Getting ripped off

[Gizmo79]

Aibu in thinking that my shopping bill has gone up ridiculously this last week. No offers on anything, cereal costing the earth, everything seems to have rocketed in price. I have a family of five and it normally costs a lot but this feels like a major supermarket is taking advantage. Will not be shopping there again. Begins with a T by the way!

I bought Asda's own sliced bread and cornflakes yesterday.

Both had decent stock and the same price they were 2 weeks ago.

Obviously, some areas are still struggling but soon all shops will have a better range of cheaper products available.

I still dont think the 'buy what you need' is getting through to alot of people though. And people think because you can buy 3 of things you must buy 3. We dont eat ceral often, one box will last use at least 2 weeks. No need to buy 3. But I know people who are because they are convinced it wont be there when they do their next shop.

The other reason for not having offers is that they take time to set up. Someone has to go round and change all the price labels when they have more important things to be getting on with.

Lidl and Aldi both had ordinary prices and were fully stocked here, even bread flour and pasta. Own brand products haven't changed in price

Nope. They’ve just removed offers to stop people bulk buying. Other than that, Tesco’s prices have remained the same.

I’m struggling to
I’ve 4 young adults to feed plus myself and dh
Shopping bill has shot up by a quarter ,I think to no buy one get one free offers as I always put those in when I can .
We absolutely can’t afford to pay an extra quarter every week .
Small inconvenience compared to what everyone else is going through,but it does just add to the worry
Why couldn’t supermarkets just half the cost of each item instead of buy one get one free
Lord knows their profits will be massively up at the end of the year ,as no where else open
It’s just dam selfish and greedy of the directors of Tesco to remove buy one get one free ,instead of just putting that item at half price

It won’t encourage bulk buying as we are all limited to buying 3 or 2 or 1 of something at the checkout

First lesson in Economics 101 is learning that price point is set at the intersection of the supply and demand lines. Supply demand escalated and supply remained the same then decreased, hence increase in price. Blame the panic shoppers and hoarders.

It won’t encourage bulk buying as we are all limited to buying 3 or 2 or 1 of something at the checkout

Yes it will.

Most product that have limits in are three. Apart from loo roll, which occasionally one. Nothing else around here is 2 or 1.

If an offer is on people will buy more. They may have intended to get one packet of biscuits. But on a 3 for 2 lots will get 3.

If enough people go in and buy the 3 for 2, given supply is still struggling. They sell out.

If eggs are 50p cheaper, people will buy 2 boxes (for example) incase they cant get the next week. Again, they are allowed to buy 2. but enough people do that, they are all gone.

Offers are designed to make people buy more. Right now, until supply us running properly again, they dont want people to buy more than they need. Even if it falls in line with current buying limits.

Last time I was in Tesco (2 weeks ago) I commented to DH how expensive everything was.
I've been getting online shopping from Asda - nearly everything in stock and still very reasonably priced. A lot of offers on, although a maximum of 3 per item.

Do people really buy more on offer? Isn't it more a case of three tins of beans every three weeks instead of one tin of beans every week (or whatever)?

The offers have been taken off to stop selfish peole buying in bulk and leaving others with nothing, as they have done over the past few weeks. The added bonus of BOGOF or such like will encourage the greedy buggers even more to stockpile.

I don't know about the offers drying up necessarily, but my food shopping has doubled due to us all being home for every meal, DP is often away on business for a week or 2 every month. Meals are much more of an occasion now too, so rather than having a round of toast and a banana for lunch I'm making club sandwiches / jacket potatoes etc for us all.
Plus we're stuffing our faces with chocolate or sweets in the evening as we're not out at hobbies / seeing friends.

Supermarkets don't make all the food they sell, so they need to negotiate with their suppliers to provide offers.

Most suppliers are focusing on meeting demand for food, so offers have taken a back seat. Offers are not just made willy nilly, every offer needs to be evaluated and modelled financially. Suppliers can't cope with current demand for flour, pasta, etc, so it's understandable they are not focusing on offers.

It's nice that suppliers have some power over supermarkets, usually it's the other way around.

I noticed our usual cat food had gone down 50p a box. This is for 50 sachets. Then a week later, when the CV worry was starting, it had gone up 75p so not even back to what it was but more profit on top . It is all my cats like but I am not impressed.

I got an email from Tesco a week or so ago saying they were removing all upselling offers to stop people buying a second pack of x or y that they don't really need. Might mean you're spending a bit more but if you occasionally buy something you don't realy need just because it's on offer then you might also be making a saving you don't really realise on other items. Overall I think it's a good approach and don't think Tesco are alone in this approach.