Supermarket abuse of pricing?

for the periodic nectar deals on standard products, an app to alert of the deals would be useful, something like camelcamel,
maybe this new Apple/ai integration musk is complaining about will allow you to setup such alerts.

otherwise JS informatics system must realise folks stock up on nectar deal , and don't buy in the interim - the rules of fight club.
 
Diddums said:
Anyone else noticed that over the last couple of months, Sainsburys require you to "unlock" their special prices in their app? Adding yet another step in the non-stop ripoffs in the hope that people don't know or miss it.

Getting a bit ridiculous tbh. I'd like to see a graph overlaying their crap antics and shoplifting.
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As a follow up to this, pretty sure I saw it advertised on TV last night - though I don't watch much live tv so my experience of it being new or not is probably not worth the bits it takes to store this post :cry:
 
Sainsbury’s Local and M&S seem to be immune from this strain of en****ification, so far, so I’m able to avoid it without really going out of my way.

I would however, go quite out of my way to take my business elsewhere if they did start this nonsense. I’m pretty sure there will be backlash and we’ll start seeing adverts for supermarkets making a point of selling at good prices without needing to sign up.
 
mid_gen said:
I’m pretty sure there will be backlash and we’ll start seeing adverts for supermarkets making a point of selling at good prices without needing to sign up.
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isnt this Aldi's SOP? they dont advertise exactly like that but they dont have reward cards or nonsense, they just sell for a fair price.

i currently do some of my shop at Aldi and some at sainsburys but seriously thinking of sacking sainsburys off and using tescos for the bits aldi do not do. yes they have a reward card but its much simpler to use imo.
 
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b0rn2sk8 said:
Isn’t that just cutting your nose off to spite your face? JS local and M&S will have some of the highest prices going out of all food retailers.
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JS local is my local, so it's convenient anyway. M&S for occasional bits.

Besides that I'm happy to not give my money to the likes of Tesco and endorse these *****y practices.
 
mid_gen said:
JS local is my local, so it's convenient anyway. M&S for occasional bits.

Besides that I'm happy to not give my money to the likes of Tesco and endorse these *****y practices.
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is JS local a different company to Sainsbury's?.

I would say Tesco's are more clear on their pricing than Sainsbury's are..... unless you mean something like how they play hardball with producers to sell their stuff.... but on that front they are all the same afaik.

my mate has to pay them to get them to sell his stuff for instance.... the more he pays the better they position his products.
 
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JS local is the same company as Sainsbury’s who absolutely do ‘nectar’ only prices.

Saying you draw the line at sites is a bit of an odd distinction when the company absolutely engages with it.

The reason they don’t do it in the local shop is because they charge everyone more that they charge in the main supermarket anyway.

It’s easier to workout which supermarkets don’t:
Aldi
Farmfoods
Iceland?

Anyone else? I count Ocado as doing it as you can’t shop with them without an account. Even Lidl does it now via their app.
 
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b0rn2sk8 said:
It’s easier to workout which supermarkets don’t:
Aldi
Farmfoods
Iceland?

Anyone else? I count Ocado as doing it as you can’t shop with them without an account. Even Lidl does it now via their app.
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Not entirely supermarkets but Home Bargain and B&M and also Savers all do household stuff as well as (limited) foodstuffs at bargain pricing or cheaper than the majors.
I pop in one of them at least for a select number of items most days otherwise it is Aldi and Morrisons the latter for non card based priced items.
 
I do the majority of my shop at Lidl with a dip into sainsburys for items I prefer such at their croissants. Saves me about 20%

Last minute local stuff is bought from coop, try to use their loyalty promos
 
Ch3m1c4L said:
my local tesco and sainsbury's have security tagged butter, cheese, some chocolate and coffee etc. They tag basically everything that is "price dense". If they didnt charge so much for those items, I dont think it would be worth tagging them lol.
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Nah, I see this in my local shop, they have individual steaks in a box, coffee in a box. Kinda sad but I have seen thieves robbing the place so it's their business.

But you go to the supermarket where most people are turning up in a vehicle and it's not like that even though the supermarket has the range to sell more expensive versions. The supermarket is getting constantly robbed, there's no special deterrent about a supermarket over a local.

So I dunno why the differences in protecting product, someone somewhere has the numbers and the reasoning but it ain't me.
 
Beef is one of the things contributing hugely to the current food inflation numbers, it’s short up in price over the last year.

Have you seen the price of even low grade beef like mince these days?
 
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