Big Asda Price Increases.........

A question about : Big Asda Price Increases.........

Hello everybody

Just wanted to add my two pennies following a recent similar thread regarding Tesco.

Went into Asda earlier today and I regularly buy Asda's Smart Price Sardines. They were up (until very recently) 17p they are now 24p. I also picked up some Smart Price chopped tomatoes and these were 33p. I am sure these use to be about 15p .

Just wondered if anyone else have noticed Asda sneakily adding quite substantial increases on to their products particularly the smart price range?

Cheers

Best answers:

• Why people so surprised that supermerkets put prices up occasionally? The sudden jumps in price can be explained quite easily, they keep prices as low as they can, and for as long as they can, but sometimes the cost of production means that prices need to jump. The price would have still increased even if they had done it gradually, it would have been a penny or two over time, but the end price would still end up the same.
• 2 pints uht milk has gone up to 55p...im sure it used to 29p
• as already stated, they keep the prices as low as possible for as long as possible, but there comes a time when they have to increase, everyone is quite happy shopping at these supermarkets whilst they are so cheap, but as soon as prices go up a bit, everybody starts moaning, what should they do keep the prices low, so they end up costing them money for you to take of the hands, and then go bankrupt, or try and make some money, after all they are a buisness, and by putting the price up in 1 go, they are over a period of time saving you money, as if they did what you want, put the price up gradually, then each week you would be 2p worse of by each item, and then you would be on here ranting that this weeks price is 2p dearer than last weeks, next weeks price is 2p dearer than this weeks, so on, so on, etc, sorry for the rant, and no i dont work for asda`s, dont like the place i hate it
• Zenseeker and spaceman5, i thought we were here to save money, not do an unpaid job for Tesco and Asda as to why its right to put prices up so much in one go. I hear what you say, but the majority on here think its out of order.
• Asda are no better or worse than any other.
  24-33p for sardines in oil, 33p for chopped tomatoes and 55p for a litre of UHT semi is what you've been paying everywhere for quite a while now. It isn't better Aldi or Lidl, either.
  It's nonsense that supermarkets strive to keep prices low for as long as possible. Their objective is and has always been the highest possible margin whilst lulling their customers into a fabricated sense of eternal price-dropping and cheapness. All of them. No exception.
  Comparet emptor. Buyer compare.
• I noticed in Sainsburys yesterday their Basic bacon has gone up from 99p to 1.69. and they basic frozen fish pieces 1.29 to 1.89. They also put up their petrol by 1p today.
• Spaceman we're talking about the weird price increases here, not normal price increases.
• WAITROSE!!!! cat food is cheaper than Asda now. Also it seems strange that all the supermarkets made the same 50% increase on canned plum and chopped tomatoes.
• I always thought SP beans were about 8p. I was horrified the other week when I saw they are now 29p!!!
  And SP sweetcorn went up overnight from 21p to 32p a tin.
  And if it's not the stores putting up the prices, then the size of the product is rapidly shrinking - like Schloer, Les Cadburys Fingres, Loyd Grossman sauces.
• Surely if one supermarket discounted this basic ingredients (canned tomatoes) they would get extra customers. I use loads of tins for spag bol , tom sauce etc. Sounds suspiciously like a cartel.