How can Tesco justify this?

[motco]

Loose broccoli costs 50p per kilo



But wrap it in cling film and the price triples to £1.66 per kilo

[Sheetmaself]

Because people will pay it.

You may want a better answer but this is purely it.

[Kermit power]

Morons who want their broccoli and other veg wrapped in unnecessary, environmentally damaging crap are subsidising you because you could be bothered to read a label. Why would you care?

[hornmeister]

To be fair we should probably charge 10x the price to offset the plastic packaging of stuff that doesn't need it.

[jpringle819]

Did you not notice the price of the organic one at the top over £3 a kg

[BoRED S2upid]

hornmeister said:

To be fair we should probably charge 10x the price to offset the plastic packaging of stuff that doesn't need it.

That will probably be the spin they put on it!

[louiebaby]

Make sure you buy it loose, but snap the stalk off as much as you can.

If you ruin it, put that bit back and try on a different one.

[Oakey]

louiebaby said:

Make sure you buy it loose, but snap the stalk off as much as you can.

If you ruin it, put that bit back and try on a different one.

This is why they're charging extra for prepackaged, so you don't have to buy products that have been molested by the likes of the poster above.

[Foliage]

They don't need to justify it.

[Kermit power]

louiebaby said:

Make sure you buy it loose, but snap the stalk off as much as you can.

If you ruin it, put that bit back and try on a different one.

Don't do that! Do this!

[motco]

jpringle819 said:

Did you not notice the price of the organic one at the top over £3 a kg

I did but only while cropping the photographs. Orgasmic, as I tend to call it, is usually a rip-off anyway.

I look for the least 'stalky' piece among the loose pieces, notch the stalk with my thumbnail and break off the excess 'woody' bit. As I leave them the stalk and buy the top it can hardly be stealing any more than the 50%+ of a piece that's stalk to begin with, but after Kermit's post I might give them stalks a try; thanks Kermit.

'Watchdog' was running a piece on wrapped vegetables and they said wrapped is usually cheaper than loose. Fools!

Edited by motco on Friday 16th November 15:50

[louiebaby]

Oakey said:

This is why they're charging extra for prepackaged, so you don't have to buy products that have been molested by the likes of the poster above.

Have we met?

[Stan the Bat]

louiebaby said:

Make sure you buy it loose, but snap the stalk off as much as you can.

If you ruin it, put that bit back and try on a different one.

Nothing wrong with eating the stalk.
if it's a bit stringy then just peel it.

[Melman Giraffe]

Stan the Bat said:

louiebaby said:

Make sure you buy it loose, but snap the stalk off as much as you can.

If you ruin it, put that bit back and try on a different one.

Nothing wrong with eating the stalk.
if it's a bit stringy then just peel it.

Use the stalk in a stir fry

Yummy

[RC1807]

Melman Giraffe said:

Stan the Bat said:

louiebaby said:

Make sure you buy it loose, but snap the stalk off as much as you can.

If you ruin it, put that bit back and try on a different one.

Nothing wrong with eating the stalk.
if it's a bit stringy then just peel it.

Use the stalk in a stir fry

Yummy

Not everybvody likes it - so if you're going to throw it away, why pay for it?!

[davek_964]

motco said:

'Watchdog' was running a piece on wrapped vegetables and they said wrapped is usually cheaper than loose. Fools!

Edited by motco on Friday 16th November 15:50

They did - and cited examples - and it made me think. I always assume that loose is cheaper but it did make me think that perhaps I should start checking.

[cranford10]

jpringle819 said:

Did you not notice the price of the organic one at the top over £3 a kg

I buy loose broccoli @ 50p per kg, take a st on it and it is immediately worth 6 times as much . #winner

[condor]

Must have been a special offer as usually loose broccoli is £1.50-£1.70/kg.

[DoubleD]

Foliage said:

They don't need to justify it.

This

[Kermit power]

RC1807 said:

Melman Giraffe said:

Stan the Bat said:

louiebaby said:

Make sure you buy it loose, but snap the stalk off as much as you can.

If you ruin it, put that bit back and try on a different one.

Nothing wrong with eating the stalk.
if it's a bit stringy then just peel it.

Use the stalk in a stir fry

Yummy

Not everybvody likes it - so if you're going to throw it away, why pay for it?!

I suspect the truth is that for every person who doesn't like it, there are 99 who've never tried eating it, because we've become used to only eating the florets.