Supermarket pricing madness.

[cupid_stunt]

I always keep a watchful eye on the prices & offers, it always amazes me that it's often cheaper to buy two small packages of a particular item, rather than buying one larger one.

But, I can't remember ever seeing two exactly the same items being cheaper than just one.

Tesco today - giant Ginsters' Cornish pasty - £2.30 each or 2 for £2.00.

So, let's have other examples of this madness.

 

[Pickman's model]

shopping at tescos is madness enough

 

[skyscraper101]

I thought this was going to be about the extortionate hikes in prices going on recently for food. Since when was butter nearly £3 and an avocado £1.80?

My flirting with vegetarianism has become as much about saving money now with all the price hiking going on.

 

[cybershot]

Also expect all your veg to be at least 5p more expensive this week! Supply and demand innit.

 

[cupid_stunt]

shopping at tescos is madness enough

TBF shopping at any of the big supermarkets is madness, but Tesco is my nearest. Asda next - but I boycott them because the only way to get them to pay for the emergency electrician (£90) I had to call out to rescue my mother just before Christmas last year, when a dodgy microwave purchased there blow her electrics, having failed at store level beyond getting a refund on the micowave, was to spend over half an hour on the phone to their head office threatening County Court action, cunts.

Mind you, I did also get an extra £30 out of them for wasting my time in dealing with their fuckwitty.

And, be buggered if I am going to spend 15 minutes battling in traffic to get any of the others, so it's Tesco for major fortnightly shops, local Co-op for top-up shops.

 

[a_chap]

And, be buggered if I am going to spend 15 minutes battling in traffic

Since they built a new Waitrose at the end of our road I just nip there on the Pashley now

 

[cupid_stunt]

Heads up for Andrex fans that shop in Tesco...

9 rolls for £4.45 or 9 rolls plus 3 free (i.e. 12 rolls) for £4.00 - work that one out.

 

[Pickman's model]

The only decent thing in tesco is their polar tea

 

[cupid_stunt]

WTF is polar tea?

Iced tea for bears?

 

[Pickman's model]

WTF is polar tea?

Iced tea for bears?

Last time I was in a tesco, about 18 months ago, they sold tea bags containing a mix which it seems scott took to the antarctic with him, very strong.

 

[Pickman's model]

WTF is polar tea?

Iced tea for bears?

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/263000223

 

[dessiato]

I used to get annoyed that prices in some supermarkets would be lower early in the week and day because working people couldn't shop then. Towards the end of the week, Friday nights/weekends, the prices went up because working people didn't have time to shop around and could, it was assumed, could afford more.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Last time I was in a tesco, about 18 months ago, they sold tea bags containing a mix which it seems scott took to the antarctic with him, very strong.

Any evidence to support that, or were you suckered by the marketing?

 

[maomao]

Any evidence to support that, or were you suckered by the marketing?

It's been sat in a warehouse for 108 years.

 

[Pickman's model]

Any evidence to support that, or were you suckered by the marketing?

You can tell the quantity of tea prepared for scott by the fact they're still selling it more than 100 years after scott's death

 

[hipipol]

Last time I was in a tesco, about 18 months ago, they sold tea bags containing a mix which it seems scott took to the antarctic with him, very strong.

and rather old no doubt.....
Tesco and sell by dates.....
The "meat" they sell is often rotten

 

[cyril_smear]

shopping at tescos is madness enough

how so?

 

[cyril_smear]

TBF shopping at any of the big supermarkets is madness, but Tesco is my nearest. Asda next - but I boycott them because the only way to get them to pay for the emergency electrician (£90) I had to call out to rescue my mother just before Christmas last year, when a dodgy microwave purchased there blow her electrics, having failed at store level beyond getting a refund on the micowave, was to spend over half an hour on the phone to their head office threatening County Court action, cunts.

Mind you, I did also get an extra £30 out of them for wasting my time in dealing with their fuckwitty.

And, be buggered if I am going to spend 15 minutes battling in traffic to get any of the others, so it's Tesco for major fortnightly shops, local Co-op for top-up shops.

I don't mind spending in Tesco's. My shoplifting of Merlot when I'm skint just about balances it out(I probably shoplift more than I spend tbh).

 

[cyril_smear]

The only decent thing in tesco is their polar tea

And the Merlot.

 

[seeformiles]

Last time I was in a tesco, about 18 months ago, they sold tea bags containing a mix which it seems scott took to the antarctic with him, very strong.

When I was clearing out my Gran’s house some years ago, I found an unopened box of Lipton’s Teabags from the 50s (On the side it said “Make Tea the Modern Way” and gave instructions on how to do so i.e. place teabag in cup with boiling water, place saucer over cup for 5mins, remove saucer and teabag, add milk, etc)
I decided to make a cuppa from one of these ancient bags and the result was pretty tasty albeit a very strong brew compared to your PG Tips. Perhaps today’s tastes favour a milder cuppa?

 

[MrCurry]

When I was clearing out my Gran’s house some years ago, I found an unopened box of Lipton’s Teabags from the 50s (On the side it said “Make Tea the Modern Way” and gave instructions on how to do so i.e. place teabag in cup with boiling water, place saucer over cup for 5mins, remove saucer and teabag, add milk, etc)
I decided to make a cuppa from one of these ancient bags and the result was pretty tasty albeit a very strong brew compared to your PG Tips. Perhaps today’s tastes favour a milder cuppa?

Crikey, 5 mins with a saucer over the cup? Must’ve been well stewed. I barely dangle my tea bags for 5 seconds or so before whisking them back out. I take so little life out of them that I always use them twice.

I’ve heard of liking strong tea, but 5 mins seems excessive. Or maybe it’s not a 50s thing and there are others on here still doing the same?

 

[cyril_smear]

I’ve heard of liking strong tea, but 5 mins seems excessive. Or maybe it’s not a 50s thing and there are others on here still doing the same?

That could be a thread to challenge the longevity of the full English back me up thread.

Personally I pour the water, go make up a slow roll up and then go back for the brew, so ye, about 5 minutes.

 

[moomoo]

I don't mind spending in Tesco's. My shoplifting of Merlot when I'm skint just about balances it out(I probably shoplift more than I spend tbh).

That’s amazing. You sound so proud to be a thief.

 

[seeformiles]

Crikey, 5 mins with a saucer over the cup? Must’ve been well stewed. I barely dangle my tea bags for 5 seconds or so before whisking them back out. I take so little life out of them that I always use them twice.

I’ve heard of liking strong tea, but 5 mins seems excessive. Or maybe it’s not a 50s thing and there are others on here still doing the same?

I like a good strong brew so 5 mins is about right for me - although my brother uses two bags per cuppa and leaves them floating in the cup while he’s drinking it! As for the 50s teabags I was quite impressed with using the saucer to keep the tea warm.

 

[hash tag]

Crikey, 5 mins with a saucer over the cup? Must’ve been well stewed. I barely dangle my tea bags for 5 seconds or so before whisking them back out. I take so little life out of them that I always use them twice.

I’ve heard of liking strong tea, but 5 mins seems excessive. Or maybe it’s not a 50s thing and there are others on here still doing the same?

5 seconds is water still.

Go to a decent purveyor of tea and they will even advise how long tea should be steeped for and how long (on every freshly filled packet). An average Yunnan YUNNAN IMPÉRIAL
"PREPARATION TIPS :
2,5 g / 20 cl - 95°C - 5 min"

May I refer you to one of the tea threads Loose Tea