A shopper was left stunned at seeing a supermarket charging £7.50 for a box of fish fingers. The customer was at their local Tesco when they saw the price tag and decided to take the product to the till to check it was correct.
When they were told that the cost of the Bird’s Eye 30 Cod Fish Fingers was correct - having thought it was an error and they should have been around £4 - the shopper bought Tesco's own brand for £3.30 instead. But the shopper shared the experience on Mumsnet’s Am I Being Unreasonable thread to see whether others had seen similar, reports the LiverpoolECHO.
The forum member wrote: “In Tesco today. Bird's Eye normal cod fish fingers. 30 pack, so the largest of the standard size packets but not a huge pack. And they were £7.50!! How much?! For bloody fish fingers!
“I asked the lady on the check out till and she couldn't believe it either. I expected them to be about £4. I bought Tesco own at £3.30.
“AIBU [Am I Being Unreasonable] to think that a what should be a cheap family staple should not be seven pounds bloody 50? And why? What else is going to rocket in price?”
But not many Mumsnet users sympathised with the shopper and some went on to suggest cheaper alternatives. One person said: “That’s not too bad. Cod, and loads of them. Cheap meat is not a good thing! Go for high quality and less of it IMO.”
A second person said: “We are very used to cheap food in this country. The next few years will be a wake up call.” A third added: “That's for the cod ones, the normal ones are cheaper. I just buy Asda's own version.”
A fourth person said: “It's cod though, the pollock ones are cheaper. Sustainable fishing and all that. Cod has been been expensive for ages.”
A fifth Mumsnet user wrote: “Yeah we get the 'fish' fingers now rather than the specifically cod ones, no idea what it is but it cooks the same.”
And another person added: “It’s funny because I was buying the £7.50 ones for a while and stopped and think - DD doesn’t know the difference between name brand and non name brand fish. I now get a bag of 28 for £2.25 from Iceland."
