Supermarket abuse of pricing?

The loyalty card discounts are the ancient loss leader schemes with a modern angle on them.

Now every day can be a "sale" day with rotating products and you will never be completely sure what you're saving unless you have awareness of the normal pricing without taking the shops untrustworthy word for it.
 
Jesus you guys complain about anything... :P. 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!
 
I call at tescos before work and don't rate their normal prices but i do use the Clubcard deals to try new products, vegan stuff for the odd cba day ect , sometimes the bill will drop from say £30 to £22 on scanning plus get the points ,let them have my data ,i don't use their diesel but go next door to BP and have a loyalty app there (no your wrong its not exactly the same as supermarket deisel)
 
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Efour said:
Jesus you guys complain about anything... :p. 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!
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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.
 
dave28 said:
Not just abuse of pricing, the chicken sold in supermarkets should be made illegal.

I cooked one yesterday and got about a pint of water out of lol.
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Ah those lovely 100% chickens, beefs, ham etc :D

I too think something should be done about that, it‘s borderline lying.

moon man said:
I call at tescos before work and don't rate their normal prices but i do use the Clubcard deals to try new products, vegan stuff for the odd cba day ect , sometimes the bill will drop from say £30 to £22 on scanning plus get the points ,let them have my data ,i don't use their diesel but go next door to BP and have a loyalty app there (no your wrong its not exactly the same as supermarket deisel)
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I’ve heard this before with Shell and BP, it’s fairly pointless unless you have a £100k> luxury car or sports car and the additional money would be irrelevant to you anyway.

Source:- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hfqq
 
Dappie said:
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.
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Hadn't considered the x-chrck process but can imagine how it's next to impossible now...
 
NickK said:
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.
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Ok and so what?
I'm being devils advocate here. I was in Tesco's a couple of months ago and I don't really understand the problem.
Blip the card everything is the lowest possible price. Don't blip pay more.
We've been giving our data to companies for 30 years this is the way the world went. Short of a nuclear war it's not going back to anything else.
I rate it as mildly annoying but as I mostly use self scanning shops it's just the way it is anyway.
 
My source is my dpf warning light and only occurs on supermarket deisel,did it twice then stuck to BP and it's been fine the supermarkets change suppliers iirc,I would rather have consistentsy
Reuben klang said:
Ah those lovely 100% chickens, beefs, ham etc :D

I too think something should be done about that, it‘s borderline lying.



I’ve heard this before with Shell and BP, it’s fairly pointless unless you have a £100k> luxury car or sports car and the additional money would be irrelevant to you anyway.

Source:- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hfqq
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My source is my dpf warning light and only occurs on supermarket deisel,did it twice then stuck to BP and it's been fine the supermarkets change suppliers iirc,I would rather have consistentsy and no failed regens
 
Yellow label shopping is the way to go. Or double yellow label last gasp stuff to eat or freeze. Several grades up from roadkill or bin diving.
 
Hotwired said:
The loyalty card discounts are the ancient loss leader schemes with a modern angle on them.

Now every day can be a "sale" day with rotating products and you will never be completely sure what you're saving unless you have awareness of the normal pricing without taking the shops untrustworthy word for it.
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The internet and automated pricing algorithms are horrible too.

As you say. Everyday is a "sale" day.
 
NickK said:
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.
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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.
 
This was always going to happen. Gone are the days of fresh local produce from local grocery stores. We have large supermarkets companies with shareholders that want their dividends in a period of high inflation and general high cost of living.
 
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Efour said:
Ok and so what?
I'm being devils advocate here. I was in Tesco's a couple of months ago and I don't really understand the problem.
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That people who felt they could readily ignore loyalty card schemes (for whatever reason they might want to) now feel they're being directly financially penalised for not having one, rather than just missing out on a few 'special' BOGOF offers on stuff they probably didn't want in the first place.

It would be interesting to see a decent analysis on whether this practice is mostly loyalty cards offering normal price and no cards being inflated or if the loyalty card prices are actually cheaper. A cursory check of a few of the Tesco 'Top Picks' clubcard priced items, would suggest the non-clubcard price is pretty much the normal going rate at other supermarkets, rather than inflated above them.
 
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