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Who is doing the maths at Asda?

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Blondiebeachbabe · 14/01/2025 08:34

In this day and age, when people have been subjected to the COL crisis, you might think that most people would look at the cost of products by gram, and choose accordingly. How then, can Asda get this SO wrong? 3 different kinds of tuna, but all weigh the same, and yet some genius has them all marked up at different prices per gram. Does no one check this stuff? This is not the first time I've noticed the maths is a load of rubbish. It's not a one off!

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Hwi · 14/01/2025 09:35

EveryKneeShallBow · 14/01/2025 08:36

I could read it. That has to be against the weights and measures legislation.

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Weights and measures legislation, my arse - I complained when M&S were selling some novelty tomatoes - weight difference is two-fold - at the same price. I even photographed them on the scales. Their answer - we are selling it as 'two per packet', not by weight. We are being ripped off everywhere, in every way.

SeaShellsSanctuary180 · 14/01/2025 09:33

So we've established that the tuna needs looking at.

Before I can give an opinion, please can you check every single item that ASDA sell and give me a proportionate percentage of errors.

Only then can anyone say if you are being unreasonable or not 👍

DorianMeile · 14/01/2025 09:32

TheDandyLion · 14/01/2025 09:30

Same at Sainsburys even on their own branded tuna.

"Tuna tins can have different weights because the amount of tuna meat within each can can vary significantly between brands and even within the same brand, due to differences in the ratio of tuna to liquid (oil or water) in the can, even though the cans themselves might appear the same size; this means the "net weight" on the label may not reflect the actual amount of edible tuna within the can." -

DurhamDurham · 14/01/2025 09:32

Is the difference because it's based on the drained weight? There might be more water/oil/brine in some of the cans.

TheDandyLion · 14/01/2025 09:30

Same at Sainsburys even on their own branded tuna.

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MrsClatterbuck · 14/01/2025 09:28

PrincessAnne4Eva · 14/01/2025 08:36

Yes OP, in our house it's called an ASDA Special when they do this. You see it often on shelf labels, like items that are £2 each or 2 for £5. 🤣

Saw similar once in Tesco. It was McVities digestives.

TheDandyLion · 14/01/2025 09:28

Tesco is the same. I wonder if the price per kilo is the drained weight and the Spring water/brine/oil are all different weights and they've just made up the difference to the total weight of 145g per tin.

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INeedAnotherName · 14/01/2025 09:18

User457788 · 14/01/2025 08:49

I have actually but then I wouldn't be buying expensive branded Tuna or doing online shopping 🤷‍♀️ and I wouldn't have cared about a mis print.

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Then you seem to have lost your humanity along the way. If you think bad pricing is only online and not in store or only on expensive tuna then I think you will be in for a shock when you re-enter the real world.

@Blondiebeachbabe I would definitely contact Asda but considering they are just as bad in-store I would also copy in Trading Standards.

senua · 14/01/2025 09:14

How on earth are they getting it wrong? I'd assume that somebody would key in price & weight/volume and the computer would work out the price-per.

This is annoying. I'm used to Asda pulling stunts like pricing larger packets - which you'd expect would get a bulk discount price - as more expensive than smaller packets, so I look at price-per a lot. But now you're telling me that I shouldn't be relying on that either ...

RG2025 · 14/01/2025 09:11

User457788 · 14/01/2025 08:41

God I'd love to have so little going on in life that I'd even notice this let alone make a thread in AIBU about it. Sorry OP but YABU.

Yet here you are, reading and commenting 😂- now THAT is having "little going on in life" 😂

DorianMeile · 14/01/2025 09:07

Blondiebeachbabe · 14/01/2025 09:04

I now do my Dad's on line Asda shop, but I can guarantee that if he was still doing it, that he would have taken these figures as totally accurate (83 years old and quite doddery now). How many other people would do the same? And they are simply not right. I think it's quite shocking that a big conglomerate is getting the basics wrong, tbh.

Some mistakes are bad. This one I can't get worked up about. I can see the weight, and the price, and that's all I need to know really. They're all priced the same so it's not like it's encouraging people to buy a more expensive product. A mistake that will probably be rectified at some point.

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Blondiebeachbabe · 14/01/2025 09:04

I now do my Dad's on line Asda shop, but I can guarantee that if he was still doing it, that he would have taken these figures as totally accurate (83 years old and quite doddery now). How many other people would do the same? And they are simply not right. I think it's quite shocking that a big conglomerate is getting the basics wrong, tbh.

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MajorCarolDanvers · 14/01/2025 09:01

User457788 · 14/01/2025 08:41

God I'd love to have so little going on in life that I'd even notice this let alone make a thread in AIBU about it. Sorry OP but YABU.

I don’t think the internet is for you then.

Lochroy · 14/01/2025 09:00

I used to work with supermarkets... this will be a mistake. Yes it should be checked but they probably all got set up at different times and no one in the head office will look at them side by side like that.

Just email their customer services with the picture or stick it on social media. It's clearly wrong, but hardly worth bothering trading standards about in the first instance.

The thing about this sort of thing which really pissed me off, and I can no longer remember which retailers it affects, was when some bright spark decreed that all comparisons must be done by weight or volume e.g. g/kg or l/ml.

Which is absolutely useless when you want to compare the price of different weetabix pack sizes by the number of weetabix in them, or dishwasher tablets per packet, for example.

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Blondiebeachbabe · 14/01/2025 09:00

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So what? Are you the MN Police?

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PrincessAnne4Eva · 14/01/2025 09:00

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Busy morning, is it? 🙄

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Blondiebeachbabe · 14/01/2025 08:58

I will contact Asda. It just makes me so mad, that shops are getting the basics so wrong.

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HelloDaisy · 14/01/2025 08:53

Best to report it to trading standards or through local council

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SummerSazz · 14/01/2025 08:50

YANBU - when online shopping I always use the 'price per' as the refining criteria.

User457788 · 14/01/2025 08:49

INeedAnotherName · 14/01/2025 08:45

You've never had to count the pennies in your purse then, or ever had to go without food. Well done you 🙄

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I have actually but then I wouldn't be buying expensive branded Tuna or doing online shopping 🤷‍♀️ and I wouldn't have cared about a mis print.

INeedAnotherName · 14/01/2025 08:45

User457788 · 14/01/2025 08:41

God I'd love to have so little going on in life that I'd even notice this let alone make a thread in AIBU about it. Sorry OP but YABU.

You've never had to count the pennies in your purse then, or ever had to go without food. Well done you 🙄

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Blondiebeachbabe · 14/01/2025 08:44

User457788 · 14/01/2025 08:41

God I'd love to have so little going on in life that I'd even notice this let alone make a thread in AIBU about it. Sorry OP but YABU.

I am BU to think that Asda should get this shit right?

SERIOUSLY?

And you are on MN on a Tuesday morning, so I'm guessing you are not exactly rushed off your feet!

Supermarkets need to get this stuff right.

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