Oof
Have been very deaf for the last 3 days, but have had 3 hours of relative clarity today, especially when I sneezed…
Sighs & Liberates Pitcher.
Carinthia. xx
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Try Tesco - picked up half a dozen Proper Job today, so supplies seem to be getting through at last.
No Hen, alas. (Partly my fault - I bought the one case they got last week!)
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Starts cooking bacon and sossiges for butties
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Yep, it’s back on the available list! Stock ordered for next week’s delivery, more reserves will be laid in …
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A word of warning:
Just been in to Tesco and yes - it was on the shelf. Picked up a case. Went to chekout - instead of scanning by name, it came up as generic “pale ale”, for €4/bottle. Still listed at €2.50 on the website and app. Thought it might be an error so checked - don’t mind the odd price increase, but 60% in one go is a bit steep…
Apparently it IS going up, but they were as surprised as I was at the hike - they’re going to let me know tomorrow if it was correct. I suspect Br***t…
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The real question is what it said on the shelf. That certainly used to be the price they were supposed to charge at the till if the two prices were not the same.
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It is listed at £1.69 (or 4 for £7 Clubcard price) here. Hard to believe the Irish Sea would make that much difference.
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That was the problem - there wasn’t a tag on the shelf, so I only found out at the checkout. Three different members of staff ended up trying to chase it down. The off-licence manager is going to let me know tomorrow.
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I don’t know Irish law, but under English, a price label is just an offer to treat; they’re free to say at the till “oh, it’s ten times that now” (or more commonly “oh, the work experience guy screwed up again”), and you’re free to say “no thanks”.
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In my actual experience that has never happened; they have always gone by what it said on the shelf.
After all, they don’t especially want to lose customers over a £1.03 difference.
(They then scurry over and change the price on the shelf.)
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'ang on a mo…
I just read that back to myself and, um.
Still, that is what it says on the Tesco website.
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I think that is because there are some of their beers costing more than £1.69 a bottle which are also in the “any four” category, just as the “meal deal” is the same price whether the sandwich would have cost £2.85 or £1.50 without a drink and a packet of crisps along with it.
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I’m sure you’re right, but I can’t help wondering how much you’d be charged if you went to the checkout with just 4 x Proper Job and your Clubcard. I’d be watching very carefully.
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There was an occasion on which I was in Tesco just before closing time on Christmas Eve, and, because they were reduced to tenpence each, bought several packs of mincemeat. These were on a special offer at two for (I forget the exact price), and after she had put them through the till, which automatically deducted the amount between the proper price and the twofer price, the lovely lady serving me waved away my money and handed me the minus amount at the bottom of the bill; I think it was a couple of quid.
In effect, Tesco paid me to shop there!
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I think the problem is that it depends whether it’s tried under advertising or contract law. A wrongly displayed price may fall foul of the former but technically as long as you are informed of the correct price before actually buying you are deemed to have entered into a contract at the stated price, so there is no case to answer under the latter. The vendor is under no legal obligation to honour the shelf price, though may choose to do so as a goodwill gesture.
I’m used to price fluctuations for imported goods - especially since 2016! - but it was the scale of this one that I queried, coupled with the generic rather than specific itemisation on the receipt.
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For a while my local Sainsbury’s was selling tubes of Pringles for £1.85 which brought with them a £2 Amazon voucher.
[erpity]
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I can report that the Tesco on the road to Ennis is down a dozen Proper Job and six Speckled Hens
seriously depleted their supply en route home from a meeting about rallying rules and regulations
I am now tucked up in bed and looking forward to some good beer tomorrow
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Sweet dreams, Twellsy and all.
Soo xx
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Bacon butty anyone?
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