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  • Talking about sweetcorn ......

    ...... I needed some more sweetcorn seeds, as I only had about 6 left, and so I popped into B&Q.

    The first time we grew sweetcorn was using one of B&Qs childrens seed collections which we'd got for our then 3yr old . They did incredibly well and so last year we grew some more but this time we used Suttons Sundance variety. Again they were really good.

    Anyway, so as I was passing B&Q I thought I'd pop in and get some. The Suttons seeds were quite pricey (relatively speaking) and, being on a tightish budget, I decided to look at B&Qs own .

    The first ones I found were the kiddies ones: F1 Jubilee, 40 seeds, use by 6/2011, 78p!

    Being an adult I thought I'd better pick up the seeds in the 'grown-up' packaging, you know the ones with the sedate dark green packet and the corn on the cobs in a basket picture on the front (instead of a sunshine yellow packet and the cob with the - urmmm - fierce face as the picture).

    Ok and here we arrive at the point of my little tale. As I mentioned up there ^ , the kiddies seeds were F1 Jubilee, 40 seeds, used by 6/2011 and cost 78p.

    The 'grown-up' seeds were .................................... F1 Jubilee, 40 seeds, use by 6/2011 and COST £1.48!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    As both packets carry the same money back guarantee, I'll be looking in the kiddies seeds first next time!

    Reet
    xx

  • #2
    In marketing speak, this is called 'price lining'. Basically offering 'different' related products (at different prices), to get the most cash out of different segments of the market.
    Adults expect to pay more than 78p for a decent packet of seeds, so that's what they charge adults.

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    • #3
      I was looking at some kiddy seeds and the opposite applied; they were the same price, with about 1/4 of the number of seeds in the kiddie packet as the adult packet.

      You've got to watch out everywhere you go!

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      • #4
        Incredible F1 sweetcorn from Netto's are 19p a packet of 40 seeds.

        Good value for younguns and olduns alike!
        My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
        to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

        Diversify & prosper


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