to think this is a bit naughty of Tesco?

[anklebitersmum]

So I'm browsing online with eldest DS (teaching him to shop per kg) and spotted this;

Tesco everyday value 12 meatballs 216g £1.50
Tesco 12 meatballs 360g £2.00
Tesco swedish style meatballs 350g £2.00
Country menu meatballs 367g £2.00

Now I know none of it's cheap (and I don't even buy meatballs) but am I wrong in thinking that it's a bit naughty for the 'Value' ones to be the most flippin expensive? And not by just a little bit either!

Teach your son to use MySupermarket, as it will tell you if there's a better offer of similar items to the one you choose.

He's only 13 AndiMac so he's not shopping for the house solo just yet. Never too early to start them off as regards being shopping savvy in my book though

I always buy the own brand ones, not the Value, as I used to find in my poor student early cooking for myself days that Value used to shrink more due to it being the fatty nastier bits of meat than the non value slightly dearer version- most of its weight used to be drained away to get rid of the oil nastiness.

Akso Sainsbury's: those little fruit bags at 50p (I only buy them as part of £3 meal deal with a drink when sandwich itself costs £3) - their offer is buy 3 for £1.50. No shit Sherlock.

LFC and MissKeith - too ture. As Terry Pratchett pointed out, the reason why the rich stay rich is that they can afford better quality boots............

true

A lot of the time stupid offers like one pound, or buy two for two pounds, are so you can use them as part of ths offer with a more expensive item, should you actually want one of the cheaper ones. I figured this out only when I was in that situation.

Yes, that's right. The Tesco offers of 98p or 2 for £2 go through at 98p each, unless you have a 98p item and a £1.49 item.

Eg celery, one pound. Two for two pounds. Tomatoes one pound fifty. Also two for two pounds. So you can buy celery and tomattoes for two pounds, assuming you don't actually want 2 packs of tomatoes. But if the celery wasnt in the offer the price would be two fifty.

ancle I normally buy good cheese in bulk on offer too, but one week I had run out and there were no offers on, so I thought 'cheese is cheese, how bad can it be!' I picked up the value cheese and it was bad, really bad. The following week dh was with me and went to get some cheese and noticed the tesco range was cheeper than the value and its actually not that bad.

What I notice in store (and Tesco are the worst for this) is a display of perhaps wine. (Usually outsodemof the alcohol aisle). A big notice above will announce "Vin du Plonk" at only £4.99. Below the sign are several racks of wine and you pick one up thinking "ooh £4.99" only to discover when you get to the till that Tesco have rather confusingly placed several different wines under the sign and only one of them is on special offer....and it isn't the one you picked up which is actually £7.99. I do wonder how many people just don't realise and never check either.....all a bit misleading.

And never go shopping with my Mum, she has a bee in her bonnet about misleading signs and goes straight for the manager to tell him/her "this is misleading". A shopping trip with her can take ages [ages].

posters are right to say things can be misleading and it is very annoying that one has to do the maths to get the best prices. personally i like alot of asda smart price items, which i buy because they are good for their prices. i'm not bothered about attractive fruit/veg it all peels, grates, cooks and tastes the same, since moving over to sp i am saving about £40 a week on my shopping with no loss of taste or substance, the maths speak for themselves, i won't be going back to brands for anyone. p.s we are a veggie family, if we weren't i wouldn't buy value meat cuts etc. as i believe you get what you pay for.

With Adaa's tinned tuna you can't even trust their own price per 100g calculations. I was looking online, with my calculator as usual, only to find that a 198g tin for £1.25 was priced as something outrageously incorrect, like 96p per 100g or something.

So I worked it out for every tin of tuna and every pp100g was wrong. An online shop takes me hours and hours, I will not be ripped off!

And don't get me started on washing powder that is advertised as price per wash!

stifnstav, agree with you totally about the rip offs i get through alot of coffee when i'm doing online shop but still it's a good excuse to sit down, seriously i'd rather online than be surrounded by trollies etc whilst comparing. i wonder how many millions the supermarkets rip off from their customers with these tricks/scams.

DS1 and I popped into Asda the other day. We needed smell coffee. A 200g jar of Nescafé was £5.48. A 300g jar was £5.00. I bought the 300g jar, because I take ages shopping and always look for the cheapest way to buy stuff, bt I bet loads of people just pick up the smaller jar thinking it is the cheapest!

*some coffee not smell coffee, bloody iPad!

Seeds of change pasta sauces - all the different sizes of jar, exactly the same price. What's that about? Titchy jar, £1.98, huge jar, £1.98 (or whatever). In more than one supermarket.

Haha. This is why it takes me 2 hours to shop at Tesco! Worst offenders - 3 for £10 mince/chicken pieces/pork chop packs. Always less weight than the non-offer packs and tricky to tell whether they're good value. Dishwasher tabs I've given up with because there are too many variations and so-called price drops so now buy all mine from Home Bargains now. Multi-pack crisps - e.g. 2 bags of 24 packs of Walkers for £6 or a 'price drop' pack of 16 for £1.95? Of course after all the hand wringing when you get your receipt you've saved about 50p!

I have been trying out Sainsbury's and Asda recently after a 30-year Tesco relationship. Tesco aren't bothered even though I've told them!

Aaargh! I forgot to say - teabags! Another pricing nightmare which takes a good 10 minutes to find the real bargain among the false ones.

Sometimes you can see sad and lonely products in an obscure corner, hugely overpriced, ignored by everyone. There they lurk, officially on sale for at least 28 days. Then one day they're all moved to a nice prominent aisle end, with a huge sign saying HALF PRICE or BOGOF.

Tescos do this with Linoti, Dino and Ogio Pinot Grigio, a particular brand of tinned tomatoes, various tinned tunas, and I'm sure with other products I haven't spotted yet.

I find it worrying that I noticed it first with the [hgrin]

This is why I like shopping in Aldi, generally there is only one kind of each thing so no faffing about trying to work out which is cheapest. I treat Tesco like a challenge now, I will not let them beat me!! Glad to see many others have noticed their silly idea of showing the comparison prices in different formats, they must think we're all stupid!

Over the years, I've spotted a few Tesco Finest products which were cheaper then the nearest equivalent in the 'normal' Tesco range, and the weights of the Finest products were either the same or maybe even slightly more.

I thought it was incredibly sneaky, because people would instinctively put the 'normal range' product in their trolley, assuming it to be cheaper.

The most recent product I noticed it with, is the ready filled jacket potatoes. At one time, the 'normal range' ones were £2.70 for two, the Finest just £2.50 for two (and the pack weight was MORE). Someone has obviously said something, as last time I looked, the Finest are now £2.75. However, they're only 5p more and the pack weight is still bigger, the Finest pack is 490g and the 'normal range' pack is 450g. That makes the prices £5.62 per kg for the Finest product, but £6 per kg for the 'normal range' product.

If the pricing is fair, then the 'normal range' products wouldn't be priced more per kg than Finest products, at least not in my book!