Tesco - "Every Little Helps". The Little certainly does help, regarding profit levels for the retailer that seems to profess to be the people's champion. Browsing the shelves the other day, I came across a section devoted entirely to supplies for customers from Lilliput. I jest of course; the items on display were being marketing to us as 'travel size' although the pro-rata prices were not so much small as fucking outrageous. No doubt playing to the ludicrous airline policies of the day, Tesco is marketing handy amounts of stuff in miniature bottles/tubes, so that we might fly with them to Spain without blowing up a plane.
On a recent trip, a family member put a small amount of Clarins cleanser into a small empty plastic bottle, to conform with twattish guidelines limiting liquids to 100ml. This was a sensible approach, and the bottle cost 32 pence. To my horror, Tesco sells two small plastic bottles with nothing in at £1.89!!!!!
As it happened, I had just purchased some shaving gel. My selection some five minutes earlier had been:
Nivea For Men - Sensitive Shaving Gel 200ml @ £1.45
Now, the item was on offer (half price) but nevertheless, the miniature version (50ml) in the travel section was being sold for £1.79. So the large one is going for £7.25 per litre, and the small one for £35.80 per litre.
Pretty much 5 times the price for the convenience of going small. Now I have heard of "would you like to go large" from the nauseating McDonalds people, but I've never heard of "would you like to go small", and certainly not at 5x the price rather than 30p extra!!!
The 'travel shelves' were full of similarly sized potions, lotions, creams and other substances, all at rip-off prices for fuck all. I stuck with my big can of gel, and did not succumb to the temptation to pay five times as much, on the basis that I could fly with confidence without qualifying as a terrorist. A close shave for all concerned.
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