At one glance, how would you analyse this price tag? “Oh, it was 7.95, now it’s 5.60!”. Right? Wrong. It’s a “Konkurrenzvergleich” and it’s perfectly legal.
Consumer protection in Switzerland has some weird gaps.
ElegantRadish3046 on
AFAIK the parlament has reduced consumer protection significantly. For instance, the rules about how often a certain product can be sold in a “Aktion” has changed. I don’t recall the details, but now it’s such that you can sell 6 Months out of a year washing detergent for a “Aktion price”, and have it on a ridiculously high price during the remaining months of the year. So essentially the Aktion price is the normal price. So all these “Arial Aktionen” in Migros are just a scam.
It’s fucked, say thank you to your represantatives supported by their lobbies.
fusionove on
shouldn’t say Action at the very least..
SolQuarter on
Coop also puts yellow stickers on things with the same price lol.
lukaseder on
Consumer protection is busy preventing highly misleading labeling of faux meat and faux milk, they don’t have time for handling marginally deceptive pricing mislabeling.
krupfeltz on
yeah I see that, I see the “baseline” price, and I come to the conclusion that Denner mostly has the same shitty prices as the other supermarkets unless you are lucky to find a promotion… which now explains why I thought Denner doesn’t actually have good prices. With people who remember how much an item costs at other places, this isn’t a great strategy.
Minimum_Help_9642 on
Same kind of shit as “Aktuell” looking the same as the discount tags but not meaning anything.
cluesol on
Denner sucks so hard.
They have their “Lockvogel”-Angebote… for some Chips or Beer but the products are inferior to all the other supermarkets and in general not even cheaper.
TripleSpeedy on
Another reason I shop at Aldi, Lidl and Otto’s…
Granted Lidl Plus pricing can be deceiving sometimes, but they always publish the regular price next to it.
Gwendolan on
But „Oat Milk“ confuses the consumer, according to the wisom of our supreme court…
Gourmet-Guy on
Standard legal small print at its best. And the usual sales psychology tricks.
oooMagicFishooo on
As someone from the industry, that has to design these for my company. Yeha they are full of sh*t
un-glaublich on
Migros companies always erode consumer trust with their scammy practices.
OkPhilosophy957 on
As usual, the Argument of “Eigenverantwortung” is being abused.
When it comes to the protection of the planet, usage of chemicals in food production, generally extremely unhealthy ingredients in daily food or in this example here, its all about “Eigenverantwortung”.
We are being forced to read every single detail of every packaging in order to understand what we consume (with many bad things not even being mandatory to be written on it).
But when it comes to Milk, no one can be expected to tell that Almond Milk doesn’t come from a Cow. Or that Soya Wurst isn’t made out of a Pig.
bikesailfreak on
What???Â
Thanks I wasn’t aware of this.
I have a strange feeling that soon our shops will look like 3 world where you just have türkelädeli, ALDI, Lidl where the shop look like shit but products are cheaper.
ycnctloswyhiyp on
I don’t get it. Can someone explain?
navor on
Today, you simply need to use your brain and think for yourself whether a product is worth its price, instead of blindly buying everything on sale like a headless chicken.
xExerionx on
I dont get it… normal price was 5.60 anyways or whats the issue?
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At one glance, how would you analyse this price tag? “Oh, it was 7.95, now it’s 5.60!”. Right? Wrong. It’s a “Konkurrenzvergleich” and it’s perfectly legal.
https://www.konsumentenschutz.ch/online-ratgeber/so-muessen-preise-im-laden-und-online-angegeben-werden/
Denner, scammy as ever 🙂
Oh damn. I would have fallen for this.
Consumer protection in Switzerland has some weird gaps.
AFAIK the parlament has reduced consumer protection significantly. For instance, the rules about how often a certain product can be sold in a “Aktion” has changed. I don’t recall the details, but now it’s such that you can sell 6 Months out of a year washing detergent for a “Aktion price”, and have it on a ridiculously high price during the remaining months of the year. So essentially the Aktion price is the normal price. So all these “Arial Aktionen” in Migros are just a scam.
It’s fucked, say thank you to your represantatives supported by their lobbies.
shouldn’t say Action at the very least..
Coop also puts yellow stickers on things with the same price lol.
Consumer protection is busy preventing highly misleading labeling of faux meat and faux milk, they don’t have time for handling marginally deceptive pricing mislabeling.
yeah I see that, I see the “baseline” price, and I come to the conclusion that Denner mostly has the same shitty prices as the other supermarkets unless you are lucky to find a promotion… which now explains why I thought Denner doesn’t actually have good prices. With people who remember how much an item costs at other places, this isn’t a great strategy.
Same kind of shit as “Aktuell” looking the same as the discount tags but not meaning anything.
Denner sucks so hard.
They have their “Lockvogel”-Angebote… for some Chips or Beer but the products are inferior to all the other supermarkets and in general not even cheaper.
Another reason I shop at Aldi, Lidl and Otto’s…
Granted Lidl Plus pricing can be deceiving sometimes, but they always publish the regular price next to it.
But „Oat Milk“ confuses the consumer, according to the wisom of our supreme court…
Standard legal small print at its best. And the usual sales psychology tricks.
As someone from the industry, that has to design these for my company. Yeha they are full of sh*t
Migros companies always erode consumer trust with their scammy practices.
As usual, the Argument of “Eigenverantwortung” is being abused.
When it comes to the protection of the planet, usage of chemicals in food production, generally extremely unhealthy ingredients in daily food or in this example here, its all about “Eigenverantwortung”.
We are being forced to read every single detail of every packaging in order to understand what we consume (with many bad things not even being mandatory to be written on it).
But when it comes to Milk, no one can be expected to tell that Almond Milk doesn’t come from a Cow. Or that Soya Wurst isn’t made out of a Pig.
What???Â
Thanks I wasn’t aware of this.
I have a strange feeling that soon our shops will look like 3 world where you just have türkelädeli, ALDI, Lidl where the shop look like shit but products are cheaper.
I don’t get it. Can someone explain?
Today, you simply need to use your brain and think for yourself whether a product is worth its price, instead of blindly buying everything on sale like a headless chicken.
I dont get it… normal price was 5.60 anyways or whats the issue?
Ottos has been doing this for years!