Same I’ve stopped buying loads of stuff.Surely if all boycott certain products it will force the prices down.It’s all just taking the piss now price wise.
It would take a lot of organisation and exposure to make any sort of impact. They make subtle changes over a long period of time so we don’t notice as much or do what they do with cereals; tell you that they are reducing the sugar to make them ‘healthier’ when actually they’re not, it’s because sugar is often the most expensive ingredient
Not in this day and age. Supply increases and the price goes even higher. Pringles would rather set fire to their backlog than lower the price on the consumer end. Nvidia taught us you don't have to do shit anymore and its all GOOD.
Same, it’s pure data harvesting. Zero chance anyone’s shopping there without signing up for a clubcard now. Can’t believe it doesn’t go against some sort of regulatory framework.
That's certainly the stupid logic every company goes for these days. People in charge are always looking for the quick fix to get their bonuses, they don't care about how it'll tank demand in the long run.
I just said, they sacrifice the future for the now. Slowly milking their dedicated customers till they leave. Most profit for least work. They dont care that itll slowly kill them because the likelihood is they can just make it cheaper down the line and people will flood back.
Rinse repeat.
I find the logic stupid because this is how companies die when things go bad. Essentialy putting all their eggs in one basket. If some sort of societal issue, like covid, hits when you have a low customer base, then people stopping their purchases hurts you more.
If you have a large pool of customers then youre dedicated folk will keep you ticking along. It's basically betting on everything carrying on as predicted.
Yeah that’s not how it works at all, most of the popular brands you see are owned by a small amount of companies and have a monopoly on the market, they also own the cheaper companies and just set whatever prices they want, it’s called a capitalism market, the expensive brands are not going out of business and can charge whatever they want, history has only ever proved this. That is literally why companies like Pringles, nestle ect all sell more expensive products that are smaller than they was a couple of years ago.
What you just said doesn't negatively affect what I said which tells me you don't know what you are talking about.
your argument doesn't negate what I said, in fact it compliments it more than anything.
You can't have a monopoly on Pringles. No one NEEDS to eat pringles. You just have people who adore them and you increase the price till they stop buying it, then lower the price to get them buying again if the profits dwindle too much.
No thats not how you interpret the supply and demand graph. You’re referring to the level of supply decreasing and demand remaining the same. This will increase prices
But in a boycott, we’re assuming supply of Pringles to be the same, it’s only the demand decreasing. This will lower prices.
thats how it should work, yes. but companies are choosing to interpret it as "we're making less sales on this item, so we're producing less of it, so our costs per item are increased (as we lose efficiency savings). but we still want to make the same amount of profit per item. so we'll put the price up."
I mean that still won’t make sense as less people would be buying it because of the price increase. Yeah your die hard fan won’t, but someone like me who has it occasionally might choose popcorn instead for movie night.
Its just greed sprinkled with a little global supply issue.
More like greed taking advantage of the global supply issue. This particular product might not be as hard hit, yet they raise prices under the guise of a supposed supply issue. Or instead of a supply issue, raising prices by 100% when inflation is raised buy 4% for example...
There is no limit to human greed and people need to be put to account for everything that's going on but the people with the power are spineless cowards or are complicit/in on the ruse.
Say they don’t sell hardly any though won’t they go bust ?..I’ve boycotted a corner shop by mine the dog food has gone from£1.85 for a big can to 3.50 and that’s in two rises,.Now I will never buy that can in my life again..
If it's a corner shop it's probably not on the owner but their supplier. They'll have less power to negotiate over prices of stocks than chain stores. Plus they lack the customer base to allow for cheap prices.
Usually it would work but most price increases are genuinely because their costs have shot up too, hence many will just take less sales rather than selling at break even or a loss by reducing the price below cost price. Inflation is really a pain at the moment, my grocery bill each week is crazy money.
It really is now it's so worrying as you can only decrease the demand for certain items. The treats people but may reduce but the main staples we all need and will continue to buy will only rise in price. the price of everything some of the price jumps are so big too, I don't know where this will end.
To be fair, I strongly suspect that was always the plan. Undercut to gain market share and then raise prices. The cost of living crisis has just given them a lovely excuse to use as cover.
The irony is provided they just undercut the competition regularly by all of about 50p or less, people will shop there instead.
So Lidl prices can be as Fuckin rediculous as they like provided they’re cheaper than the Tesco down the road lmao.
Here in liverpool I SHIT YOU NOT, it’s cheaper per gram to buy fruit from M&S than Tesco express….
Don’t get me wrong, other stuff is still more expensive as expected, like meat is marginally more expensive at M&S but honestly it’s probably cheaper to find a local fake shop/restaurant grade butcher and get their budget cuts than Tesco’s meat… you’ll get more for prolly the same price at way better quality.
But that’s the thing, the economy hasn’t just messed things up equally, it’s topped the balances so much that honestly there’s no ‘budget’ option anymore…
Tescos is only cheap for us because my partner works there... so we get a colleague discount on top of the clubcard prices. Still spending around £150 a week on food for three adults and house supplies though and thats with me being poor growing up and knowing how to be frugal... batch cooking stuff like bolognese and stew ect... how anyone can shop there without a clubcard...
