Fighting back against supermarkets

I have taken cocodamol plus caffeine for years only Tesco brand agree with me they have been out of stock for at least 4 weeks and I miss them why stop so suddenly and are they coming back

99p for a e400g tin of heinz soup a blinking rip off from asda/sainsburys

Morrisons.1. Still fresh items. repriced but still shows original price at checkout/my bill. 2.Offers not registering on my bill, but original prices do. 3. Ambiguous layout of items in store. causing confusion on its price. Staff trying to defend the mistakes Morrisons have made. Then admitting the mistake. And others.

nice to shop at asda good vaule

Sadly they are not the only major supermarket doing this Abi, it seems to be the latest thing with them.

Tesco increased the price of a DVD they had on sale for £10 this weekend to £13 on the Monday so they could include it in a 2 for £20 offer, disgraceful attempt to con people in the run up to Christmas!

Interesting Allan, I've noticed the same "smart price" roll back on asda's lard, base price increased then offered as a sale price. Trading standards will only act on large volumes of complaints on the same issue, they say they this isn't the case, but in my experience, it is the case. Thanks for the feedback

As a former police officer I still have communications with Trading Standards in areas and keep myself aware of certain laws. ASDA is indeed in gross breach of Trading Standards, items seen in local Llandudno store include their individual Smart Price Raspberry Swiss roll (100grams) being sold regularly for 25pence each. On 22nd August 2012 the price showed RRP increase to 30pence. Now on 1st September they are again showing the price as 25pence with display sign that this is a "Roll Back". As they did not comply with statutory 28 days period of new price they are committing a criminal offence, not justifiable by stores alleging "a few days" or "prices are downloaded from national level". This store has also been advertising as a "Roll Back" packets of Smart Price custard powder for at least five months. By law this is NOT a Roll Back, but because of length of time has become th established price. Whether any joy will come from local Conwy Trading Standards officers is a guessing game, as my experience is that some areas of T.S. do their job, others don't, which gives rise to suspicions they may have an unhealthy arrangement (whether financial or in kind is unknown) with these major stores or are indeed frightened to speak to them.

I hear you Jake. I wasn't able to get to an independant local chemist to pick some up. I refuse to buy supermarket own brand products, when I know the branded ones are over inflated to make them appear cheaper. The branded tablets I normally buy are well below tesco's price in my local independant chemist, the post was more about the practice of supermarkets over inflating prices of branded names so their own brand (brings in more profit for them) appears a cheaper alternative. Truth is, whether it's weetabix or cocodamol, the supermarket own brand is the price that the branded product should be, creating an impression of value that doesn't exist. Ta for posting.

Buying only branded medicines is silly. Both have exactly the same analgesic drugs in, of the EXACT same strength, and of the exact same number. They're identical in every single way - except the brand name, logo, and brightly coloured packaging. I'm not going to waste £1 extra on a brand name and packaging, and even though you're more than welcome to, it seems completely ridiculous to me!

have been buying 4 cans of woodpecker cider weekly for months now and alway pays £3 they where on rollback offer this week rollback price was £3 from £3.30 what a rip off. mentioned it at the till and all i got was they must have put the price up for a few days first. I have noticed the same thing before on other things. is this legal,

Talk about running cartels. All of the major supermarkets have got to be accused of cartels as regards to Lurpak Butter as all of them are selling at £1.60. per 250g pack.

The obvious evidence of the Colluding is that they are both able to make and maintain huge Super-Normal profits! If they were genuinely competing with one another they would save costs by producing at the optimum (bottom of the AC) and therefore be able to sell their products at lower costs. However, the Competition Commission have been investigating them for years and have been unable to come up with any solid evidence of such Collusion taking place, therefore I believe they are taking part in Tacid Collusion.

The individual price of a 4 tin pack at Tesco has now increased to £6.99 (May 2011)

Choice is the key I think Helen, once you have this then you immediately have options and can get out of the trap. I don't see a constant battle between customers and stores, as regards supermarkets. Supermarkets are ripping people off, pure and simple. People need to wise up and move their business away from the big four, it's the only way that choice and options will return to high streets across the land.

I find that it is good practice to have a clear idea of what products cost and then buy them elsewhere if they are too expensive. There is a constant battle between stores and customers and the only way to beat them at their own game is to alter your shopping habits accordingly, compare and contrast and be prepared to be shop elsewhere.