To say it's time supermarkets were stopped from doing this.

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It's the way they try and fool us into buying the dearer product rather than the ones on special offer. Tesco does it blatantly, they put certain products on special offer but the product immediately below the "special offer" is not the one being reduced,

Its more or less the same product but for example, if it's for shampoo the offer might be only for dry hair, but the price tag has the "dry hair" bit in very small letters. So you pick up the shampoo for "greasy hair" thinking you're getting a good bargain only to find at the checkout that it's the full price.

It's legal I know but I wonder how much they make from duping their customers this way. The trouble is as well the staff always try and blame you for not reading the offer properly and imply you're being a bit dim. Anyone else get annoyed at this. Surely they shouldn't be allowed with getting away with it.

supermarkets use tactics to get the most money out of their customers while leading the customers to think they are getting bargains. I am surprised people are being so cutting in their replies to the op. It is a thing and it is avoidable with effort on the part of the consumer, but it is deliberate on the part of the supermarkets. I hate Tesco but it is the only supermarket in my village so I go there all the time and get pissed off with the pricing and labelling policies but I use self scan so can easily keep a tally of what I am being charged.

Haven't read most of the thread, but just wanted to say that if you call them out on it they will give you double the difference of your money back. I've done this a few times. If you go and show them where it's marked, most of the time they will honor it and give you double the difference. I've done this with a few different products. The best time was when they had those little stuffed animals marked at £6, but someone had shelved them wrong and I paid £8 each, but ended up getting them for £4 each because they gave me double the difference.

Yes subterfuge they will do that, but for a different set of circumstances. Not for what I'm on about I'm afraid. 4gnut from what you say you think the onus is on the customer to spot the supermarkets shady practices,and if we don't we must be "thick as two short planks". Perhaps you're describing yourself because you presume never to have been duped......exactly the sort of customer Tesco loves

In the news today, Amazon has started offering supermarket service

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36485318

Be interesting (speaking as a confirmed Amazon fanbois). I wonder if they will offer real choice, rather than the illusions of Tesco/Asda/Sainsburys ...

Supermarkets do operate misleading pricing promotions, some illegal, some borderline. It's a well documented reality.

Those helpfully suggesting we should read the labels properly are patronising and ignorant.

Well said Mary it baffles me why they're so defensive about supermarkets. Probably they're the ones that do get duped, totally naive to their practices.

If I was queen, I'd make all supermarket produce be either a) clearly labelled in kg, if loose, and b) packaged in plain white, with a picture of the actual product on the front and ingredients in % of size, with a great big price label on it. ;-)

Yes this annoys me! my local Sainsbury's do this all the time, it's one of the little local ones not a big one, but they would put lots of Hoummus on a shelf and a big sign saying two for XX - problem is that only a few of the packs on display are in this offer and they look identical! I had a word with the manager once cos it was ridiculous and they didn't even know which ones were in the offer.

Not all of us have the time to stand and read miniscule writing when we dash in to get something we have forgotten!

Yes yoko that is exactly my point, it's not (as some have strangely implied) that we're thick, if we were we'd be oblivious to it all. It's like you say, when a product is practically identical to others but only one is on offer. Like you, I've had staff baffled themselves as to which ones on offer. It's not a coincidence, it's clearly done to mislead.

Yep don't really shop at tesco's for that very reason I think it's a cheek the way the sign & price offers so really put me off.
Shoppings not the best fun & if you then have to add reading all the small print as the shops trying to con more money out of you as well it's pretty darn annoying

This is partly why I shop at aldi. Simple choices. Far less conning. Who needs a wall of fecking bread to choose from anyway?

Just snapped this in boots.

Well speaking of sharp practices I was in aldi today and the bananas pricing went something like this

Loose bananas - €1.25/kg

Bag of bananas - 26.7c/unit, bag = €1.59 and NO weight on the bag

V old fashioned scales, up high so hard to see.

I've given up trying to work out what the cheapest bananas are.

Definitely not the fault of my poor mathematical skills either, I challenge anyone to work it out.

Haven't read the whole thread, but some branches of Tesco certainly do ask staff to put up offers that are over by a day or two and to fill the shelves with items other than those on offer. I complained and the employee said that the area managers had told them to do it to sell more. This was a small tesco about 3 years ago.

LurkingHusband I doubt Amazon will be any better. I've already posted about sharp practice I've spotted with their so called offers.

They often advice a % discount which is basically a load of bollocks.