Rip off Asda

I went to Asda last night and even thou these say they are dropping prices some of their items have gone up with a wallop. I normally buy four cartons of breakfast orange gone up from £3-50 to £5-50 , Single gone up from 85pence to £1-65. J2O orange bottles gone up from £6 for 10 to £6-75.Crisps were £1-35 for a six pack are still the same price but now only a five pack. I hope every one votes with their feet and leave these overpriced items on the shelves

Its the same all across the board Peter, everything is on the rise and they are blaming Peter Izzie for not letting them travel throu the Sooez canal

I reckon we buy ALL our stuff from China because I bought a mouse for my computer for .99 Pence, It was Made and Shipped from China for less than a pound,

Noticed some manufacturers are now useing cheaper ingredients and making things smaller for same price. Bag of crisp used to have 50mm now they have gone to 25mm but price gone up

Never darkened the big threes doorstep for donkeys years .Aldi Lidl Home Bargains B + M for me.

Asda do sell the more expensive 'branded' goods, and they say that you should 'shop around' so that you don't have to pay more than you have too, and that means 'shopping around Asda' and buying the Asda branded goods, which in many cases are the same product as the branded products, or they are of equal quality (tast same) but if you are set in your ways, and you insist on buying brands of products which you have bought for decades, such has Heinz stuffs, then you are going to end up paying through the nose, they (Asda) Heinz etc will take yoo too the cleaners, they will clean yoo out, rob yoo blind, screw yoo over, if yoo know what I mean

So much for 'brand loyalty' and they are shrinking every thing down too, because once a pack of sausages was almost invariably sold in 454g packs, then that went down to 400g and now some are being sold in something like packs of 374g and they call that 'Shrinkflation'

So PeterP, I would shop around Asda, but do it online, not to have it delivered necessarily, but it is easier walking around Asda using a computer, rather than visiting the place itself

https://groceries.asda.com/

That is what I think

Sainsbury’s going down the pan…no cafe…no proper deli…they are losing their identity and shopping experience…the staff look miserable even though they’ve on good money

When inflation peaked, the supermarkets were all over our TV screens, presenting themselves as absorbing as much of the increases as they could, and only beyond this point, passing the cost on to the customer.

Then their financial results are declared, and lo, they have not taken a haircut themselves: just the opposite, they have kept up their profits by INCREASING their margins.

Bare-faced liars!

TTS the orange juice was Asda's own label.Heinz soups are now £1-70 a tin but if you buy 5 tins then they are a £5 So Asda make a profit on 5 tins but make even a bigger profit if you buy 1 tin

TTS posted, "insist on buying brands of products which you have bought for decades, such has Heinz stuffs, then you are going to end up paying through the nose, they (Asda) Heinz etc will take yoo too the cleaners, they will clean yoo out, rob yoo blind, screw yoo over, if yoo know what I mean"

Well, you have to pay for Commercial television, it does not come cheap. The money spent on maintaining premium prices for brand -differentiation products has to come from somewhere. TV advertising ain't cheap.

You did not really believe that these commercial operators were buying commercial television for you as an act of altruism, did you.

(OK, I know that some WW members do believe such.)

Peter go to Lidlington a lot of their stuff is as good as Heinz, I like tomato soup you can't tell the difference same with the bakery every freshly baked. Never been anywhere else since they operned

PeterP:

"£1-70 a tin but if you buy 5 tins then they are a £5"

Asda own brand soups are 75p a tin, and that isn't the cheap Asda essentials soups, which are 57p a tin, but up until a couple of years ago, Asda own 75p brand and been 45p a tin for years, which is getting on for a doubling of price, so I know about the inflation, but I think that the Asda 75p brand are just as good as Heinz soups, and maybe Heinz make the Asda brand

The two brothers who own the company have fallen out, somebody has to pay!

According t'tinternet theres a sale on airfryers for £19. Get yourselves down there before thy are all gone

I think these "little" local Morrisons are a rip off.
Nothing like the prices of their bigger retail brothers and sisters outlets. They are far more expensive than those.
I can't understand that?
Its the same company allegedly ( or company name ) so why is there so much deviation in prices?
I very rarely use these smaller big name retailers but, I had to during an emergency for one item.
My local corner shop is cheaper, but it wasn't open!

They come under the heading of what are known as 'Convenience Stores' but your definition is more accurate i.e. 'Rip Off Stores'.

