Anyone see the Poundland prog?

[Ron-da-Valli]

I have noticed a similar con with multi pack crisps. In Home Bargains they have Seabrooks crisps advetised as "2 free packs", but oncloser inspection it has only seven bags not eight. They class a multi pack as 5 bags now instead of six.

 

[dellzeqq]

You have a point, and in truth, there is of course no hard dividing line. But I think there is a line of sorts.

One example: Poundland pack of Kit-Kat, "50% extra FREE!" - 9 bars instead of 6 for your quid. Fine. Then Poundland decide to reduce the pack size to 8. So what do they do? Reduce the 'FREE!' flash? No. They decide between them to treat 5 bars for a quid as 'the norm', and bring out a new 8-pack bearing a big flash: "60% extra FREE!"

Now I don't think Tesco, ASDA, Sainsbury, Morrisons or even Waitrose would behave quite that way. It doesn't surprise me that Poundland would. But it does surprise me that Nestle would get together with them in an office somewhere and agree to 'do their dirty work for them' by producing the new special, unique and deliberately misleading packaging.

Well..................http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestlé_boycott

 

[marinyork]

You have a point, and in truth, there is of course no hard dividing line. But I think there is a line of sorts.

The issue is information overload (and choice overload). Many people (by no means all, or anywhere near all of the time) don't read labels and packaging properly. Few people point this out because people think when one says this one is calling people stupid, but in fact it merely reflects the huge information overload in supermarkets - price labels, advertising and a wall of tightly packed products, shapes and colour. There are other reasons why people don't always read labels too. People remember and differentiate products in different ways to each other. Not that I'm not agreeing with you, in some ways the solution is to have less clutter on packaging and less noise in terms of adverts. Marketing people are very aware that if you put a bit of red/orange/yellow with some particular claim that really appeals to a subset of people who may not pay attention to other relevant information and it is in the trolley like that.

One of the issues related to this is people sometimes assume that supermarkets are fairly static places where apart from offers little changes. This seems to catch quite a few people out where packaging changes its look or size or is discontinued. Still, keeps my day busy.

 

[Archie_tect]

Find someone you know who works at Poundland... they get 30% staff discount.

 

[tyred]

I read in the local paper a few months back about a woman who was arrested and charged with shoplifting in poundland

 

[screenman]

How many people do they employ, and what would that number be if they made a loss instead of a profit?

 

[BLUE(UK)]

The only people feeling ripped off are those gullible to fall for such tricks. ;-)

 

[Headgardener]

One of the national newspapers did a comparison last week, and Poundland came out much cheaper than the supermarkets - obviously it depends what goods they choose to compare.

<product size rant> Those big round tubs of chocolates that are always on offer in the run up to Christmas (Roses, Quality Street, Celebrations, etc) used to be 1kg, but they get smaller every year. Now they're down to 850g. That's barely a couple of handfuls </rant>

And I've seen them for sale in Tescos for £5 which used to be the price for 1kg.

 

[stephyt]

Find someone you know who works at Poundland... they get 30% staff discount.

would love to know what store gives their staff discount?!? we certainly dont get any discounts lol... will say products do get smaller (choc bars, multi bag crisps ect) and our customers know this and still buy them as it's cheaper than the supermarkets at the end of the day.. about the sugar puff thing that guy failed to tell u that asda sell that 400g box or what ever size it was for over £2 usual price and it's only a limited offer that asda sell there 400g boxes at. tbh even tho I work for Poundland me and colleagues still go round thinking "thats not worth a pound " at some products lol
a good point many of us thought he didn't mention the like of the weight watchers range ie the crisps which are almost half the price as they r in the supermarkets all the WW range is cheaper than the likes of asda, he just wanted to point out so called bad points about the store

 

[stephyt]

oops didn't realise I waffled on so much... sorry lol

 

[jann71]

I watched the programme and will still pop into Poundland now and again.

At least when I go there I never spend more than £10.

That doesn't happen very often in Tesco, Asda, Sainsburys etc.

 

[rich p]

Why does it take so bleedin' long to get through the checkout at pound shops?
And, do people wait for the penny at 99p shops?

 

[vernon]

Why does it take so bleedin' long to get through the checkout at pound shops?
And, do people wait for the penny at 99p shops?

I draw the line at thrupence.

 

[vernon]

Last night I had the choice of four individual cans of sweetcorn for £2 or three cans shrink wrapped together for £1.70 in my local Asda.

 

[Maz]

I bought these from Poundland...

...that's only 5p a pop!