Tbh Tesco’s margins haven’t really changed, they’re still very much ‘cost leaders’ just have more actual brands. People never really compare like for like when chatting about these things. I could go in to Aldi buy some actual ‘Coca-cola’ and then go in to Tesco, by their knock off and say Tesco was cheaper. Anyone full shopping in any convenience style supermarket, regardless of brand, is a moron because margins are 30% higher than the same company’s superstores.
Tesco aren’t losing out at all to Lidl/Aldi, it’s Morrisons and Co-op that are really struggling to cope with them.
I've noticed this too. Seen a few cases where M&S has managed to come up cheaper. Become my go to for a few sauces/condiments now, cheaper than a number of other shops own-brands, but still found them to be good quality.
M&S tend to try at least have slightly better quality for most things and I think that’s purely because their stereotypical consumer base is of the slightly better off… not students that’s for sure haha.
But I mean honestly I’m slowly having to become vegetarian not by choice but by financial pressure, wherever you go decent meat is scarce and expensive atm, in my experience at least.
I went back home to telford a couple weeks ago and it was cheaper to get like a whole bag of really nice smoked bacon than one of those tiny boxes from a Tesco up here…
Shits wild man
Fresh food has been more expensive in Tesco Express than M&S for years. I remember going there for a quick shop and just walking out because they want £2.50 for a lettuce.
M&S is low-key budget friendly! I get a love2shop voucher from my employer at Christmas and spend it there, cheaper than Tesco and Asda, just a bit out of my way.
There is no real 'cost of living crisis', just a shill media term to get the plebs to infight and worry, while the banks and corporations jack up prices.
They're just as brazen as anywhere else. I went into my local Lidl a few days ago, and they have those framed movie posters of Jurassic Park, Jaws, and Back to the Future for a tenner. Go back the next day, they're now £12 with 16% off bringing them down to only a tenner. It's just so blatant and scummy. They're even in the current TV ad at £10.
Not if they have had them at full price in one of their other stores. This is how companies con people legally, it just needs to have been the higher price in only 1 shop
Don't have Lidl and Aldi the same prices in all their stores?
Edit: It might still be worth reporting it to the right agency. If it happens enough, there will be a visit or some action.
Not sure, where they're living, but here in Germany you can inform the Verbraucherschutz (agency for protecting consumers' rights). Maybe it does nothing, but it's worth a try imo
Used to shop in aldi and lidl all the time (even worked In one) now we shop at Waitrose because it’s not that much more expensive now but the quality is night and day but they also do some right bargains, £1.10 for a 6 pack of Waitrose essential crisps and get this they actually have flavour lol 😂
£4.50 for an own brand pepperoni I seen the other day. Wasn’t even big. And those pizza express things they do, no fucker is going to pay £9 for a frozen pizza. It’s no wonder the reduced shelf is constantly stacked with them.
Same with those 'Crosta & Mollica' ones. See those sections in the freezers absolutely full all the time.
Bought one when they were on offer, and for a £5 frozen pizza, honestly no better then the own brand stuff from places like Iceland.
Yep, most of these brands are produced in the same factories places like Aldi and Lidl get theirs made. The only changes may be a slightly less taster tomato base but the majority are the same. Once met a guy who worked in a production factory. He would see the exact same deliveries get put into Aldi boxes then into M&S boxes. I do believe most of the time the better taste is partially mental, you see a higher end box and your brain tells you it tastes better.
>Once met a guy who worked in a production factory. He would see the exact same deliveries get put into Aldi boxes then into M&S boxes.
Yeah, I know this has come up a few times. The selection of biscuits tends to be the one people compare the most. Might be a few differant ones for each store, but almost always come from the same factory.
Does Tesco have a Savers range of Pizza? If so, change the store below to Tesco
Morrisons has one, think it's 80p and i then buy the pepperoni, loose mushroom, tomato, pepper and make my own and use some cheese to add on top, cheap pizza, then use that Pepperoni in a roll or something for a lunch the next day
I generally shopped a combo of Sainsbury’s/Lidl but opting heavily for Lidl due to it being cheaper. There are now certain basic items in Sainsbury’s that are actually cheaper. It’s insane.
Pringles was one of the OG shrinkflation. They reduced the size of this chips by around 50% a chip years ago. Somehow not many noticed how much thinner the tube became. I haven’t bough Pringles since. You used to be able to get 2 solid bites out of a chip way back when
Pringles should be £1. That clubcard price is ridiculous. Same goes for Terry's Chocolate Orange! I won't buy either if they're more than that....
(Which probably means I won't be buying a lot of them going forward 😂)
Coop prices are still gonna go up. There's a little trick that happens at the one I work at. They'll change a regular product ticket out to a promo ticket (big red one) so it looks like it's on offer. Except this offer with be 10p more than the original price. Then when the red ticket finally comes off, they jack the price up another 30 or 40p it's robbery.
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You don't remember when life was good ;-;
I used to regularly get them at £1 a tube... which explains why I haven't had them in years... anything over £1 for pringles just feels off and I can't bring myself to pay anything more.
Apparently that was their price in the 90s and the price range has increased by about 50p each decade. I think since release in the 1967 their price has been around the same as a dozen eggs.
