Supermarket abuse of pricing?

NickK

NickK

NickK

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Supermarkets seem to have two prices - one with a card and one without. It seems the with card is the normal price but the prices without seem to be inflated or following inflation.

It seems to me that this is abuse of pricing to force membership of their reward system and force customers to hand over their data or suffer financial disadvantage.

GDPR bans preventing offering a service to force handing over customer data.

Thoughts?
 
NickK said:
Supermarkets seem to have two prices - one with a card and one without. It seems the with card is the normal price but the prices without seem to be inflated or following inflation.

It seems to me that this is abuse of pricing to force membership of their reward system and force customers to hand over their data or suffer financial disadvantage.

GDPR bans preventing offering a service to force handing over customer data.

Thoughts?
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It ****** me off more they don't also put the price per unit on the 'reduced' price making it impossible to determine which product is better value for money.
 
I thought the CMA were investigating Tesco over it.

Doesn't bother me too much as I already had most loyalty cards for places I've shopped.

Frankly I wish they were more like lidl plus where your receipts are digitized so you don't need to get a paper receipt.
 
Tesco do the clubcard thing big with lamb legs. You sometimes get them half price with a club card, but you know the reduced price is just a standard offer price and they would offer that price for all the legs if it weren’t for club cards
 
I'm not sure if i misunderstood this but I found several instances of Morrisons just having things cheaper at the till if you have one of their loyalty cards (it was not marked up this way in the store). Feels more honest that way
 
robfosters said:
Tesco do the clubcard thing big with lamb legs. You sometimes get them half price with a club card, but you know the reduced price is just a standard offer price and they would offer that price for all the legs if it weren’t for club cards
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They do it with everything. Pack of biscuits used to be £1 on 'special offer', that £1 is now only for clubcard holders. Everyone else can pay £1.90. Basically forcing you to hand over your details in the ever difficult quest of cheaper prices, and they're getting away with it.
 
If the deal is they're essentially buying our own data off us then why not just do that openly rather than fart-arsing about with retail prices? Give us a little "sell your data for a discount" button on the till, nice one, pleasure doing business with you. Otherwise stop being weird coercive ***** about it.
 
el_dazza said:
They do it with everything. Pack of biscuits used to be £1 on 'special offer', that £1 is now only for clubcard holders. Everyone else can pay £1.90. Basically forcing you to hand over your details in the ever difficult quest of cheaper prices, and they're getting away with it.
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I find it amusing that someone is concerned about the data they hand over when signing up for a clubcard, but has no issue dropping 20k posts on a forum.

I bet if someone went to the effort of mining your 20k posts they'd know a lot more about you than Tesco would from a clubcard.
 
Semple said:
I thought the CMA were investigating Tesco over it.

Doesn't bother me too much as I already had most loyalty cards for places I've shopped.

Frankly I wish they were more like lidl plus where your receipts are digitized so you don't need to get a paper receipt.
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I think they got distracted and just dinged them for making the clubcard price ticket look visually like a LIDL logo.
 
tom_e said:
You must have really cheap farm shops, everything's at least 3 times the price at our locals.

At least they give us cheap fuel... :cry:
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I recall a Clarkson farm episode, before he had the idea of setting up his own farm shop when he visited one of the local farm shops and I think the ingredients for a sandwich came to about 60 quid.
 
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