Tesco hot dog rolls....

Sigh.

12 pack pricing is to catch out people who think that a 12 pack of hot dog rolls is good value @ €4 or don't check the prices. I gather that it works.

It's always worth checking prices of larger and smaller unit quantities. Sometimes smaller quantities are discounted and it makes sense to buy lots of small ones than one big one.

Normally this isn't the case, but sometimes it is.

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i've noticed that in Aldi, a four pack of toilet paper is much cheaper per unit than the multi pack (i think it's a nine pack).
 
In Tescos the other day, 1 litre of orange juice €1.49 or buy two for €3.50 !!

Sigh........
 
Tesco often have these anomilies.

It was cheaper to buy a half dozen eggs rather than a dozen (medium) but they have spotted that & now it's a cent or 2 cheaper for the dozen.
 
Here's another one. In Dunnes they have a box of Ariel washing powder which does 28 washes and it costs E6.99. they have another box which does 60 washes and it's E21.00. ???
the sickening thing is that last week I bought the E21 box.
 
Every little helps.

I reckon it's quite deliberate. Didn't they get rapped over the knuckles a few years back for doing this with bales of nappies, in the days before they had to display the unit price? People assumed that 72 nappies would be cheaper than 2 x 36 and in fact were shelling out 5% or 10% more.
 
For a long time in Dunnes (my local one anyhow) a 250 ml container of cream was €1.19, but a 500 ml container was €2.49; they've just changed it recently so that the larger one is now cheaper than two of the smaller ones.
 
Again, the ice cream advertised at 1.79 for two litres, scanned in at 2.12. These lads are getting a letter.
 
They wrote back and said that the hot dog rolls must have been on special and they can confirm the ice cream was prices at 2.12 and that I must have looked at the wrong ice cream!

I was in there today again and found the ice cream clearly priced at 1.67 and the same ice cream on another shelf for 1.79, none of which were 2.12. I emailed them two pictures. Also the reddie brek 500g was more expensive than the 750g. There were prices like this all over the place. I wish some reporter would do a write up about this and get them to get the finger out.

And I know I should have better things do do, local shop ripping me off I can let go, multinational giant ripping me off I cant. And I just love ice cream.
 
Do the price displays not show the unit price or per kilo price, it makes it much easier to see which is cheaper, if not bring a calculator.
 
Bronte said:
Do the price displays not show the unit price or per kilo price, it makes it much easier to see which is cheaper, if not bring a calculator.
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The unit price is normally a useful guide, but with ice cream a per-litre price can be misleading. Some brands have a lot of air whipped into the mix. Some of the premium brands are far more dense, packing a lot more ice cream into a smaller volume. This can be better value - provided, of course, that you eat it with a small spoon so as to savour the densely packed flavour in every mouthful......

On the other hand, the 'half air' brands do have the advantage that when you take them from the deep freeze, it is a little easier to pry loose a scoop; With a more dense ice cream, it is easier to leave it out of the freezer for 10 minutes before serving - which is not ideal unless you are serving up the entire tub. So if you are inclined to buy a tub and make it last a couple of weeks, heavily aerated ice cream is the product for you.

What you really need in the Supermarket is a portable scales so that you can weigh the ice cream. Or you can run over the fruit and veg section with the different brands to satisfy yourself as to which contains more by weight.

Of course, this is only part of the battle. If you like a nice rasberry or black cherry ice cream, the relative density of the fruit ingredients can have a significant bearing on the value of the product.

Really, it's a constant struggle to conquer the notorious problems inherent in securing good value in ice cream.
 
This is a great thread.. tesco drives me nuts with all their odd pricing!
and i ALWAYS check my receipt before i leave as they are constantly making mistakes.
Just before the Summer I went to buy some strawberries in tesco - think they were doing a special offer, say €2.50 for fresh strawberries and cream. (yes i had the correct package of strawberrries). When I looked at my receipt they had charged me €4. I queried this and they said because I hadnt taken the free cream then they charged me for the strawberries at the higher price. If I took the free cream, the strawberries were €2.50...
bizarre... so i told them to refund me the €4 i had paid for the strawberries (too lazy and fustrated to walk to the back of the shop to get the cream!)
 
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