Win! CMA takes Asda to task on dodgy special offers

Tesco’s price per 100g of Kenco coffee is higher on the refill packs than on the glass jars. I’ve noticed the same on Horlicks refills at Tesco and Morrisons. Is this the supermarket or the brand policy?

I enjoy Rakusen’s Flame Baked Crackers. In one month they have changed the contents from 300g down to 200g. The box appears to be the same until you open the contents. What a con to reduce by a third in one month. I thought I was getting a bargain when the price was reduced from £i.20 to £1.00 until I came to place them into the cracker container. Do they hope we would not notice?

Asda
Lenor 1.9 Ltr £2.75 78 washes lenor 1.1 Ltr 44 washes £3.50 guess which one they sent me as a substitute? Yes the most expensive one.
Also I had to ring and complain as the cooked meat(ham) they sent had use by the next day not the 6+days as on the website.

Due to ill health we have our groceries delivered otherwise this would not happen.
Be careful and check and check again before you agree to substitutes.
Disgraceful.

A bunch of crooks.

I hope that leaving the EU will stop all this by getting British products at r.r.p

Tesco (maybe other supermarkets too) advertise special offers but place items which are NOT part of the offer/deal on the same shelf. Unless you always check your receipt at the till, you will not know. Complaints to staff and store managers did not bring the desired result. Keep checking

Leaving the EU ought to mean that in future we can apply British rules to British supermarkets , when travelling around EuropeI have observed that that literally anything goes so far as supermarket in store marketing is concerned .

Yes enough is enough, let’s hope Brexit will stop these big companies treating us all like idiots.

Pound shops are the baine of my life. Folk think they are getting real bargains whilst they really aren’t. Pricing everything at a pound whilst a lot of the items can be bought cheaper in other languages leading supermarkets. An example. A 2llb bag of sugar in Trescothick costs £0.79 Poundland £1.00, A large bottle of Pepsi Trescothick and Morris ons £0.89 in each store….and so it goes on. Pound shops are both misleading and underhand. I found 100 items from Pond land and another pound shop much cheaper in other supermarkets. Are they are bargain shop now? I don’t think so! My other gripe is the buy one get one or two free….STOP and take another look at the items then price the individual ones, often it’s cheaper to buy the individual priced product. Another example last month Pedigree Chum dog food in Tresco was priced up at 6 cans for £3.00 and 12 tins for £6.25. A bargain, not from were I’m standing. Any leading Supermarket will try this trick. Stop and think again. By visiting three different Supermarkets to do my grocery shop I managed to save £8.51 times that figure by 52 weeks (the amount of weeks in a year) and you’ll be £442.52 better off. I know shopping under one roof in convenient but put in the leg work and you’ll be quids in and.much better off. It’s not all doom and gloom for Poundthough as Nescafè coffee in equal size was £1.00 in Poundland whilst in Tresco it was £2.95. A small bottle of Heinze tomato ketchup Tesco £1.45 Poundland £1.00. Another huge annual saving of £124.80. Let’s add the two examples together…….. we now have a huge annual saving of £567.32 and I’ve only scratched the surface. I’ve managed to take a third off the cost of my shopping by being vigilant comparing prices. Annually I’m saving £3653.00 by being careful and comparing prices of these so called by one get one or two free. Comparing prices is easy as the the giants of our shopping experiencesite are usually very close together near me qg of them are right next to each other the fourth Asia is only a short walk away approx two minutes between them. I guess we could all shop in Lidl’s although they build there stores in the strangest of places miles away from my shopping town area so getting to them is tricky and expensive needing a taxi for me to add on to the cost of my shopping bill. Did I save money by doing so….NO. I have to rely on taxis because I’m blind and disabled now but my eyes have been replaced by scanning and descriptive technology. Nothing can fool a thrifty consumer come on folks let’s get saving savvy. Thanks for reading my comments.

These so called “bargains & multibuys” are both dishonest & disingenuous, I vote with my feet and shop elsewhere when I see these so called bargains

“A leading supermarket sold handwash at £1.80 for just 7 days. Then, they put it on a ‘was £1.80, now 90p’ offer for 12 weeks. Feel like a real saving? We don’t think so.”
My comment refers to the above. If this were so, why can’t you name the leading supermarket?
Surely there can’t be a legal reason.

You have to do your sums when shopping to calculate whether a deal is real. Often it’s cheaper to buy 2 half sized boxes of washing powder, cereals etc than to buy one full sized box. Luckily I’m good at mental arithmetic – if you’re not you’ll find a calculator on most phones. This practice should be unlawful as usually buying in ‘bulk’ is generally considered to be the cheaper option.

we need a respectful supermarket, one that respected it’s customer and not try to rip them off with special offers which are misleading and make us spend more!

Have given up on supermarkets. I now buy direct from the farmer or company. Am trying to use natural products so instead of washing powder and conditioners full of dodgy stuff, I’m using soapnuts and essential oils. Aerial may be a Which best buy but it causes serious dermatitis for my daughter. Works out at £1 for 48 washes!

I’m just fed up with having to shop with a calculator in one hand and having to be a memory man for past prices. It’s just basic dishonesty!

I now do a lot of grocery shopping at bargain buys. Some items up to 80% cheaper than the major players.
I’m amazed at the profit margins they must have.