It's the same with little Tesco's , more expensive than larger stores.

Same with Petrol all the stores(Asda) are served by the same tanker company but their prices can vary not only by town to town but within 3/4 mile of each other

I do expect a little bit of a mark up in these little " convenience" stores as they like to be named but this was a Morrisons and I didn't see any Morrisons products on the shelf!
The Morrisons own brand of soy sauce in their big supermarkets ( which I usually purchase ) is what I needed and is available at less than £1.
They only had the more expensive Blue Dragon brand on the shelves at the price of £2.15 for the same size bottle Thats more than double the price of Morrisons own brand and there is not much difference in taste, if any!

You would think that they would stock their shelves up with their less expensive own brands as that would surely attract more custom?
Are they just using the Morrisons name, or do Morrisons actually own and manage them?

Morrisons convenience stores are really McColls franchised outlets. Yes, they are just using the Morrisons name.

Tonks don't forget McColls went bust

Thanks for that, Tonker. I suspected that they are just masquerading under the Morrisons name.

Peter. I didn't know that McColls had gone bust. But I have noticed that the name " Morrisons" has appeared on a lot of their former outlets.

McColls didn't go bust. They may have gone into administration and were rescued by Morrisons, but they still own those stores and control the franchises.

Sainsburys have done themselves no favours in moving Argos Tu store to their supermarket at Marus Bridge as it does not stock many of the bigger items you could buy at Robin Park



Now after having to walk from the front to the rear of the supermarket, you may find that you then have to order a item and then return on another day to collect the item or pay to have it delivered.

McColls are now owned by Morrisons who took everything over including pensions and now trade has Morrisons Daily

Owd Codger

I disagree, browsing and paying online from Argos, is a lot easier than trapesing to Wigan or Robin Park, and ordering the thing from the catalogues., you can use click and collect, and when you get to Sainsbury's, you can use a shopping trolley to wheel it to your car, if you have to order it, then it is only going to be a day you wait, so what is the hardship in that.

The online delivery charge is £6 quid, but if I am ordering a big item such as a washing machine or fridge/freezer, then £6 and actually it's £5.95, but it's worth paying that, just to have them carry it inside your dwelling for you, when Comet was in Caroline Street, I used to go and buy washing machines from that place, and take them home in the car, they had home delivery back then, but it was expensive

I agree tts it seems the simple way to do it.Do Argos still do a catalogue?

Comet were very good at price matching. A few times they honoured that pledge, and knocked off a significant sum.

I was probably beyond their delivery range (was 35 miles from their store), so I too recall hauling washing machines and suchlike home in the car.

The only thing with Argos now, is that you can find better prices elsewhere, Amazon, Ebay etc.

In 1990 I went to the Comet on Caroline Street, and bought a satellite dish and TV box for £100, they were on offer, the normal price was £129.

I got a ladder and secured the satelite dish on to the wall using four 10mm rawl bolts, then after assembling everything else I took the TV box, a portable TV and mains extension lead outside to power it, after putting some silicon sealant around the joints on the LNB, which I had allowed to dry, I then put a wet tea towel over the LNB and pointed the dish at the then Astra A satelite by looking at other nearby statellite dishes, I switched the box to channel 8 which was the then sky one channel , and low and behold I got a picture, of course the picture was full of those analogue 'sparklies' which was caused by the wet tea towel, but after adjusting the dish, including the LNB offset to get the best possible and least sparklied picture, I tightened everything up, whipped the tea towel off the LNB and I had the most perfect of TV pictures

Did you have to take the portable TV up the ladder to facilitate the fine adjustments?

Ena

Did I bloody hell take it up the ladder, and I would not have had anywhere to put it on the ladder, it was an old cathode ray tubed 14 inch set, but I did it in the evening as the sun was going down, I had the portable TV positioned so that it was pointing up at me on the ladder and with the tea towel on the LNB the sparklies were very bad, so it was easy to find the best position for the dish, and the dish wasn't positioned that high up on the wall, I suppose it would have been easier to have had it installed by a sky dish installer, because as I remember at the time for the £129, sky installed the dish for free, but the amount of people I knew who were having picture problems, but I never lost the picture when it was raining, that only happened if it was a very heavy summer downpour or a thunder storm, in fact I never ever lost the picture completely, in very heavy rain I just got the sparklies.