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From Sainsbury's

I had a choice ...

3 for 90p in one of them string vest things :shrug: label said 30p per item :thinking: So I bought 3 loose onions, which were about the same size, put them in a plastic bag and took them to the checkout .... cost 44p ........... :D

WTF! is it with supermarkets :bang:
 
Same with all the veg - I always buy 'loose' - much cheaper.

I guess folk just pick up what appears convenient without thinking of the cost.
 
Look at the price of Pasta in Tesco

Tesco's own brand pasta twirls 1kg = £1.15 on offer

Tesco's own brand pasta twirls 500gm = 50p so 1kg = £1 not on offer.

The only offer I see there is to rip you for an extra 15p

Times that by an average 50 items to your trolley and it works out by carefull shopping you could save £7.50 per basket.

Or go to Morrisons and get the same 500gms of pasta for 37p LOL
 
Morrisons run out of an offer and fill the shelf-space with the product in a pack size that's not on offer, to dupe their customers. The special offer banners are difficult to remove, but somehow I manage...
 
photon said:
Morrisons run out of an offer and fill the shelf-space with the product in a pack size that's not on offer, to dupe their customers.
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That's actually illegal, and if they were caught doing it deliberately could be in serious trouble.

I'm betting that the staff are doing it to 'face up' rather than deliberately dupe customers, and not bothering to hide the special offer labels.
 
I usually go to our local greengrocers (we're quite lucky in that there's one just down the road, next to a brilliant butchers which also does amazing burgers for £2 on a saturday - choice of lamb or beef with onions/cheese and a variety of relish)

I don't think I've ever paid more than £10 for an entire weeks worth of fruit and veg, and that includes the fruit we both eat for lunch (yeah, whatever, I do my girlfriend's packed lunch and if i'm out, i'll do the same for me). Compared to what we used to spend at Tesco or Sainsbury's it's madness!

I can also pick up an entire week (and more) of meat for a further £10 or less. That's 4 huuuuuuge chicken breasts (organic and free-range), plus bacon, sausages or pork chops/beef rump/topside/anything

If you are lucky enough to have a good greengrocer and/or butchers near you...then give them a try! They're even cheaper, plus you get that warm fuzzy feeling of helping your local community! It's nice when the butcher lives round the corner and brings treats round for the dogs etc.

Sorry...I may have gone all "hovis advert" and "Bedford Falls" there...
 
Splog said:
From Sainsbury's

I had a choice ...

3 for 90p in one of them string vest things :shrug: label said 30p per item :thinking: So I bought 3 loose onions, which were about the same size, put them in a plastic bag and took them to the checkout .... cost 44p ........... :D

WTF! is it with supermarkets :bang:
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My nearest Asda seems to do a special deal with 3 onions in a net bag: -
Buy 3 onions in a bag - get one bad!
 
Loose veg has always been cheaper than pre-packed for as long as I have known. You are paying for the ease of them being picked and packed (and the packaging).

Tesco always seem to have dubious offers, and have noticed a LOT of 2 for £x deals at the moment when the £x is very little less than just buying two anyway.

Morrisons is just hell on earth :p (with nice doughnuts).
 
if you really want to save money -
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......buy a bread maker and eat good white, wholemeal or seed/grain brown bread..
......plus you get the fresh baked aroma through the house..:thumbs:
 
The other advantage of buying loose F&V is that you can pick the items you want rather than risk there being a mouldy item in the pre-packaged set.
 
Yardbent said:
if you really want to save money -
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......buy a bread maker and eat good white, wholemeal or seed/grain brown bread..
......plus you get the fresh baked aroma through the house..:thumbs:
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Agreed, and if you're like me and don't always want to have bread in the house then you can easily make it as you need it. Less waste and lovely aroma.
 
Everyone likes a loose one.
 
Photo Plod said:
I'm not aware of one... I don't see how it would be able to knead the dough automatically if it couldn't attach itself to the loaf somehow. Maybe there's a bread boffin out there who can prove me wrong!
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I thought they might have made one where the paddle thing retracts before the last rise and bake thing.
 
Jimmy_Lemon said:
I thought they might have made one where the paddle thing retracts before the last rise and bake thing.
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I'm not too bothered about the hole in the bottom, but I wish someone would make a breadmaker that makes lovely bread that doesn't make you fat if you eat a loaf in one go :D Mmmmmm, it's so yummy when it's warm :naughty:
 
Makes me laugh watching people using a plastic bag to handle the unwashed spuds, they were all like that when I was a nipper
Saw a programme where they put an imperfectly shaped apple in with the others and it remained there unsold

World gone mad,the veg from the farmers market is much nicer and actually tastes like you expect it to

Don't get me started on ripen at home, buy-leave for a while-throw rotted produce in bin

My other favourite is when you ask for two slices of ham and they always pick up three, get it in the bag sharpish and hope you don't notice
(know for a fact that they are instructed to do that)

Nearly got caught in Tesco's yesterday with their most common ruse which is to leave an out of date buy one get one free label on the shelf
If you catch them they go all customer friendly and give you a refund and the product, no consolation for everybody before you that didn't notice and got stung

But the best is left until last,selected some tomatoes that looked ripe and put them in the basket, then noticed they weren't as red as i thought.
Went back and selected some more red ones and then checked again as I put them in the basket and they were orange
Very weird, so did some investigating under the shelf as I suspected jiggery pokery and there it was in all its bright red glory

A FIRE GLOW bulb, the cunning Sainsbury *******s

Hunted down the floor manager and demonstrated the red/not red tomatoes to him and think his face would have been a good substitute for the offending bulb
 
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Marcel said:
That's actually illegal, and if they were caught doing it deliberately could be in serious trouble.

