to want Tesco to explain 60% price increases?

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OK, Herta frankfurters, not the best food to give kids but mine love them. £1.79 usually, on offer for a few weeks at £1.60, this week .....£2.88????
Is there a world trotter shortage?

Asda smart price pasta has gone up from 9p to 47p over the space of a year.

Wish my wage had risen by the same percent.

Or any rise at all actually.

I despise the offers that have 99p items at 2 for £2.

We're getting a Waitrose too. Am v excited.
I liek Aldi and Morrison's for food shopping, or Asda for delivery.

Formerdiva that's a really interesting post. Thanks.
Before I lived abroad, I used to love Tesco. Fast forward 9 years as an expat and I've returned to the UK and have been trying out all the different supermarkets. I've almost given up on Tesco. I have got soooooo.....fed up with their overwhelmingly complex offer programme - and I speak as one who used to run the offer programme for a major chain.
Every one of their own brands I've tried, I've been just that little bit disappointed. My most regular shop is now Sainsbury's and Morrison's for top ups - our local one is just a bit small for a full shop.
No wonder Tesco is losing share. Retail is detail was never more true.

I've shopped in waitrose for a few years, as their 'essentials' range is very well priced but good quality - just what you want really. I generally shop through Ocado but do mid-week top-ups at tesco - amazing how they are pricier on some random things, such as 89p dessicated coconut at Waitrose, £2 for the same amount at tesco. Bacon own-label crisps (like frazzles), 88p at tesco, 69p at ocado. Tesco are rubbish.

I used to think that was stupid but there is some logic if the stuff is mix and match. If you can buy something for 1.30 and something for 99p and they are both in 2 for 2pound then they'll be cheaper.

I noticed recently the price of value chopped tomatoes in tesco has jumped from 35p to 42p in one go.

Also, the rebranding of morrisons value range has produced quite a few similar hoiks in price

I notice that Aldi and Lidl don't go in for much of this price hiking, rather that you have sometimes shelves of frankly strange stuff which is there one week and not the next.

The rest of them are all teh same - lots of sharp practice.

Ime all of the supermarkets are hideous to their suppliers.

Just some are more hideous than others.

Bakery products seem a lot nicer at Sainsbury's...ie doughnuts..and their morello cherry pies! Yum

Their Italian easy cook brown rice is also good...

We could have had a Waitrose where we live...but the locals protested (rolls eyes).

Have one not too far away....so may well shop there once a month (in betwixt sainsbury's)

With Tesco and Asda getting free government labour you'd think they'd be able to cut the price of lots of things for their customers

I love sainsbury's basics tea bags - something like 30p for 80 AND they are fair trade. Make a nice strong cuppa just how I like it.

DS likes their basics pizzas too. We only have a small sainsbury's local though so not a lot of choice, might see if they deliver to me as I'm fed up of asda delivery. I've noticed lately on my ASDA deliveries there is often one of each multibuy item out of stock. They substitute it for another brand/range meaning I pay single price for each item rather than multibuy. It pisses me off!

Much better range of organic produce in Sainsbury's too...........

...nerd alert....nerd alert....ner

A little while ago it cost about 50p for 4 rolls of Value toilet role. It's now over £1.40. Is there a worldwide shortage of bog roll?

ROLL NOT ROLE

Bitesize shredded wheat (one of DHs staples) seems to have had a massive hike recently. Was usually one-something in Sainsbo's, 'Rollback' £1 in ASDA. Now seems to be IIRC over £2 in both. WTF?

My usual weight watchers yogurts were up to 1.50 for 4 this week in Tesco. I refused to buy them as I'm sure they'll be on offer next week.

Went to Aldi instead this afternoon and got loads of bargains. 8 kiwis for 69p and a garlic bread for 39p (or was it 29p) among them. Love the shop. Starting to really dislike Tescos, but sadly they sell things I can't get inAldi.

I've noticed lately on my ASDA deliveries there is often one of each multibuy item out of stock. They substitute it for another brand/range meaning I pay single price for each item rather than multibuy. It pisses me off!

If it happens often, that smells fishy. Is there any way you can stipulate on your order 'only if multibuy available'?

16 toilet rolls for £1.80 ish in Lidl.

i have been shopping in there for about 4 months now and have not notice any significant or blatantly sharp price increases.

I love Lidl and Aldi.

Because they ingredients or packaging have got more expensive. Because the fuel to transport the stuff has gone up.

Beleive me if they can screw anyone to get the prices lower they will. The fact that they have gone up is because the suppliers have finally manage to stick to fingers up to the supermarket and said No! Stuff you. This is what they cost.

Suppliers would have to be very brave to do that, the supermarkets wield such power in their supply chain.

I know. i work for one. But I can only imagine that the suppliers have managed to get their message across that this is what they cost! It can take months and result in the suppliers losing a great deal of money in the meantime.

The value of something, is the price you are prepared to pay for it not the price tag on the shelf.

Basic ranges tend to be keen on price no matter where you shop. They don't make a great deal of money on these really, but they help to draw people into the store in the first place. They make money on the offers and the 'luxury' goods (and luxury goods cover a lot more than people usually expect).

I do think its up to people to decide what the value of something is - and shop accordingly and smartly. Soft drinks are a great example - there is almost always an offer on one brand every week. A 2 litre bottle of branded Coke (or alternative) can range from £1.69 to £1.00. I think in an average year you'll get 4 weeks at most when there isn't. You're being a mug, if you HAVE to stick to that brand and that type of drink every week. Be flexible in your shopping rather than having a list. Or stock up whilst offers are on. (I will admit to getting strange looks and comments from staff when the trolley is loaded up with 20 bottles of soft drinks... which equally pisses me off, could why do they think I'm doing this? Obviously its because I'm having a massive party or I have a coke addiction and its not rude to pass comment on the contents of my basket).

Also, avoid just sticking to offers without comparing them to alternatives is a massive sin. A big sign does not necessarily make a bargin. But people think it does, missing the other pack of mince next to it on the shelf which is actually a better deal.

Not buying over priced goods is the way to stopping supermarkets having this practise. And thats your responsibility to work out whats a fair price and whats not. Its not the responsibility of a profit making organisation.

Crikey that must be hard wotking for a supermarket supplier.

I know plenty of people who have left jobs in supermarket procurement because of the things they had to ask of their suppliers.