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Well, would you believe it! I didn’t manage to get to Tesco myself, but I am told by someone who did that the product is “out of stock” in the Launceston outlet yet again, less than 2 weeks since they re-stocked at £3.00/tin.
I wonder what price Tesco will be selling for when it gets re-stocked? Call me psychic, but I predict it will be around £1.57.
“Every little helps” empty your wallet.

Tonight I received a phone call from Tesco Customer Services in response to an email I sent them regarding their aggressive pricing policy on the above commodity. Very apologetic, will pass it on blah blah blah………… then they said the Salmon was not showing on the website! I of course double-checked and lo and behold it was not there any more!. I will check out the store if I get chance tomorrow.
There’s something fishy going on here! (groan)
Watch this space, but most of all watch out for other mysterious goings on with supermarket pricing.
Perhaps we ought to start a Facebook community called My Supermarket Rip-Off or something?

Now here’s a thing. A few weeks ago, Asda put up the price of Asda 418g tins of Wild Pacific Pink Salmon from £1.57 to circa £2.80!!. About the same time, Tesco ran out its stocks of their 418g tins of Wild Pacific Pink Salmon. As I buy this commodity weekly, I was very disappointed, especially as the Morrisons and Lidl versions of the same thing (though labelled Wild Alaskan Pink Salmon – the very same!) were still at around £1.57. I complained via email to Asda, only to get the stock reply:

“…….Here at ASDA we work hard to make our goods and services affordable for all our customers. For the past 11 years we’ve been voted Britain’s cheapest supermarket in a survey run by Grocer magazine.
There can be a number of reasons why it’s sometimes necessary for us to increase the price of a product. Usually it is due to raw material and running costs that are passed on by our suppliers…………”

Cobblers! I had done my homework – there was no significant increase in Alaskan pink salmon prices. Suddenly, the Asda price dropped to circa £2/tin. Tesco’s stock was due imminently.
I sent another email to Asda saying that I was glad that they had seen sense and reduced their price, albeit there was still an increase of around 25% and that I would be carefully watching theTesco re-stocked prices to see if there was evidence of callusion.
Imagine if you will my surprise when the Asda price dropped again to the level it was originally – £1.57/418g tin.
This must’ve caught Tesco on the hop, as their current price is £3.00/418g tin, an increase of nearly 100%!!!
Do yourself a favour – don’t trust your favourite supermarket and complain if you feel aggrieved. If you’re old enough to remember Wolfie & Citizen Smith:
‘Power to the people!’