Tricks of the supermarkets: same product, different prices - be careful when shopping!

Identical types of fruit and vegetables are often sold at different prices in the supermarket.

But why?

Consumer advocates criticize the dealers.

• In the

  supermarket

  , the

  price

  is often

  tricked.

• In several random samples, the

  NDR

  discovered

  abnormalities at Rewe *, Aldi * and Edeka *.

• Consumer advocates

  criticize the

  grocer's

  pricing strategies

  .

Kassel - In

and

, customers are always offered a large selection of

and

- both unpacked and packaged.

If you pay less attention to the kilo prices and compare, it can quickly happen that you

pay

a higher

than necessary

for the same goods

.

Questionable price in the supermarket: sometimes it's more expensive unpackaged, sometimes cheaper

As Markt, the

magazine of

reports, the practice of arbitrary prices of fruit and vegetables is a popular means, especially for apples: It happens that both in the

and in the discounter the same apple variety - same origin, class and size - is sold at a different

.

Accordingly, sometimes the unpackaged and sometimes the packaged

more expensive.

Neither additional packaging waste in the form of

nor more work due to missing packaging can therefore be the reason for the fluctuating prices.

In

any case, this is not

understandable for the

.

Those who shop in the supermarket often come home with mountains of plastic waste and pollute the #environment.

Most consumers prefer unpackaged food, a recent survey shows.

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- Consumer Advice Center (@vzsh) January 3, 2018

Supermarket: Weighing goods for the best price - criticism from consumer advocates

If you want to

pay attention to

the

you often have no choice but to weigh the goods and compare the prices.

According to the NDR,

criticize that this is

not fair to

the

.

This often does not have the time to check the weight of the goods and then

to calculate

the

, says Britta Schautz from the Berlin consumer center.

In addition, the customer is further confused by the fact that the same products are

often

offered next to each other

in the

unpacked at the unit price or packaged at the

.

Many

cannot tell at first glance which offer is cheaper for them.

NDR takes samples in the supermarket: Same product, different price?

Sometimes it even happens that the same types of product are packaged differently and each sold at a different

: In a

, the NDR discovered that the same

in a two-kilogram bag for 1.25 euros and in one The kilogram bag has been sold for 1.17 euros.

The more expensive bag was

advertised

as "

", although both products come from the same supplier.

+

Shopping in the supermarket: The price is particularly tricky when it comes to fruit and vegetables.

(Symbol photo)

© Uli Deck / dpa

Rewe, Aldi, Edeka and Co .: Do every supermarket trick the price?

The

describes the price difference between the carrots that are sold in the

as "particularly bold".

Similar practices have also been found

at the discounter

: While a packaged kilo of apples costs 3.38 euros, the

for an unpacked kilo of the same product is only 2.99 euros

At

, the

the case: “Mini tomatoes” are packaged and sold for 1.59 euros per 100 grams, whereas the loosely sorted “tomato mix” costs only 0.87 euros per 100 grams.

And that even though it is the same variety, the same origin and the same commercial class.

Expert criticizes supermarket policy: every price should be understandable for consumers

Brand sociologist Arnd Zschiesche thinks these

supermarket

unreasonable

and stresses that it is not the job of the customer, but that of the

to "do properly".

In addition, according to him, it should also be part of the customer's ability to “blindly” rely on a fair

.

If one were to

clearly communicate

all such

, this would be "perfectly fine" according to Zschiesche.

It could well be that there are “very good justifications” for the price differences, but then it is also the task of every

to present these differences to the

transparently.

(Nail Akkoyun)

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