I fell for a classic con at Tesco and I’m writing to them to let them know how foolish I have been. And also to accuse them of fraud, pure and simple.
So, I was in a store on Sunday. I needed to stock up on sweets for Halloween. Bless Tesco – they had provided on enormous shelves at the entrance to the store, piles and piles of special offer Haribo boxes. “HALF PRICE”, the legend screamed.
I popped a tub in the trolley; I strangely didn’t even check what I was getting for £4.50.
You know what’s coming already, don’t you. They’re actually still at it, despite Halloween being over – here’s the same product with Christmas branding, currently BETTER THAN HALF PRICE! Lordy, thanks Tesco:
What’s in the box? Exactly 45 bags of these:
You don’t need a calculator.
So – the classic con. Jack up the price of the tubs and sell them in a store in the back of beyond on a single shelf at the back of the store, next to the baking goods. Put 3 or 4 tubs on the shelf at £9.00+ – they won’t sell many (any?) as it puts the individual bags at 20p+ – and, as we know, they’re 10p each.
Then, following exactly the right period of statutory compliance, slash the price to £4.50 and call it a BETTER THAN HALF PRICE deal.
When it’s not. When it’s, quite simply, fraud. And I fell for it. Those Nigerian scammers are going to have a field day with me.