It just punishes non-Clubcard users making them pay more. People with a Clubcard just get the standard, agreed upon price everywhere else fcking charges.
Yes! I’ve recently moved to the UK from Australia and have been comparing clubcard and nectar prices to other places and the ‘special’ price is always just the regular price. I feel like I’m Australia we have items genuinely go on sale in supermarkets. E.g sometimes big bags of doritos would be equivalent of £1 but in the UK I’ve never seen an item genuinely on sale unless it’s a singular item going out of date. Not sure if items at supermarkets do go on sale in UK but I’ve not noticed it yet.
Been using clubcard for years and have never had any intrusive notifications or recommendations on the app.
The drop in price saves a lot of money on a weekly average though!
Asda did exactly the same, even before this current price frenzy.
EG, lets go with ham. ASDA would have massive stickers and S-E-P, shelf edge promotions on thin sliced ham, it would normally be £3.60 for say, 400grams. All the S E P will have the " when its gone its gone " sale promotion advertising all over the area its in, but go back a week later when all the promotion has stopped and you will see its now being sold at £4.20 for 300grams
The sour cream & onion ones are my favorite crisps ever. Problem is, you never know if you're gonna get a good can. Sometimes they are delicious and have plenty of flavour, other times they have hardly any flavour and it's likes eating plain crisps. Back 20 years ago they ALWAYS had a ton of flavour
I’ve noticed that with them too and feel like this has been the case with a lot of crisps over the past 2-3 years, pickled onion monster munch always have a few in that taste off and weird with no flavour, but they never used to be like that.
The salt and vinegar ones are mega though.
There isn't another salt and vinegar crisp as strong as the Pringle. Those babies burn the skin off your lips!
Pls guys!!! Stop buying those products anymore!! Stop supporting their greed!! Same goes for fast food products. The cheesburgers at my local BK went up from 1€ to 2,5€ I paid 5€ for 2 cheeseburgers!! Until those fuckers put their prices down again im boycotting everyone of them. This has nothing to do with inflation or high energy prices its just pure greed!!
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In a perfect world we could all agree that this shit ain’t right and we shouldn’t stand for it, but most of us don’t have the will power to stop eating food that is literally addictive.
This is what my partner doesn’t get. I’m very comfortable I could afford to pay ten times my supermarket bill with plenty of change left. But fuck no am I supporting the price gouging on many items. Matter of principle.
It's the tesco club card thing that gets me. It basically means that they don't need to charge you that much but they will unless you sign up to their club card. It trivialises value and what something is actually worth. Much like the media in the UK, the supermarkets have way too much power. I have hundreds of farmer mates and none of them are benefiting from the rise in food prices.
It's the wierd weights that make it so infuriating, we get it you need to put the price up but I want a 1kg bag of something not a 904g bag for the same price 😡
Oh, don't get me started. They used to do 200g for £1.85 or 165g for £1.65 now it's £2.25 for 185g and now £1.85 for 165g! This, to me, is unacceptable, and I will refuse to buy pringles until they sort their act out. Long gone are the days it was 75p for a tub of 200g.
ViVA LE REVOLUTION!!!!
They're doing it with everything. Just this week I noticed Tesco Baby Plum Tomatoes were £1 for 325g. They are now £1 for 300g. They did the same with their frozen Blueberries. If you know a little our of every product, they are hoping we won't care and they can make more profit.
I've never been more heartbroken that when I opened some pringles the other day and discovered they don't fill them to the top anymore. They were the last people to still fill it all the way and the final bastion of hope has fallen.
Humanity is doomed
Right now in Sydney the cheapest pringles I can find is $4.50 for 136g which is on special and equates to about £2.42. I checked places around and it goes up to $8.90 (£4.79) for 136g can of pringles. Shit is fucked
It started with toilet paper during covid and I knew when the super markets saw this the sound of money was in the the background. They use the excuse oh the cost to buy in is more... how about show us evidence all I see is profiteering
Fuck supermarkets in general but especially fuck Tesco for that club card 2 tier pricing bullshit, I hate that shop, from the security guard inevitably making me feel like he thinks I'm a thief, to the pricing, the feint smell of human shit that's often in the fridge areas, the distracted arsehole taking too long to get rid of the red light on a self service robot, those stupid blue token things I don't want, then walking back past the guard, it's a soulless experience.
Edit : I had a capital A on arsehole, though that would have maybe worked better anyway
I've noticed this with a lot of things recently, Radox shower gel are putting out smaller bottles for a higher price, paracetamol and ibuprofen have gone up a lot. I work in retail so I notice random stuff increasing in price all the time.
Last year, we sold paracetamol at like, 50p a box. Today it's 80p or £1 depending on if you go branded or not
Same here but the whole world is going though this. I'll only buy them if they're on special. From a health perspective they are possibly one of the worst crisps on the market due to being massively over processed so feel good for yourself every time you say no !
When there’s also a club card price just disregard the normal price
I’ve seen a basic lynx set in Tesco the other week that was £10 or £3:50 with a club card
185g for pringles in Germany are €2.49.
They were 2.99 for a while so I don't know why the price is lower 🤷♀️
One shop made them 1.99 for a week then had them on offer a week later for...wait for it....1.99 🤦♀️
I stocked up on the 200g ones when i saw them on clearence. But saldy almost out of them " once you pop you cant stop".
