Supermarket abuse of pricing?

Yeh it’s ridiculous if you are getting the fancy stuff but fruit boxes (usually 6 apples, pears, oranges, 4 bananas, punnets of strawberries) are £15-20 meat boxes depending on what you get £40.

sourdough bread which you can’t get the real stuff in the supermarkets are pricy at £6 a 900g loaf

Eggs are normally 6 for £1.50, butter is £3, milk is £1.60

If you get jars of stuff with fancy names is insane the prices.
 
I think a bag of grapes is about £6 on its own at ours, half a watermelon a fiver, strawberries 4 or 5 quid.

Granted for the most part the fruit is nicer than the supermarket but at those prices it's very much the odd treat.
 
Malevolence said:
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?
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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?)
 
Dont know how much discount Morrisons card gives as their order page is broken for the card, and I could never be bothered to ring them up about it.

But have seen it a lot on social media about the difference between clubcard and normal prices, does seem to be getting out of hand a bit.

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Still broken, an error 400 alongside other errors reported in dev tools. Very odd, as the website not worked for several months, think would notice by now.
 
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As was suggested also use a relations tesco clubcard - on the very rare occasion they actually have an offer on something we want.

I'd be interested to know what specific products he's bought under any of the clubcard schemes that are a good deal and are a regular purchase ..
only thing I've seen in JS is milk - reduction would make it similar price to Aldi's -
supermarkets make lots of noise, but when it comes down to it, schemes of little benefit.

Only scheme that was ever good was the Waitrose one where you selected your 'n' favourite products and you always got a discount on them.
 
Malevolence said:
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?
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It's more than Sainsburys and Argos and it's more than just your shopping habits. If it wasn't valuable they wouldn't sell it to the likes of the Daily Mail.
 
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I don't care about the data, I care about the faff of having to get all the stupid digital cards out on my phone at the till. It's at least an extra swipe damn it. How dare they. I was only thinking about this very annoyance the other day in my local CO-OP whilst buying beer and a cucumber. "OCUK will hear of this I thought" as I waited for verification that there was indeed no chance I'm under 25.
 
sigma said:
It's more than Sainsburys and Argos and it's more than just your shopping habits. If it wasn't valuable they wouldn't sell it to the likes of the Daily Mail.
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I only have the one loyalty card, Nectar. So please, feel free and enlighten me to exactly what data and metrics about my shopping habits are being sold to the Daily Mail.
 
I wish we could go back to a time before loyalty cards, coupons codes, cashback, reward points etc etc.

Just have the same price for everyone.

Shopping is exhausting. In fact I hate what the internet has done to it in terms of the endless choice and prices/deals etc.

I want to go back to when you just went to the nearest shop that sold the thing you want and you bought it. You wouldn't "shop around" much because that meant driving all over the country.

And no, I can't go back to just shopping locally and not checking prices/the internet because Pandora's box has been opened. :p



To be honest , I hate what the internet has done to a lot of things
 
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Almost all the supermarkets have club cards but a few years Tesco started giving serious discounts for club card members. It wasn't long before they decided to give serious price uplifts for non-members. It's said other supermarkets are likely to follow suit. I find it a nightmare as the till receipt is not clear and can't be quickly checked. After I found a few in-store pricing discrepancies (quite apart from the club card discounts), I now avoid Tesco completely even though it had been my preferred supermarket.
 
Jono8 said:
I wish we could go back to a time before loyalty cards, coupons codes, cashback, reward points etc etc. Just have the same price for everyone. Shopping is exhausting.
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I suspect the supermarkets are perfectly aware of the exhaustion and enervation all their promotons cause customers but they weigh "acceptable" customer annoyance against profit. It seems this time their profit is sufficient to allow them to nark people off.
 
What I don't understand is if I buy that £20 bottle of gin and my basket total came to £44, I would get the following scenarios:

Tesco - Club card points earned on £44 = 44 points
Sainsbury's - Nectar card points earned on £24 = 24 points

So why does Tesco take the gin into account but Sainsbury's doesn't? Sometimes, Club card and Nectar prints out tokens on checkout that you can use next e.g. "save £4 if you spend £40". Then the above scenario applies again. The £4 will work against a £40+ spend in Tesco with the gin factored in, but it won't count in Sainsbury's because the gin isn't factored in and the basket will be seen as £20+ instead of £40+ so the promo doesn't work.

Hagar said:
Aldi don't do it.
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I came into this thread to mention Aldi as well.
 
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