Wonky vegetables- just another marketing scam?

[owsnap]

Seems like the latest fad, pack up bunch of random normal vegetables and sell them for the same/higher price than just the regular vegetables,

tesco are doing now 5 wonky vegetables for 30p , and people are going nuts that now they can get 5 whole carrots for 30p
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/tesco-i ... 0p-2534769

..yet.. I could go to aldi/lidl and buy the same regular carrots for even cheaper..

 

[MattRoberts]

"confirmed by veg person it is 30p a bag... managed to get about 6 large baking potatos/7/8 carrots and 4 parsnips"

Doesn't sound unfair to me... Tesco get rid of unsellable stock, customers get Halloween food.

 

[Bm101]

But.... I thought you hated Lidl and Aldi... ?
Here's a very British idea.
We like grumbling.
example: "It's bloody raining again."
We grumble 'Sh*t weather again, meh' *kick the cat than get on with life and go outside and get wet but get on with it.

Moaning just irritates everyone.

example: The same shops you moaned about for selling expensive vegetables now sell sell cheaper vegetables, taste the same just not as pretty.
We moan "The same shops I moaned about a while ago are still not selling the same stuff as the shops in my country. Before they were too expensive. Now they are too cheap.

That would class as moaning.

I know the difference is slight but it's also very important.
We love a grumbler. Hate a Moaner.

It's a subtle difference but we have sunk the French Navy because of it more than once.
:wink:

 

[RogerS]

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..yet.. I could go to aldi/lidl and buy the same regular carrots for even cheaper..

Yebbut, you'd have to go every day as their stuff is almost ready for the bin, it's so old.

 

[owsnap]

"confirmed by veg person it is 30p a bag... managed to get about 6 large baking potatos/7/8 carrots and 4 parsnips"

Doesn't sound unfair to me... Tesco get rid of unsellable stock, customers get Halloween food.

that's just an error in one store, it's actually 5 vegetables=30p, if you read closely

see the pic, btw it was just an example.. the point is... those '' wonky'' vegetables Do not cost less than the regular ones,even they are marketed as such and by buying them supposedely you are saving the earth, yet in fact the ''normal'' ones at the normal price go to waste because now it's cool to buy the wonky stuff So in the end there is no less waste, but more profits to the stores thanks to this Fad.

 

[MattRoberts]

"All proceeds go to charity" . Come on dude, lighten up

 

[RobinBHM]

How much are the severed hands?

 

[transatlantic]

Wonky vegetables/fruit are the best! ... they should be charging more for it.

A carrot that looks like a cock and balls for under 30p? ...bargain!

 

[timbo614]

[rant]
Let's get real it's a good thing going on. We have to stop chucking it back in the ground just 'coz it looks like a cock and balls. Wonky or not it's all good to eat!!
Same with "undersized" fishes - they could all go in fish fingers (which are currently sort of fish).

[/rant]

 

[lurker]

Not only do we hate moaners, we can spot charlatans a mile off.

 

[skipdiver]

It's hilarious but sad at the same time. Farmers have been dumping tons of perfectly edible vegetables for years because supermarkets wouldn't put them on the shelves and rejected them. Then serial middle classer, Hugh Fern Tree Witless, highlights the problem and what a disgrace it is and now people are falling over themselves to buy the wonky ones. They all taste the bloody same, whatever shape they are, if they are not rotten of course. The stuff in my local Aldi and Lidl is cheap and perfectly good quality but then i do live in one of the major farming counties of England, so i can get no end of fresh, cheap, local produce anyway.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Not only do we hate moaners, we can spot charlatans a mile off.

If you read the national press and watch TV, that would appear not to be correct. :lol:

 

[Jonzjob]

How much are the severed hands?

Derz dot severd derz only tree? But dey could still be handy :?

I wish I cud get rid of dis cowd, my dose is getting sore :shock:

 

[owsnap]

ah everyone is a moner to you guys , yet no1 bothered to actually think about what I Wrote, The Guys actually charging More for the ''wonky'' stuff than the ''normal'' ones where as It's marketed something way differently ( I.e- as something odd misshaped and really cheap just to get rid of so it doesn't goes to waste) #-o
And the people actually falling for it... Seems like this forum also can't see what I'm talking about and think it's a good value right off the bat simply because it says so when in fact you can get the regular normal non-hyped vegetables for less.. #-o #-o #-o #-o #-o #-o

 

[transatlantic]

ah everyone is a moner to you guys , yet no1 bothered to actually think about what I Wrote, The Guys actually charging More for the ''wonky'' stuff than the ''normal'' ones where as It's marketed something way differently ( I.e- as something odd misshaped and really cheap just to get rid of so it doesn't goes to waste) #-o
And the people actually falling for it... Seems like this forum also can't see what I'm talking about and think it's a good value right off the bat simply because it says so when in fact you can get the regular normal non-hyped vegetables for less.. #-o #-o #-o #-o #-o #-o

A) You're saying it's more expensive by comparing it against a competitor. You need to compare it to the stuff from the same store to justify your argument. Pretty sure it'll be less.
B) The money is going to charity
C) It's 30p.

 

[Terry - Somerset]

Very soon genetic scientists will develop a wonky vegetable gene for supermarkets who now realise the public will happily pay a premium for wonky vegetables in the belief that the more bizarre the appearance, the better it tastes.

A real commercial opportunity!!

 

[lurker]

ah everyone is a moner to you guys , yet no1 bothered to actually think about what I Wrote, The Guys actually charging More for the ''wonky'' stuff than the ''normal'' ones where as It's marketed something way differently ( I.e- as something odd misshaped and really cheap just to get rid of so it doesn't goes to waste) #-o
And the people actually falling for it... Seems like this forum also can't see what I'm talking about and think it's a good value right off the bat simply because it says so when in fact you can get the regular normal non-hyped vegetables for less.. #-o #-o #-o #-o #-o #-o

Does this help?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Did you mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E ... ger_effect

 

[YorkshireMartin]

Think the proverbial nail has been hit on the head several times already. Customers wont regularly buy the wonky ones....but thats only because they aren't automatically included in the packs. That's the stupid part. Just put them into the packs by default.....solves the entire problem of crop wasteage. Pretty soon it becomes normal and nobody would care. But the supermarkets...who'd want to be the first?

I've tried veg from our local Lidl, or rather, tried to buy. What put me off was the swarm of small flies buzzing around it. The slow flying types, a bit like fruit flies. No purchase that time. The second time, I bought 4 corn cobs, which once I'd taken the leaves off, were mouldy. So that was the final nail in the coffin. Now I won't shop at Lidl at all.

Wonky veg - make it standard. Lidl veg..wouldn't give you tuppence for it.

 

[YorkshireMartin]

ah everyone is a moner to you guys

and your point being?

Only joking. No, you're right, but the sad fact is, modern retail practices exist to do nothing more than scam people out of money. Doesn't matter if it's multi-buys, positioning, customer analysis, free offers, low interest finance, it all exists just to shaft you out of your money.

The sheeple will allow it to happen to them, the more intelligent actually consider what they are buying, where it came from, the quoted price and credentials of the retailer. Cheap doesn't mean bad and expensive doesn't mean good, not automatically. This has been happening since the dawn of time.

You made a good point. Wonky veg is a fashion so people can think they are being kinder to the planet. Then again, so were diesel cars, electric cars, wind turbines....the list goes on.

It's mostly all gonads. Big, hairy ones.