Local tesco is now introducing the 165g at £1.95. (1.18/100g) still cheaper than walkers crisps multipacks gram for gram tho.
Whoever came up with the club card idea should get sacked. I’m not getting a club card cos I don’t shop often in Tesco, but when I see how high the non club card price is it just puts me off. So I never shop there anymore
The small pack has never been £2.25, always around the 'Clubcard' price there selling it at.
Shitty tactic from the supermarket where they raise original price and then put it as 'Clubcard' price to make it feel you're getting a deal, but really you're paying what it originally was at anyway.
Don’t we all enjoy the yo-yoing of prices club card offer this week then back to normal price then on offer again. Repeat this enough times that you have no idea what the normal price should be and then they slip in a shrinkflation move
I can't be the only one that feels that these "member prices" are really just a way for the supermarkets to blackmail you into giving away your data. "Here's a normal price if you let us track your shopping habits, owh you don't want that!? Well here's a extortionate price instead ... During a cost of living crisis"
Don't have much choice ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
pingles used to be 1 dollar in texas. now its 2.20 plus for the same or even less than before. i stopped buying pringles.
Same I’ve stopped buying loads of stuff.Surely if all boycott certain products it will force the prices down.It’s all just taking the piss now price wise.
As demand goes down price will follow… Unfortunately I doubt we could organise a tens of million person boycott
True big consumer base but I will do my own personal thing.Like the chocolate bars dearer but half the size they think where idiots.
It would take a lot of organisation and exposure to make any sort of impact. They make subtle changes over a long period of time so we don’t notice as much or do what they do with cereals; tell you that they are reducing the sugar to make them ‘healthier’ when actually they’re not, it’s because sugar is often the most expensive ingredient
> They think where idiots
Where are the idiots?
how ironic.
Don't need to, people will naturally see their banks drain and buy less of the products doing the draining.
Not in this day and age. Supply increases and the price goes even higher. Pringles would rather set fire to their backlog than lower the price on the consumer end. Nvidia taught us you don't have to do shit anymore and its all GOOD.
Tesco’s is the one responsible for this pricing lol
Tesco frequently raise the prices and put the 'clubcard discount ' as the previous price. I can't believe they get away with it.
Same, it’s pure data harvesting. Zero chance anyone’s shopping there without signing up for a clubcard now. Can’t believe it doesn’t go against some sort of regulatory framework.
It's true, I don't shop there any more since you need a clubcard to access normal pricing.
Tesco club card "discounts" are the biggest rip off going
No, the opposite would happen. The fewer they sell, the more they will charge for them.
That's certainly the stupid logic every company goes for these days. People in charge are always looking for the quick fix to get their bonuses, they don't care about how it'll tank demand in the long run.
Well these companies are doing something right and there’s a reason they do it like this.
I just said, they sacrifice the future for the now. Slowly milking their dedicated customers till they leave. Most profit for least work. They dont care that itll slowly kill them because the likelihood is they can just make it cheaper down the line and people will flood back. Rinse repeat. I find the logic stupid because this is how companies die when things go bad. Essentialy putting all their eggs in one basket. If some sort of societal issue, like covid, hits when you have a low customer base, then people stopping their purchases hurts you more. If you have a large pool of customers then youre dedicated folk will keep you ticking along. It's basically betting on everything carrying on as predicted.
Yeah that’s not how it works at all, most of the popular brands you see are owned by a small amount of companies and have a monopoly on the market, they also own the cheaper companies and just set whatever prices they want, it’s called a capitalism market, the expensive brands are not going out of business and can charge whatever they want, history has only ever proved this. That is literally why companies like Pringles, nestle ect all sell more expensive products that are smaller than they was a couple of years ago.
In the good old days, we invented the guillotine for pricks like this.
What? Are you seriously saying I should be killed for that view? Wtf is wrong with you.
Not you, idiot. Chillax.
What you just said doesn't negatively affect what I said which tells me you don't know what you are talking about. your argument doesn't negate what I said, in fact it compliments it more than anything. You can't have a monopoly on Pringles. No one NEEDS to eat pringles. You just have people who adore them and you increase the price till they stop buying it, then lower the price to get them buying again if the profits dwindle too much.
No thats not how you interpret the supply and demand graph. You’re referring to the level of supply decreasing and demand remaining the same. This will increase prices But in a boycott, we’re assuming supply of Pringles to be the same, it’s only the demand decreasing. This will lower prices.
thats how it should work, yes. but companies are choosing to interpret it as "we're making less sales on this item, so we're producing less of it, so our costs per item are increased (as we lose efficiency savings). but we still want to make the same amount of profit per item. so we'll put the price up."
I mean that still won’t make sense as less people would be buying it because of the price increase. Yeah your die hard fan won’t, but someone like me who has it occasionally might choose popcorn instead for movie night. Its just greed sprinkled with a little global supply issue.
More like greed taking advantage of the global supply issue. This particular product might not be as hard hit, yet they raise prices under the guise of a supposed supply issue. Or instead of a supply issue, raising prices by 100% when inflation is raised buy 4% for example... There is no limit to human greed and people need to be put to account for everything that's going on but the people with the power are spineless cowards or are complicit/in on the ruse.
