Who is doing the maths at Asda?

[Blondiebeachbabe]

In this day and age, when people have been subjected to the COL crisis, you might think that most people would look at the cost of products by gram, and choose accordingly. How then, can Asda get this SO wrong? 3 different kinds of tuna, but all weigh the same, and yet some genius has them all marked up at different prices per gram. Does no one check this stuff? This is not the first time I've noticed the maths is a load of rubbish. It's not a one off!

The Asda website is completely fucked and has been for weeks on end as they've been 'upgrading' it (and breaking a lot of things in the process). Wouldn't be surprised if this is part of it too.

I had enough time on my hands to check the drained weight of those 132g tins of John West tuna. That information is missing from the ASDA website but available from John West.

Turns out after you drain the spring water or the brine out of the can you are left with the same amount of fish 102g per tin. Draining away the sunflower oil leaves you with 95g of tuna. So when you pay the same price (81p) per tin you will get 7g more fish if you avoid the oil.

Can somebody else please do the maths to work out how much 102g costs per hundred gram when the tin costs 81p?

I'm not sure that any of the three comparison prices are correct, 61.6p/100g for brine looks too low, 85.5/100g in spring water (seems most plausible), and 3.49/100g in sunflower oil is bonkers.

You should have taken a more aggressive stance. A woman in a Chinese supermarket in Manchester who was of Chinese heritage (we are not) once took some dim sum out of our trolley , took some differently branded but same flavour out of the freezer and swopped them. When we checked they were better value as I think she’d been indicating in Chinese. We smiled and said xie xie .

however your couple may not have had enough dosh for six.

But 6 cost less in total than 4 due to an offer. This is common. Plus, if they didn't want 6 cans, they could have put 2 in the food bank collection.

But their loss anyway.

@stuckinthemiddlewithyou1 - you’d be surprised then! However the product actually ends up on the website at some point downstream a human is creating at least some of that data when they set the product up. Whether the supplier send the data and Asda imports it into their system, or whether they have a team doing product data entry internally, someone has put the wrong number in the wrong box! It’s not great for a customer and @Blondiebeachbabe should definitely raise it to customer services but it’s not malicious (or tactical). Given how many products Asda sells I’d be amazed if they were more than 95% accurate at any given time to be honest

A quick google will tell you that you'd have to eat about 20-30 tins a week for the rest of your life in order to exceed the safe limit of mercury, so I think a couple of tins here and there are likely to be fine.

Except that recent studies have shown this not to be true.

Is there something wrong with your eyes, I agree not everyone would post online about it but how would you not be able to see the difference when it's literally right there in front of you?

Can you only hold one thought in your head at a time or something?

it's early so I could be wrong

0.81 ÷ 102 = 0.0079411...... so for 100g

0.0079411 x 100 = 0.79411!

Making it about 79p for 100g

FYI, I raised it with Asda - no reply!!