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?

"Yes start and they switch labels (or stack things in the wrong places) so that products not on offer are placed directly above/below the offer label..."

ah yes but this can also bite THEM on the arse. There was a 3 for 2 offer on something in Tesco which I saw by the door but didn't pick up the goods till I passed it on the shelf. Going through the till - no 3 for 2! I wouldn't normally complain but I really didn't want three of the fuckers and only picked them up as they were on special.

16 year old manager took me back to the shelf and explained that the ones I had picked up were not in the offer, but the other flavour were. I then took him to the shop entrance and showed him the big piles of the ones I wanted, marked up under the offer.

hahahahaaa

And as it was their mistake they credited me with double the amount of money they had tried to charge me - ie they had charged me an extra £3 so they gave me £6.

Ive noticed about the bog roll too ! I used to buy it when it was cheap. Now i wont i buy the good stuff because i refuse to pay more for shite stuff when i could pay just that bit more for not bad.

I despose Tesco, I delight in not shopping there, following noticing their ridiculous price hikes, attempts to be sneaky & their use of forced labour.
I go to Lidl & Gordons Chemist for the bathroom spray that smells gorgeous cheap cleaning products.
I hope Tescos lose more money, lots of it.

Suppliers fund the promos

I wish they would detail when exactly their fucking strawberries have ever been sold at £3.99.

Stickers on them claiming they are half price at £1.99, when I have never seen them sold at more than £2.99 a punnet

I wish I had the choice not to use Tesco. I have to do internet shopping and only Asda and Tesco deliver to our area. I use Tesco primarily because I can't stand the way Asda mess about with the money between checking out and delivery.

Today I used Asda and was shocked at how much cheaper things were. I have been paying £1.89 for a tin of coconut milk at Tesco for weeks and it was £1 at Asda. I did a big "stock up" shop and will just buy fresh stuff at Tesco through the month I think.

I can't do a quick shop in Aldi or Lidl with DH. He spends ages rooting through all those baskets of crap that they have in random offers in the middle aisle. I wish I could go on my own, but I can't!

Total Greek yoghurts have just gone up from 74p to £1.00 in a week. I queried this at customer services and was told it happens a lot. I could speak to a manager but he would fob me off with "it's the supplier or head office".

I've been shopping at Asda instead of Tesco for the last few months. I always do the Asda price promise thing after each shop and regularly get anything from £3 to £8 back in a voucher off each shop. Sometimes this is the case even for fairly small shop. I can't work out how I'm getting ripped off here, but suspect I'm missing a con trick

I nipped into a big Tesco for the first time in months the other week though, and it was like a ghost town (used to be packed). I think people are really voting with their feet now.

I actually LOVE the lack of choice in Aldi. I want ketchup, I put ketchup in trolley, done. Tinned peaches? One choice, in the trolley.

I spent 10 mintues working out what was the best fucking deal on Weetabix one day in Tesco. Own brand - but there's an offer on branded, but 24 or 48? I had to work out price per fucking biscuit to see where the best deal was. Aldi, one type, one price, very reasonable.

I despise Lidl though, it just seems to be sweets and biscuits!

Same with soap powder. I jump between brands and between gel, liquid, tablets, powder - what ever non bio works out cheapest. OMFG. I

Actually, now you come to mention it, there are 16 Tescos within a 9 mile radius of my house. Most of them are empty. Nipped in one today, only to get a Costa, big Extra store, mid morning, about 5 people in there.

Ladies,
Spoke to Tesco yesterday. They have given me a reference number and will call back on Monday with an explanation of the extreme price hike. If I think I'm being palmed off I will refer them to this thread and threaten DM!

Aldi's great, and not bad quality either.
Why don't Mozzas deliver?? I would online shop if they did! (I don't do Tesco, and Sainbury is too expensive)

It annoys me too, they do it on baby wipes. Always able to get Huggies wipes for a pound, everywhere.

Went into Sainsbos and they had buy one get two free....but priced at £2.80 each

I liked Tesco yesterday, I got a red cashmere jumper for £5, it was £35. But Im not usually a fan.
The staff uniform should consist of black & white stripey tops! Robbing gits.

I haven't noticed Tesco's price hoik ..yet.

Moan toNestle as they own the Herta brand

I also asked a Tesco staff member once whether they had any earplugs. Her reply was "oooh, I don't know". She then stood and stared at me.

I still said thanks before walking away though

Found them in the end.

I like lidl.

DH is currently photographing terrys choc oranges whenever we go shopping to prove that they are NEVER full price .

At one point sainsburys more than doubled the cost of their value pineapples, I said rather loudly to children whilst in ear shot of staff 'do they think we are stupid of something not to notice'. Next day they were returned to their normal price.

I wish there was a database of Tesco prices from one week to the next. Cereal in our local Tesco (ok, it is an express!) is about 3.50 for 500g! And this particular Tesco never has any Tesco own brands in which infuriates me.

I sometimes think the rising price of the branded foods in places like Tesco, Asda is a ploy to get people to buy more own brand stuff. They would make a lot more overall profit on selling their own stuff rather than branded.

They will just fob you off.

I like the value razors, 10 for 30p! Anyway, one day they were up to 85p in the space of 2 weeks.

I think they like to lure people into the value brands then hike the price up. Same with the value loo roll, I'm not one to splash out on something that's for my arse. It was always about 45p for 4 and now it's something crazy like £1.30!

I shop at Aldi and Morrisons and have largely ignored Tesco for the past year or so.

They are now trying to tempt me back and have sent me four vouchers to be used in four weeks: £10 off if I spend more than £30.

Obviously, this made me do some frantic mental arithmetics whilst shopping there. First week, I spent £30.36. The till operator was a bit when I handed my £10 voucher. Today, I spent £30.88.

So far, I have only spent money on stuff that I probably would have considered buying there anyway: wine, bottled water (which is better than Aldi's), contact lenses cleaning solution, newspaper, Marie-Claire magazine... No fresh produce apart from some butter croissants!

I am not sure they will send such vouchers again in the months/years to come. It does not really matter: I will be well stocked up on wine for the next few months. Cheers!

LittleMissGreen, I doubt very much that you moaning near a supermarket worker caused the reduction in price.

YANBU!! I hate the way they do this! their own brand high juice (the only drink I buy the Dc's) went from 99p to £1.49 in a week. It then went to buy 2 for £2.20, now it's £1.39. Bloody ridiculous!
Jordans cereal went from £2.99 to £3.38 in a week.
Everything is so expensive now and I hate even more that they flaunt their profits for us all to see