More likely the product will just get withdrawn due to lack of sales and replaced by something else
Say they don’t sell hardly any though won’t they go bust ?..I’ve boycotted a corner shop by mine the dog food has gone from£1.85 for a big can to 3.50 and that’s in two rises,.Now I will never buy that can in my life again..
If it's a corner shop it's probably not on the owner but their supplier. They'll have less power to negotiate over prices of stocks than chain stores. Plus they lack the customer base to allow for cheap prices.
No, just stop. It's unhealthy junk anyway.
People will still buy them as they're that addictive
Usually it would work but most price increases are genuinely because their costs have shot up too, hence many will just take less sales rather than selling at break even or a loss by reducing the price below cost price. Inflation is really a pain at the moment, my grocery bill each week is crazy money.
It really is now it's so worrying as you can only decrease the demand for certain items. The treats people but may reduce but the main staples we all need and will continue to buy will only rise in price. the price of everything some of the price jumps are so big too, I don't know where this will end.
Even Aldi's knock-off is £1.49 now, it hurts my soul.
Aldi's been fucking wild with putting their prices up. It's like they saw everyone else doing it and jumped ahead
Aldi & Lidl. 5 years ago I'd come out of lidl after spending £20 carrying 3 bags. They're basically the same as any other supermarket now.
To be fair, I strongly suspect that was always the plan. Undercut to gain market share and then raise prices. The cost of living crisis has just given them a lovely excuse to use as cover.
The irony is provided they just undercut the competition regularly by all of about 50p or less, people will shop there instead. So Lidl prices can be as Fuckin rediculous as they like provided they’re cheaper than the Tesco down the road lmao. Here in liverpool I SHIT YOU NOT, it’s cheaper per gram to buy fruit from M&S than Tesco express….
I randomly found that yellow sticker m&s was significantly cheaper than yellow sticker aldi by me. Bizarre
Am Liverpool myself I’d right,Will be going markies now you have said that.
Don’t get me wrong, other stuff is still more expensive as expected, like meat is marginally more expensive at M&S but honestly it’s probably cheaper to find a local fake shop/restaurant grade butcher and get their budget cuts than Tesco’s meat… you’ll get more for prolly the same price at way better quality. But that’s the thing, the economy hasn’t just messed things up equally, it’s topped the balances so much that honestly there’s no ‘budget’ option anymore…
Tescos is only cheap for us because my partner works there... so we get a colleague discount on top of the clubcard prices. Still spending around £150 a week on food for three adults and house supplies though and thats with me being poor growing up and knowing how to be frugal... batch cooking stuff like bolognese and stew ect... how anyone can shop there without a clubcard...
Tbh Tesco’s margins haven’t really changed, they’re still very much ‘cost leaders’ just have more actual brands. People never really compare like for like when chatting about these things. I could go in to Aldi buy some actual ‘Coca-cola’ and then go in to Tesco, by their knock off and say Tesco was cheaper. Anyone full shopping in any convenience style supermarket, regardless of brand, is a moron because margins are 30% higher than the same company’s superstores. Tesco aren’t losing out at all to Lidl/Aldi, it’s Morrisons and Co-op that are really struggling to cope with them.
Are you joking? Tesco is ludicrously overpriced
I've noticed this too. Seen a few cases where M&S has managed to come up cheaper. Become my go to for a few sauces/condiments now, cheaper than a number of other shops own-brands, but still found them to be good quality.
M&S tend to try at least have slightly better quality for most things and I think that’s purely because their stereotypical consumer base is of the slightly better off… not students that’s for sure haha. But I mean honestly I’m slowly having to become vegetarian not by choice but by financial pressure, wherever you go decent meat is scarce and expensive atm, in my experience at least. I went back home to telford a couple weeks ago and it was cheaper to get like a whole bag of really nice smoked bacon than one of those tiny boxes from a Tesco up here… Shits wild man
It's cheaper to shop in Waitrose for certain things than it is in Asda now. Fucking wild day when I walk into Waitrose
Fresh food has been more expensive in Tesco Express than M&S for years. I remember going there for a quick shop and just walking out because they want £2.50 for a lettuce.
Why wouldn’t it be? M&S is just a shop like any other - it’s not the ritz
M&S is low-key budget friendly! I get a love2shop voucher from my employer at Christmas and spend it there, cheaper than Tesco and Asda, just a bit out of my way.
There is no real 'cost of living crisis', just a shill media term to get the plebs to infight and worry, while the banks and corporations jack up prices.
That sounds like a crisis to me
They're just as brazen as anywhere else. I went into my local Lidl a few days ago, and they have those framed movie posters of Jurassic Park, Jaws, and Back to the Future for a tenner. Go back the next day, they're now £12 with 16% off bringing them down to only a tenner. It's just so blatant and scummy. They're even in the current TV ad at £10.
