It may not be illegal, but it takes advantage of the possible confusion of the client. We refer to the practice with which supermarkets empty drawers with solitary vegetables to gather all the genus in the same compartment. It is a common action in the maintenance and replacement of products, but sometimes it shows off picaresque hurting the buyer’s pocket.
We’ve all seen it live more than once. The shops distribute the goods in different boxes and little by little they are emptied irregularly as the customers help themselves. There comes a time when the staff puts order collecting all the scattered products in the same drawer, or bringing out new genre and adding those leftover copies.
And that’s where, sometimes, we can get out losing Without us realizing.
Because sometimes the new batch of products coming out of the warehouse not exactly the same who comes to replace They are fruits and vegetables that are exhibited under the same name, but that belong to different varieties, even from different suppliers. And not all of them have the same quality, the same features or, of course, the same price.
Varieties of the same product may have different prices
As much as the sign reads simply “National Peach” or “Salad Tomatoes”, the range of varieties What lies behind is immense. Many of their names come from companies that develop their own varieties, and that as consumers we don’t usually know about. But the merchant does know how they differ, and so mark the prices in shop.
Two peppers, one price
An example that we have witnessed recently has as its protagonist the Red pepper. We usually differentiate between Italian-type elongated peppers and bell or roast peppers, but the variety of this vegetable that the sector handles is enormous.
Larger stores will offer different types of peppers at various prices; there we can easily compare the disparity at a glance. But if the store only has one drawer for this vegetable, a genre runs out and is replaced with a more expensive one, by adding the leftovers it is selling them above its cost real.
The customer is the one who usually loses out
That’s how we found ourselves in the same drawer of a store glossy peppers lamuyo living with a few California, smaller and more suitable for stuffing or frying, less tasty and, indeed, cheaper. But they were offered at the same pricethe one with the pepper premium. The clueless customer or who prefers the smallest, would pay more.
This it could happen the other way around, for the benefit of the customer, adding more expensive products to a box of vegetables with a cheaper price, but we have never seen it and we do not believe that a supermarket is willing to lose money, even with a minimum percentage. It’s a business for something.
and as a business has the right to sell the products at the price it deems appropriate, within the boundaries legal; if you decide to mix varieties of the same vegetable, you can do so. That it is ethical and fair with the client is another matter.
As we always recommend, you have to look very well in what we buy, read labels, posters and walk almost with a magnifying glass to avoid confusion and mistakes, and also not to lose money. That the shopping basket is already expensive enough.
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