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Tesco 129.4% increase

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  • 13-12-2009 2:50pm
    #1
    courilour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭


    Tesco value breakfast marmalade was 34c now 78c


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    #2
    jhegarty
    Registered Users Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭jhegarty


    Then don't buy it.

    78cent seems like a fair price to me.


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    bigdaddyliamo
    Registered Users Posts: 242 ✭✭bigdaddyliamo


    jhegarty wrote: »
    78cent seems like a fair price to me.

    Says you, but think of the human cost. Do you realise that mild mannered bears in train stations will need to beg twice as long for their sticky yummy goodness???:p


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    jhegarty
    Registered Users Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭jhegarty


    bigdaddyliamo wrote: »
    Says you, but think of the human cost. Do you realise that mild mannered bears in train stations will need to beg twice as long for their sticky yummy goodness???:p

    I have no sympathy, there is always marmalade anonymous.


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    bigdaddyliamo
    Registered Users Posts: 242 ✭✭bigdaddyliamo


    jhegarty wrote: »
    I have no sympathy, there is always marmalade anonymous.

    Ah jhegarty, you are a cold cold soul! lol :D


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    parsi
    Site Banned Posts: 5,904 ✭✭✭parsi


    bigdaddyliamo wrote: »
    Says you, but think of the human cost. Do you realise that mild mannered bears in train stations will need to beg twice as long for their sticky yummy goodness???:p

    Not necessarily - you're assuming that they stopped as soon as they received 34c.


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    courilour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭courilour


    jhegarty wrote: »
    Then don't buy it.
    very interesting and clever....


    To clarify:
    * tesco value orange marmalade was 78c until November, and now out of stock/discontinued
    * tesco value breakfast marmalade was 34c now 78c
    The price of discontinued item has been applied to the one available then 129% rise.


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    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 24,085 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Does any other store in Ireland sell marmalade for less than 78c, just as a matter of interest?:confused:


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    mcaul
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭mcaul


    I'd hate to think what goes into marmalade that retails at 34c! :eek:


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    Nody
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    mcaul wrote: »
    I'd hate to think what goes into marmalade that retails at 34c! :eek:
    Lots of love and only the best fresh handpicked fruit just like your old grandma used to do it of course!


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    Cabaal
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    mcaul wrote: »
    I'd hate to think what goes into marmalade that retails at 34c! :eek:

    5% marmalade, 95% Ash


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    #12
    mcaul
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭mcaul


    Nody wrote: »
    Lots of love and only the best fresh handpicked fruit just like your old grandma used to do it of course!

    Tesco don't do love, but if they did it would be the worst love in the world:D


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    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,382 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    He didn't even mention the worst bit about this ruthless fleecing - the bastards put the price up OVERNIGHT :eek:

    This is devastating news, Christmas is now ruined... its the .4% at the end thats the real sting


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    egan007
    Registered Users Posts: 2,934 ✭✭✭egan007


    They should bring a scrappage scheme for your old marmalade and make it more affordable.


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    Gary ITR
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    i have Te$co with every fibre of my being but I have to defend this. 34cent marmalade is clearly below cost, the lifting of the grocery order a few years ago paved the way for this. So they bottom out prices for a while then increase them again when they have cleared the quota they set aside at this price. Dunnes did a wow offer on 6pk club orange at 1.75, it's now gone back to 3.78 (or 4 for 10) are you going to complain about that too?


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    JustAddWater
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,990 ✭✭✭JustAddWater


    rubadub wrote: »
    This is devastating news, Christmas is now ruined... its the .4% at the end thats the real sting

    Somebody think of the children! ... Don't worry to much, it's coming down by .5% VAT in 2 weeks... kinda evens it out! :P

    Sure we all know the marmalade is just made up of that sticky stuff you find all over their tesco value orange juice, usually from another carton on the pallet bursting all over the place... They scrape it into a jar and slap a lid on it and a 129% markup

    eww...


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    #17
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    .4%??

    God damnit.


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    #18
    courilour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭courilour


    Not a wow offer on the marmalade, the price was applied for the full year till now.
    Same here:
    tesco tuna shunks /sunflower was 74c now 99c (+33%)
    tesco sardines /sunflower was 36c now 45c (+25%)


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    jhegarty
    Registered Users Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭jhegarty


    courilour wrote: »
    tesco tuna shunks /sunflower was 74c now 99c (+33%)

    How can they possibly send a boat out , catch a tuna , bring it back , process it , can it and deliver it to the supermarket for 99cent ?


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    bigdaddyliamo
    Registered Users Posts: 242 ✭✭bigdaddyliamo


    jhegarty wrote: »
    How can they possibly send a boat out , catch a tuna , bring it back , process it , can it and deliver it to the supermarket for 99cent ?

    Where you guys see problems I see solutions...Have the bears work the trawlers in a Tuna for Marmalade type barter deal!

    Pure genius, even if I say so myself!!:D


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    Captain Flaps
    Registered Users Posts: 1,834 ✭✭✭Captain Flaps


    jhegarty wrote: »
    How can they possibly send a boat out , catch a tuna , bring it back , process it , can it and deliver it to the supermarket for 99cent ?

    And people woner why Fungi hasn't been sighted in Dingle for a while


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    astrofool
    Registered Users Posts: 16,712 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    Tuna catches are beginning to be restricted due to danger of effective extinction, so the price may go up :)


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    #23
    newman10
    Registered Users Posts: 975 ✭✭✭newman10


    Price of some Baby Food also went up.:mad: €2.09 to €2.20


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    #24
    JustAddWater
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,990 ✭✭✭JustAddWater


    Found this on another boardsies' sig..

    Might explain a few changes in prices!

    http://ow.ly/ukGS


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