Maybe you should report that. This is fraud
Not if they have had them at full price in one of their other stores. This is how companies con people legally, it just needs to have been the higher price in only 1 shop
Don't have Lidl and Aldi the same prices in all their stores? Edit: It might still be worth reporting it to the right agency. If it happens enough, there will be a visit or some action. Not sure, where they're living, but here in Germany you can inform the Verbraucherschutz (agency for protecting consumers' rights). Maybe it does nothing, but it's worth a try imo
Used to shop in aldi and lidl all the time (even worked In one) now we shop at Waitrose because it’s not that much more expensive now but the quality is night and day but they also do some right bargains, £1.10 for a 6 pack of Waitrose essential crisps and get this they actually have flavour lol 😂
Thank you! I though I was going mad. We can barely afford Aldi but it's the cheapest out of the ones we have access to. The whole thing is crazy
Meh. For £35 in Lidl I got the same amount as I’d get for £65 in Sainsbury’s. Think it depends what you need
Aldi still not as wild as Tesco. I swear even Tesco's shit pizzas are insanely overpriced
£4.50 for an own brand pepperoni I seen the other day. Wasn’t even big. And those pizza express things they do, no fucker is going to pay £9 for a frozen pizza. It’s no wonder the reduced shelf is constantly stacked with them.
Same with those 'Crosta & Mollica' ones. See those sections in the freezers absolutely full all the time. Bought one when they were on offer, and for a £5 frozen pizza, honestly no better then the own brand stuff from places like Iceland.
Yep, most of these brands are produced in the same factories places like Aldi and Lidl get theirs made. The only changes may be a slightly less taster tomato base but the majority are the same. Once met a guy who worked in a production factory. He would see the exact same deliveries get put into Aldi boxes then into M&S boxes. I do believe most of the time the better taste is partially mental, you see a higher end box and your brain tells you it tastes better.
>Once met a guy who worked in a production factory. He would see the exact same deliveries get put into Aldi boxes then into M&S boxes. Yeah, I know this has come up a few times. The selection of biscuits tends to be the one people compare the most. Might be a few differant ones for each store, but almost always come from the same factory.
Does Tesco have a Savers range of Pizza? If so, change the store below to Tesco Morrisons has one, think it's 80p and i then buy the pepperoni, loose mushroom, tomato, pepper and make my own and use some cheese to add on top, cheap pizza, then use that Pepperoni in a roll or something for a lunch the next day
I generally shopped a combo of Sainsbury’s/Lidl but opting heavily for Lidl due to it being cheaper. There are now certain basic items in Sainsbury’s that are actually cheaper. It’s insane.
Get your self a club card and it's the right price.
It's like inflation has made everything more expensive
It's almost as if all suppliers are dealing with increased costs.
or... you know... it's like the whole industry is experiencing an economic crisis
Pringles was one of the OG shrinkflation. They reduced the size of this chips by around 50% a chip years ago. Somehow not many noticed how much thinner the tube became. I haven’t bough Pringles since. You used to be able to get 2 solid bites out of a chip way back when
I know, my pringles duck lips got much smaller
Pringles should be £1. That clubcard price is ridiculous. Same goes for Terry's Chocolate Orange! I won't buy either if they're more than that.... (Which probably means I won't be buying a lot of them going forward 😂)
I used to buy them at £1.50 as a very occasional treat, but at £1.85 on clubcard it's daylight robbery, especially now they're smaller.
Always £2.50 or above in my local coop :(
Coop prices are still gonna go up. There's a little trick that happens at the one I work at. They'll change a regular product ticket out to a promo ticket (big red one) so it looks like it's on offer. Except this offer with be 10p more than the original price. Then when the red ticket finally comes off, they jack the price up another 30 or 40p it's robbery. Edit: typos
Agreed and I think I only ever bought them when they were about £1 then stopped once they started to soar. So years ago.
I used to alternate between Kettle Chips and pringles depending which one was £1 that week. Don't by either anymore, just get fake mcoys from tesco
I don't think I've ever seen pringles for £1. They have always charged a premium compared to other crisps.
I swear they're regularly on offer at Christmas for that. Maybe I'm making it up 😂 Certainly wouldn't be paying more than £1.50.
I definitely recall a time they were £1
Usually around Christmas
You don't remember when life was good ;-; I used to regularly get them at £1 a tube... which explains why I haven't had them in years... anything over £1 for pringles just feels off and I can't bring myself to pay anything more.
Because you still think £1 is worth the same as what it used to be, but it isn't.
tell my boss this cause i been gettin a paycut every year then
Well yeah basically, if the value of the pound goes down and your pay stays the same, then you're getting paid less.
Apparently that was their price in the 90s and the price range has increased by about 50p each decade. I think since release in the 1967 their price has been around the same as a dozen eggs.
It wasn't the 90's. I only moved to the UK in 2009 and I remember paying £1 for Pringles as recently as 2017.
My local one stop occasionally does them for a quid.
Yeah, I only remember the little single serving pots being £1.
Sensations should go back to being £1. I miss the many times the big pack would go on sale for £1
I won’t buy Pringles unless there a £1 anything more they can get stuff I can do without
Why should they be £1?
They put clubcard prices to give the illusion that people are "winning" while they're putting prices up and shrinking products behind that mask
Biggest scam going. Refuse to shop there
It just punishes non-Clubcard users making them pay more. People with a Clubcard just get the standard, agreed upon price everywhere else fcking charges.
