1 | nanazolie

June 8th, 2010 at 8:54 pm

Frutapura pouches went up from 2.29 to 3.49. They are still 2.19 in Dunnes and 2.29 in Superquinn. Guylains chocolate seashells went from 2.49 to 9.99. They weren’t on special offer before, or maybe they had been for months… Tesco recycled tissue rolls went up from 1.49 to 1.59 to 1.69 in the space of a few weeks.

2 | j

June 8th, 2010 at 9:11 pm

You are all so observant! Keep it up! I sometimes think the price of one of my ‘usuals’ has gone up dramatically, but I’m never sure, probably because I’m in such a hurry. I’ll try try to make more of an effort not to let the multiples walk all over me. One local shop has gone independant (they used to be ‘cost cutters’). I think I might make an effort to support them. Choice is so important, and is becoming difficult to find.

3 | tammi

June 9th, 2010 at 7:50 am

The thing I hate about tesco is the rudeness. The attitude of that manager sounds exactly like the manager in our local tesco – speaking to a customer is clearly a very unpleasant interruption to him!

4 | Babaduck

June 9th, 2010 at 8:38 am

You’re lucky you could find a manager. The ones in our local flagship store are too busy huddling in a corner yapping and not doing a tap of work. Tills are jammed with queues up the aisles and there’s no chance any of them would hop on a till and clear the customer backlog…

5 | paula

June 9th, 2010 at 9:54 am

i noticed there was a sterling price printed on the box of a rasberry cheesecake in my local tesco recently. £2. The euro price on the shelf was 4.79. little wonder people shop in northern ireland.

6 | nanazolie

June 10th, 2010 at 9:33 pm

Observant, yes, you can say so…. If not, you fall in the supermarkets trap and add a few bucks to your weekly shopping. I do all the shopping and buy more or less the same core trolley week in, week out, so I know the prices. I am not loyal to brands, so if one is cheaper, I’ll happily change. Which is why I look at prices very closely. And also to avoid the sneaky increases that retailer giants are very prompt to forget about in their “war on prices”. Talking about Tesco, all their baby items have seriously gone up in the last week, I’m afraid this will lead their competitors to follow suit. And more families to drive up North