Supermarket abuse of pricing?

[NickK]

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]

Oh noes, big bad Sainsburys, and Argos, know exactly what I bought for my tea and are able to send me price reductions on items I purchase on a regular basis. Whatever am I going to do?

Lol. Not really the same - food, water and the cost of living.

By itself it may not be an issue but if membership is required to not be denied a human right - then you have a capitalism vs human rights discussion (possibly even questioning who came up with this idea to unstabilise anything?)

 

[NickK]

Jesus you guys complain about anything... . This has been the norm for at least ten years. More like 20.

Join the crappy points reward schemes, buy the offers if relevant, eat the boooogs.

Let them harvest their free data!

However there has been a marked change from discount/loss leader to simply providing the RRP - no card then you only have the option of artificially inflated prices.

 

[NickK]

It's a fair point, these cards are a discriminatory I shall write to my MP.

The MP probably has their hands in the till somewhere along the line.

 

[NickK]

I think some people in this thread aren't that up to date/ haven't understood what's changed recently.

Now, the £3 meal deal is £3.50 without a loyalty card. Big ticket (for a supermarket) items can cost £1 or more extra without a card. It's not just the classic mild discounts, they're heavily penalising people for not using one. It's really frustrating to pop into the nearest shop on my work lunch break and find I'm not entitled to the meal deal or regular prices for stuff.

I've legitimately walked away when I've seen I'll be charged an extra quid over this. It's not pennies.

Requoting as it nails the situation. Supermarkets are turning the himans right of food into a cartel extortion racket.

 

[NickK]

Being an online picker is a really tough job. You have to hold the scanner in one hand and do all the picking up with the other one; there is not enough time allowed to be picking up and putting down the handeset. RSI and elbow problems are endemic; managers refuse to accept that the medical problems are caused by the work so staff leave as they can no longer do the job. Early shifts are from 3-4am through to 7-8am. That often means the items are out of stock. AI substitutions are pretty good but often that means being slower than is demanded so any old item is grabbed as a sub. This is the result of unreasonable expectations of pick rates. Try shopping at a rate of around one item per 20 seconds for four hours.

Often wondered if pickers are on a rate.

At least they get a route to follow to pick- unlike our local sainburys that really ***** me off with the constant relocating of stock. They do it on purpose.. but it makes my shop 5 times longer and that **** me off more and I can say I'm not going to buy crap that is not on my list due to people relocating things.. I don't have the time to browse.. why? because I'm trying to find the damn ******* item on my list that they have relocated.

I'm going to get a t-shirt made that basically says "Sainsbury's - stop moving **** around, it slows me down so I can't browse for things not on my list!".

 

[NickK]

Will someone think of the poor shareholders?

I suspect the hungry will quite happily march on the shareholder's property and help themselves to feed their families - quoting it's a tax on the shareholders.. #robinhood

 

[NickK]

Shareholders are pension funds by and large. #friartuck

Given the performance of pensions over the last few years, I suspect that they're underpinning the bad performance of low and medium risk UK pensions.. #brexitbenefits

 

[NickK]

Plus another thing. Get groups of 4-6 mums with pushchairs coming in together and just two buy a single item each. They clog up the store!

Only go in if you need to buy something

Can you get them to stop moving the products around.. I want to come in, do the stop because I know precisely where bits I want are.. and then go I don't want someone deciding to play hide and seek with isles of products just to make you go looking at different products. It's not going to make me buy anything different.. in fact it makes me want to go to another store..