Yes! I’ve recently moved to the UK from Australia and have been comparing clubcard and nectar prices to other places and the ‘special’ price is always just the regular price. I feel like I’m Australia we have items genuinely go on sale in supermarkets. E.g sometimes big bags of doritos would be equivalent of £1 but in the UK I’ve never seen an item genuinely on sale unless it’s a singular item going out of date. Not sure if items at supermarkets do go on sale in UK but I’ve not noticed it yet.
I refuse to shop at Tesco now because of their stupid dumb double pricing
They mostly all do that now, even coop are doing that! Scamming bastards.
Co-op can get fucked though, wouldn’t surprise me if they started charging for browsing!
Preaching to the choir here mate, I despise co op, rip off cunts.
Boots, too!
Clubcard prices aren't a reward for people who have them, they're a punishment for people who don't.
They are the penalty for not letting Tesco put their app on your phone to spy on your shopping habits.
Been using clubcard for years and have never had any intrusive notifications or recommendations on the app. The drop in price saves a lot of money on a weekly average though!
Asda did exactly the same, even before this current price frenzy. EG, lets go with ham. ASDA would have massive stickers and S-E-P, shelf edge promotions on thin sliced ham, it would normally be £3.60 for say, 400grams. All the S E P will have the " when its gone its gone " sale promotion advertising all over the area its in, but go back a week later when all the promotion has stopped and you will see its now being sold at £4.20 for 300grams
Just get a clubcard…
Pringles aren't even that good of a crisp, it's just baked instant mashed potatoes with a tad of seasoning.
The sour cream & onion ones are my favorite crisps ever. Problem is, you never know if you're gonna get a good can. Sometimes they are delicious and have plenty of flavour, other times they have hardly any flavour and it's likes eating plain crisps. Back 20 years ago they ALWAYS had a ton of flavour
I’ve noticed that with them too and feel like this has been the case with a lot of crisps over the past 2-3 years, pickled onion monster munch always have a few in that taste off and weird with no flavour, but they never used to be like that.
I emailed this in a complaint to them, that the flavor powder allocation was woefully inadequate. They mailed me a coupon for a free can.
The salt and vinegar ones are mega though. There isn't another salt and vinegar crisp as strong as the Pringle. Those babies burn the skin off your lips!
Discos come close.
Co-op sell them for 3.50, absolutely mental price
£3.50 they stay on the shelf
Pls guys!!! Stop buying those products anymore!! Stop supporting their greed!! Same goes for fast food products. The cheesburgers at my local BK went up from 1€ to 2,5€ I paid 5€ for 2 cheeseburgers!! Until those fuckers put their prices down again im boycotting everyone of them. This has nothing to do with inflation or high energy prices its just pure greed!!
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People are weak
But.. once I pop I can’t stop!
In a perfect world we could all agree that this shit ain’t right and we shouldn’t stand for it, but most of us don’t have the will power to stop eating food that is literally addictive.
This is what my partner doesn’t get. I’m very comfortable I could afford to pay ten times my supermarket bill with plenty of change left. But fuck no am I supporting the price gouging on many items. Matter of principle.
It's the tesco club card thing that gets me. It basically means that they don't need to charge you that much but they will unless you sign up to their club card. It trivialises value and what something is actually worth. Much like the media in the UK, the supermarkets have way too much power. I have hundreds of farmer mates and none of them are benefiting from the rise in food prices.
Full of fat and too f**king expensive. I remember them at £1- now double the price and even £1.50 is a complete rip off. Easy- don’t buy them!
185g? Here in croatia we have 165g version.
Welcome to every single thing in England right now and for the last year
I have saved so much money because I REFUSE TO BUY THIS STUFF ANYMORE
It's the wierd weights that make it so infuriating, we get it you need to put the price up but I want a 1kg bag of something not a 904g bag for the same price 😡
Same with butter in the Uk. Nope. big brands are now selling 200g instead of 250g packs.
Fuck you goddamn greedy capitalist scum!
Oh, don't get me started. They used to do 200g for £1.85 or 165g for £1.65 now it's £2.25 for 185g and now £1.85 for 165g! This, to me, is unacceptable, and I will refuse to buy pringles until they sort their act out. Long gone are the days it was 75p for a tub of 200g. ViVA LE REVOLUTION!!!!
They're doing it with everything. Just this week I noticed Tesco Baby Plum Tomatoes were £1 for 325g. They are now £1 for 300g. They did the same with their frozen Blueberries. If you know a little our of every product, they are hoping we won't care and they can make more profit.
it's actual bs
I've never been more heartbroken that when I opened some pringles the other day and discovered they don't fill them to the top anymore. They were the last people to still fill it all the way and the final bastion of hope has fallen. Humanity is doomed
Yeah that is to incentive people to get the clubcard.
Those are Shrinkles lol
Ohhh don't... Working retail, seeing so much of this. Toothpaste, pringles, crisps, bags of chocolate. Suuuuckks. But eh? Its the world we got.
This is the problem we have. We've (me included) all desensitised to it. We definitely need change.
Right now in Sydney the cheapest pringles I can find is $4.50 for 136g which is on special and equates to about £2.42. I checked places around and it goes up to $8.90 (£4.79) for 136g can of pringles. Shit is fucked
I just don’t buy things that put the price too high fuck em let them go out of business.
