How's this for a Rip-Off?

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Sat, 2013-03-16 23:49

How’s this for a rip-off? I popped into the co-op this evening after basketball to pick up some stilton for my steak and some toilet paper.

Now when buying toilet paper you always go for the biggest packet , don’t you? That’s always the best deal, right?

But I thought I’d check.

Nine rolls for £5.36.

Right besides them were the smaller packets of four rolls, exactly the same make and packaging. But you always leave those, don’t you? Because you know they’re not value for money, right? And because they run out too soon, I suppose.

But I thought I’d check.

Four rolls for £1.53.

Now WAIT A MINUTE! That means I can buy eight rolls for £3.06.

I’ve always been strong in the arm and weak in the head, so allow me a minute to do my sums. Nine rolls for £5.36, and eight rolls for £3.06. That means they’re charging £2.30 for that last roll of bog paper!!!!!

TWO POUNDS AND THIRTY PENCE for ONE roll of toilet paper, when you can purchase FOUR rolls for £1.53.

Scheming, conniving bastards!

I emptied the shelves of all the four roll packs, leaving all the nine roll rip-offs sitting there pretty.

Took a bit of explaining to Sue when I walked in with 16 packets of toilet paper; i.e. 64 rolls, but at least I got a bargain!

Sun, 2013-03-17 00:04

TVR

Hi Karl. It's the same trick they do with the so-called 'half-price' offers designed to catch the eye of the unwary and those in search of a 'bargain' (all of us) even when they/we don't need it. The thing that annoys the hell out of me is that if you double the so-called half-price to what the supermarket claim to be the 'real' price, it's absolute lies and fiction, because you will never see the goods for sale at the claimed 'real' (outrageous) price. I think supermarkets ought to be fined heavily for misrepresentation and misleading the customers they claim to care so much for.

TVR

Sun, 2013-03-17 00:34

karl_wiggins

Sue, my grandad was an extremely intelligent man (yeah, I know, you wouldn't believe it, would you?). Anyway I remember him telling me when I was just a lad, about 50 years ago, how whenever you see a price in the supermarket that's been knocked down drastically it's only because they've artificially infalated the price for a couple of weeks first, and then hardly put any on the shelves. Now we all know this stuff now, but fair play to my grandad for sussing it out 50 years ago!

Sun, 2013-03-17 12:09

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TVR

Grandads have always known a thing or two, Karl. Never dimiss someone because of their age is what I say. And fuck those greedy bastard supermarkets too. Just off to Sainsbury's to give them a piece of my mind and check out the latest deals on offer... I need to top up with London Pride - three for a fiver last time. Hey-ho!

TVR

Sun, 2013-03-17 07:37

denni1

Did you get the cheese, tho .. Dx

Sun, 2013-03-17 09:51

denni1

Hey, Stan. Bet he really uses that Philadelphia! Dx

Sun, 2013-03-17 09:59

denni1

Is that cos he's a 'crap' cook .. (pardon my french)

Sun, 2013-03-17 10:56

blighters rock

It was probably an intergalactic Rollback DOTD BOGOF on that 4-pack bog roll, Karl. The problem with those 9-packs is the size. I don't like walking down the high street with a wall of bog-roll. I'm such a skinflint with food shopping these days that I've developed an optic advantage by being able to scan the deals. It's easy cos they're in a different colour to the normal labels. I can spot a reduced-item sticker from five metres. How sad is that? Talking about sad, I used to know a guy who'd peel off reduced-item stickers from heavily discounted bread and smack them on top of a nice slab of sirloin. At an average spend of 19p the steak, he ate like a king.

Sun, 2013-03-17 12:07

Terrence Oblong

There was a Channel 4 programme exposing the rip-off of Poundland, the fact that they tend to sell packs that sound cheap until you realise there's only 3 jaffa cakes in the box, etc. Hurrah for channel 4 for exposing this? No, not really. Poundland don't advertise, therefore they're fair game. You won't find any Channel 4 or newspaper expose of the main supermarket rip-offs, as without supermarket adverts all newspapers and commercial TV channels would go bust. The entire media industry is in the pockets of the supermarkets and can't be trusted, so we really are relying on you karl to keep us informed of the latest supermarket scams.

Sun, 2013-03-17 15:18

#10

karl_wiggins

Three for a fiver, Sue!! I'm there! I'm a great Pride drinker myself. But that raises another point. Why does a bottle of real ale cost anything between £1.99 - £2.49 when a can of the same stuff costs a quid? When you pour it into a glass it tastes the same. I know, I know, the packaging, but is a bottle - which is recyclable - twice as expensive as a can. We use recycled glass as backfill at work instead of sand. I mean, it started as sand, didn't it? If you ever see those piles of what look like lime-green sand by the motorway they're actually glass. Blighters, I've got to question your mate. No matter what sticker he sticks on the steak, all tills are point-of-sale now, and he'll be charged what the barcode says not what the price on the sticker says. I think he's spinning you a line. Terrence, I'll take up the challenge

Sun, 2013-03-17 16:37

#11

blighters rock

Hi Karl, most reduced items are coded from the sticker itself with the new price. It's not nice what he does and I'm not singing his praises but there are so many little blaggers out there prepared to take a very low level of risk. This one takes from the supermarket, so maybe he thinks it's a victimless crime. Personally, I think any theft's disgusting, whichever way it's done.