what the hell is going on with tesco pasta?

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Two years ago, a pack of wholewheat pasta cost 33p at tesco.

Last week it cost 78p.

Yesterday, it cost £1.24 for 1 bag of pasta.

They also have an organic wholewheat pasta (both are tesco own brand btw) and a bag of this costs 89p.

What is going on? We bought the organic stuff as it is now cheaper but how can the cost of one bag of pasta go up so much? Do you think it was a mistake?

Places like Aldi and Lidl are cheap for genuine reasons, no marketing, no fripperies like nice shelving in the shops. So their prices are low for these reasons. Places like Tesco are cheap because of price wars with other supermarkets, they have been artificially reducing their prices to attract attention and customers.

The fake price cuts by people like Tesco cannot last. Of course, there are also wheat issues which will affect prices, but it is not necessarily the case that some products are expensive, more that perhaps it should never have been possible to get a chicken for £2 and they will be going back to the prices that they should be.

What a surprise - Tesco implicated in price fixing - no way!

Ocado is doing price matching with Tesco now to try and capture more of their online shopping - wouldn't surprise me if Tesco kept their organic and premium products artifically low to try and put a stop to it and counteract this sort of thing by increasing their prices on basics citing global shortages. There are definitely issues with rising prices but I wouldn't trust Tesco not to have a strategy to take advantage as much as possible.

All the headlines about 'price hikes' give suppliers and supermarkets the perfect excuse to adjust their margins and make more money. Guarantee that Tesco still makes MORE money this year than last year, despite the 'nightmare of raw material rises'.

I find they usually raise the price of some things a week or so before they put them on a BOGOF offer

I find Tesco very sneaky with prices-this week value cotton wool pads 8p more than the others. I compare everything in there,takes far too long so have switched to Asda,still try and compare but to be honest haven't found as many of the sneaky Tesco tactics so don't need to be so thorough.

My Mum went to buy Marrowfat peas, in one week they had gone from 25p to 48p, in Tescos.

I can explain... my husband works as a Sales Manager in FMCG - it is just after the half year end, so the profits/spend have been finalised for all the multiples for the first half of the year. So now what they do is put prices up on things by 20% or thereabouts on things which they will do promotions on later in the year - since they now have all new targets to meet. The example DH gave me was an item that has an RRP of £1, a certain supermarket are now charging £1.40 now for that item, and they will then do a promotion knocking off 10p! So you THINK you are getting a bargain.
No wonder our shopping is getting more expensive!

yes,asda put their value tinned tuna up from 29p to 37p,then the next weeks it was 'rolled back' to 35p.

do they think all their customers are intellectually challenged?

So Bouncing Turtle does he reckon they are all the same re sneaky tactics or is Tesco particularly bad?????