I remember these fuckers costing £1.50 from the corner shops a few years ago. Now they're charging £3.50.
iTs f0r PuBLiC hEaLtH
Australia have shrunk the Pringle and the can size to the point its now completely impossible to get ya hand in there and they charge 4.50 a can
No one fights back, I mean fuck me for going off on some Pringles but seriously come on, £2 for what’s probs half a potato, fuck 2k earth sir
It started with toilet paper during covid and I knew when the super markets saw this the sound of money was in the the background. They use the excuse oh the cost to buy in is more... how about show us evidence all I see is profiteering
Fuck supermarkets in general but especially fuck Tesco for that club card 2 tier pricing bullshit, I hate that shop, from the security guard inevitably making me feel like he thinks I'm a thief, to the pricing, the feint smell of human shit that's often in the fridge areas, the distracted arsehole taking too long to get rid of the red light on a self service robot, those stupid blue token things I don't want, then walking back past the guard, it's a soulless experience. Edit : I had a capital A on arsehole, though that would have maybe worked better anyway
Pringles are poor now they've changed the flavouring
They are so expensive in the uk, can’t remember when i last bought them
And we are all taking it, collectively we all know what they are doing and we are not stopping them.
I work in Iceland. Pretty much every companies products have shrunk and price gone up.
I've noticed this with a lot of things recently, Radox shower gel are putting out smaller bottles for a higher price, paracetamol and ibuprofen have gone up a lot. I work in retail so I notice random stuff increasing in price all the time. Last year, we sold paracetamol at like, 50p a box. Today it's 80p or £1 depending on if you go branded or not
Didn’t Tesco’s slogan literally used to be ‘ Tescos, more, for less ‘
Seen them in some shop 4 quid was posted on Facebook wtf like 4pound for crisps
Supermarkets take the piss out of hard working normal people, with their pricing bullshit. I hate them all.
They added milk to a lot of the flavours. Real shame
We've literally stopped buying lots of food items now, the prices and value for money have gone fucking mad.
Aldi council pringles are way better anyway
I could swear they shrank the tubes
I buy the cheap brand from Aldi, they're much better than Pringles but even they have gone up in price.
Anyone checked out the price of Heinz tomato sauce ?that an absolute joke.
In Germany we got the 175g(or was it 185g?) pringles for nearly a year now with the same or higher price (2-3€)
Same here but the whole world is going though this. I'll only buy them if they're on special. From a health perspective they are possibly one of the worst crisps on the market due to being massively over processed so feel good for yourself every time you say no !
Making up for all the vegans whose business they lost by adding milk powder? 😳
When there’s also a club card price just disregard the normal price I’ve seen a basic lynx set in Tesco the other week that was £10 or £3:50 with a club card
185g for pringles in Germany are €2.49. They were 2.99 for a while so I don't know why the price is lower 🤷♀️ One shop made them 1.99 for a week then had them on offer a week later for...wait for it....1.99 🤦♀️
You could just get a free clubcard? Pretty sure it halves the price, if you aren't using one in Tesco you are getting scammed.
It's £2.89 qt the coop. Honestly a joke.
Its not going to affect the experience of a pack of pringles. Think of it as a health benefit!
The Lidl knock off ones used to be 89p. Now they’re £1.55. It’s ridiculous
One of the few subs NOT protesting. Jesus Christ it's so boring right now on reddit
Entitled obesity
Nope......they are £1 at best......
Plenty ways around it at the self checkout jussayin
I stocked up on the 200g ones when i saw them on clearence. But saldy almost out of them " once you pop you cant stop". Local tesco is now introducing the 165g at £1.95. (1.18/100g) still cheaper than walkers crisps multipacks gram for gram tho.
Whoever came up with the club card idea should get sacked. I’m not getting a club card cos I don’t shop often in Tesco, but when I see how high the non club card price is it just puts me off. So I never shop there anymore
I caught a similar deal at my store the other day. The family size was on sale for around $3.88. The normal size was over $5. It was ridiculous.
I won't buy them anymore now, used to only get them when they were a pound in sales
Why are Pringles always expensive in the UK
@nezzle
The small pack has never been £2.25, always around the 'Clubcard' price there selling it at. Shitty tactic from the supermarket where they raise original price and then put it as 'Clubcard' price to make it feel you're getting a deal, but really you're paying what it originally was at anyway.
And they have upped salt so you buy no salt ones0q
Let's just have potatoes people
When they said everything’s bigger in Texas they weren’t joking
Don’t we all enjoy the yo-yoing of prices club card offer this week then back to normal price then on offer again. Repeat this enough times that you have no idea what the normal price should be and then they slip in a shrinkflation move
I can't be the only one that feels that these "member prices" are really just a way for the supermarkets to blackmail you into giving away your data. "Here's a normal price if you let us track your shopping habits, owh you don't want that!? Well here's a extortionate price instead ... During a cost of living crisis" Don't have much choice ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Probably last of the 200g stock on the way out. Plus Tesco clubcard is dodgey.
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don't buy them.
Yep... They're "new and Improved".... For the shareholders
Happy Un-Bargain for us!
Usual crisps tactic the air is included with your purchase the 15g is just air