I'm betting that the staff are doing it to 'face up' rather than deliberately dupe customers, and not bothering to hide the special offer labels.
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There was a cheese BOGOF offer I bought into today. Pushed for time so didn't check my receipt until I got home. You guessed it: no price reduction :bang:

Sometimes they claim there was no offer. Even if I get refunded, it's highly unlikely that 100% of affected customers will bother, so Morrisons have increased their sales with a false offer.
 
We have become so sick of this sort of thing at work, all prepacked veg and fruit we split them.

We have more elderly customers than young and they do not want big bags of onions or any thing else but they won't send us the loose so we split the bags and sell them like that.
i have seen the boss split lots of different stuff and as long as no food saftey issues are going to come back and bite you i do not see what is wrong with it. If head office sent us the xustomres want then we wouldn't have to do it.
 
oh I have had tesco's pay me to take wine off their shelves...............

Here's the little known top tip

1) quite ofter they have special half price offers
2) quite often when you go through the till it doesn't register as half price........

here's where it get's cunning.......

If you complain at the till, they correct it, no questions asked

However, pay in full, don't say a thing.

Go to the customer services desk, on the wall near there, there is a big T&C poster, near the bottom it says words to the effect of "should the shelf price and the till price be different, we'll refund you double the difference.........no questions asked, etc etc...."

so I bought a bottle of wine, on "offer" £4.99 instead of £9.99, went through the till at £9.99, didn't bat an eyelid, didn't go to C services. Went and put it in my car.

Went back in, with a trolley and stacked it high of the aforementioned wine. Paid in full at the checkout. 8 full cases. 96 bottles.

Then went to have a chat with customer services.

They got a bit wussy and ended up with the store manager there, who accused me of taking advantage of them. :shrug:

Red rag and bull soon entered the conversation, and the volume increased. Lets call your area manager or trading standards? Look it's there on the wall, and nowhere does it say, I may not buy 96 bottles of wine in 1 transaction. It's not my fault your till doesn't work properly.

"But you must have known at the point of purchase you were overcharged?"

"no, I was thinking about something else, and it wasn't until i left the till, I realised I had been overcharged, but the lady was checking someone else out by the time I realised, so I thought C Service could help!" (Complete BS!)


However the writing was on the wall so to speak, and nothing they could do about it at all........

So, Tesco's effectively paid me 96p for relieving them of 96 bottles of wine.

:lol::lol::lol:
 
I would not have thought of buying more wine after noticing the error, I'd have been chuffed with getting something for nothing, until now, cheers.
 
ER then somthin for nothin

F'in John Lewis do it again

beluga royal caviar 450g £450.50 but get a free packet of crackers:thumbs:

got 2 Bargain:thumbs:

Merc
 
Onions... You started a thread about onions??? You have too much spare time:geek::bonk:
 
Jimmy_Lemon said:
Is there a bread maker that doesnt leave you with a big hole in the bottom of your bread these days? http://
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Simples use the bread maker to kneed and proof the dough then transfer it to a bread tin and bake in the oven, you get a larger loaf with no hole in the bottom.:thumbs:
 
Hmmmm, you might want to take some Senokot to move things along :)
 
Lynton said:
oh I have had tesco's pay me to take wine off their shelves...............

Here's the little known top tip

1) quite ofter they have special half price offers
2) quite often when you go through the till it doesn't register as half price........

here's where it get's cunning.......

If you complain at the till, they correct it, no questions asked

However, pay in full, don't say a thing.

Go to the customer services desk, on the wall near there, there is a big T&C poster, near the bottom it says words to the effect of "should the shelf price and the till price be different, we'll refund you double the difference.........no questions asked, etc etc...."

so I bought a bottle of wine, on "offer" £4.99 instead of £9.99, went through the till at £9.99, didn't bat an eyelid, didn't go to C services. Went and put it in my car.

Went back in, with a trolley and stacked it high of the aforementioned wine. Paid in full at the checkout. 8 full cases. 96 bottles.

Then went to have a chat with customer services.

They got a bit wussy and ended up with the store manager there, who accused me of taking advantage of them. :shrug:

Red rag and bull soon entered the conversation, and the volume increased. Lets call your area manager or trading standards? Look it's there on the wall, and nowhere does it say, I may not buy 96 bottles of wine in 1 transaction. It's not my fault your till doesn't work properly.

"But you must have known at the point of purchase you were overcharged?"

"no, I was thinking about something else, and it wasn't until i left the till, I realised I had been overcharged, but the lady was checking someone else out by the time I realised, so I thought C Service could help!" (Complete BS!)


However the writing was on the wall so to speak, and nothing they could do about it at all........

So, Tesco's effectively paid me 96p for relieving them of 96 bottles of wine.

:lol::lol::lol:
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Wow. I would never admit to being a thief on a public forum. Fair play.
 
there is a big T&C poster, near the bottom it says words to the effect of "should the shelf price and the till price be different, we'll refund you double the difference.........no questions asked, etc etc...."

He was playing them at their own game, apparently. They could change their T&Cs, with the risk of losing points from a percentage of their customers. To assert that it's comparable with common theft astounds me. I bet far more customers lose than gain, due to supermarket errors. That's what I call theft.
 
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