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One trick I noticed while doing data input for supermarkets (in a different market) is that price rises are always advertised as promotions. Say a supermarket
by quitit 3y ago
One trick I noticed while doing data input for supermarkets (in a different market) is that price rises are always advertised as promotions.
Say a supermarket has a $1.10 item and they want to increase that product to $1.50. They'll up the price to $1.50 immediately, and add a "40c off" to the ticket. The consumer sees "promotion" and assumes it's a discount, when it's actually just the same price as usual.
Then ~2 weeks later(depends on average buying frequency) the promotion sticker comes off and the product is now at the higher price.
Every time you see a promotion ticket, you can cynically assume it's a price increase.
- KptMarchewa 3y agoNow in Poland every promotion needs to display lowest price for the product in last 30 days l, effectively countering this strategy.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoWow, I love Poland now.
- anotherhue 3y agoThat's a whole EU thing I think. We have it in Ireland. https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/unfair-treatment/unfair-pricing/index_en.htm https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/unfair-treat...
- Culonavirus 3y agoIndeed it is. Czech Republic too, including e-commerce sites.
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoPoland has still been hit by inflation, though. I have taken advantage of having a registered business in order to do a lot of my shopping at the wholesaler Makro, where prices still lag well behind ordinary supermarkets.
- iraqmtpizza 3y agonot relevant to the comment to which you are replying. truth in advertising has nothing to do with inflation. but it's also absurd to suggest that price controls are a valid means of addressing inflation
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoIt is relevant to the context of this thread in general. Even if Polish consumers are spared the trick of raising prices through fake discounts as the OP mentioned, they still suffer from the same surge in prices that many of the European posters here are complaining about. Nowhere in my post was I calling for price controls.
- iraqmtpizza 3y agoyour comment was suggestive of it whether that was your intention or not
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoWhere? In that post I shared my own personal strategy for saving money by doing my shopping at a wholesaler instead of an ordinary supermarket. No state intervention required.
- iraqmtpizza 3y agoIn precisely the part that you just left out
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoThe only part I could have left out is the plain statement “Poland has still been hit by inflation, though.” That doesn’t even suggest calling for price controls. Yours was a kneejerk reaction.
- thaumasiotes 3y agoThat explains why Good Old Games has that display for games that are "on sale". Does Steam honor that requirement?
- mmarquezs 3y agoThey did add it, not for everyone but it is there: https://x.com/SteamDB/status/1664912800806842370?s=20 https://x.com/SteamDB/status/1664912800806842370?s=20
- janosdebugs 3y agoI haven't seen one, but changing the base price of the game requires support if I remember correctly and there is also a 30 day minimum wait time between discounts. https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/discounts https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/discounts
- Semaphor 3y agoPretty much not for me. I both have a bunch of products imported from receipts over the years, and I remember many per 100g prices for products I regularly buy. This simply does not happen, at least not at the stores I shop for the products I buy (note that I don’t buy any finished meals or processed food outside the occasional salami, so my habits are pretty different from most people).
- seszett 3y agoSame, I track the prices of a few dozens of products across the six supermarkets I go to, in France and Belgium (every day, automatically) and this has never happened.
- matsemann 3y agoI think that would be illegal in most European countries. It has to be a "real" discount. Often means to have been sold at the original price advertised for at least a month.
- elashri 3y agoKroger do this all the time. I don't know about other stores but kroger is actively using this tactic aggressively and other dark marketing schemes.
- em-bee 3y agoit's like a warning: last chance to get this item at the old price.
- justinclift 3y agoThis exact behaviour was used in Coles supermarkets here in Australia, to raise the price of cheese just over a month ago. Noticed it happening at the time, and kept an eye on it.
- parineum 3y agoWhat's your preference, that they just raise the price to $1.50 without the discount? As long as the price doesn't go back to $1.10 after the promotion is over, I don't see anything wrong with that.