilst a weak pound isn't good for us when we go on holiday, it is actually very good for British business' who export to the EU as the price of British goods are cheaper and therefore more competitive.
The only way the pound will regain it's losses against the Euro is for the BoE to increase the BBR No thanks, I'm on a tracker mortgage.

[joebloggs]

many years ago i did some work experience at CWS (co op wholesale) and i spent some time in a department working with a guy, who job it was to try and squeeze as much as he could on the shelves, and certain brands (ones who paid money ) went at eye level, and their own brand went just below these or just above, and the cheap brands at the bottom


they do sometimes thou.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...9p-glitch.html

[lastlid]

they do sometimes thou.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...9p-glitch.html

LOL Nice one.

[Englishman2010]

That's a good one, but how can anyone eat 657 chocolate oranges

[grahamw48]

Consider how much perishable and out of date stuff gets tipped out the back door every day though.

[South-east boy]

Consider how much perishable and out of date stuff gets tipped out the back door every day though.

Yeah! Some supermarkets have slightly damaged or nearly out of date things on a reduced shelf, but a lot just chuck it out. Seen it before when I've worked at supermarkets on Saturday and temp evening jobs. Seems especially bad when there's charities that feed the homeless etc. Sure things like meat, fish and dairy stuff could be dodgey to sell or give away, but there's plenty of things that would be ok. But worse than that is things like veggies and fruit that aren't the correct shape, so don't even get to the store and are dumped! I'm sure some people would buy them if they were at a cheaper price?!

[grahamw48]

Too right.

What does the shape matter anyway if it's going into a fruit drink or soup ?

The amount of waste in this country is truly scandalous considering those in need of a few crumbs in this world, just to keep themselves alive.

[grahamw48]

The tidiest and most waste-free environment I ever saw was at the Carreras Rothmans cigarette factory in Basildon. (When I was a rep' of theirs).

Duty was charged on tobacco as it came out of the attached govt.bonded warehouse for processing.

Any waste tobacco that went back into the warehouse (even 'dust'), the duty was refunded.

At that time on 30p worth of tobaco leaf there was £5 duty.

Nuff said.

[Dedworth]

Too right.

What does the shape matter anyway if it's going into a fruit drink or soup ?

The amount of waste in this country is truly scandalous considering those in need of a few crumbs in this world, just to keep themselves alive.

If they offered a smaller range of products like the German hard discounters (ie Lidl & Aldi) there would be less stuff to skip. Seemingly some people don't mind paying the price in their shopping bill for the huge "choice" that gets thrown away

From my experience of UK supermarkets compared to those that I've visited abroad the UK ones have fresher, better quality produce and more variety. That in itself comes at a cost especially considering the rising transport costs of importing the goods.

[Terpe]

It was only yesterday afternoon at Waitrose

Tasty seasonal snacks on offer at 3 for the price of 2

Quite a few were reduced to £1.50 from the original price £4.99 (short dated)
I bought 3 which I thought would cost me £4.50

Nooooo

The computer/till took £4.99 off for the free one.
Means waitrose actually paid me 49p to enjoy them. I went back to get some more but none left on reduced price.

They tasted so so good.

[joebloggs]

even HP do things

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/4162...-uk-price-drop

i didn't get one for £89, had to pay £100 for it, as work managed to get about 10 for £89 each

[andy222]

The programme shows it as being a cynical and deliberate ploy - with the volumes they shift and the number of stores those few pounds are multiplied by thousands. Where would you rather have those £'s Andy your pocket or Tesco's ?

Sorry dedworth you either have to laugh or cry mate. Its been going on for a long time. And it wont stop.

[lastlid]

Sorry dedworth you either have to laugh or cry mate. Its been going on for a log time. And it wont stop.

I know what you mean Andy.....

[Dedworth]

I know what you mean Andy.....

If they were prosecuted regularly and the penalties were heavy enough they would see the error of their ways and trade in a moral manner. Rolling over and accepting that it's always been that way plays into their hands.