Morrisons Blasted for Selling Boxes of Yorkshire Tea for £8.25
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I cannot believe Morrisons are selling a box of 240 teabags for over £8.00 while at other supermarkets like Lidll and Aldi they are only £4.50
I drink a lot of tea, mainly white, but it is not as expensive as this
You would have to be desperate to pay this price
www.mirror.co.uk/money/shoppers-slam-morrisons-stupidly-expensive-28492746
There is no proof they are selling the tea bags for over £8. They are offering them for sale at over £8. If people are daft enough to pay over £8 (the price, they're offered at, is VERY CLEARLY indicated) then, as they say in Yorkshire and Lancashire "theres nowt as queer as folk",
They should wait until they're on BOGOF offer or something like 60% off (probably quite soon). In the meantime they're getting plenty of free advertising.
davidstockport if you go on Morrisons online you can see there are stating that there are £8.25 and now on sale for £5 in all my days I've never seen the tea bags at that price for 240 they are trying to trick people into thinking they have a bargain when clearly they don't groceries.morrisons.com/products/taylors-of-harrogate-yorkshire-tea-240-tea-bags-113687011?from=brand_shop&parentContainer=%7C108413&tags=%7C105651%7C108413
Leannexxx Thanks L , some cannot see the obvious and other(s} think it not worth posting, but i think it is important to let members know when they are being ripped off by supermarkets , and in this case misleading them
I am sure the majority are happy to hear about any potential cost savings they can make in this way
Leannexxx That is my point they had no intention* of SELLING them at £8.25 but had (by law) to have OFFERED them for sale at the inflated price they used to create the £3.25 saving.
Traders often adopt this practice, to stay within the law or regulations when creating "bargains". (I know one place where to create what looks like a bargain the price of tat is multiplied by five or even more then offered for sale at just under half the inflated price - but I don't think it would be welcomed if I mentioned it here
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* If you look at the shelf price on the picture - it was obviously to try to prevent shoppers unknowingly picking them up without noticing the extortionate price,
telmel Be careful what you say... they wouldn't be considered to be misleading customers by trading standards. They quite clearly DISPLAYED the extortionate price (when being sold for £8.25). Customers were quite free to buy or not to buy at that price.
The rag you linked to didn't even know they were OFFERING FOR SALE - there was no SELLING involved unless anyone accepted the offer.
Morrisons value has become very poor I feel since the leveraged buyout by a US firm loading the company with debt. A recent visit there seemed like many items were uncompetitively priced however there is still value in the store for some items but generally its getting more difficult to buy a full shop there. Last visit definitely had less customers compared to past trips, I don't go there that often once a month or less. They definitely seem more expensive than many other supermarkets, only really Waitrose and M&S cost more. Asda and Tesco are definitely better value I feel although of course it depends what you are buying but there are better offers and more value end stuff available from Asda and Tesco I feel. Sainsburys also far better value I feel mainly because of their Aldi price match for many items. I did see 18 rolls of toilet paper in Morrisons for £4.10 which I think is the cheapest I've seen recently in a supermarket and looked ok quality. They did a nice curry bag for £5 which was a good offer. Fairly large instant mash packets 120g were 39p which I think were competitive.
They have never been great value compared to the others, but they do the best meat and fish out of the big chains. When it comes to those items I’m happy to pay a bit more for the quality.
Antiwoke I definitely feel like they were more competitive in the past. They used to have a much extensive range of saver goods and now its trimmed back but also much less competitive. Their range of soups used to be around 45p and the same was true of other stores, the other stores went up to perhaps 65p but Morrisons 85p. I just see lots of little things like that around the store that are far less competitive. I feel I'm not the only one to notice either as footfall is decreasing it seems when I visit. I wouldn't be surprised if in the new year Morrisons suffer the most with regard sales during the Christmas period.
A quick look shows they started the year of 2022 with a market share of 10.9% but are now at 9.1% (September), a huge drop in a matter of 8 months. They went from being larger than Aldi (getting on twice the market share 6.1% vs 10.9%) to actually being smaller now 9.1% vs 9.3%. So a huge amount of growth for Aldi at the expense of mainly Morrisons but all the main supermarkets really have gone down a bit. As people get poorer and the UK economy gets weaker we are turning more to the German discounters who import more of their food from abroad and leads to greater poverty in the UK. It's a vicious circle sadly for us with much greater poverty ahead for us.
BonzoBanana might have been more competitive but they were always the dearest out of the big 4, they’re not even in the top 4 now. I worked for Morrisons in one of the distribution centres for two and a half years around 2009 and they were dearer back then as well.
telmel They have some good stuff in there but I only visit occasionally to get my favourites and a few bargains. I try to visit when the reduction stickers are prominent. Maybe 3pm onwards.
It’s a capitalist society, you can set what price you like, it’s up to your customers to decide if they want to pay for it or not, (obviously for those items that aren’t harmful to life for example water, light & heat) in terms of tea, shop around
Oddly the other week Morrisons was the most competitive for PG Tips Decaf tea bags so in itself this very unlike Morrisons
Good teabags bad price, I know people that never look at prices just buy what they want. Crazy to me but I like the fact that they indirectly subsidise other shoppers.
But they are £5 (reduced from £8.25 ) in Morrisons ? More non news from our serial non news poster 
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Golfforall My point exactly - and also adding to the free publicity Morrisons had already received. If you read my first comment I had already guessed this was just a marketing ploy. (before it was confirmed).
MelissaLee1963 That's the point it isn't "that good" but will appear "very good" to those who weren't aware of the "skulduggery" that had created this apparent bargain.
Incidentally the £5 offer is restricted to 20 per customer - that should drag in a few more suckers (who've got £100 to spare).
Pathetic really... they can only possibly restrict it to 20 per visit (not customer) The real suckers will probably visit several times or go to another store.
davidstockport Poverty opens yer peepers, I guess. I abhor orchestrated theft. Sir Robert Clive would be proud though. Ms Blavatsky could manifest her own teapot perhaps? 
oh wow this is crazy ah. cant say i would ever pay that for teabags. Im so careful on every shop i do now.
SaveMeSunday You would think there was flakes of gold in the bags instead of tea flakes S
they love it to.
I love Yorkshire gold, which is often pricier, but no way would I cough up that much
Just going off the subject of tea , i just saw this on facebook
Tesco today £4.30 exactly the same stuff same size etc in Farmfoods 95p so much for every little helps
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