Meal deal frustration!

Usually there is a list on the price label on the shelf. You can check exactly what's included. Take a pic on your phone so you can magnify the small print.

I don't drink fizzy drinks. I don't like that the price of the things I want is inflated to subsidise an item I don't need.

I know the other packaging has plastic, but these are items I NEED. I'm being persuaded (though not, because I always say no) to buy a thing I don't need, to reduce the price of the things I do need. It's total nonsense and should be illegal.

Worked at the co op nearly 10 years and purdeys were always in the meal deal.

Co op are notorious for not reducing items properly, could it be that a reduced item went through full price?

I don't mean that, I mean if items have been falsely labelled, or a whole section of drinks have been put in the wrong place. Obviously I don't mean if one item has been put in the wrong place!

I don't drink coffee, and my Coop doesn't have hot drinks anyway. The point would be the same, I'd just have it at home. I sometimes don't have anything in to eat for lunch, but I never don't have water or tea!

You do have to read the small print as normally the bottle of prosecco is not included in the drink part of the meal deal.

No it’s not false advertising because they weren’t advertising that thing. I mean, according to your logic you could stick a £20 item in front of a 99p sign and have it for 99p - don’t be daft.

A world where meal deal items are never presented clearly, but thanks so much for your totally pointless contribution.

Our family has a Co-op Outrage story at least once a month😂 My 12y.o DD has the member app and recently said she wanted to speak to a manager when at first they tried to fob her off with whatever load of old pony about the in-app deal not working. She got the price! Never been so proud. I’ve got an aversion to meal deals for the same reasons as everyone else, from now on she can do it, she’s fit for the battle lol.

Co-op are shite near me. They get raided daily by shoplifters so everything is overpriced or missing or in the wrong place. The 'mistakes' the till makes never ever seem to work out in your favour, which if they were honest surely it would be more even? All the veg is rotten and extortionate. The meat selection is tragic.
Staff in my local one are nice but really don't care a hoot about any of it. They are probably grossly underpaid.

The thing that annoys me about meal deals is that they inflate the price of individual items ( particularly drinks) to make it look like you’re getting a better deal that you are.

it means if you just want to come in and buy a drink, it’s never going to be at the best price and is often more expensive than other places where they aren’t doing deals.

Co-ops's labelling is utterly awful. Meal deal items next to 2 for £3, or 2 for £3.50. All mixed in together and all the same colour label.

I hate that my local supermarket is Co-op.

Pps are right, it’s known as “an invitation to treat”, and if they honour the price, it’s a gesture of good will. It’s entirely at their discretion.

i'm just interested in the rules about things being put in the wrong place. If shops aren't obliged to honour the advertised price (if things have been put in the wrong place) even after someone points it out, isnt this false advertising? If there is no repercussion on the shop, what is to stop them continuing to do this?

But the sandwich packaging and crisp packaging have plastic too. The bottle is much more easily recycled. Grab a can instead? Aluminium is infinitely recyclable.

My local co-op is notorious for this. If the labels on the shelf match the items you have picked, they must give you this as a meal deal. Just ask for them to refund you the difference.
The error is usually caused by

1. local shop failing to replace meal deal tabs on items that are no longer included or

2.incorrectly placed items on shelf by staff or customer

It really annoys me too.
Meal deal or otherwise incorrect pricing. I choose my items carefully based on the product content and the price. Massively annoying when the price /deal is incorrectly presented by the store. You waste time making your selection or waste time for everyone while you get the cashier to proceed the refund.
At my coop, (I generally avoid it tbh) I always ask for a refund as they do it so often.

I was going to say the reduced wrap?

If that was c, £3 alone then thats the difference easily.

😂😂
I always thought they’d be a waste for me because I only drink water not any other soft drinks and I’ve always got a bottle with me, plus I always found a shop bought sandwich disappointing so just never really got into them. I’m going to have to google a purdeys now!

There are actually quite a few different Co-ops around the country. The Co-operative Group is the main one though. They have some great offers. And you don't have to "select" them like most other places - I quite often get a nice surprise reduction at the checkout.

I work in Asda and it happens a lot ! Usually human error as they didn’t read the ticket properly and put a wrong flavour or size in . Then it happened in Sainsbury’s a few weeks back…..so they all get it wrong, so annoying if that’s all you’ve gone to the till for, but yes Asda will normally give you it free as it messes up their system

They have blue and green coops near me to, I had no idea until I was out in a group that included two friends children who had part time jobs there and were discussing the differences

Is that everywhere?

Get yourself a coffee instead

Get a meal deal and find out!

This is what I came to say. I bought the banana as an extra, but was diddled! 😂

personally, I bloody love a coop meal deal. Costa coffee costs £3.50 alone, but with my coop card, I get a free sandwich and snack.

re: the cards though, I couldn’t use mine in my son’s school town as they’re regional or something. Bit annoying but not the end of the world.

I’ve never had a meal deal and this thread has made me even less tempted than ever before! What a bloody palaver 😂
And what is a purdeys?!